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Post by majestyjo on Jul 16, 2018 11:38:23 GMT -5
July 16
Fresh possibilities
You’ve already lived yesterday. Don’t live the exact same day again today.
Many aspects of the past are comfortable and familiar, and you want to hold on to them. But holding on too tightly, too much, leaves room for nothing else.
Today brings fresh possibilities. Explore some of them.
Challenge yourself to add new substance, experience, and richness to your life today. Remind yourself that this is a unique day and you have the chance to live it in a unique way.
That doesn’t mean abandoning the habits and rituals that sustain your good life. Maintain continuity of the goodness, and add something new to it today.
Today is a unique opportunity. Live the opportunity thoroughly by filling this day with new and valuable experiences.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 17, 2018 11:35:15 GMT -5
July 17
Grandest of opportunities
Live for the sake of living. Enjoy the day, not to advance some contrived agenda, but just because you can.
Smile for absolutely no reason. Realize how good it feels, and suddenly you have your reason.
Direct your energy and awareness away from all the stuff the world says you should crave. Free yourself to give to life whatever resonates with true value deep within.
Breathe freely, calmly with no tension, no restriction. Sense the power of life as it flows throughout you.
Undertake every task with gratitude for the opportunity to be of service to life. Be humbled and energized by the realization that you are an essential part of this unique moment.
Life is yours to live, to feel, to love, to give, to enjoy. You hold the grandest of opportunities, and it is now.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 18, 2018 18:41:52 GMT -5
July 18
Feel it
Your feeling about the situation is not decided by the situation. It is decided by you.
Anytime you choose, you can decide differently. You can decide to feel more empowered, more energetic, more positive.
How would you like to feel on this day, about this day? Go ahead and feel that way.
You don’t need any particular set of conditions to feel joyful, powerful, effective and purposeful. Simply make the choice to feel, and then live out the reality of your feeling.
Whatever you seek to experience, feel it before you actually have it. Build on the feeling, translate it into action and into results.
What feeling right now will push you to your highest level of performance? Go ahead, feel it, and make good things happen.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 19, 2018 12:13:35 GMT -5
July 19
Allow
Allow your purpose to be clear and strong. Allow your mind to be peaceful, powerful and creative.
Allow your efforts to be effective. Allow your words to be uplifting, comforting, kind and helpful.
Allow this moment, this place, to be as it is. Allow yourself to visualize how you can build upon its goodness.
Possibilities expand upon possibilities without limit. Allow those possibilities that resonate with your highest values.
Allow love to guide your intentions. Allow your actions to proceed with confidence and focus.
Allow abundance to flow into your life. Allow goodness to fill your world.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 20, 2018 11:41:52 GMT -5
July 20
Carry on
You don’t have to let small annoyances grow into big anxieties. You don’t have to let small setbacks grow into a larger narrative of failure.
What just happened or failed to happen does not have to burden you going forward. Instead of allowing disruptions to stop you, let them give you fresh energy for taking action.
The world will throw obstacles and surprises in your path. Go ahead and live your intentions anyway.
When life hits you hard, carry on. When you encounter injustice, unfairness, resistance, weariness, carry on.
That is the best way forward because that is your own chosen way forward. It’s difficult at the time but in retrospect it is by far the easiest choice.
This day is too beautiful, too full of possibility to let it be ruined by what you can’t control or by your past mistakes. Focus not on what has gone wrong, but on what can now go right, and on what you must do to make it so.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 21, 2018 17:19:47 GMT -5
July 21
Fulfillment in every step
Don’t postpone joy until the end of the journey. Live it every step of the way.
Don’t settle for a mere fraction of fulfillment. Choose to have it all.
Each action, each step you take is more than just a means to an end. Each step has a value and a joy all its own.
When you assume the task will be tedious, it will be. And your negative assumption makes the work that much harder.
Decide instead to experience joy and fulfillment in every step you take. Love and appreciate the moment you’re in, and no matter what the task may be, you’ll find yourself doing it with joy.
Find joy in every step of the journey. And you’ll arrive long before you get there.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 21, 2018 17:20:46 GMT -5
July 22
Prepared to persist
Expect your first attempt to work. At the same time, be prepared to quickly make another attempt.
When your initial attempt brings the results you intended, great. If it doesn’t, there’s no time to waste feeling disappointed and sorry for yourself.
Expect to succeed, and be prepared to persist. If one or two or a dozen options are exhausted, quickly round up some more options.
Just because success isn’t immediate, doesn’t mean it is out of reach. Know there’s a way, and persist.
What looks like genius is most often persistence. Be prepared to make enough attempts, and just about any achievement is within reach.
