Daily Motivator 2018

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June 26

Ideal situation

Deal with life as you find it, not as you wish it to be. All the while, visualize, plan for, work for, and commit to life as you most want it to be.

Live life where it actually is, pushing persistently toward the best you can imagine. Acknowledge reality with the purpose of improving upon it.

Let your highest vision guide you and inspire you. Let objective facts inform you and instruct you.

There is a way to connect your current situation to your ideal situation. To access that connection, you must be clear, honest, specific.

Be clear about what you have to work with, and honest with yourself about what must be done. Be specific about where you intend to go, and why.

Join rock-solid practicality about the way life is, to your most idealistic vision for how your life can be. It’s a powerful combination.

— Ralph Marston

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June 27

In its own time

Don’t waste time in idleness, but don’t race ahead of your life either. Let life come in its own time.

Avoid making urgencies out of what’s not urgent. Take the time to live, to enjoy, to think, to focus.

Going fast just for the sake of going fast is a waste of energy. You would not even want to have it all now, so give yourself the time to enjoy what you do have.

Prepare yourself well, but don’t borrow problems from the future. You’re perfectly capable of dealing with whatever arises, and worrying about tomorrow is not a good use of today.

Rushing through each moment mostly gives you a big helping of anxiety. Consider slowing down a little, and discover how much more fulfilled life feels.

There is no need to rush. You have this beautiful day to experience as all its great treasures unfold.

— Ralph Marston

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June 28

Where peace can be

Let your life be a place where peace can be. Let this day be a time into which peace can settle.

Release thoughts of conflict, judgment, and separateness that push peace away. Replace thoughts of revenge and retribution with thoughts of understanding and forgiveness.

In peace is great positive power. With peace comes increased focus and effectiveness.

In peace you hear the calling of your deepest purpose. You feel connection to all that is.

Hasten your progress by choosing to rise above needless turmoil. From a perspective of peace, give the best you can give, create new goodness and value.

Move beyond the assumption that you must fight to prevail. Let the power of peace take you higher than any conflict ever could.

— Ralph Marston

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June 29

Positive transformation

Today brings you the chance to change your world for the better. Today you can make positive transformation your highest priority.

Let go of any hesitation to act. Transform today from opportunity into achievement.

Allow self doubt to melt away. Replace it with confidence and decisive action.

Take hold of whatever energy you’ve been using to hold yourself back. Apply that energy to push all of life forward.

Realize how much the worries and excuses have worn thin, and choose to abandon them. Discover how much you can get done by simply getting out of your own way.

When tomorrow dawns, you can be riding a wave of positive momentum, created by your efforts today. Go ahead, seize the opportunity of now, and make transformation happen.

— Ralph Marston

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June 30

Energizing vision

What story are you telling yourself about your life today? Is it impairing or empowering?

What truth about today is forefront in your awareness? Is it a truth that inspires you into action, or does it make you want to hide away from life?

You can change your story. You can focus on a more energizing truth.

Allow yourself to love yourself without condition. Encourage yourself to create a vision, right now, of the ideal way this day can unfold for you.

Make that vision your story. Make that vision the truth from which you operate.

Powered by that vision, that story, that truth, push yourself forward. Reap the many benefits of focusing your energy in the most positive, meaningful direction.

— Ralph Marston

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July 1

Step up to life

Step up to life, to responsibility, to effort, achievement, fulfillment. Step up, with purpose, enthusiasm, energy and love.

Calmly embrace the moment and all it entails. Know, beyond any doubt, that you will give your best to it.

Set aside any need to judge. Fill your awareness with intention to make a difference.

You’ve spent a lifetime learning what works and what doesn’t, what creates progress and what blocks it. Step up, put your unique wisdom and experience into effective action.

This is your chance to move your world forward, perhaps even to have a major breakthrough. Feel your vision, feel your purpose, step up and follow it with all you have.

You are already well on the way to making this a great day. Step up to the challenges, step up to the possibilities, and give new goodness, new value to life.

— Ralph Marston

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July 2

Get to the point

The point of this day is to make new progress and enrich all of life. Get to the point and get it done.

You’re here in this time and place to make a positive difference. Get to work doing what you’re here to do.

Let your strong sense of purpose pierce through the complexity, distractions, difficulties and temptations. With unwavering focus, do what you know is best, what is meaningful, what is good.

If you discover you’ve wandered a little off course, don’t waste time letting it bring you down. Just reorient yourself in a purposeful direction, and step forward with an even stronger commitment.

You have great things to get done today. Get to the point, stick with it, and enjoy the sweet fulfillment of your focus and persistence.

