Re: Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Sat, Jan 11 2025 10:42 AM

  Yes, one step and one day at a time.

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Tue, Jan 14 2025 9:18 AM

  Tuesday, January 14, 2025

  The honest option

  Honesty works better than any alternative. Be honest with yourself, with others, and you’ll always have something useful to offer.

  It’s easy for your thoughts to become twisted and clouded by doubt, ego, envy, and so much more. Honesty enables you to break right through all that.

  Seek to be honest and you don’t have to second-guess anything you say or do. You don’t have to be perfect when you’re able to be true.

  Honesty resonates well, even when it’s not elegantly expressed. Honesty offers substance and value, and those are easy to welcome.

  The option to choose is the most honest option. It may not be the easiest choice in the moment, yet it will be the most effective choice in the long run.

  Deception can be highly enticing, but its gains eventually ring hollow and cold. Honesty puts you on the side of truth and life, and that’s a powerful place to be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Wed, Jan 15 2025 11:32 AM

  Wednesday, January 15, 2025

  Shine a light forward

  Even when you’re in a bad place, you can choose to head in a good direction. That will make all the difference in your perspective, your energy level, and your outcome.

  You know where you are, what your situation is. Put your focus on where you intend to go.

  Some particular action right now will point you in your desired direction. Take that positive step, then prepare for the next one.

  You can quickly make a difficult situation more tolerable by heading in a good direction. Though it won’t immediately improve your reality, it will immediately improve you.

  Zero in on an objective that gives each action positive purpose. Shine a light forward that brightens your future in specific, meaningful ways.

  Point yourself in a good direction. Then put all you have into moving solidly and persistently toward what you’ve chosen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Thu, Jan 16 2025 9:10 AM

  Thursday, January 16, 2025

  Growing set of tools

  Capability, and putting that capability to use, gives you ownership. It gives you ownership over your own life and over your own corner of the universe.

  Living well is a matter of successfully dealing with reality. That means having a positive impact on your environment, on your circumstances, and on the people around you.

  Seek out new challenges and you compel yourself to develop new capabilities. Apply those capabilities and they become more robust, informed, and effective.

  Imagine what capabilities could be helpful in the future, in the event of some particular set of likely circumstances. Work to develop those capabilities so you’ll be well practiced in them when the need arises.

  Give yourself a growing set of tools for transforming various situations into positive, fulfilling outcomes. Then eagerly put those tools, those capabilities, to use.

  Already you are highly capable, and able to become even more so. The more you invest in your capabilities, the more life’s various twists and turns will turn out in your favor.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• AlaskanDame 19,724 Posts

  Thu, Jan 16 2025 11:54 AM

  I like this one alot:

  "Though it [taking one step in a good direction] won’t immediately improve your reality, it will immediately improve you."

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Fri, Jan 17 2025 12:41 PM

  AlaskanDame:

  I like this one alot:

  "Though it [taking one step in a good direction] won’t immediately improve your reality, it will immediately improve you."

  Me too!  :-)

   

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Fri, Jan 17 2025 12:41 PM

  Friday, January 17, 2025

  Break the pattern

  Frustration will cause you to make foolish mistakes. Let it go, calm down, and become more effective.

  You have multiple reasons to be frustrated by all the inconveniences and annoying interruptions. Unfortunately, that frustration accomplishes nothing other than making your situation worse.

  What if, instead of being frustrated, you decided to be amused? It’s just as easy to laugh as it is to curse, and it’s a whole lot better for your spirit.

  Rather than letting some minor annoyance consume you with major frustration, let its absurdity lift your spirits. You can choose to be a relaxed observer instead of a fretful victim.

  Stop, break the pattern, take a breath, and smile. Discover how good it feels to regain control of your perspective.

  There are plenty of things that can frustrate and disturb you, but most require your cooperation. Decide not to cooperate, but to stride peacefully and intentionally forward, and live the moment at your best.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Mon, Jan 20 2025 10:37 AM

  Monday, January 20, 2025

  Living with the challenges

  There’s something you can be sure of, once you work through a problem. You’ll encounter another problem.

  It’s a fantasy to think you’ll ever be completely free of any challenges. But that’s no reason to give up, or to let the challenges overwhelm you.

  Because you can be just fine in a world of continually appearing problems and challenges. You have the experience, the strength, and the purpose to live successfully among those challenges.

  A few of your life’s problems you’ll be able to eliminate completely. Yet there are others you’ll have to learn to live with and to manage.

  That’s not giving up. It’s acknowledging and dealing with reality, and it’s something you’ve been doing your whole life.

  Be honest with yourself about which challenges you can get fully beyond and which ones will demand your continued vigilance and effort. Then persist in taking the effective actions that enable you to live a fulfilling life, no matter what the challenges may be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,160 Posts

  Tue, Jan 21 2025 8:37 AM

  Tuesday, January 21, 2025

  Beyond hope

  Hope is a great place to start. Yet for hope to bear fruit, it must inspire action, commitment, and persistence.

  A new opportunity, an improvement in circumstances, a fresh revelation, a restored connection, all can bring on hope. Let the energy of hope soak in, then utilize that energy to go beyond hope.

  Whenever there is even the slightest reason to be hopeful, you have the obligation to act on that hope. See what can be, hope for the best, and give your best to make it happen.

  As powerful as hope feels, it is only a feeling. Your job is to transform that feeling into reality.

  Allow hope to guide you and inspire you. Call upon your strength and skill to follow your hope all the way to its promise.

  Beyond hope is where hope is actually fulfilled. Do the good work to get there.

   

  — Ralph Marston