With persistence, soft droplets of water wear away the hardest stone. Imagine what you can now do with the power of persistence.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 23, 2018 12:12:20 GMT -5
July 23
Full extent of opportunity
No matter what you have, you have it good. Take care not to let your own complacency steal it away.
Sure, you deal with serious problems, challenges, disappointments. Yet your life is also filled with a whole lot of value.
Don’t let irreplaceable value wither away as a result of taking it for granted. Appreciate it, utilize it, and build on it.
What aspects of life would you work day and night to regain if you were to lose them? What can you do today to more fully enjoy and make use of those good things?
What are you neglecting to do today, that you would pay dearly for the opportunity to do if you didn’t have that opportunity? Remind yourself to do what you can, while you can.
Every life has its share of misfortune, but there’s no reason to add to that misfortune with complacency. See the full extent of opportunity that is now yours, and live it well.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by caressa222 on Jul 24, 2018 22:13:10 GMT -5
July 24
Major investment
The time that appears in your life today cannot be hidden in a vault and saved for later. You get precisely one chance to make use of it, and that chance is now.
The clock is ticking, the moments are already passing. Make the commitment to invest your time well.
Consider how you can use your time today to create the most positive, significant impact on your life and your world. Then focus your attention and your efforts in that direction.
How do you claim maximum value from the moments as they relentlessly pass? By filling them with purpose, with action, with meaning, a positive perspective, and a love for the possibilities.
Today offers you plenty of time to make great progress. That time is too valuable to waste even a small bit of it.
Realize the great value of what you have, and constantly keep in mind what you can do with it. Today is a major investment of your precious time, and now you can give it the best you have.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 25, 2018 10:15:30 GMT -5
July 25
You have the power
You have the power to make another person thankful to be alive. Today, make use of that power.
You have the power to transform challenge into achievement. Your efforts can utilize fleeting time to create lasting value.
You have the power to instill hope in situations where there is nothing but despair. You can shine the light of kindness into lives that are filled with pain.
You have the power to lift others out of loneliness. You have the power to understand someone whom no one else understands.
You have the power to make a positive difference in this world on this day. In a small way, in a big way, in your own way, make that difference.
There are things you know you can do, things you truly yearn to do, to lift life higher. Go ahead today, and make good use of the power you have for positive purpose.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 26, 2018 8:35:24 GMT -5
July 26
Peak of your ability
The experience of life has made you strong. Today, put that strength to good use, and grow even stronger.
You possess more knowledge and wisdom, greater capability than you had a year ago, or even a week ago. Feel the new strength you’ve gained, and focus it toward a positive, meaningful objective.
Life has asked much of you, and you’ve answered. You’ve persisted through each challenge, solved countless problems, created new value.
It might be easy and comfortable to sit back and rest on your past achievements. Yet you know, deep down, that’s not what achievements are for.
Because with each effort, you’ve invested more of yourself in life. And now you care, more than ever before, about making life the best it can be.
Here you stand today, at the peak of your ability, at the apex of your eagerness to make a difference. Now, do what you know you must.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 27, 2018 8:29:29 GMT -5
July 27
Imagine life better
We live in modern, comfortable homes instead of dark, primitive caves. That’s because someone, then someone else, then a whole lot of other people, imagined life better.
You can always imagine life better. Then you can put what you imagine into action.
The good things you imagine for your life, for the world, may seem unrealistic. But don’t be too quick to place judgments on them.
Instead, examine what you imagine, your hopes, your dreams, your vision of a joyous and fulfilling future. Even in your wildest fantasies, there is valuable truth and direction.
Go ahead, imagine without restraint. Imagine a world, a life, an objective that fills you with energy and enthusiasm.
Progress and achievement begin with imagination. Dare to imagine life better, and find within what you imagine the truth and energy to make it real.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 28, 2018 8:39:01 GMT -5
July 28
Work to know why
What pushes you into action? Knowing why, clearly, unmistakably.
What sustains you, enables you to persist through every difficulty? Belief in what you are doing, in the rightness of the path you’ve chosen.
To connect with such an irrefutable purpose can require much time, effort, soul searching, emotional pain. It is well worth your trouble.
You want to get somewhere meaningful? You must know why, and it must be authentic.
In all that you love, in all you despise, in what feels wonderful as well as awful, are hints of that purpose. Take those hints, and work to zero in on your purpose, on your why.
Work to know why. Give the power of purpose to everything you do.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 29, 2018 18:22:09 GMT -5
July 29
Challenge yourself
You’ve done many good things. Challenge yourself to do more.
You’re strong, capable, smart, resourceful. Challenge yourself to push your capabilities beyond their previous limits.
There’s nothing more enriching than a meaningful challenge, and the commitment to work through it. Give that special richness to yourself.
