Re: Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,293 Posts

  Fri, Mar 28 2025 11:40 AM

  AlaskanDame:

  “What particular challenge can you traverse that will bring great value to your corner of the world?”

  Great question.

   

  Yes it is for sure!

  I am thinking hunger.  I support the food banks around here.

• Ladychipper 23,293 Posts

  Fri, Mar 28 2025 11:42 AM

  Friday, March 28, 2025

  Pick a path

  It’s good to keep your options open for a while. But at some point, for the options to be of any value, you must commit to one.

  The point of choices is not to maintain them indefinitely. The point is to act on the best of those choices, transforming them into experience, achievement, and richness.

  Being afraid to make the wrong selection is precisely the wrong selection. It is a case of your fear creating the thing you fear.

  Be thankful for the many options available to you. Then settle on one and make it work.

  It won’t be perfect, but then none of the others would have been either. Rather than second guessing your choice, do what is necessary to ensure that it becomes a good choice.

  Pick a path and start walking on it, leaving the others behind. That’s the way to actually get somewhere.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,293 Posts

  Mon, Mar 31 2025 10:37 AM

  Monday, March 31, 2025

  Highest hopes

  Give yourself hope by doing something hopeful. Put the best part of yourself into action and immediately experience the improvement in your outlook.

  Rather than defaulting to a tired, old, empty habit, call upon your creativity. Dwell on what you love, then seek to express that love through time, effort, and commitment.

  Every day is filled with opportune moments. Be ready and willing to seize upon the next one that surely will soon arrive.

  Immediately in front of you is the possibility of encountering genuine beauty, wonder, and awe. Be open to the possibility, be available to give yourself over to it.

  Dreary expectations make for dreary experiences. Raise those expectations, inject hope and goodness into them.

  How much time and work, commitment and persistence would you put forth if you knew it would all make a difference? It will, as you well know from looking back on your past, so act upon your highest hopes right now.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,293 Posts

  Wed, Apr 2 2025 12:46 PM

  Wednesday, April 2, 2025

  Diligent efforts

  This world and the people in it are not perfect, and never will be. Your challenge is to live a good and fulfilling life in situations that are less than ideal.

  That demands thoughtfulness, creativity, awareness and effort on your part. It is not easy, yet the good results you can obtain are worth the commitment you must make.

  Systems break down, people disappoint you, catastrophes can arise out of nowhere to ruin your plans. Even so, go ahead and make those good plans, and follow through on them to the fullest extent that you can.

  If you wait for things to be perfect, all you’ll ever do is wait. Though it’s fine to maintain high standards, don’t let them chase away the good, realistic possibilities.

  Amidst all the imperfection, frustration and turmoil, many great things can be done. In a world that seems to actively oppose fulfillment, plenty of fulfillment can and does occur.

  Step up to the challenges, because you’ll create great value by working through them. Opportunity may not be pretty and perfect but it is real, with real rewards for your diligent efforts.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,293 Posts

  Thu, Apr 3 2025 11:19 AM

  Thursday, April 3, 2025

  Genuine participation

  Tucked away in every pocket is a high quality camera that can spew images across the globe in milliseconds. So everyone has become skilled at posing.

  But if you look back at all those poses, you cannot help but see a little emptiness and a lot of pretense. It’s as if the point of living, of doing, is merely to make a statement.

  The next time you’re tempted to set up a pose, whether there’s a camera present or not, reconsider. What, after all, will it really accomplish?

  There’s a much better alternative to striking one pose after another. It is genuine participation.

  Put away the camera, put away even the thought of a camera. Focus yourself on the moment, on the experience, on the very real people who are sharing it with you.

  Carry away more than just pixels from where you go and what you do and who you’re with. Your future self will thank you for living with a depth of richness, embodiment, and participation far beyond anything that can be funneled through a lens.

   

  — Ralph Marston