This very moment overflows with potential value. Get to the point, and make that value yours.

— Ralph Marston

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July 3

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
--Virginia Woolf

Freedom is a funny thing. In a way, it makes life harder. We are free to do what we want, but every choice makes a difference in our lives. Some choices make us happy, and some bring trouble.

We can make good choices. We can control our actions. We can start by having control in little ways - follow the law, pay the rent, make the bed every day. These choices put order in our lives. Eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep. These choices make us strong enough to live each day to the fullest. These kinds of choices set us free.

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, when I was drinking and drugging, I couldn't enjoy my freedom. I had no control over the little things in my life. Help me stay sober today.

Action for the Day

Today, I'll be grateful for having some control. I will list five ways I am more free because I can control my actions.

You are reading from the book:

Keep It Simple by Anonymous

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July 4

Bring new goodness

All that you’ve ever done has been accomplished under less than perfect conditions. Every bit of progress you’ve made has been in the face of obstacles and limitations.

Stop waiting for the situation to be perfect. Start making good and meaningful use of the situation as it is.

Today you have time, energy, opportunity that you’ll never have again. Do something great with it.

Focus on the possibilities and you will find your way beyond the limitations. Devote yourself to action and enable yourself to transcend any difficult circumstances.

You’ve achieved much and now you can achieve more. You’ve extracted real value from many different kinds of situations, and now you can do it again.

What matters more than how things are, is how you choose to be. Choose today to be the person who brings new goodness to life.

— Ralph Marston

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July 5

Dream, dream, dream it

Dream, and let your dreams lift you high above the problems and disappointments. Dream, and give yourself a perspective that transcends the everyday struggles.

Dream, and give the power of purpose to your efforts, your words, your thoughts and encounters. Dream, and let your dreams pull you in the direction of your highest vision.

Dream, and provide reason and means to expect the best in whatever you undertake. Dream, with the commitment necessary to fulfill your dreams, and recharge life with excellence of your own choosing.

Dream, and connect your dreams to the actions you must take, to the responsibilities you must honor. Enable your dreams to remind you why and to renew your energy.

Dream, for there is a person inside who cares deeply about many things. Dream, and follow those dreams, because your love for life is one of a kind, and deserves full expression.

Dream, dream, dream it until you do it. Then dream again and pull all of life higher along with you.

— Ralph Marston

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July 6

Earned wisdom

Learn from your mistakes, and put into practice what you’ve learned. Then you won’t have to live with regret for those mistakes.

As your life moves forward, each choice can be a more positive, effective, fulfilling choice. Because each new choice can be informed by all the choices that came before it.

Allow the poor choices in your past to point you toward more positive choices now. Instead of being ashamed or resentful about what happened, be enthusiastic about what you can now do with the experience.

You’ve suffered enough because of your past mistakes. There is no point in punishing yourself further.

Decide to transform those old mistakes in to new opportunities. Let the negative experiences in your past motivate you to take positive action now.

With those past mistakes and their consequences, you’ve earned yourself some valuable wisdom. Put that wisdom into action today.

— Ralph Marston

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July 7

Choose only the best

Don’t internalize the pressures. Instead, internalize the beauty, the hope, the positive possibilities.

You can effectively deal with every difficulty, without allowing any difficulties to become a part of you. Remind yourself that you exist beyond them all.

Respond to life with a smile rather than with new stress. You can see the situations clearly and realistically without taking them personally.

Your life is too beautiful to let it be degraded by frustration and annoyance. Your possibilities are too magnificent to let them be compromised by negativity.

Enjoy putting your capabilities to use, solving problems, making progress. Always choose to make the best of those problems rather than letting them get the best of you.

It’s always your choice what you hold on to inside. Each time, each day, choose only the best.

— Ralph Marston

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July 8

Pick yourself up

If your efforts fail to bring the results you intended, don’t get discouraged. Get busy, adjust, and make an even greater effort.

Positive feedback and positive results are good, helpful, nice, but not essential. You can be positively motivated by disappointing results too.

Life is not fair, and complaining that life is not fair won’t change anything for the better. What will make things better is to persist in what you do.

Sooner or later you will pick yourself up and get yourself going again. You might as well make it sooner.

Let go of judgments about whether it’s easy or hard, inconvenient or complicated. Just look ahead, toward what you wish to achieve, and take the first step.

After you stumble, the way to feel better is to feel yourself taking action. Go ahead, and bring on that good feeling as soon as you can.

— Ralph Marston

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July 9

Infinite options

This moment has infinite options. Commit to one and follow through on it.

Seek to make the best choice, but don’t put all of your energy into merely making the choice. Decide, and then act on your decision.

