Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Wed, Mar 6 2024 5:52 AM

  Wednesday, March 6, 2024

  Live your life well

  Live your life well today, with no apologies. Make your way through the world, embracing responsibility for your own actions and consequences.

  You have unique value, a worthwhile and authentic perspective. Share that value, express that perspective.

  It’s great to deepen your understanding of others, and to generously give of your spirit. But that’s no reason to become a slave to anyone else’s opinion of you.

  Open yourself to all the possibilities. Summon the courage and the discipline to follow the ones that have the most meaning to you.

  Take a little bit of risk, do what initially feels uncomfortable. Life is yours today to be lived in all its richness, and much of that richness exists outside what’s become all too familiar.

  Now is your opportunity for unique and enriching experience. Make it count, make it memorable, give the best of yourself and make it great.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Thu, Mar 7 2024 11:58 AM

  Thursday, March 7, 2024

  Vision for the future

  Create good reasons to look forward. You, your community, and your world all thrive on such reasons.

  What’s already happened has happened, and there’s nothing you can do to change that. The future, however, is wide open, and largely determined by what you decide to make of it.

  That decision comes from your vision, informed by all you treasure and all you seek to do with it. It revolves around the specific life experiences you wish to create, share, and encourage.

  To develop and expand such a vision is not easy. And it’s likely you can get by, at least for a while, without it.

  Yet to honor and fulfill the unique and precious value that is your life, vision is a solid necessity. Though you can survive for a while without a vision for the future, you are capable of so much more than mere existence and survival.

  Look forward, see the reality of what’s possible, and focus on the most beneficial and enriching outcomes. That gives you power to successfully deal with what is, and to favorably shape what can be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Fri, Mar 8 2024 8:57 AM

  Friday, March 8, 2024

  Go ahead now

  Today brings great promise. Begin now to fulfill that promise.

  Your most persistent thoughts will result in action and your most effective actions will be transformed into accomplishments. It all gets set in motion by your intention and your attitude.

  There are good reasons for all you love, all you care about, all you dream about creating, sharing, and experiencing. Here and now, let those reasons encourage you to bring new goodness to life.

  This is the time that you have to work with. This is the moment in which you have the immeasurable good fortune to live.

  As big as the problems may seem, they are only a small fraction of the possibilities. Today is when you can choose to follow the best of those possibilities.

  Everything in your life has been leading up to this moment. Go ahead now, and continue to more richly experience and fulfill the life you were born to live.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Mon, Mar 11 2024 8:49 AM

  Monday, March 11, 2024

  Clear and present purpose

  Start the day strong. Start it with purpose.

  As you work your way through the hours, make them mean something. Live them with clear and present purpose.

  Keep your focus on meaningful, positive purpose. You’ll keep the value and the accomplishments coming.

  Continue to remind yourself of what you intend to do and why. Claim all the moments of your life and fill them with richness.

  With purpose, you can push through the distractions, interruptions, and conflicts. With purpose, you give meaning to the joys, the victories, the challenges, to every experience.

  Choose purpose now, and stick with it. Connect with the meaning that is your life, and keep the goodness flowing.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Tue, Mar 12 2024 9:12 AM

  Tuesday, March 12, 2024

  Where your thoughts go

  Put your thoughts where they will do the most good. Focus them on creating and expanding upon what’s positive and desirable.

  You wouldn’t spend your hard-earned money buying things you didn’t want or need. It’s important to be just as discerning with the power of your thoughts.

  Sure, you can’t help but notice the negative things in life, and often you must deal with them. But that doesn’t mean you must dwell on them.

  Choose instead to direct as much of your thinking as possible toward goodness and value and richness. Fill your thoughts with the best possibilities and with consideration for how to bring those possibilities to life.

  Where your thoughts go, your priorities, your actions, and your life will follow. Think kindness, generosity, achievement, excellence, and give real energy to the values you cherish.

