Re: Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Fri, Jan 31 2025 11:28 AM

  So sorry for you losses Craig! 

  My prayers are with you and the family that the good Lord will wrap his arms around you all and give you comfort.

   

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Mon, Feb 3 2025 8:30 AM

  Monday, February 3, 2025

  Self kindness

  Do something good, healthy, challenging, and wholesome for yourself today. Give yourself an enduring positive feeling that flows into your whole world.

  Repeat the favor again tomorrow, and every day. Build within your life a momentum of favorable, real-world action.

  Plenty of areas in your life can benefit from some time, attention, and wholehearted care. Offer yourself a gift that deepens your ability to give to all of life.

  When you’re tired, discouraged, and disappointed, it’s difficult to be of any use to anyone. So consider what could transform you from down to up, in a genuine and sustained way.

  Commit to making it happen by taking the first step. Then continue following through until you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of energy and effectiveness.

  At any moment, you’re one act of self kindness away from a more productive, creative, generous and compassionate you. Step forward and bring that transformation about.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Tue, Feb 4 2025 7:05 AM

  Tuesday, February 4, 2025

  The courage to answer

  Will you say yes or will you say no? You’ll have plenty of opportunities to say both.

  When those opportunities arise, give serious consideration to your answer. Then choose that answer and decisively go with it.

  If you never say yes, you’ll miss out on many of the best things life has to offer. If you never say no, you’re inviting others to take advantage of you and to indulge their own mistaken expectations.

  Your choice of yes or no won’t always turn out to be the best one. But don’t let that stop you from making it.

  Say yes, or say no, then set about to bring the best possible outcome from your decision. Decide in advance to live with your choice, and do what’s necessary to follow through.

  No standard answer works in every case, yet you can work to offer the best answer and then to make the best of what you choose. Each time, whether it’s yes or no, have the courage to answer and to move positively forward with that answer.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2025 11:04 AM

  Wednesday, February 5, 2025

  Beyond discouragement

  It’s natural and understandable to become discouraged. The feeling of discouragement is normal and healthy in response to adverse, disappointing developments.

  But as intensely discouraged as you may be, you never have to let it define who you are. You can choose to be a person experiencing discouragement rather than the walking, breathing embodiment of discouragement.

  That’s a key distinction. Because it reinforces to you the truth that you have power over your discouragement.

  Discouragement can all too often be a part of your experience. Yet it doesn’t ever have to become a part of who you are.

  Who you are is someone with values, dreams, skills, opportunities, and resources. At any time, amidst any degree of discouragement, you can make use of all those things to work your way beyond whatever you’re experiencing.

  You can feel the pain of discouragement, then take steps to transform that pain into inspiration, determination, and effective action. Though you may at times go through discouragement, you never have to stay there.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• AlaskanDame 19,764 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2025 6:03 PM

  “Beyond discouragement.”

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  I’m way beyond discouraged.  

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2025 9:27 AM

  AlaskanDame:

  “Beyond discouragement.”

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  I’m way beyond discouraged.  

  Hang in there and think happy thoughts.

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2025 9:27 AM

  Thursday, February 6, 2025

  Purposeful intention

  Are there things you do every day out of habit that don’t accomplish anything? Let them go.

  Are there choices you make again and again that you always come to regret? Allow yourself to choose differently.

  Life is difficult enough without you needlessly adding to the difficulty. You’re in control of your own thoughts, decisions, and actions, so make smart use of that control.

  In every situation, ask yourself this question. What, right now, would bring the most enduring value to you, to those you care about, to life?

  Answer honestly, thoughtfully, and follow up your answer with action. Inject purposeful intention into your experience at every turn.

  Escape the regrets and the long stretches of habitual ineffectiveness. Live with heightened awareness of all the good you can do, and you’re sure to make much of it happen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,192 Posts

  Fri, Feb 7 2025 7:27 AM

  Friday, February 7, 2025

  Greater than you

  Profound meaning does not come from obsession with yourself and endlessly accommodating your every whim. It comes in the recognition and service of something bigger than you.

  You will not experience fulfillment by catering exclusively to your own desires. Fulfillment comes when you’re able to transcend your narrow concerns.

  Life and existence are much bigger than you. To experience their most sublime dimensions, focus yourself beyond yourself.

  Ego has its place, and is sometimes necessary to exercise in the interest of thriving and surviving. Yet so much more of life’s value and joy exist far outside the constricted domain of your ego.

  When anything seems to challenge that ego, remind yourself that it’s probably not such a bad thing. What serves to direct your awareness beyond you, can also enrich you in ways you may have never considered.

  Seize upon opportunities to think and live beyond yourself. Stay connected with the massive value and potential of all that’s greater than you.

   

  — Ralph Marston