Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Sat, Jul 8 2023 12:39 PM

  Saturday, July 8, 2023

  Express your thoughts

  Expressing your thoughts in concrete form helps you organize them, challenge them, strengthen them, and expand on them. Whether you write down your thoughts or speak them out loud, or both, you’ll find great benefit in committing them to words.

  Just because you think something doesn’t make it true. Yet you can hone your thoughts into a state of truth by first laying them out in tangible ways.

  When thoughts are merely going around and around in your mind they risk turning into endless repetitions or pointless obsessions. Seek to give your thoughts power, relevance, and veracity by enabling them to be objectively considered.

  You can produce great insights by becoming lost in your thoughts. Yet you have to take care that those insightful thoughts do not themselves become lost to memory and posterity.

  You are constantly thinking and then thinking more. Hold on to the best of those thoughts, and give yourself the chance to refine them, by accurately preserving them.

  Throughout each day, your mind is busy offering its treasures in the form of thoughts. Hold on to and improve upon the best of them, and enable your world to benefit from their great potential value.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Mon, Jul 10 2023 8:42 AM

  Monday, July 10, 2023

  Live in the richness

  Whatever you are struggling with is another manifestation of life’s richness. Appreciate it for what it is, and with renewed energy delve into the richness.

  In those people and events and ideas that earn your passion abides even more of the richness. Let it capture you, and your imagination, and refresh your sense of possibility.

  Life’s richness also tucks itself deeply into all those little mundane matters that seem at first not to matter. Yet when you look you’ll find it, and will be surprised again at the endless forms beauty can take.

  In times of joy the richness seeks to make itself glaringly obvious. In seasons of sadness it quietly holds your hand and encourages you to push forward.

  Today life’s richness surrounds you, infuses you. Your chance to know it comes and goes with every now.

  You seek, you yearn, and what you yearn for is already connected to you. Live in the richness, wherever and however it may be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Tue, Jul 11 2023 11:41 AM

  Tuesday, July 11, 2023

  Beyond yourself

  The most reliable route to an empty life is to live only for yourself. Every other pain becomes magnified by the pain of self absorption.

  Yet you always have a way to get away from that unbearable emptiness. Begin to sincerely care for someone or something beyond yourself, and a golden warmth enters your life.

  Look back on your experiences and you’re sure to recall times when this very thing has happened. Give of yourself, and you begin to know a sense of purpose that cannot be reached in any other way.

  Behind every desire is a longing for meaning and fulfillment. To quench that thirst for meaning, seek to live beyond yourself.

  Before you speak, choose words that will serve a greater good. Before you act, choose efforts that will make a positive contribution to the world around you.

   

  In small things and large, use the opportunity of each moment to see and to act beyond your own concerns. Again and again, the success you create by doing so will be real and fulfilling.

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Wed, Jul 12 2023 12:31 PM

  Wednesday, July 12, 2023

  Living the consequences

  What you’ve been doing got you where you are. What you do now can either keep you there or take you somewhere else.

  Right now you are living the consequences of your past choices. That puts you in an ideal position to decide and to act upon what your future consequences will be.

  You have gained valuable expertise on which habits and patterns bring you genuine fulfillment and which ones end up wasting your time or worse. Now you have the opportunity to act on that expertise and experience.

  It’s easy to know what you feel like doing in the moment and what you don’t feel like doing. But that’s not always the best basis for choosing among your options.

  Fortunately, you also have a lifetime of experiencing the consequences of your own choices. With every new choice you can take more of those consequences into consideration.

  Very soon you’ll be living the consequences of whatever you decide to do right now. Based on the knowledge of all your past and present consequences, ask yourself, what will that decision be?

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Thu, Jul 13 2023 11:33 AM

  Thursday, July 13, 2023

  Magical world

  Imagine a world in which everything seems to happen by magic. In this world, your needs and desires are provided to you with little to no effort on your part.

  Food of your choosing is magically delivered to your table. Shampoo, toothpaste, clothing, shoes, toys, and anything else you could wish for appear on your doorstep whenever you want.

  Garbage and waste are magically whisked away. Limitless hours of entertainment, tailored precisely to your taste, magically and instantly appear at your command.

  Such a world is not particularly difficult to imagine. Because with present-day infrastructure and technology, for the most part you are already living in it.

