Re: Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,243 Posts

  Tue, Mar 11 2025 11:24 AM

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025

  Greatness of today

  This is a new day, and you can use it to bring new richness to life. Today mixes positive value from the past with original possibilities in the present, and you can perform a similar combination.

  It serves no purpose to wish all the bad things had not happened or that all the good things were still here. Instead, take the opportunity to create more goodness in fresh, innovative ways.

  Carry forward all your good memories and positive values from the past. Honor and appreciate the best of what has been by making new richness from what you have today.

  You’ve experienced some sadness and disappointment, and there will be more. Yet all sorts of new and meaningful joys await your choice to let them come to life.

  Here is where you are, this is the time you have, and in it you’ll find everything you need to make a difference. Seize the opportunity to live with more richness than ever.

  Treasure the best that you’ve been, and use this day to make it better. Put a confident, authentic smile on your face, a song of thankfulness in your heart, and live the greatness that is today.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• AlaskanDame 19,843 Posts

  Tue, Mar 11 2025 8:36 PM

  Ladychipper:

  I agree with you AKD.  It does depend on what the bad news is.

  For sure.  

• EagleMcDouble 2 Posts

  Tue, Mar 11 2025 10:55 PM

  I don't remember a time when something so singular specific moved me so deeply both by it's sheer weight while so eloquently it is conveyed in beautifully succinct paragraphs(stanzas?!) each the depth of which form a palpable whole despite a sense of stringent word count allowance as though to a one every word was chosen precisely after deep ruminations aware of the 2 dimensions, Location & Time, directly affecting the topic and intent. Thank You very much for taking the time to share such poignancy and reflection on Life.

   

• Ladychipper 23,243 Posts

  Wed, Mar 12 2025 12:10 PM

  Wednesday, March 12, 2025

  Old and new

  Embrace what’s new, innovative, enlightening and useful. But don’t throw out all that’s old just to do so.

  You can benefit from what’s novel as well as from what’s proven. A concept, an idea, a process does not necessarily lose value over time.

  By the same token, just because you’ve done something a certain way forever, doesn’t mean it’s the best way. Many things are worth keeping, many are worth adopting, and many others have no place being started or maintained.

  Don’t let your judgment become overly biased by how old or new anything is. Focus more on quality, integrity, elegance, beauty, and utility.

  Give your respect and appreciation to what’s proven. Be receptive to what’s innovative.

  Much value continues to echo from the past, and more value is being created now that will endure far into the future. Whether it’s old or new, recognize and put to good use all the great value life makes available to you.

   

  — Ralph Marston