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Post by majestyjo on Aug 19, 2017 17:10:58 GMT -5
August 19
Consistent effort
Occasional effort can create the illusion of success. Consistent effort is what brings lasting success, achievement, fulfillment.
Are you working out once or twice every couple of weeks, or every day? Are you writing a chapter just when you feel like it, or every morning before breakfast?
Your life is too precious to merely dabble. In work, in play, in health, wisdom and relationships, you deserve the luscious fruits that consistent effort will bring.
A single heroic effort might be fun and impressive, but is soon forgotten. Yet small, unassuming efforts, when repeated with consistency, can bring a never-ending stream of value.
If you’ve done it once, you can do it again, and again. When you do, great things result.
Give your life and your world the benefit of your best effort, not once, not twice, but over and over again. With consistent effort, build a path all the way to your most treasured dreams.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 20, 2017 9:42:32 GMT -5
August 20
Your potential
You know what you can do. Are you doing all you can?
You know how capable, how effective you can be. Engage that effectiveness to its fullest extent today.
Life has given you much. Now is your chance to give even more.
Stop wondering where you’ll start, and just start right where you are. Quit asking yourself what you can do, and begin doing what you can.
Rise calmly, confidently above worry, anger, ego and despair. You have good work to do, so experience the satisfaction, the fulfillment of getting it done.
Today, you are new achievement ready to happen, new goodness ready to be born. Now, live up to all your potential.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 21, 2017 19:13:30 GMT -5
August 21
Difficult is nothing to fear
Maybe difficult is not so bad. Maybe easy is not so desirable.
Easy makes you soft, complacent, vulnerable. Difficult makes you strong, decisive, capable.
Easy puts you in danger of being arrogant, disrespectful and bored. Difficult fills you with a wealth of gratitude that connects you to life’s richest abundance.
The more you must work for something, the more you must invest yourself, the more it means to you, the more value it has. A difficult journey makes the destination all the more appealing.
Wouldn’t it be nice to stop worrying whether the day, the job, the encounter will be difficult? Wouldn’t it be great to just stride right up to the moment and meet it with confidence and joy?
Look back at what you’ve learned from life, and you’ll realize you’ve learned this. What is difficult is nothing to fear.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 22, 2017 22:02:08 GMT -5
August 22
Connect with respect
Each time you meet someone, you have a valuable opportunity. You have the opportunity to be respectful.
Does every person you encounter deserve to be treated with respect? Maybe not, but that doesn’t make your respect any less useful.
Because respect is not a weapon for enforcing the judgments you make about others. Respect is a powerful tool you utilize to establish positive connections.
People know whether you respect them or not. If you seek to create the best possible outcome when dealing with others, respect is essential.
Disrespect might feel powerful at first, but it actually weakens your position. Choose instead to enhance your own strength by choosing to respect others.
Listen, speak, act and think with genuine respect. And forge connections that will serve everyone well.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 23, 2017 19:03:36 GMT -5
August 23
Purpose that lives within you
Give yourself a reason to live at your highest level today. Set a goal that compels you to pull the best values, thoughts, words, efforts out of yourself and to share them with all of life.
Hope is never lost unless you choose to ignore it. Choose instead to build each glimmer of hope into a spark, then a steady flame, then a brilliant blaze that lights the way forward.
Within you are specific desires, your own concepts of what can make life good. Bring those desires out into the open where they will engage your full attention.
Give yourself something good, meaningful, valuable, inspiring, satisfying to do with this day, with this life. Realize what a massive opportunity you have right now, and take it.
What a terrible shame it would be to possess great capability and to never use it. Give yourself a reason to make full use of all you have, of all you can do, of all you can be.
Focus the power of your life on the beauty and fulfillment of all you love. Give life the full benefit of the purpose that lives within you.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by caressa222 on Aug 25, 2017 1:20:56 GMT -5
August 24
Magnify the beauty
Life can be tough. You can be tougher.
You’ve worked your way through every difficulty so far. You’ll get yourself through this one.
Life can be beautiful. You can magnify the beauty.
You’ve often known how good life can be. You’ll find a way to create much more of that goodness.
Obsess no more over what’s wrong. Grab on to what’s right, and expand it to fill the entire space you’re in.
Whenever you’ve been your best, that’s what you’ve always done. Take this opportunity to take your world even higher.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 26, 2017 20:08:54 GMT -5
August 25
Live the encouragement
If you feel the need for encouragement, give it. You cannot help but be encouraged when you are encouraging others.
It is impossible for encouragement to flow only in one direction. Instead of striving to get encouragement, make it your business to live the encouragement.
Live the encouragement, in your words, in your assumptions, your attitude, your responses. Imagine the positive possibilities, then act in accordance with what you imagine.
Some situations seem to have little room for encouragement. But encouragement doesn’t require much room.
