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Post by majestyjo on May 17, 2018 13:20:35 GMT -5
May 17
Truth within
More truth lives within you than you have yet allowed yourself to discover. Open up to it, give expression to its wonders.
Envision the spark of an idea catching fire. See it blazing its way into reality through your mind and your hands.
Seek for beauty, meaning, substance, joy to enter into life because of your life. Live each moment in a spirit that welcomes truth and goodness, and gives them living expression.
Have the courage to feel what you have never felt. Engage your patience, your diligence to give voice to those feelings.
Live to know, to feel, to see what is true. Live to bring that truth to life in your own unique way.
Vast stretches of love, beauty, truth, goodness today await your discovery. Live to let it all flow into life.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 18, 2018 16:00:55 GMT -5
May 18
Bask in the wonder
Bask in the wonder of life. Give yourself to awe, to love, to the experience of goodness.
Warm every corner of your awareness with appreciation. Earn your best possibilities by bringing them to fruition.
Exhaust yourself with joy. Align yourself with the goodness that can be found in every situation.
What you have, whatever form it may take, consists of a treasure that has no equal. Open your senses and your sensibilities to let the beauty in.
Savor the opportunity to live each moment. Surprise yourself with how much more, and more, you can give.
No effort is too burdensome, no trouble too deep to vanquish the wonder that is yours to experience. Let the richness of that wonder come to life right now in you.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 19, 2018 9:06:21 GMT -5
May 19
Eyes of love
In all your coming and going and doing and being and knowing, smile, be of good cheer. One way or another, on every day and the next, there’s always something good to live.
As noisy and hectic as the days become, still you carve out moments of peace. As plain and tedious as the task may be, it cannot stop your thoughts from soaring to the very highest of heights.
Some people may seem rude and brutish when they come your way. Yet most are likely just a little unsure inside, and would benefit from your kind words, even if they fail to show it.
Though dark clouds may fill the whole of the sky, warmth from sunlight still comes through. Something good is always afoot, and you can find it when you choose.
The most heavily fortified problems are really vessels of great opportunity. Whatever frustrates you to the core can also inspire and make you determined.
Life today will offer whatever you choose to see. Decide to look with eyes of love and live the best you know you can be.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 20, 2018 6:27:31 GMT -5
May 20
Small changes
Small changes can make a big difference when applied over time. Make a small positive change, then stay with it, and time works in your favor.
Small changes are easy to implement, and just as easy to abandon. So when you make a small change, you must also make a big commitment.
Most of life’s progress is not made in big, highly consequential leaps. Achievement most often comes from taking one small positive step, then another and another.
There is some small change you can make today that can make your life significantly better a year from now. Make it, and most importantly, stick with it.
Stick with it by constantly reminding yourself why. Stick with it by staying focused on your purpose.
You have the ability right now to make a small change that will eventually lift your whole world. Make a positive change, stick with it and stay focused, reaping more and more benefits as life unfolds.
-Ralph S. Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 21, 2018 6:19:34 GMT -5
May 21
This day to live
This day will change you, and you will change this day. Today day can improve you, and you can improve today.
Progress is not ever inevitable, yet always possible, within reach. Today offers you the chance to make it happen.
Don’t curse those things that hinder you. Learn from them, understand, create a way around them, devise new ways to make your progress anyway.
Don’t take for granted the factors that assist you. Nurture, support, appreciate, encourage, and make good use of them while you can.
People, circumstances, and random events will do what they will. Step forward with confidence, knowing you can take it all in stride, adding value to each moment along the way.
You have every reason to be positive because you have this day to live. Start right now, giving new joy, meaning, and fulfillment to all of life.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 22, 2018 11:35:24 GMT -5
May 22
Power to decide
If you assume you’re limited by the conditions of the moment, you most assuredly are. When you feel the situation is holding you back, it’s definitely holding you back.
Are you so tightly constrained by your obligations that you cannot seem to move? Have the noisy, confusing distractions drowned out your ability to focus?
You don’t have to abandon those obligations in order to be free of their stultifying grip. You can quickly regain focus and intention without running away from the turbulent situation.
You always have the power to decide. Everything streaming into your awareness is filtered, amplified, attenuated, and assigned meaning, by you.
When you’ve decided that life is overwhelming and you can’t possibly cope, it is, and you can’t. When you’ve decided you can focus and thrive and make great progress no matter what is going on, you will.
Will it be bitterness, frustration, and excuses, or richness, fulfillment, and joy? No matter what, no matter when, no matter the time or place or circumstance, you decide.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 23, 2018 10:25:54 GMT -5
May 23
Small positive change
Somewhere right now there is a small, positive change you can make in the way you go through life. Make that small change, stick with it, and the results can profoundly influence your entire world.
Perhaps you’ve burdened yourself with a destructive habit that you can now choose to leave behind forever. Or maybe there’s some simple, useful action you can add to your daily routine.
It could be as easy as choosing to start each day with a smile instead of a complaint. Or you could identify something that has always made you angry and just decide you’re not going to let it get to you anymore.
