Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Mon, Apr 18 2022 7:50 AM

  Monday, April 18, 2022

  Race ahead

  Fall in love again with the wonder that is your life. See with refreshed and grateful eyes the real goodness that exists all around you.

  Through the best of times and the worst of times, the possibilities persist. Imagine the good you can do with them now.

  Everything you’ve been through has compelled you to grow stronger. Now you’re positioned to put that strength to work in the service of what you’ve always loved.

  Remember the sunrise that took your breath away so many years ago? Tomorrow morning there’s another one with even more potential to spark richness and joy.

  Over the years it’s become all too easy to let fear and complacency hold you back. Yet even now, especially now, you have what it takes to re-ignite your sense of wonder at all that is and all that is possible.

  Race ahead and meet the sun next time it clears the horizon. See a whole new world of possibilities come to light, allowing the wonder and richness to energize your life more than ever before.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Tue, Apr 19 2022 7:29 AM

  Tuesday, April 19, 2022

  Plan and act anyway

  You plan, you prepare, you put those plans into action. Then something completely unexpected comes along and disrupts your planned activities.

  It’s possible life will not unfold as you intended. Yet that’s no reason to avoid having intentions, or making plans, or acting on those plans.

  Yes, every now and then your plans could very well fall through. But if you have no plans at all then the whole of your life is what will fall through.

  Sure, it might seem like a waste to put a great deal of preparation into something that could never happen. However, an even greater waste is to wander aimlessly, afraid that any plans you make might be disrupted.

  So go ahead, choose what you intend to do. Then step forward and put your choices into action.

  Though life offers no guarantees, there’s a good chance much of what you act upon will get done. And that’s a whole lot better than nothing.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2022 5:38 AM

  Wednesday, April 20, 2022

  Realize that you can

  What will everyone else think? It doesn’t really matter.

  How do you get started? Identify an action you can take right now and take it.

  How do you manage to keep going? Be willing to do what must be done, as often as it must be done.

  What if you fall? You can pick yourself up and make another attempt.

  What if no one is willing to listen to you, assist you, support you? Figure out a way to make it worth their while.

  What if the goal is in sight, but you suddenly encounter a big, complicated obstacle? Realize that you’ve just come across a splendid opportunity to create value, and realize that you can.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Thu, Apr 21 2022 11:23 AM

  Thursday, April 21, 2022

  New experiences

  Learn, experience, fail, and succeed. Ask questions, listen to the answers, seek to understand.

  Wander through places where you’ve previously never been. Take on tasks you don’t yet know how to do.

  You’re able to consider new information, adjust to unexpected situations, and adapt to novel environments. Keep those abilities strong by putting them to use.

  It’s easy and comfortable to get settled in your ways. Yet it’s refreshing and energizing to introduce yourself to new challenges and to then work through those challenges.

  You’ve come a long way in your time and accumulated plenty of interesting experiences. Keep those new experiences coming.

  What makes life so good is the fact that you can live it in whatever way it may come. A new day is here, and new experiences await.

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Fri, Apr 22 2022 9:21 AM

  Friday, April 22, 2022

  Value in limitation

  There is value in limitation. It forces you to appreciate and prioritize.

  Often when there’s an abundant supply of something, there can be a tendency to take if for granted. You’re much more likely to fully appreciate resources that are more limited in supply.

  It’s not how much you have that matters. It’s what you make of it.

  When you’re operating within tight limitations, you can’t do everything. So you figure out what’s most important and focus on that.

  In every life, in every endeavor, there are limitations. Those limitations do not have to be a curse.

  Rather than letting the limitations impede you, let them challenge you to grow stronger, more purposeful, more resourceful. Within the limitations you’ll find plenty of opportunity for achievement.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Sat, Apr 23 2022 12:33 PM

  Saturday, April 23, 2022

  Give yourself time

  Give yourself time to think. Give yourself time to focus on your work.

  Give yourself time to recover. Give yourself time to heal.

  Give yourself time to be with those who matter most to you. Give yourself time to get lost in doing the things you love.

  Give yourself time to explore the wonder of life and existence. Give yourself time for the things that challenge you to become stronger.

  Give yourself time to relax. Give yourself time to wonder.

  Give yourself time to appreciate and to express that appreciation. Give yourself time to truly live.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Tue, Apr 26 2022 7:35 AM

  Tuesday, April 26, 2022

  What matters is what you do

  To change the quality of your life, you must change what you do. There is no other way.

  Improvement does not come neatly wrapped in a package that’s been put together by someone else. It comes from what you do, consistently, persistently, morning, afternoon, and evening.

  What habits are you willing to work to get rid of? What habits are you ready to spend time to establish?

  Goals, promises, plans, and intentions can all be very impressive and compelling. What matters is what you do, right now, and in an hour, and tomorrow morning, and next week.

  You have what it takes to make your life whatever you want it to be. You just have to do the work, and it has to come from you.

  Challenge yourself to string together a half dozen days of purposeful, focused, and persistent effort. Feel the momentum, see all the good you can do, keep on going and never stop.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2022 9:28 AM

  Wednesday, April 27, 2022

  Great depth inside

  It’s fun and entertaining to be distracted. But life is for more than just fun and entertainment.

  You are able to go much deeper than that. And if you go for long periods without any depth and focus, your spirit cries out for it.

  When you seek constant trivialities so to escape boredom, you descend into an even deeper and more cynical boredom. At some point the trivial distractions lose all their power, and offer no easy escape.

  Eventually you must confront who you are deep inside, and what you feel, and what you value. It’s far better to do that sooner, of your own volition, than later, when you have no choice.

  Though you’ll find complexity, contradiction and unsettling substance inside, there’s also great beauty and positive purpose. You owe it to yourself to explore it all, to know it often, to hold it near.

  Instead of squandering time and treasure on superficial distractions, seek to grow stronger, more purposeful and focused. You have great depth inside, and with it you can bring much value to all you care about.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Thu, Apr 28 2022 8:41 AM

  Thursday, April 28, 2022

  Treasure every moment

  Is the stuff that seems so urgent really so urgent? Are you pressuring yourself to do it quickly rather than to do it well?

  You feel like time is always running out. Yet as soon as one moment is over, another one always begins.

  You hurry through one task so you can hurry through the next task, and the next. Is all that hurrying merely enabling you to do even more hurrying?

  Time is too valuable to waste. Yet your life is too precious and meaningful to always be rushing through it.

  Step back, take a breath, remind yourself that time will go, and time will come. Make the choice to use it well, focused on purpose, on excellence, on things that truly matter.

  Rather than urgency for the sake of urgency, make sure you’re spending your time moving in the direction you’ve chosen to go. Challenge yourself to treasure every moment and you’ll experience great quantities of life’s treasure as time goes by.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,689 Posts

  Fri, Apr 29 2022 10:42 AM

  Friday, April 29, 2022

  Not all about you

  Here’s a thought that can give you access to higher levels of freedom and power. It’s not all about you.

  When you’re in the habit of taking everything personally, that imposes a heavy burden on your life. The liberating fact is, most of what happens around you is not necessarily directed at you.

  People have all sorts of reasons for what they do. Very few of those reasons involve you at all.

  There are plenty of times when it’s perfectly reasonable to object to the actions of others. But if you elevate that objection to the level of taking personal offense, you only make it worse for yourself.

  By all means disagree, but don’t make that disagreement a defining part of who you are. Other people will live as they live, and there’s no reason to contaminate your own life with obsession over their negative behavior.

  It’s not all about you. Keep that always in mind, and free yourself to live with excellence no matter what anyone else does or does not do.

   

  — Ralph Marston