You may not always make the perfect choice, or think of everything that could go wrong or go right. But go ahead, make the choice and then move forward with it.

You’re likely to have doubts, second thoughts, third thoughts. As those thoughts come, keep taking action anyway.

A one-hundred-percent perfect plan is of no use if the plan is not executed. So put thought into crafting a reasonably good plan and then direct your energy into making it happen.

Embrace life’s many options, but don’t let the endless choices overwhelm you. Pick a specific path, act on it, and transform your choice into real value.

— Ralph Marston

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July 10

Possible problems

Don’t be stopped by the possibility that something can go wrong. Something can always go wrong, and you can always deal with it.

Take good precautions, plan well, prepare for the likely eventualities. Then go ahead, take action.

You can imagine all sorts of negative scenarios, most of which will never happen. It’s good to be aware of what could happen, of problems that could arise, but don’t let that awareness stop you from moving ahead.

You can’t be guaranteed of a smooth path or a perfect outcome. What you can do is your best, with commitment to your purpose, with confidence in your ability.

Yes, there will be difficulties. Yes, you can succeed anyway.

Step forward now, aware of the possible problems and ready to work through whatever comes. You have great things to do.

— Ralph Marston

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July 11

Tell yourself something good

Tell yourself something good about yourself. Tell yourself something good about someone close to you.

Tell yourself something good about the day ahead. Tell yourself something good about life in this world, about the possibilities that extend out in front of you right now.

Tell yourself something good, and take it to heart. Remind yourself of the beauty, the wonder, of small actions that can make a big difference.

Tell yourself something good about this day, about how you can contribute to the way it unfolds. Tell yourself something good about this situation, about all you can do to make it even better.

Too often, the impressions that slide into your awareness are not especially helpful or nourishing. Choose to reverse that negative bias by telling yourself something good, something true, something wonderful.

Tell yourself about all you can do to give life more meaning, more substance, more joy. Tell yourself something good, and let that goodness come to life through you.

— Ralph Marston

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July 12

Best choice

Make the best choice, not just the easiest choice. Step back from the moment, and give yourself enough perspective to make that best choice.

The benefits of the easiest choice disappear quickly. The value of the best choice can endure for a lifetime, even longer.

You can always go with the best choice, regardless of what the excuses are saying. As enticing as the easy choice may be, you see beyond its expediency.

You know what is best. Claim it by giving your time, effort and commitment to it.

You have the strength to make the best choice and to follow through with it. Feel that strength increase each time you choose what is best.

The path leading up the mountain is steep, yet the view from the top can change your life. Though it is difficult, do what you must to choose what is best.

— Ralph Marston

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July 13

Authentic intensity

Whatever you are, however you are, own it. Whatever you do, engage in it fully.

Live every moment with authentic intensity born of gratitude, wonder, kindness, love. Marvel at all that’s available to you, at all you can do with it, and constantly transform that feeling into action.

What you don’t know, admit, and learn. What you do know, make good use of, and achieve.

Rise before dawn, eager to make a positive impact. Persist in your effort, long after the initial impulse to give up.

Recognize the unique position you occupy. Understand the richness of time and opportunity with which you’re endowed, right now.

Do, think, dream, feel, with everything you are. Life is yours today, and well worth all you can give.

— Ralph Marston

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July 14

Do all you can do

What you do, matters. What you fail to do, matters.

To tell yourself otherwise is just an excuse. Pretending you’re powerless to change things is mostly a way to avoid responsibility for working on those changes.

Sooner or later, that game gets old. Eventually, regret hits you like a ton of bricks.

So now, when you have the opportunity, do all you can do. Now, while this day is yours, make full use of it.

No, of course you won’t be one hundred percent effective in everything you undertake. Yet you can work, and persist, and learn from your results, and make real progress.

The obstacles and challenges are real, and so are the opportunities. Today, take those opportunities and give to them the best you have.

— Ralph Marston

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July 15

Impossible becomes possible

What if your assumption is wrong? What if the thing you think impossible actually can be done?

What if the path that’s blocked is not the only one? What if you mustered a little faith in yourself and your goal, and just got started?

It’s easy to imagine all the things that could go wrong, easy to list all the reasons for giving up. What’s much harder is to step forward into uncertainty, with the commitment to see it through.

No one ever achieved much by taking the easiest course. And you certainly owe yourself a whole lot more than that.

You owe yourself the consideration that what’s impossible might just be possible. You owe yourself the experience and fulfillment of making such things happen.

The history of progress is written as the impossible becomes possible. This is your chance to write some of that history yourself.

— Ralph Marston