Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Sat, Jan 5 2019 8:49 AM

  Saturday, January 5, 2019

  Welcome the resistance

  Seek to create or improve, and you’ll meet resistance. The more ambitious your goal, the more powerful the resistance is going to be.

  Welcome that resistance, because it represents the value of what you’ve decided to do. Welcome the resistance, because it proves you are making meaningful progress.

  Welcome the resistance, but do not succumb to it. Do not let it stop you, or distract you, or turn your focus away from your intention.

  Smile knowingly at whatever person, force, or situation seeks to block you. You knew it was coming, you’re ready for it, and you’ve taken full responsibility for getting around it.

  Whatever you seek, the resistance you encounter is your opportunity to prove how much you want it, how much you deserve it. Be eager to seize that opportunity, and enthusiastic about the great value it enables you to create.

  The resistance is strong but you are stronger because you have a worthy purpose. Welcome the resistance, and do exactly what it’s trying to prevent you from doing.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Mon, Jan 7 2019 8:08 AM

  Monday, January 7, 2019

  Great treasure

  There is a great treasure in this day. Find it not by looking for it, but by being an active part of it.

  Be the eyes through which life sees its unbounded beauty. Be the hands through which good work brings new richness into the world.

  Resolve to see the best in the people you encounter. Let them bring out the best in you.

  Every small moment is an opportunity to to deepen life’s meaning, to add fulfillment. And this day is full of small moments.

  From the soft rose hue of sunrise until brilliant stars are scattered through the night sky, this is your day to live. Remind yourself what a great treasure you already have and what an even better treasure you can now help to make.

  For another beautiful day you can live, you can give, you can care, you can dare to love, to hope, and bring new goodness to life. Here is great treasure, ready for you to create.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Tue, Jan 8 2019 8:57 AM

  Tuesday, January 8, 2019

  Put change to work

  Life is defined by change, from moment to moment, from day to day. Making the most of life means adapting to whatever changes come your way.

  It’s easy to see yourself as a victim, cursed by certain changes. The more powerful response, though, is to see yourself as blessed by the opportunities the changes deliver.

  Every change is a change you can choose to respond to positively. Instead of focusing on whether the change will be a good one or not, put energy into making it a good one for your world.

  Many changes you cannot control or even anticipate. Yet you can know for certain they will come.

  And you can make the choice right now to make the changes work for the good. When life changes you can up your game, renewing your commitment to what truly matters.

  Changes are what keep life going and progressing, so make change your friend. And put change to work to take you precisely where you choose to go.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Wed, Jan 9 2019 12:56 PM

  Wednesday, January 9, 2019

  Love this one!  Blessed Day to you all!!

  To live and to give

  Don’t seek to avoid all the effort of life. Seek instead to make life worth all the effort.

  Ask the difficult questions and be willing to listen to, understand, and implement the difficult answers. Embrace the meaningful challenges and persist in working through them.

  Dare to choose the most ambitious goals. Put in the work to achieve those goals that improve the world and the lives of those around you.

  Acknowledge that life is inherently difficult and fully embrace it as such. Commit yourself to making that difficulty count for something meaningful.

  Lead by example, always making the best choice even if that choice is far from the easiest choice. Seize upon opportunities to add new richness and beauty to life, knowing it will ask much of you.

  You are here to live and to give. Go out of your way to do both, in the most meaningful ways you can imagine.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Thu, Jan 10 2019 7:29 AM

  Thursday, January 10, 2019

  Let life humble you

  Humility improves your experience, your effectiveness, your connection to what matters. Let life humble you.

  Let life remind you that you don’t have all the answers. Let life surprise you with how limitless its possibilities can be.

  Continually expand your awareness by realizing how small it always is. Add to the depth of your wisdom by being eager to confess what you do not know.

  Arrogance is a lonely, frustrating, empty life. Genuine humility offers escape from such a disheartening state, and access to your highest possibilities.

  When plans go awry, be thankful for the humbling experience. When others fail to understand or respect you, take the opportunity to let life humble you.

  Let life humble you. And let that make you stronger than ever.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• alosso 21,042 Posts

  Thu, Jan 10 2019 1:16 PM

  Is it 300 quotes from Ralph Marston?

  Who is he?

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Thu, Jan 10 2019 2:52 PM

  alosso:

  Is it 300 quotes from Ralph Marston?

  Who is he?

  A writer of daily motivational thoughts and a published author.  I just love his uplifting writing.

   

• DoctorLarry 4,276 Posts

  Thu, Jan 10 2019 7:11 PM

  Ladychipper:

  A writer of daily motivational thoughts and a published author.  I just love his uplifting writing.

  Yes - we need to read these types of things to keep on going, sometimes.

• HenryKawa 1,721 Posts

  Thu, Jan 10 2019 11:01 PM

  I read these motivational posts everyday.  They are partially responsible for making me a good person.  Thank you so much Marion for this wonderful thread.  

• alosso 21,042 Posts

  Thu, Jan 10 2019 11:21 PM

  Thanks for the update, Marion.