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Post by majestyjo on Sept 6, 2017 23:26:01 GMT -5
September 6
Choose happiness
You cannot be happy if you are chasing happiness. Stop merely pursuing happiness and you can start actually living it.
Go ahead and allow yourself to be happy now, where you are, as you are. Allow happiness, independent of circumstance, unlimited by time.
Don’t insist on exercising control over your happiness, turning it on here, turning it off there. Surrender yourself to happiness, in all places, for all time.
Allow happiness, and allow it to be bigger than you. Be encompassed by happiness, carried along in its never-ending positive perspective.
Life will always have its difficult and unfortunate times and occurrences. Even in such times, you can allow happiness to empower you.
For happiness is not a result, but a choice of how to move forward. Choose happiness, and let your life be an expression of your highest vision.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 7, 2017 19:25:29 GMT -5
September 7
Channel your passion
You have the chance to make a big difference today. Make the best use of that opportunity by letting go of battles that are already over.
Don’t waste your energy blaming yourself and don’t waste your time blaming others. Just get going and do what you can do now.
Wishing that things had been different or complaining about the way events unfolded, will not change anything now. What will change life for the better is your commitment to move positively forward.
Today presents its own unique opportunities. Focus on what you can do with them, not on where they came from.
Transform regret, resentment, anger, and disappointment into determination and inspiration. Channel your passion into positive action.
Respond to the past by giving your best in the present. And create a future that is filled with goodness and real value.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 8, 2017 21:28:13 GMT -5
September 8
Space for enjoyment
Make a generous amount of space in your life for enjoyment of your life. The more you enjoy life, the more you have to give to it.
Fulfill your responsibilities, honor your obligations to others. And make sure to also give plenty of good enjoyable living to yourself.
When you enjoy the world, you become highly effective at making good things happen. That’s a whole lot better than being tense, frustrated, worried or angry.
Enjoy the moment, the situation, the work, the play. Sincerely enjoy, and freely spread that joy to all those around you.
You owe it to yourself to experience enjoyment. You owe it to all those with whom you come in contact.
Open yourself, allow yourself to enjoy. With a perspective regularly refreshed by enjoyment, there is much good you can do.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 9, 2017 21:57:10 GMT -5
September 9
Yes you can
Yes you can live this day in accordance with your most treasured values. Yes you can create an intention and then do the work to fulfill that intention.
Yes you can overcome the obstacles. Yes you can successfully deal with the challenges.
Yes you can make real progress in the direction of your dreams. Yes you can focus on getting good, effective work done.
Yes you can find satisfaction and fulfillment in every step along the way. Yes you can add something positive to the life of every person you encounter.
Yes you can persevere through the disappointments and emerge even stronger than before. Yes you can meet your highest expectations and then raise those expectations.
Yes you can get past your fears, build a positive future, live with integrity and prosper in a world that often does not seem to care. Yes you can, if you will.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 10, 2017 5:08:05 GMT -5
September 10
Keep complacency away
Complacency wins by doing nothing. If you’re not actively supporting a meaningful purpose, you’re growing complacent.
You gain power, control, resources by accepting the situation as it is in the moment. But don’t let your acceptance become complacence.
Value fades when it is not utilized, built upon, and expanded. Yesterday’s victories will be worthless tomorrow if you don’t continue the effort.
By very definition, life is a dynamic experience, and standing still is not an option. Either you move ahead or you fall behind.
Any time you feel complacency begin to engulf you, reach deep inside. Connect with those things that make you determined to make a difference.
Let your purpose, your determination, your desires, dreams and passions keep complacency away. Make the most of the progress you’ve already made by keeping it going.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 11, 2017 22:13:33 GMT -5
September 11
When the task is draining you
If you resent the work, you won’t do it very well, and besides, your resentment gains you nothing. What’s the point of that?
If you avoid the work, you make it more difficult when you eventually have to do it. That’s not such a great plan.
When you do the work halfheartedly, you’re using up your time but wasting an opportunity. Instead, put full attention and enthusiasm into it, and seize the opportunity to excel at it.
When you feel like the task is draining you, it’s not the task that’s doing the draining. It’s your attitude.
Improve your attitude, and you immediately improve the way you feel about what you’re doing. Improve your attitude, and the work flows much more smoothly.
No matter what you’re doing, you might as well do it in a positive frame of mind. It’s your time, it’s your work, it’s your life experience, so make the choice to make it your best.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 12, 2017 21:15:50 GMT -5
September 12
Opportunity to improve
You’re never too far behind to improve. You’re never too far ahead to improve.
Whatever you’re doing, you can do it more effectively. You can make your efforts more compelling, more appropriate, more profitable, more timely.
See every setback as an opportunity to improve. Consider every achievement an opportunity to improve.
But don’t wait to be prompted. Use every situation, every experience as a chance to improve.
Learn from what went wrong and from what went right, and apply what you learn. Look for opportunities that were missed, for techniques that worked, and transform experience into improvement.
