Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Fri, Mar 29 2024 7:54 AM

  Friday, March 29, 2024

  Be decisive

  When you decide to go with one option, you abandon other options. But if you never make that decision, none of the options end up providing any value.

  Rarely is any option a perfect choice. Every choice is likely to come with one compromise or another, or many.

  Yet to get anything accomplished, again and again you must commit to particular options. That means being decisive, and then following through on your decisions.

  Give due consideration to the consequences of each choice, but not to the point that you give rise to analysis paralysis. Think honestly about your options, then decisively go with what you deem best.

  If you try to preserve all your options by endlessly delaying your decision, you’re likely to lose them all. The sooner you choose, the more power you’ll have to leverage your choice into positive results.

  When you have a choice, make it. That gives you the opportunity to make it work.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• AlaskanDame 18,971 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2024 9:29 AM

  “The sooner you choose, the more power you’ll have to leverage your choice into positive results.”

  True. . . but also you may find out sooner that previously unforeseen circumstances or drawbacks are encountered soon enough to allow pivoting to another option.

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Mon, Apr 1 2024 9:09 AM

  Monday, April 1, 2024

  Live richly

  A lot of people have gone to a lot of trouble over thousands of years, making it possible for you to live this day. Do not take lightly that priceless legacy.

  Your situation is not perfect. But it’s a whole lot better than no situation at all.

  You sense and feel, think, express, and connect with others. You act to make a difference, and strive to understand and appreciate what matters and what doesn’t.

  You’re able to experience and interact with reality on countless levels in endless domains. With each dawning day, the possibilities for richness and fulfillment grow more numerous.

  Invite some specific form of that richness into your life, live it with zesty gratitude, again and again. Share it with others and work to expand it in ways that are helpful and enlightening.

  Embrace the opportunities and put your best effort into fulfilling what’s possible. Live richly the life that is yours, the time that is here.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Tue, Apr 2 2024 1:22 PM

  Tuesday, April 2, 2024

  It pays to care

  It pays to care about life, about others, about meaning. It pays to care about time and effectiveness and achievement.

  It pays to care about truth. It pays to care about what’s good, and what contributes to life.

  To the extent you care, you get involved and make a difference. When you care, that caring drives your priorities, your actions, your results.

  Caring is more than just feeling or saying you care. To care means to act on what you care about.

  Do that, and life resounds with purpose. Do that, and fulfillment, deep satisfaction, and enrichment all come your way.

  Go to the trouble, make the commitment, to care, in matters small and large. It’s an essential part of how life is well lived.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Wed, Apr 3 2024 7:55 AM

  Wednesday, April 3, 2024

  Add beauty

  Beauty is more than just something nice to look at. Beauty uplifts life in multiple dimensions.

  Experiencing beauty connects you with higher possibilities and aspirations. Creating, maintaining and expanding something beautiful will challenge you to put your best abilities into action.

  Beauty serves as a physical manifestation of time well spent in meaningful and intentional focus. Beauty expresses love for life in ways that cannot be rendered by any other activity.

  Beauty can seem to be optional and even frivolous. But life without any potential for beauty would be a dreary, dismal existence that would quickly drain your energy.

  Fortunately, you can find and produce true beauty in all sorts of different times and settings and modes. Beauty requires commitment in order to experience, to appreciate, to bring into existence, yet it is always within reach.

  Never pass up the opportunity to add beauty to your experience of life. It’s always worth your time and effort.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Thu, Apr 4 2024 8:37 AM

  Thursday, April 4, 2024

  Abundance and richness

  A simple joy offers far greater nourishment to your soul than a sophisticated spectacle does. What’s modest and genuine brings you more richness than anything that’s brash and contrived.

  Emptiness in life cannot be filled by the equally empty promises of others, or by pre-packaged experiences that have no enduring substance. Emptiness is best filled with your commitment, effort, care, love, and generosity.

  What’s fulfilling is not easy, and what’s easy is not fulfilling. That’s abundantly clear from the history of the world and the story of your own life.

  Keep reminding yourself not to fall for the deceptions of ease, extravagance, and self-indulgence. You deserve so much more from your own priorities and actions.

  Whatever you seek to gain from your experience of life, consider how to offer it in similar form and measure. Participate deeply and persistently in what matters, in what makes a positive difference.

  Find abundance and richness in all that is true, and real, and good. Refuse to compromise your time and your life with anything else.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Fri, Apr 5 2024 12:02 PM

  Friday, April 5, 2024

  Freedom to live richly

  Give yourself freedom from worries of what others might think or say about you. Offer yourself freedom from the limitations your doubts have imposed upon you.

  Choose to escape from the misguided assumption that focused effort is something to be avoided. Discard a few of the comfortable yet negative habits that waste so much precious time.

  There are plenty of great things you can do right here and now. Allow yourself freedom to experience the joy of creating new goodness as you live each moment.

  Consider all the positive possibilities open to you today. Free yourself to explore and fulfill the best of them.

  Let go of the need to be troubled by troubles. Accept what is, then allow and encourage yourself to make the very best of it.

  Now is when you can free yourself from whatever may have held you back before. Here is your day to live richly, with all the spirit and energy you can muster.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Mon, Apr 8 2024 7:46 AM

  Monday, April 8, 2024

  Energy of richness

  Stop fretting about getting it done. Just get it done.

  Don’t complain about what has gone wrong. Just take all the necessary steps to make things right.

  Let go of the worry and the drama. Allow the focus, the discipline, the effort, persistence, and effectiveness.

  From moment to moment, it’s your decision where to direct your energy. Put that energy where it will bring new richness to your world.

  Live on your own terms and make those terms positive and purposeful. See yourself not as struggling against what has been but as fulfilling the best of what can be.

  Live on the highest level you can envision. And cheerfully encourage everyone else to come along.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Tue, Apr 9 2024 8:33 AM

  Tuesday, April 9, 2024

  Responsibility is essential

  Responsibility enriches life. Accept responsibility, and insist on it from others.

  The constraints imposed by responsibility can indeed be burdensome. But responsibility is not a form of oppression or punishment.

  Responsibility is an acknowledgement, acceptance, and embrace of the reality that every choice has consequences. Responsibility is essential to true empowerment.

  It is not an act of compassion or kindness to give anyone a way to avoid responsibility. The compassionate thing is to assist and encourage others as they participate in the fulfillment of their responsibilities.

  You do not benefit your own life by avoiding or escaping responsibility. For in every responsibility is the opportunity to grow stronger, more experienced, more effective and purposeful.

  See responsibility for the good and essential part of life that it is. Be eager to take on meaningful responsibilities, and diligent in following through on them.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Wed, Apr 10 2024 11:38 AM

  Wednesday, April 10, 2024

  I personally love this one!!

  Create goodness

  You can’t solve all the problems of the world. What you can do is create goodness right where you are.

  Create goodness in the way you live, with the people you encounter. Create goodness with the problems you solve, with your kindness, with your positive presence.

  As entertaining as it might be to fantasize about, the world doesn’t really need a dramatic superhero. Life always has, and will continue to benefit from good people living good lives of purpose and integrity.

  A small kindness has the capacity to reverberate endlessly through life. And there’s always some small kindness you can offer.

  Beyond that, you can have the audacity to be happy every now and then, to enjoy life, to share the joy. You can delight in the beauty, wonder, mystery, and challenge of the universe in which you exist.

  Life’s enduring goodness is made in the countless ordinary moments, not in some grandiose scheme. Make some more of that goodness right now.

   

  — Ralph Marston