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Post by majestyjo on Aug 7, 2018 6:08:32 GMT -5
August 5
Cheerful about it
When you don’t get your way, be cheerful about it. There’s no good reason to be any other way.
Being angry, spiteful, resentful, despondent, destroys you’re effectiveness and repels other people. That’s not going to accomplish anything good.
You can’t change the past by being angry about it. What you can do is dramatically improve the present and the future by being cheerful.
Be cheerful and you do better work, attract positive people, improve your relationships and interactions. Be cheerful, and see opportunities that you’d otherwise never notice.
Be cheerful, and escape being sizzled by stress and paralyzed by anxiety. Be cheerful, and reap all the benefits of truly enjoying the moment you’re in.
Yes, by all means be realistic. At the same time, be cheerful, and position yourself to make the very best of reality.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 7, 2018 6:09:35 GMT -5
August 6
Start doing
What have you been waiting to do, wishing you would start, hoping you could complete? Today is your opportunity to make it happen.
Any hesitation or doubt you’ve experienced in the past is now gone. Confidently breathe in the fresh, energizing air of this new moment, and get to work.
You don’t have to be stopped by your fear of potential problems. Just be willing to deal with whatever issues arise, when they arise.
You’ve held yourself back long enough. Give yourself the maximum amount of time to live the life you wish to live, by acting on it now.
Your best goals and dreams deserve to be transformed into reality. You deserve the incomparable experience of making that happen.
Today is your day to stop waiting and start doing. Go ahead, and allow yourself to give your best.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 7, 2018 6:10:40 GMT -5
August 7
Challenges in front of you
Don’t drag old troubles along from yesterday. Don’t borrow imagined troubles from tomorrow.
Focus on the challenges in front of you. Work on the affairs in which you can make a positive difference.
Cleanse your awareness of the things you can’t do anything about. Enable yourself to direct all your energy toward making meaningful progress.
Rise above any disappointments you may be holding on to. What matter most now are the good things you can do to move life forward.
Let go of the need to impress, of any worries about what others will think. Replace them with confidence that your actions are good, valuable and productive, right for you and your world.
Offer full attention and persistent action to the challenges in front of you, and to the opportunities they represent. Reap the rewards of focusing your power where it matters most.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 8, 2018 12:46:54 GMT -5
August 8
All of it is magic
Green leaves dance with violet flowers in a gentle breeze. Cool water sings without ceasing as it cascades through the rocky riverbed.
Delicate white clouds glide across a dome of brilliant blue. Everywhere, all the time, the genuine magic of life emerges into awareness.
There are things you can never know, and yet you know them so well. There are places you’ve never been, where you always long to return.
The silent shadow of a hawk floats across the afternoon. If you let it, life will amaze you, even when it doesn’t.
The silence, the commotion, brilliance and darkness, all have their parts to play. A baby is born, a galaxy explodes, some things we understand, some we don’t, and all of it is magic.
Let the magic fill you so much it spills out from you all the time. It is at the very heart of who you truly are.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 9, 2018 6:03:56 GMT -5
August 9
Endless abundance
Live this day in awe. Live this day with love, gratitude, respect, and kindness.
Point your awareness toward all that is good and right about the people and situations you encounter. Open your mind, your heart, your spirit to the highest possibilities in each moment.
Let go of whatever separates you from the peace that lives within. Remember always to make good use of your power to learn, to think, to choose, to act.
Invest your energy in thoughts, feelings, and actions that enrich the lives around you. Take time to fully experience how good it is to be.
Invite serenity into each moment, each thought, encounter, and activity. Live with intention, confidence, and loving purpose.
Go beyond limitations that seem so real but that exist only on the surface. Dive deeply into the endless abundance that flows from the truth of who you are.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 10, 2018 9:31:39 GMT -5
August 10
Avoid regret
The best way to deal with regret is to avoid creating it in the first place. If you know you’ll regret it, don’t do it.
In fact, a great way to make choices is to ask yourself whether or not you will regret it later. Words that have been spoken cannot be unspoken, and actions that have been taken cannot be taken back.
Yet you can always contemplate those words and actions before you commit to them. You can envision the long-term effects they will have.
Regret, once created, never completely goes away. Choose, as often as possible, not to create it to begin with.
Rather than being burdened with regret, you can be filled with satisfaction for the life you’re living. Rather than facing difficult consequences for the choices you’ve made, you can be enjoying magnificent rewards.