  Every thought has an impact. Point as many of your thoughts as you can in meaningful and beneficial directions.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Wed, Mar 13 2024 9:19 AM

  Wednesday, March 13, 2024

  The choice is yours

  Do you want people to trust you, or do you want to take advantage of them? You can’t have both.

  Do you want people to respect you, or do you want them to feel sorry for you? You can’t have both.

  Do you want to speak and act and feel superior to others, or do you want to be genuinely admired, perhaps even loved? You can achieve one or the other, but not both.

  Do you want to impress people with your style and fame and fortune, or do you want to be truly happy and fulfilled? You can focus your energy and resources on one, but not both.

  Every day, every effort, every priority, every interaction is a choice. Those choices add up to the life you live.

  How do you want your life to unfold from this day forward? The choice is yours.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Fri, Mar 15 2024 9:17 AM

  Friday, March 15, 2024

  Diligence matters

  Nothing falls completely apart all at once. Nothing comes fully together all at once.

  Most consequential occurrences, whether negative or positive, do not instantly spring into existence. To create more of what’s good, to steer away from what’s bad, requires continuing effort over time.

  With diligence you leverage the small moments to create great influence. Diligence matters because of the power it enables you to claim over the unfolding of your life.

  Act with intention today, then again tomorrow, and continue as each new situation arises. With your commitment to positive purpose, invoke the power of your own diligence.

  Fully live this moment. But don’t get so lost in it that you neglect the diligence that can make such a positive difference.

  Enjoy the richness of today. Appreciate all the goodness your diligence has brought, and work to keep that goodness coming.

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Mon, Mar 18 2024 8:22 AM

  Monday, March 18, 2024

  Choose good thoughts

  If you’re frustrated, worried, or annoyed, it’s because you’ve decided to be. And the moment you remind yourself of it, you can decide differently.

  You have ample reasons to think negative thoughts. You also have the ability to replace those thoughts with more empowering ones.

  It’s valuable to notice and acknowledge life’s difficulties, to be realistic about them. That enables you to make meaningful improvements and helps you avoid trouble.

  But there’s negligible value in obsessing over negative factors you can’t do anything about. Instead, point your powerful thoughts in a direction where they can do some good.

  All through the day, every day, you can decide exactly which thoughts will fill your mind. Select the ones that lead you toward achievement, fulfillment, kindness, and understanding.

  Think of positive purpose, confidence, excellence, patience, beauty, and determination. Choose good thoughts, and follow where they lead.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Tue, Mar 19 2024 8:21 AM

  Tuesday, March 19, 2024

  Unpleasant reality

  The way to deal with an unpleasant reality is not to hide from it or deny it. Instead, recognize it and then set about to either change it or change the way it affects your life.

  You can admit reality without admitting defeat. Accepting things for what they are does not prevent you from changing them.

  Indeed, the opposite is true. As soon as you can clearly see and own up to the reality of the situation, you have begun to gain power over it.

  Engage your imagination, and picture a positive alternative to the unpleasant reality. Then put your passion, your skills, and your resources to work, and bring that alternative to life.

  Every opportunity that exists is based in truth and reality. By acknowledging and embracing reality, you give yourself the opportunity to improve upon it.

  Accept and understand your life as it is, and visualize the way you would like it to be. Then, with your intention clearly and firmly in mind, get to work and make it happen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 22,715 Posts

  Wed, Mar 20 2024 9:20 AM

  Wednesday, March 20, 2024

  Fresh possibilities

  No matter how many years you have passed through, you’ll find fresh possibilities in each new day. Today is no exception.

  The burdens may be heavy, the challenges great. Yet opportunities abound to live with purpose and fulfillment.

  Look beyond the concerns and limitations of the moment. Align your thoughts and actions with the goodness that can be.

  You always have potential that’s not been fully realized. There are plenty of good things you can do that have not yet been done.

  The stretch of time you’re just now entering is one you can fill with meaningful purpose and lasting value. Draw energy from the realm of possibilities as you move forward.

  Feel the sense of excitement as you activate your abilities with intention and focus. Now is time to live at your highest level.

   

  — Ralph Marston