Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Fri, Nov 5 2021 8:23 AM

  Friday, November 5, 2021

  A life that’s real

  Don’t strive to be efficient just for the sake of efficiency. Seek first to be authentic.

  Avoid chasing what’s merely easy, for you’ll gain nothing from it. Immerse yourself instead in challenging and meaningful pursuits.

  Notice the obvious but don’t dwell on it, don’t waste your time congratulating yourself for seeing it. Do the work, spend the time to discover what’s not so obvious.

  Be driven by curiosity. But avoid spreading your attention so thinly that it becomes fleeting and superficial.

  Do what must be done, create the value you’re able to create. And care not at all about what it looks like you’re doing or what others think and say about you.

  Call forth the strength, do the work, abide in truth, in goodness, in authenticity. Live a life that’s real, with substance, fulfillment and deep, sustaining value, today, tomorrow, and always.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Sat, Nov 6 2021 8:31 AM

  Saturday, November 6, 2021

  Intentional interactions

  How many of your daily interactions are chosen, rich, substantive and thoughtful? How many are annoying, distracting, meaningless and superficial?

  The quality interactions add greatly to your life. The junk interactions can collectively waste vast amounts of your time.

  Information technology has exponentially expanded the kinds and the quality of your interactions, and the trend keeps accelerating. That makes it more important than ever to exercise intentional control over those interactions.

  It’s healthy and helpful to be serendipitous, open to diverse and unexpected experiences. But you must have a strategy to avoid being overwhelmed by all the interactions coming your way.

  Become more intentional about your interactions and the result will be a more intentional and purposeful life. Take steps to improve the quality and substance of those interactions, so as to deepen your focus and strengthen your values.

  Notice your interactions, take intentional control of them, expect more quality from them. Make it your choice to gain value and benefit from all the time you spend interacting with life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Mon, Nov 8 2021 7:37 AM

  Monday, November 8, 2021

  Better alternative

  Are there certain habits or behaviors that lead your life in a negative direction? Come up with positive and compelling alternatives to them.

  Whenever you attempt to not do some particular thing, the attempt is likely to fail. That’s because you focus on the undesired action, and your very focus pushes you toward that action.

  A more effective strategy is to wholly replace the unwanted action with something completely different. Make it so you don’t even have to think about whatever you’re seeking to avoid.

  You are intended for action, built for action, experienced at taking action. So put all that to good use.

  Rather than deny yourself action, improve the quality of your actions. Instead of pushing to avoid a bad habit, replace it with a beneficial habit that makes you completely forget about the old one.

  Give yourself a better alternative. And you won’t even think to miss the negative behavior you’ve given up.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• LuckyTaurus 2,635 Posts

  Mon, Nov 8 2021 9:11 AM

  My members are taking your advice ,,they are leaving WGT to find a new habit to avoid the hassle of this one

  this is a sad replacement for what we had merely a year ago

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Tue, Nov 9 2021 6:43 AM

  LuckyTaurus:

  My members are taking your advice ,,they are leaving WGT to find a new habit to avoid the hassle of this one

  this is a sad replacement for what we had merely a year ago

  Change is inevitable with most things in life so we either go along with it or not.  The new version of WGT is not so bad once you get use to it.  I did like the old flash version better but what can you do?  Flash came to an end so I just go with the flow. 

   

   

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Tue, Nov 9 2021 6:43 AM

  Tuesday, November 9, 2021

  Move life forward

  Life is a continuing series of opportunities to make a difference. Because of that, valuable outcomes are always possible.

  There is a way to get from where you are to where you want to be. There are ways to improve your life and the lives of others, no matter the burdens, no matter the challenges.

  The path forward is never a straight line, but that path always does exist. The journey is not easy, yet the goal is within your ability to reach.

  At every turn you have the chance to provide beneficial, useful input. No matter what happened in the previous minute, you can work to make some sort of improvement in the next minute.

  In this way, little by little, you move life forward. In this way, day after day, you continue to inject hope, meaning, purpose, and achievement into your world.

  Even in the darkest moments, the opportunity for progress always exists, always renews itself. Seize that opportunity now, and again and again, for doing so is precisely what makes life so very much worth living.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Wed, Nov 10 2021 9:07 AM

  Wednesday, November 10, 2021

  All you’ve lived

  Every day has added some unique measure of richness to your life. Every experience represents value that you have accumulated.

  Through the joyful moments and through the difficult times you have grown. You’ve gained knowledge, strength, perspective, friendship, wisdom, faith, persistence, and so much more.

  You’ve learned what works well and what doesn’t. You’ve felt pleasure, pain, excitement, disappointment, love, dismay, hope, and inspiration.

  It has all added greatly to who you are, to what you can do, and to how much you care. With every experience, every thought, every turn of events, your life increases in value.

  Though some hours and efforts might have felt wasted, the entirety of your life is available for you to use right now. And right now, more than ever before, you have a good sense of how and why to make use of all you are.

  Remind yourself of the great value embodied in all you’ve lived, in all you continue to be. Keep enabling life to benefit greatly from all the goodness you can give.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Thu, Nov 11 2021 11:09 AM

  Thursday, November 11, 2021

  Precisely

  You encounter a problem. What’s the first thing you must do to have any hope of correcting that problem?

  You must precisely define the problem. Only when you are clear about who, what, where, and why can you proceed to remedy the issue.

  Effective physicians do not treat illness until they have a clear diagnosis. Acting on the basis of a vague complaint can be just as likely to cause more harm as it is to bring healing.

  It’s not enough to cry and pontificate about how something is wrong. And it’s certainly not helpful to assign blame before you understand all the details.

  Take the time and put forth serious effort to precisely see the situation. Only then can you devise and implement a specific, workable response.

  When you’re faced with a problem, do what’s necessary to figure out exactly what it is. Be clear, be precise, and give yourself the deep understanding you need to get the problem behind you.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Fri, Nov 12 2021 8:37 AM

  Friday, November 12, 2021

  Life itself

  Life itself arrives here, in you, today, all around. Color, texture, motion and aroma fill your senses, energize your spirit, activate your thoughts and feelings.

  What does it all mean and how is your role best played? Is now any different than before, and from which direction will come whatever is to be?

  What feels so certain can explode with surprise. Concealed within impossible mystery you find a strangely familiar reassurance.

  Life itself is not just a concept, is more than a fleeting weightless image, and not merely the pixels onto which it is commonly imposed. Life was itself before you could name it, and extends far beyond anything ever imagined.

  Yet life exists because you know it, live it, uphold it, extend and continue it. In every blast of snow, in each cricket that chirps, in all fibers of the sheets that ease your sleep, life embraces itself, and you.

  Never forget to return that embrace. You are life itself, and how wondrous it is to be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Sat, Nov 13 2021 8:58 AM

  Saturday, November 13, 2021

  Experience meaning

  Find meaning not by searching for it. Make meaning in your life by making yourself useful.

  That doesn’t mean allowing yourself to be taken advantage of. That doesn’t mean buying into some grand utopian scheme to save the world.

  It involves making steady, incremental improvements to whatever situation you’re in. It means enriching the lives of people who are close to you.

  Meaning is not contrived by thinking about it or studying it. Discover and experience meaning by living generously and authentically.

  Right now, within your reach, someone can benefit from your encouragement, presence, sincere attention, your kindness, your smile. You can offer helpful words, a sympathetic ear, skillful action, an understanding heart.

  A rich sense of meaning is as close as your next act of generosity, you’re next moment of usefulness. The more you give your best, the more profoundly you know how much your life means.

   

  — Ralph Marston