Every new day is a chance to be better than you were the day before, so rise to the challenge. Facilitate your own continuing process of improvement, and enjoy discovering how far you can go.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 13, 2017 20:39:32 GMT -5
September 13
Positive questions
Your mind is built to seek answers. Just by asking a question, you engage your mental resources in finding an answer, or several good answers.
As such, it is important to ask yourself positive questions. Because positive questions produce positive answers.
Don’t focus your questions around why things are so bad or what’s wrong with the world or what’s the matter with you. Instead, ask yourself what the opportunities are, what things can you do better, and how you can make the most of the moment you’re in.
In every question is a presumption and an expectation of what kind of answer you’ll get. Make it a habit to ask questions of yourself that presume and expect a positive answer.
The person you listen to most, and trust the most, is you. The questions you ask yourself have a powerful influence on the direction of your focus, your actions, your outcomes.
What can you do to feel great about the possibilities of this day? How will you begin to bring the best of those possibilities to life, right now?
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 16, 2017 21:49:10 GMT -5
September 14
Respond from the heart
Your ego is always ready to pounce on whatever comes your way and react to it. But you know there’s a better way.
Rather than reacting with your ego, you choose to respond with your heart and mind. Instead of being consumed with petty, superficial acts, you make your actions smart, helpful, considerate.
You’ve learned that your ego can drain your energy, waste your time and poison your relationships. So you go deeper, listening to and acting in accordance with your true self.
Though ego can be enticing in the moment, you’ve seen again and again how much regret it produces. Now, you know better than to give in to ego’s enticements.
As you increasingly tune out the noisy ranting of your ego, you discover more deep and awesome value in your authentic self. And that gives great power and purpose to all you do.
Now, you’re strong enough, thoughtful enough to respond from the heart. Now, you’re able to leave ego behind and to create a more positive future ahead.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 16, 2017 21:49:55 GMT -5
September 15
Empowering choices
When you’re in a position to complain about anything, you’re also in a position to do something positive about it. And that’s a whole lot more effective than complaining.
If you have a good reason to be angry, you also have a good reason to point the energy of that anger in a positive direction. By doing so, you’ll create new value for all concerned.
Whenever something is frustrating you, you’re highly motivated to find a way to move beyond it. Harness the energy of that frustration to improve the situation or to grow yourself beyond it.
Any time you experience disappointment, you’ve learned a valuable lesson. From there you can go forward, and make that disappointment into a positive turning point.
Every day, life comes your way, and it’s difficult to predict or control exactly what lands on your doorstep. Yet no matter what you get, you always have the choice of what to do with it.
You’ve made great, empowering choices in the past and you can continue to do so, day after day. With thankfulness in your heart, keep going on the positive path you’ve chosen.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 16, 2017 21:50:22 GMT -5
September 16
Putting it all to use
Today is your chance to do what you can, when you can, with what you have. Even the most difficult, complicated achievements come to life by completing one step at a time.
You’re smart enough to accept that whatever you’re doing will require some time and effort. Now is your opportunity to invest that time, to make that effort.
You already know the challenges will require persistence and diligence. And you’ve already discovered you have what it takes to keep going.
There’s always something you can do. And even if the going gets slow, you go ahead, because it’s a whole lot better than falling behind.
With every effort, new options open up to you. With every moment, the momentum grows stronger.
You have purpose, desire, integrity, ability and a love of making good things happen. On this day filled with unique possibility, enjoy putting it all to use.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 17, 2017 20:43:23 GMT -5
September 17
Opportunity to love
See it not as a chance to criticize. See it as an opportunity to be patient, an opportunity to love.
See it not as a disagreement. See it as insight into the other person’s perspective.
Get your ego out of the picture and amazing things happen. You don’t have to waste energy being offended, angry, or resentful.
Though you have every right to be frustrated, you have every reason to let it go. Though you are justified in feeling sorry for yourself, that is never your best option.
Focusing on yourself attracts stress. Loving others, loving life and its miraculous beauty, enables peace.
Every encounter, every situation, every moment is an opportunity to love. See the opportunity, take it and live it, now.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 21, 2017 20:01:37 GMT -5
September 18
Filled with promise
Do the work to think for yourself. If you don’t think for yourself, life is nothing more than a stream of meaningless sensations.
Take full responsibility for the integrity of your life. It is everything, as your experience has shown you again and again.
Life is not easy. But oh, how good it can be when you do what is necessary to put real substance into it.
Give, give, give of yourself, authentically, generously, with enthusiasm, respect, joy. Listen, learn, watch, participate.
Commit to your highest vision, putting action and persistence behind that commitment. Remind yourself to live as though every moment matters, for indeed every moment does.
Do you realize how beautiful and filled with promise this day is? Once you do, nothing will be able to hold you back.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 21, 2017 20:02:04 GMT -5
September 19
What’s at stake
Any moment you spend in negativity is a waste of life. Choose always to find a better way to spend your time.