Life is filled with opportunities for making small, positive changes. Look for them, and you’ll see those opportunities in every direction.
Even one small change can have a large positive impact on your life because the benefits of that small change are repeated day after day. Keep adding more small, positive changes from time to time, and the results can be astonishing.
Give yourself the gift today of a small positive change in your life. Continue to enjoy the rewards you receive far into the future.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 24, 2018 7:31:24 GMT -5
May 24
Through the difficulties
Much of the burden of any difficulty is your desire to avoid it. What if you could choose instead to accept it, to endure it, in fact to thrive on it?
Think of something you must do, but do not wish to do. Imagine letting go of your resentment toward it, and how much more energetic you will become.
You have the potential to do great things. Fulfilling that potential will necessitate some pain, discomfort, effort, frustration, tedium.
Are those things really so bad? Or are they the requisite tumult of blessings being born, pathways to lasting goodness and unique value?
Do not make the difficulties worse by avoiding them, complaining about or resisting them. Instead, force those difficulties to fulfill their promise by growing, progressing, achieving through them.
Life is difficult, and filled with great richness. Go fervently through whatever difficulties may arise, giving new meaning, expression and joy to the richness.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 25, 2018 11:49:47 GMT -5
May 25
Take a break
Many of your best ideas arrive when you’re not trying to have them. Take a few moments, or a few days, and take a break.
To sharpen your focus, relax it for a while, on a regular basis. Give your mind time and space to make sense of all it takes in.
Living with purpose does not mean you must tightly schedule every millisecond. Spend time acquainting yourself with the world outside your own agenda.
You rest better when you’ve worked hard. You work better when you’ve rested well.
Give your life, your work, your spirit, the benefits of balance. Allow focused intention and relaxed serendipity to support each other and to elevate all that you experience.
Work, play, determination, relaxation, focus, curiosity, effort, and peaceful contemplation. A rich life is a balance of all these good things.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 26, 2018 12:27:37 GMT -5
May 26
Respond with persistence
When you’ve had a great success, what’s your best response? Learn from what you’ve done and do it again.
When you’ve had a big disappointment, what’s your best response? Learn from what you’ve done, adjust accordingly, and do it again.
It’s good to have skills, knowledge, connections, resources. What truly moves your life ahead, though, is to add persistence.
Are you too dismayed or burned out to make another effort? That’s precisely when that next effort can make the biggest difference.
Instead of giving up, make the assumption that there is some change you can make, some approach you can take to keep going. Then do the work to find that way, and to persist in following it.
When you’re up, when you’re down, respond with persistence. The number of efforts required for the success you seek is whatever number is necessary.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 26, 2018 12:29:15 GMT -5
May 27
What would you like to see?
Imagine it is tomorrow and you’re looking back on today. What would you like to see?
Whatever it is, now is your chance to make it happen. You have one opportunity to determine how you’ll live this day, and that opportunity is right here, right now.
Every moment is a choice. When making each choice, consider how it will play out tomorrow, or a week from now, or next year.
The actions you take, and the actions you fail to take, have real and continuing consequences. Today, you can choose what those consequences will be going forward.
The way you live today determines how your life will be when you arrive at tomorrow. Make the choices that will make you thankful for your good sense.
Though this day will be over soon, what you do with its moments will echo far into your future. Realize what a powerful opportunity that is, and make something grand out of it now, while it’s here.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 28, 2018 9:58:23 GMT -5
May 28
Powerful positive start
Before you go to bed tonight, give yourself a compelling reason to get up and get started right away tomorrow. Be clear in advance, motivated in advance, and you’ll give the day a powerful positive start.
Don’t waste half the morning wondering what you’ll do or convincing yourself to do it. You already know tomorrow is coming, so build in your plan and your enthusiasm for it today.
Create a shield to protect yourself from indecision, distraction, and regret. Energize your life, your mind, your experience with a day that gets off to a great start and then just keeps getting better.
Tomorrow you’ll wake up to a whole new day, filled with great possibilities. Invest a little time and thought today, getting yourself prepared to make full use of the opportunity.
Infuse yourself now with excitement about the progress you can make. Let your positive expectations take root and begin to grow.
A new day is already on its way here, and with it you can choose to do many great things. So decide today to give your tomorrow a powerful positive start.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 29, 2018 22:21:52 GMT -5
May 29
Living your beliefs
Don’t be content to merely believe the truth. Seek to experience it for yourself.
Your belief may be strong and unwavering. Yet there is a difference between belief and certainty.
Reach that certainty by living your beliefs, by continually putting them into practice. Solidify your understanding of the truth by experiencing its essence for yourself.
It can be interesting and stimulating to speculate about what might or might not be true, what might or might not happen, what might or might not work. What’s much more powerful, though, is to know for sure.
Take what you’ve been told, what you’ve come to believe, as a starting point. Then take it further by discovering its truth for yourself.
Honor your trust, your faith, your belief by transforming it all, through your actions, into certainty. Truth rises to a whole new level when it comes to life in you.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 30, 2018 10:53:37 GMT -5
May 30
Awareness of the future
What’s extremely valuable about the future is that you know it is coming. You can prepare yourself, and take actions now that will benefit your future.