Don’t settle for the assumption that the best of life is behind you. Challenge yourself to look forward with the highest expectations ever.
Don’t allow yourself to hide behind excuses. Re-imagine those excuses, transforming them into reasons for moving forward.
Challenge yourself to exceed yourself, to be better than you’ve ever been. You’ll quickly thank yourself for having the fortitude to follow through on it.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 30, 2018 10:19:52 GMT -5
July 30
Always a way through
There is always a way through. Calm down, take a breath, back away from the drama and find that way.
Life’s realities are not always pleasant or comforting or convenient. Accept reality, and at the same time, refuse to be stopped by it.
Steady your nerves as the situation crashes down around you. Then pick up the pieces and do something useful, helpful, good, and valuable with them.
Keep your cool when tensions are hot. Engage your steady hand to navigate through rough and roiling passages.
There is always a way through. And on the other side, great value, opportunity, a new, stronger perspective.
With grace and confidence, see beyond the disruptions of the moment to a positive vision of what can be. With calm determination, lead the way there.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 31, 2018 8:07:17 GMT -5
July 31
Look objectively
How do you look objectively at your situation? By refusing to make it about you.
Pretend that the problem you’re dealing with is happening to someone else. What advice would you give that person?
Set aside your fear, insecurity, resentment. Let go of the impulse to feel sorry for yourself.
Get in the habit of seeing each situation for what it is. Free yourself from your emotional burdens and biases, and focus on a highly effective response.
How would the most disciplined, successful person you know handle the situation? That is precisely what you can do, starting now.
Rise above your own narrow concerns and open yourself to a far wider set of possibilities. Look objectively, and discover how powerful and effective you can be.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 1, 2018 5:54:02 GMT -5
August 1
It’s your choice
Right now, or three hours from now, or fourteen days from now, you have a choice. At any point in time, you can continue the way you’re going or you can choose a different path.
When you’re bound by seemingly endless obligations and limitations, you can choose how to think of them and how you will handle them. No matter how others treat you, or how outside events unfold, you can choose your next thought, your next move.
In what specific direction are your current choices leading you? Ask yourself and be honest, is that really where you wish to go?
You’ve spent a lifetime experiencing what works and what doesn’t, and in every moment going forward you have a choice. That’s an increasingly powerful combination.
Continue making the choices that serve you well. Quickly change the ones that don’t.
How is this day, this year, this life going to be? It’s your choice.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 2, 2018 10:57:40 GMT -5
August 2
Give now a chance
Don’t wait for something better. Allow this present moment to be the better experience you desire.
Right now is perfectly capable of holding all the joy, beauty, and fulfillment you can imagine. Rather than longing for the past or wishing for the future, give now a chance.
Let go of judgments about what should and shouldn’t be. Choose to see the great value in front of you, and enlarge it.
Every feeling you can dream of experiencing, is possible now. All the love you can possibly give, you can give now.
Let love and gratitude push doubt and dismay out of your awareness. Every possibility that exists, is now.
Give now a chance, now. And give yourself the rich life you deserve.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 3, 2018 5:35:21 GMT -5
August 3
Buy in
Don’t be half-hearted about what you do. If you’re going to take on the job, make sure you buy in to the job.
Before you start, fully accept that the work must be done and that you’re the person who will do it. Then you won’t waste time fighting against yourself.
Convince yourself of the necessity, of your desire, of your choice to make the commitment. Then put all your focus and energy into honoring that commitment.
Spend your time making progress rather than making excuses. Fill your awareness with ideas and strategies rather than resentment and doubt.
You don’t have to like everything you do, or even completely agree with what it is or how it’s done. What’s important is that you accept responsibility, within yourself, to do it.
Do yourself and everyone else a favor. If you’re going to take on the task, then choose to do it wholeheartedly.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 4, 2018 5:37:59 GMT -5
August 4
Prepared for opportunity
You cannot run and catch up to an opportunity you’ve already missed. Yet you can prepare yourself for the next one that is sure to come along.
The reason you missed that last opportunity is because you didn’t recognize it soon enough. The time to seize an opportunity is before it has paid off.
Opportunity is not a free ride that’s available only to those who are lucky or well connected. Opportunity is a fertile situation where value can be created, available to those who are willing to take the risk and do the work.
You see what you look for. To see opportunity, look for ways to help others, to create value, to make life more fulfilling and enjoyable, to solve problems, to learn and grow.
Prepare yourself by choosing to be generous, optimistic, enthusiastic, and willing to see the best possibilities. Opportunity emerges from a positive-facing perspective, so get yourself there.
The next opportunity is on the way. Get yourself in its path, ready to give your best.
— Ralph Marston
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.