  But when desires are automatically satisfied, it leaves you with a gnawing emptiness. And you wonder, when all you ever do is choose from menus, what provides meaning in your life?

  What makes anything meaningful is not just having it, but the investment of your time and effort and resourcefulness in it. That, you come to realize, is the real magic.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Fri, Jul 14 2023 11:41 AM

  Friday, July 14, 2023

  Season of achievement

  You want to do this, you need to do that. But wanting and needing won’t get anything accomplished.

  You envision all sorts of ways to improve your world, your environment, your life, and that’s great. Yet vision alone is not enough.

  What if you were to take just a single initial step? And what if that felt so satisfying you became inspired to take another?

  There’s something you can do right now to put what you visualize into tangible form. Some readily accessible action will demonstrate to yourself both your commitment and your capability.

  Give yourself that experience. Then extend it indefinitely into an exhilarating season of achievement and fulfillment.

  What you work to attain is well worth the effort, because in that effort you become an increasingly better version of yourself. Go ahead and make it happen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Sat, Jul 15 2023 10:29 AM

  Saturday, July 15, 2023

  Respect yourself

  The best option is not necessarily the one for which you can merely come up with a justification. Your best option is the one you can genuinely respect yourself for choosing.

  Will you respect yourself tomorrow for doing this, or many years from now? It’s a benchmark that can be difficult to meet, yet rewarding to live with.

  Would you gain respect for anyone else who does what you’re about to do, or not? Hold yourself to that same standard.

  Life has taught you much about what behaviors to respect and which ones to be wary of. Every day you can utilize that wisdom by holding a bright mirror up to your own words, thoughts, and activities.

  You’ve gained respect for what makes sense, for what works, for what usefully contributes to life. Seek to align yourself, your efforts, your inclinations, with those things you respect.

  Pause and consider your level of respect for whatever you’re about to do. If you can honestly respect yourself, you’re on the right track.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Sun, Jul 16 2023 7:46 AM

  Monday, July 17, 2023

  Increasingly positive direction

  The life you’ve lived has successfully gotten you to this point. Now expand on that success.

  Your experience has not been perfect, but neither has it been a complete disaster. It’s positioned you to move beyond what hasn’t worked well and to more fully embrace all that has been helpful.

  Encourage yourself to be thankful for all you’ve been through so far. With a perspective of gratitude, you can appreciate and utilize the great value life’s experiences have provided to you.

  At this point you can smile about the disappointments of the past. Because you know how much they’ve enabled you to grow.

  You’re also at a place where you can understand what has made the good times so good. As you apply that understanding going forward, there are many more positive memories to be made.

  See the profound success that’s evidenced by your presence in this moment. Continue the momentum, and commit yourself to keep life going in an increasingly positive direction.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Tue, Jul 18 2023 8:21 AM

  Tuesday, July 18, 2023

  Do it by doing

  If you try hard to do something, the trying leads you to be frustrated and ineffective. Instead, let go of the idea that you’re trying and just begin to get it done.

  Trying starts off with a negative assumption. When you see yourself as trying you’ll be focused on the possibility you won’t get it done.

  Simply taking one action after another puts you in an entirely different frame of mind. You experience yourself having an impact, and that’s a positive perspective you can build on.

  You can do it without trying. You can do it by doing.

  Take the initial step and let your active participation give you confidence. With each incremental result you’ll be inspired to create more.

  Melt away the resistance that comes from the thought that you’re trying. Stop merely trying, go ahead and get it done.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,726 Posts

  Wed, Jul 19 2023 10:50 AM

  Wednesday, July 19, 2023

  Form the future

  What you cannot do now is change the past. What you cannot avoid doing now is to form the future.

  The past is where you’ve learned and experienced, yet you’re not there anymore. The future is where you’re unavoidably headed.

  That future has not been determined yet. And therein lies inexhaustible opportunity.

  To whatever extent you regret the past, you can improve the future. You’re able to transform the energy of that regret into inspiration, determination, and effective action going forward.

  Your disappointment with what has been has the very real potential to push you in a more positive and fulfilling direction. Let your past exert its favorable influence on your choices right now, and continue to do so going forward.

  Today you have the power to expand upon what has served you well and to redirect what has let you down. You’re better positioned than ever before to form a positive and fulfilling future.

   

  — Ralph Marston