You can delay gratification, develop positive relationships by being considerate of others, and work to develop new skills. These strategies, and many others, create large rewards in the future from relatively small efforts in the present.
If you save ten dollars a day, each day, in a few years you’ll be able to pay your future self ten thousand dollars. When you factor the future into your decisions, those decisions create a more desirable future.
Looking toward the future also will improve your discipline, effectiveness and experience of fulfillment today. As you’re building a great future you can live at your best in the present.
Just knowing that the future is coming puts you at a great advantage. Being able to do something positive about it vastly multiplies that advantage.
Claim the full benefit of your good fortune. Make choices that enable you to live well now while also creating your best possible future.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on May 31, 2018 12:08:09 GMT -5
May 31
When you do it
The work will be done when you do it. The problem will be solved when you solve it.
The money will be yours when you earn it. The skill will be yours when you learn it.
It’s not magic that creates the good and desirable things in life. It is focused, committed, persistent effort.
If you want life to improve in some particular way, then do the improving, be the improver. Jump to your feet and make it happen.
Skip straight past the wishing, begging, agonizing, theorizing, and wondering when the situation will get better. Step up, take action, and keep at it until you get the results you’re after.
You know what makes a difference, what brings value to life, and you know you can do it. So go ahead, without further hesitation, and get it done.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jun 2, 2018 7:34:43 GMT -5
June 1
Work in progress
You are a work in progress. And there is no end to the progress you can make.
No matter what level you attain, you can aim even higher. However much you already know, you can learn more.
Today is part of that work in progress. You won’t get it perfect, you won’t get it all done, yet you can make good and productive use of your time.
The grand epiphanies and eureka moments are few and far between. What is always accessible to you, however, is the opportunity for incremental progress.
Small moments spent on worthwhile and meaningful pursuits do add up. And today is provisioned with hundreds of such small moments for you to wisely use.
You are a work in progress. Do the work and make the progress, one steady, purposeful step at a time.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jun 2, 2018 7:35:15 GMT -5
June 2
Positive footprints
You cannot go backwards in time to undo what’s already been done. So before you go forward, consider the consequences of your actions.
You won’t be able to reclaim time that has already passed. As each moment comes, remind yourself to make good and meaningful use of it.
Regret is a terribly helpless feeling because there’s no way to change what you have already done. Keep that in mind as you make each choice.
Once you utter a thoughtless comment, it will forever be a part of what you have said. All the apologies and regrets in the world will not change that.
You can only move forward through time. As you do, take care to leave positive, beneficial footprints at every point along the way.
Make your choices the ones you’ll be pleased to live with. Speak and act to make your future self, and everyone else, thankful for all you do.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jun 3, 2018 15:19:32 GMT -5
June 3
Power of response
You cannot always choose your circumstances, or the events that unfold in your world. Yet in every case what you can choose, must choose, always do choose, is your response.
Today you’ll have multiple opportunities to make that choice. Multiple opportunities to steer life in one direction or another.
If they’re scattered, inconsistent, and without much purpose, your responses are largely wasted. When they’re focused, intentional, positive, those responses will band together and enable great achievement.
Every response matters, because it is part of the overall pattern. Every response matters, because it sets the tone for the next response.
Right now, set before yourself the intention, the commitment to follow a specific positive purpose. Right now, decide to focus all your responses in the direction of that purpose.
You have great power, and it comes to you throughout the day as you respond to whatever life presents. Choose to use that power, in a caring, loving, meaningful way, with each and every response.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jun 4, 2018 17:24:25 GMT -5
June 4
Better than before
When you expect the best, you have a way of finding it, of creating it. Today, countless possibilities are being born, and plenty of them are just right for you.
Soon, you’ll discover truths you’ve never considered. You’ll journey to places you never knew were there.
As such, it would be foolish to ever give up hope or to relinquish your dreams. More is possible for you now than ever before, and the possibilities continue to grow.
What now seems impossible will eventually become commonplace. The very area where you face the most stubborn obstacles can end up being the source of your greatest triumphs.
Embrace this day and each of its moments as they arrive. Connect with the opportunities to grow, experience, enjoy, appreciate, and to live fully.
Right now is better than before, filled with bright new possibilities. Imagine life at its best, and make it so.
— Ralph Marston
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Post by majestyjo on Jun 5, 2018 6:08:37 GMT -5
June 5
Only now
Imagine there is only now. Regrets have no meaning and worries simply do not exist.
Your awareness is filled with peaceful power. You are free to focus solely on the good actions you can now take.
Your thoughts are clear, deliberate, unhurried. You feel completely in control of your life and feelings.
In every direction you look, beauty and positive possibilities appear. You act without hesitation or doubt, confident in your ability to make a difference.
You are taught and strengthened by your mistakes rather than imprisoned by them. You are inspired by the disappointments instead of being dismayed by them.
Imagine a world where there’s no past to weigh you down and no future to fear. Imagine there is only now, and live the power that’s already yours.
— Ralph Marston
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