Encouragement simply asks for your presence, your caring, and your honesty. Make the moment a little more positive, and suddenly you’ve created encouragement.
You are a natural when it comes to encouragement because you can bring it forth just by being you. Live the encouragement by letting your highest thoughts, hopes and values flow out into every moment.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 26, 2017 20:09:45 GMT -5
August 26
Another path
Make the effort, expect to achieve. But don’t expect the achievement to unfold exactly the way you thought it would.
Plan carefully, without getting trapped by your plan. Pay attention to the plan, and pay even more attention to where the plan leads.
Don’t ignore opportunities, ideas, approaches just because you didn’t think of them when formulating your plan. Go with what actually works, not just with what you thought would work.
Be uncompromising about the goal. Be flexible about the way you get there.
Even when the path you’ve chosen is blocked, you can still reach the destination. There is another path, another approach that will bring you to the place you intend to go.
Keep up the effort, know that you can find that path, that you can travel that path. And you will.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 26, 2017 20:10:17 GMT -5
August 27
Give focus, get excellence
You’ve spent time and exerted effort to get focused. Add great value to that focus by maintaining it for a while.
Bright shiny distractions tempt you to look away. Take a deep breath, remind yourself how worthless those distractions are, and stay focused.
Diversity of experience enriches life. Yet there’s no point in doing many things unless you do each of them well.
There will be time later for other activities. For now, focus all you have on doing your best to finish this one task.
The more committed you are to maintaining your focus, the more effective, productive, creative you become. Give what is in front of you the time and attention it deserves.
Gently let go of the urge to know it all, to see it all, to experience it all at once. Give focus and get the excellence it produces.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 27, 2017 10:37:11 GMT -5
August 27
Give focus, get excellence
You’ve spent time and exerted effort to get focused. Add great value to that focus by maintaining it for a while.
Bright shiny distractions tempt you to look away. Take a deep breath, remind yourself how worthless those distractions are, and stay focused.
Diversity of experience enriches life. Yet there’s no point in doing many things unless you do each of them well.
There will be time later for other activities. For now, focus all you have on doing your best to finish this one task.
The more committed you are to maintaining your focus, the more effective, productive, creative you become. Give what is in front of you the time and attention it deserves.
Gently let go of the urge to know it all, to see it all, to experience it all at once. Give focus and get the excellence it produces.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by caressa222 on Aug 28, 2017 18:13:58 GMT -5
August 28
Higher calling
Life begins again on this day. Now is your chance to do it right, to do it well, to live it with meaning, purpose, genuine love.
Opportunity arrives fresh with this moment. The universe spreads out before your eyes, and you can step into it in whatever direction you choose.
Old, beloved longings, dreams, passions stir within you. New ideas, resources, capabilities enable you to act with more experience and effectiveness than ever.
You are able to focus now on what matters. You are where you can give energy, support, sustenance to all you love.
It can be easy, can appear sophisticated and enlightened to be cynical. Yet you feel a higher calling, led by love to make life the best it can be.
Feel the courage, confidence, assurance of that higher calling, pushing you into this new moment. Create with this day a living substance that flows from and expresses your highest vision.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 30, 2017 20:29:35 GMT -5
August 29
What you give out
What you give out, you get back. To get back good stuff, genuine love, respect, consideration, give those things out.
That’s simple and easy to remember as a concept. Yet it only works for you when you work to put it into practice.
Before you speak, plan, or act, ask yourself. How will it affect the people around you?
That doesn’t mean you must live in fear of what other people will think or say about you. It does mean you can always improve on the amount and quality of consideration you show toward others.
When you’ve consistently done well in life, it’s because you’ve consistently remembered to be considerate. When you’ve strayed away from respect and consideration toward others, you’ve likely brought more struggle into your life.
People, organizations, communities, cultures that have respect and consideration embedded throughout them, thrive and prosper. It’s always a good thing to remember, always a good way to live.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 30, 2017 20:30:04 GMT -5
August 30
Days yet to come
You cannot be certain of what will happen tomorrow, and in some ways that’s a good thing. Because uncertainty compels you to develop courage, creativity, flexibility, commitment and initiative.
If you could know in advance every precise detail of how your life would unfold, would you really want to know? Just imagine how limited, confined, pre-programmed it would make you feel.
Great joy and satisfaction often come from living through what you were not expecting. The most treasured memories, the rich, stirring stories you tell, arise from such times.
Something you don’t yet know about will happen soon. Though you cannot be certain what it will be, you can be certain it will come.
In the days yet to come, as uncertain as they may be, you will grow stronger. Your life will gain substance, richness, experience and wisdom.
Though it can be frustrating not to know exactly what’s next, keep in mind that it’s also a blessing. For uncertainty makes anything possible, and there’s a lot of good you can do with that.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 1, 2017 20:46:42 GMT -5
August 31
The day you have
This is the day you have, this is the circumstance you’re in. So be good with it, be good to it, and create new goodness from it all.