Make regret your friend by making it preventative rather than punitive. Think long into the future before you act, and live a life with no regrets.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 11, 2018 18:41:03 GMT -5
August 11
Forgive and get beyond it
You can’t change unfortunate things that have already happened. What you can do is forgive, and move on.
Forgive yourself, forgive others, forgive whoever and whatever caused it to happen. Forgive, and get beyond it.
The longer you carry a grudge, the heavier it gets. Forgiveness lightens your load, frees your energy for more positive pursuits.
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. It brings you peace, resolution, and freedom.
Forgiveness puts you in control of how you feel. Forgive, and experience the positive power.
The pains of your past have already continued long enough. Forgive, be finally done with those pains, and allow new joys to take their place.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 12, 2018 8:33:17 GMT -5
August 12
Care in action
Care, even if nobody is looking. Care, even when there’s no possibility anyone will ever know.
Care, because it is the right thing to do, not because it looks good. Care, without caring so much about who gets credit.
Care, by doing more than just clicking a button in support of a cause. Care by taking action, not merely by saying you care.
Caring can be painful, burdensome, inconvenient, frustrating, and at the same time, fulfilling. Genuine caring feels good, and right.
Care, make a positive connection to all that is, and gain a new sense of purpose. Care, and be a conduit through which life supports, heals, nourishes, encourages, renews and rewards itself.
Care, and let it bring out your best. Care, and learn how vital and loving you can be.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 14, 2018 16:43:47 GMT -5
August 14
Going to the trouble
Living a productive, successful day can be a lot of trouble. Go to the trouble.
Getting yourself in a good place physically, financially, spiritually, requires a good bit of trouble. It’s well worth the trouble.
Value does not appear in your life simply because you think of it and desire it. You have to work it into existence.
Do you ever feel like you don’t want to go to the trouble to do something? That’s a good sign that you’ll benefit greatly from going ahead with the effort anyway.
What seems like trouble before you do it can quickly turn into enthusiastic action once you get started. After you get the work done, you’ll wonder why you ever hesitated in the first place.
Make it your business to go to the trouble. And make a great life for yourself and others.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Aug 15, 2018 17:34:27 GMT -5
August 15
Higher version of reality
Allow all to be right with life, right now. It’s not really so hard to do.
You cannot change anything about what has already happened, so choose to let it be. This moment is not perfect, yet it’s the one you have, so recognize the goodness in it.
Allowing all to be right with life is not a matter of being naive or denying reality. Indeed, it is the acknowledgement of a higher version of reality.
In every difficulty is the opportunity to give love, to offer hope, to engage in positive effort. In every challenge are real possibilities for progress and new value.
Allow all to be right with life, and connect yourself with those possibilities. See today from a higher perspective, and expand upon the goodness that’s already present.
Fix your awareness on a higher version of reality, in which all is right with life. Let yourself be energized to make a positive difference in everything you do.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by caressa222 on Aug 17, 2018 21:19:53 GMT -5
August 16
Maybe
Maybe you don’t have to answer the phone every time it rings. Maybe you don’t need to squeeze every last penny of profit out of your efforts.
Maybe a day in the sunshine would clarify your thoughts. Maybe a swim in the ocean would energize your passion.
Maybe those conditions you’ve been putting on happiness, you’d be better off without. Maybe joy can be lived right here and now, without waiting for where you think you need to be.
Maybe doing the difficult, challenging work will actually turn out to be fun. Maybe commitment, responsibility, discipline, and effort will raise your life to a new level of enjoyment.
Maybe some of the opinions you so staunchly defend could benefit from some challenges and revisions. Maybe you’d actually be okay if you could let go of the need to prove you’re right.
Maybe life can be a whole lot better than you’ve ever thought it could be. Maybe today is a great day to find out.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by caressa222 on Aug 17, 2018 21:20:59 GMT -5
August 17
Beyond the horizon
Today would be a good day to consider possibilities you’ve never considered before. Now would be a great time to explore some new options.
It’s all too easy to get comfortable where you are, doing what you’ve always done. The problem is, if you keep ignoring other options, those options will start to disappear.
You’re smart to stick with what works. But don’t stick to it so relentlessly that you get stuck.
Make a point to widen your awareness. Go out and see what’s beyond the horizon that’s become so comfortably familiar.
Somewhere out there are things you’ve never experienced, that you would surely love. Beyond your current awareness are people, places, ideas, groups, and activities that may very well change your life.
You already know a great deal, yet you certainly don’t know it all. Take a little time to discover a little more, and add new richness to the exquisite experience that is your life.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by bluidkiti on Sept 8, 2018 2:46:37 GMT -5
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.