Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Sat, Apr 9 2022 7:48 AM

  Saturday, April 9, 2022

  Tend your own garden

  As enticing as the prospect may be, there’s not much you can do to control or influence the behavior of others. Yet there are plenty of improvements you can make to your own thoughts, choices, and actions.

  It’s great to keep yourself informed about what the rest of the people in the world are doing. But it’s best to keep the majority of your focus and energy on the good and useful things you can do.

  Tend to your own garden with care, discipline, persistence and high expectations. That will accomplish infinitely more than scrutinizing and complaining about the weeds in your neighbor’s garden.

  A modest positive change in your choices can often lead to a massive improvement in the quality of your life. By contrast, fighting to control the choices of others will likely just lead to more and more fighting.

  Even if you could somehow get everyone in the world to do as you wish, that would not come close to solving your problems. And then where would you turn?

  The most powerful, positive, and far-reaching way to influence your world is by example. Work toward excellence in the living of your life, and let your success inspire others to do the same.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• pmm711 5,515 Posts

  Sat, Apr 9 2022 7:59 PM

  Ladychipper:

  Tend to your own garden with care, discipline, persistence and high expectations. That will accomplish infinitely more than scrutinizing and complaining about the weeds in your neighbor’s garden.

  The garden or lawn across the street might look luxurious and beautiful now, but, if you leave your weedy garden/lawn for that one, it will soon be as weedy, if not weedier, than the garden/lawn you left.  So, tend to and cultivate your present garden and lawn.  It will be cheaper too...much cheaper.  Comprende?  LOL

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Sun, Apr 10 2022 8:52 AM

  LOL! 

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Mon, Apr 11 2022 8:24 AM

  Monday, April 11, 2022

  Thinking about

  What have you been thinking about doing? Why have you not done it?

  Maybe you’ve been overthinking it. Perhaps all that thinking has gotten in the way of doing.

  Thinking is an essential component of improvement and achievement. But it is not the only component.

  Your thoughts bring results when they prepare you and guide you to take action. Be careful not to let those thoughts get to the point where they become a substitute for action.

  Focus your thoughts not only on the results you desire, but also on all the actions necessary to get you there. Fill your thoughts with enthusiasm for the process of achievement, with excitement for getting that process started.

  Then get going and get it done. Give your good thoughts the expression they deserve by putting them into action.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Tue, Apr 12 2022 8:17 AM

  Tuesday, April 12, 2022

  You can be

  You are not all that you could be. Today you have the good fortune to work on that.

  Think of the most awe-inspiring experience you’ve ever had. What is it exactly, within you, with which that awe continues to resonate?

  The beauty that leaves you stunned, the wonder, the awe, all call to your higher self. Life’s moments of extreme excellence push you in the direction of being all you can be.

  There is a reason why you are drawn to stare at the ocean’s distant horizon, or the endless night sky, or a flawlessly beautiful painting. There is a reason why certain musical passages can radically alter your mood and physiology.

  It is because your life has great meaning and in certain moments you can feel the extent of that meaning throughout the whole of your being. In those moments you understand that although you are not all you could be, you can be.

  Let yourself be awed by life and see that in the middle of that awe, there is you. Feel the promise, feel the challenge, and commit once again to being all you can be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Thu, Apr 14 2022 11:14 AM

  Thursday, April 14, 2022

  Amazing life

  Take a moment to remind yourself how fortunate you are to be here on this day. Then step up and make good use of that good fortune.

  Look past the worries and complaints. See the possibilities and act on the best of them.

  There’s a world of positive difference you can make today. Using your time to make that difference is what will bring you the highest possible satisfaction when the day comes to an end.

  Yes, life is filled with risk. Fortunately, you are filled with courage, intelligence, creativity, passion, and purpose.

  You can use what you have to do what you can. With every bit of progress you make, you can build more progress and value on top of it.

  Look clearly and enthusiastically at the massive opportunity that’s right here in front of you. Discover once again what an amazing life this can be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• craigswan 30,953 Posts

  Thu, Apr 14 2022 1:30 PM

  A reminder of one of the most beautiful etymologies out there.

   the 'pupil' of the eye is named after the Latin 'pupilla', little doll' - because when we look into the eyes of another, we see a tiny, doll-like reflection of ourselves..

  A rare gem of beauty in an otherwise ugly day .

  Happy easter .

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Thu, Apr 14 2022 4:09 PM

  Thanks for your post Craig!  So nice of you to come by and tell us this.

  Happy Easter!

  Marion

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Fri, Apr 15 2022 8:42 AM

  Friday, April 15, 2022

  Serenity of now

  Allow your thoughts to come and then to peacefully go. Sink in to the serenity of now.

  Let your feelings be your feelings, without judgment or conflict. Be filled with the peace that is always possible.

  Spend time with that peace, free from the demands of needs and desires. Notice how your spirit is cleansed and refreshed as each peaceful moment passes.

  Enable all that you are to be present in the serenity of now. Know that it is available to you at any time, just by letting it be.

  Allowing serenity to envelop you will not make the difficulties and complications of life go away. Yet it can strengthen your connection to positive purpose and enhance your power to handle life’s challenges.

  Give yourself the gift of peace. Spend time in the serenity of now.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,680 Posts

  Sat, Apr 16 2022 9:49 AM

  Saturday, April 16, 2022

  Loving benefactor

  By all means keenly observe the world and make note of the things that can be improved. But take care not to internalize the entire deficit between life as it is and life as it could be.

  You are a part of all that is. But the good you can do, as extensive as it may be, does not depend on you absorbing every burden that exists.

  Your best hope of repairing what is broken is to operate from a perspective that’s apart from what is broken. Healing flows not from sickness, but from health.

  Feel that healthy part of you, focus on it, celebrate it, and expand upon it. Rather than letting the problems of the world pull you down, live with so much goodness as to overwhelm them.

  You have a great responsibility to yourself and to all of life. Yet that does not oblige you to agonize endlessly over every last one of life’s imperfections.

  Every day, in every situation, you can make a meaningful positive difference. Seek to do so not as a grieving victim, but as a joyful, confident, and loving benefactor.

   

  — Ralph Marston