Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Wed, May 3 2023 11:17 AM

  Wednesday, May 3, 2023

  Details upon details

  Flying across the sky gets you where you’re going quickly. But it doesn’t provide much opportunity to experience where you’ve been.

  Sometimes it’s essential to arrive at your destination as soon as possible. At other times, though, you can find much value in discovering what’s along the way.

  Certainly the big picture matters quite a lot, and is good to understand. Yet every big picture is composed of details upon details, and those details are important too.

  Whether you’re traversing a physical or intellectual distance, you have a delicate balance to maintain. You must go fast enough to get there and slow enough to understand where you are.

  The details connect one place to another, one concept to other concepts, ideas, and expressions. Details provide insights that add great value to whatever you intend to do.

  Seek to be fast and efficient, but not too fast, not overly efficient. You don’t want to cheat yourself out of all the opportunities to be found in the details.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• AlaskanDame 18,976 Posts

  Wed, May 3 2023 4:43 PM

  “Seek to be fast and efficient, but not too fast, not overly efficient. You don’t want to cheat yourself out of all the opportunities to be found in the details.”

  So true!

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Thu, May 4 2023 8:44 AM

  Nice to see you AKD!  Happy you are getting something out of these Daily Motivators. 

   

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Thu, May 4 2023 8:45 AM

  Thursday, May 4, 2023

  Strength is a choice

  It is not easy to call upon your strength, and to develop even more. Yet it is possible, and accessible, and highly beneficial.

  People advise you to be strong, and of course it’s easy for them to say, while difficult for you to do. Nonetheless, it’s good advice.

  Strength begins on the inside, and what’s there inside is largely up to you. No matter how many resources, advantages and connections you do or do not have, you have access to your own strength.

  Strength is a choice. It comes from your intentions, your values, your priorities, your commitment to yourself and others.

  Certainly strength can be abused, but that doesn’t mean that strength itself is undesirable. It just means you must be careful and respectful with it.

  Ask yourself what it will take to grow stronger inside, and seek to follow that path. Choose strength, and use it well.

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Fri, May 5 2023 9:04 AM

  Friday, May 5, 2023

  Something good from it

  What irritates you does not last. Consider that, let go of the irritation, and move on.

  What frustrates you provides insight into your own priorities. Use that as an opportunity to focus on those priorities rather than on the frustration.

  What angers you gives you energy. Find a way to point that energy in a positive, productive direction.

  What frightens you alerts you to possible dangers. Use that awareness to better prepare yourself for successfully handling or avoiding the dangers.

  What initially arrives as difficulty, discomfort or unpleasantness can be turned to your advantage. That’s been the catalyst for much of your skill, wisdom, strength, and will continue to be.

  What is going on in your world right now, and how can you make something good from it? Challenge yourself to find a way, for your very own history proves that you will.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• AlaskanDame 18,976 Posts

  Fri, May 5 2023 9:55 AM

  Ladychipper:

  Nice to see you AKD!  Happy you are getting something out of these Daily Motivators. 

  That one struck me because so many people say they don’t like details.  But “details” are the stuff of life…..to be appreciated!  The color and shape of a petal, the specific eye color(s) of a grandchild, the harmonies and harmonics of music, the roadside geology and quirky (or educational) history visible on a road trip, etc.

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Sat, May 6 2023 12:36 PM

  AlaskanDame:

  That one struck me because so many people say they don’t like details.  But “details” are the stuff of life…..to be appreciated!  The color and shape of a petal, the specific eye color(s) of a grandchild, the harmonies and harmonics of music, the roadside geology and quirky (or educational) history visible on a road trip, etc.

  I agree with you 100%!

   

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Sat, May 6 2023 12:37 PM

  Saturday, May 6, 2023

  Making progress

  There is a difference between difficult and impossible. Success is a matter of respecting and acting on that difference.

  Let go of what’s impossible. Put your best into doing what’s difficult and valuable.

  Making progress within the bounds of reality is often difficult, yet it can be done. Going entirely against reality, however, is impossible.

  Wishes will never be magically granted just because you wish them. Yet all sorts of amazing achievements and experiences are within your grasp when you’re willing to put forth the necessary effort.

  Dream whatever amazing dreams you can imagine, and then ask yourself. What parts of those dreams can actually be realized, and how exactly can that be done?

  You can find more than enough real, achievable possibilities for a rich and fulfilling life. Move past the empty wishes for what cannot be done, and do the work to bring about all the good things that can.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• AlaskanDame 18,976 Posts

  Sun, May 7 2023 3:15 PM

  “Making progress within the bounds of reality is often difficult, yet it can be done. Going entirely against reality, however, is impossible.”

  Sorry, I know this is meant to be profound, but all I could think of while reading it was settling for improvement, not perfection, when unclutterring or cleaning my home!

• Ladychipper 22,692 Posts

  Mon, May 8 2023 11:44 AM

  Monday, May 8, 2023

  Better possibilities

  What do you want for your life, for all of life? How can you be sure there’s not something much, much better?

  Could you be seeking some particular thing so single-mindedly that you fail to see other, more desirable possibilities? Might you be sabotaging your own fulfillment by envisioning fulfillment in a far too limited way?

  It’s all well and good to get what you desire. But perhaps it’s even better sometimes when you don’t get what you desire.

  When your path to fulfillment is blocked, you’re forced to consider other paths. That’s not such a bad thing.

  Surely there are possibilities you’re not aware of. Be careful not to let your obsession with just a few possibilities blind you to all the others.

  Clarify your intentions, set your goals, and go for them. But never let that stop you from being open to everything else that is possible.

   

  — Ralph Marston