Don’t overthink it or worry it into oblivion. Live it, gratefully, graciously, with a commitment to give it your best.
Recall a particularly joyful time you’ve known. Feel that joy as it glows in your memory, and let it radiate freely into the here and now.
Inspire and encourage yourself to act with positive purpose and the highest standards. But don’t beat yourself up if you fall a little short.
This is the day you have, and you can fill it with the unique substance that is your life. Feel good about your prospects, then justify that positive feeling with the things you actually do.
Make life good all over again by the way you choose to see it and to live it. This is the day you have, and your chance to amaze yourself with all the great things you can do.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 1, 2017 20:48:14 GMT -5
September 1
Get it done now
Now is when you can avoid falling further behind. Now is when you can act to get out in front of your life.
It will take just as much effort to do it later as it will take to do it now. So go ahead and get it done, now.
The closer you get to the deadline, the more you’ll be weighed down with anxiety. Now, while you can calmly focus without being frantic, take action, be effective.
If you’d like to relax and enjoy yourself, great. Get the work done now, and then you can truly relax, knowing it’s all finished.
Work yourself to a place where you can feel the satisfaction of being well out ahead of whatever you must do. Rather than waiting until later, get it done now.
Decide to live on your own terms instead of being under a quickly approaching deadline. Take action, take control, get it done, now.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 2, 2017 20:24:22 GMT -5
September 2
Fresh new possibilities
A new world comes to light each morning. A new life is born in every moment.
With the dawning of a new day, disappointments are transformed into positive determination, then eventually into new beauty. What were once mistakes take on new life as valuable experiences.
Life is a process of continuing renewal. As you move forward through time, you encounter new possibilities for more fully expressing the unique beauty that lives in your heart.
What has come before may have been very good, or not so good. What comes now can always be much better and even more meaningful.
Lovingly embrace the fresh new possibilities that are now coming to life. Treasure the best of what has been, and carry that treasure forward as you create new richness.
Open yourself to the new opportunity that comes with each breath you take. Be more fully alive than ever before.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 2, 2017 20:25:18 GMT -5
September 3
Deep tranquility
Breathe in slowly, deeply, then calmly let it out. As you do, relax your life down to its core.
Feel warm, soft release as tension melts gently away. Experience deep tranquility as you focus on the beauty of right now.
Take the opportunity to remember who you are. In this moment, bring your dreams close enough to touch, to admire, to energize you.
Keep breathing slowly, deeply, gently. Although your concerns are all real, none of them have to compromise the peaceful, inner you.
Now, here, experience the positive power that is always with you. Renew your understanding of how you can harness that power to do good.
Linger a while in this state of serene empowerment. Then step forward into the world, and transform it with your love.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 3, 2017 22:02:12 GMT -5
September 3
Deep tranquility
Breathe in slowly, deeply, then calmly let it out. As you do, relax your life down to its core.
Feel warm, soft release as tension melts gently away. Experience deep tranquility as you focus on the beauty of right now.
Take the opportunity to remember who you are. In this moment, bring your dreams close enough to touch, to admire, to energize you.
Keep breathing slowly, deeply, gently. Although your concerns are all real, none of them have to compromise the peaceful, inner you.
Now, here, experience the positive power that is always with you. Renew your understanding of how you can harness that power to do good.
Linger a while in this state of serene empowerment. Then step forward into the world, and transform it with your love.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 4, 2017 20:47:42 GMT -5
September 4
Going your way
Today you are able to reason, to act, to make a difference. Today, life is going your way.
Take stock of your situation, and decide on your best choice in this moment. Act on that choice, and move quickly ahead.
Your life matters much more than the excuses, more than the frustrations, pain and inconvenience. With your ability to contribute to all of life, you can rise above each challenge and move the world forward.
Whatever else is happening, life is going your way. Because you can do something about it, do something with it, do something for it.
When the temptations arise to be resentful, judgmental or discouraged, remind yourself that life is going your way. Fill your awareness with enthusiasm for all the good you can do.
You are here on this unique day, able to chart a positive course, and life is going your way. Give your very best to make the most of your opportunity.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 5, 2017 20:17:18 GMT -5
September 5
Life is good
Life is not always easy, but then you’ve never needed it to be easy. Because you are strong, and willing to grow stronger.
You know the good things demand work. And you’re always willing to do that work.
You’ve learned to take the troubles seriously while being able to laugh about them too. You’ve found that joy is possible in every moment, and multiplies when shared.
You do what you have to do, when it must be done. And you feel the incomparable satisfaction of knowing you’re always helping to push life along.
Most of all, you give until it hurts, then you give and give some more. And when occasionally you turn around to look back, you’re amazed at how much progress you’ve made.
Life is good, because you are eager to accept it as it comes. Life is good, because every day you renew your commitment to make it so.
— Ralph Marston
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