It’s not difficult or complicated to live every day with meaning and purpose, with effectiveness and integrity. It’s mostly a matter of making the choice to do so, and following through.
You are capable of greatness, expressed in your own special way. Harness that capability, let all the world benefit from it.
You understand, observe, feel, think in ways no one else has ever done. You owe it to life, to the very universe that supports your existence, to make the most of all that.
Remind yourself of what’s at stake in every choice you make. What’s at stake is the quality of your life, the future of your world.
Put good thought, care, effort and commitment into your choices, into your life. Everything you love and value is at stake.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 21, 2017 20:02:39 GMT -5
September 20
Beneficial response
You have a right to be angry, and good cause to be angry. Yet that doesn’t mean anger is your best choice.
Raw anger gets your attention, wakes you up to troubling realities. However, you’re going to need more than raw anger to successfully respond to those realities.
There is great energy in anger. As soon as you feel that energy, make it your intention to point it toward a beneficial response.
Almost nobody cares that your feelings are hurt, that you’re offended, that you’ve been wronged. What will make just about everyone care is when you make a positive difference in their lives.
So let that be your response, let that be the way you redirect the energy of anger. Harness the passion and apply it in ways that make life better.
Let anger do its job to get your attention and to get you motivated. Then, do your job to make something positive and valuable out of it.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 21, 2017 20:03:06 GMT -5
September 21
Leave a little goodness
Wherever you go, leave a little bit of goodness there. Whatever you undertake, do it in a way that’s beneficial to life.
Giving goodness does not reduce the amount you have. In fact, giving a little goodness enables you to give a lot more.
Feel the good feeling of knowing you’re making a difference. Let go of any concern about being praised or recognized, and just give goodness for the sake of goodness.
Make life less of a struggle and more of the miracle it can be. Enjoy the goodness as you freely let it flow out from you.
Life can be extremely difficult and challenging, but it doesn’t have to be void of meaning or joy. Goodness is possible, available to give, in any situation.
The goodness you offer and enable, fills your life with meaning. Make it your intention every day, every place, to spread that goodness far and wide.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 22, 2017 20:30:05 GMT -5
September 22
Unresolved problems
Yes, there are unresolved problems and issues, and yes, it’s good to work on them. But don’t postpone your life because of them.
Just because something is holding up your progress doesn’t mean it has to hold up your life. Live, enjoy, go forward with ambition, with confidence, with the highest expectations.
If you wait until everything is perfect, you’ll wait forever. Stop waiting, let go of the tension, and live your life, finding unique joy in each experience.
Not everything is going to be resolved by the end of the day, of the month, of the year. Be okay with that, and live life to the fullest anyway.
The time you have right now can only be put to use right now. Even though circumstances are not perfect, there is a lot of good you can get done.
Deal with those issues you can deal with. And let yourself live with everything else.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 23, 2017 20:27:17 GMT -5
September 23
Rich in life
Look at yourself today, and see how much stronger you’ve grown. Consider all the value that has accumulated in your life.
What once blocked your path now forms the path. What previously was weakness, you’ve transformed into strength.
Through every experience you’ve added skill, wisdom, new perspective. Each moment of life has deepened your love, clarified your purpose.
Time, trouble, joy, challenge, frustration, curiosity, caring, boredom and excitement have all deposited value that’s now yours. Imagine the good things you can now do with what you now have.
Imagine, without limit, without guilt or fear or worry. Imagine, then put that imagination into action.
Today you are rich in life, more than ever before. Live the richness, express the richness, share it, delight in it and make good use that creates much, much more.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 23, 2017 20:27:46 GMT -5
September 24
Get out of your own way
Did someone hurt your feelings? Get over it and get on with life.
Are you trying to get people to feel sorry for you? Even if you get what you want, you won’t have anything of value.
Are you putting time and energy into being offended? Do you understand what an extreme waste of your life that is?
Don’t make life more difficult than it has to be. Rise above the need to fret about what others say or do or think or feel.
Choose to be a positive influence, no matter how the people around you are being. Decide to live by the highest standards, free of the need to judge the standards of others.
Let go of any desire to be seen as a victim, and replace it with the drive to make a difference. Get out of your own way, and do all the great things you are meant to do.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 25, 2017 20:15:09 GMT -5
September 25
Purpose is strong
Now your purpose is strong. Now you have the power, the will, to do something about what you care most about.
You sail right on past the interruptions, never losing focus. A clear sense of what you must do, of what you choose to do, makes you immune to the distractions.
Every moment matters, and your choices, your actions reflect that truth. There is great value to be created, meaningful experience to be lived, and you embrace each opportunity to do so.
You act with confidence, knowing that what you do is good, is right, and makes a positive difference in life beyond you. You persist, free of resentment, empowered by the highest expectations.
Today has arrived with its unique challenges and possibilities. And you are here to live it fully, with a purpose that is strong and an intention to be your best.
You’ve allowed that purpose to fill your awareness. As it energizes your thoughts and actions, you discover again and again how much good you can get done.
— Ralph Marston
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.