Re: Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,313 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 23,313 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 23,313 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 23,313 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 23,313 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

   

• Ladychipper 23,313 Posts

  Tue, Apr 8 2025 12:22 PM

  Tuesday, April 8, 2025

  Choice to be inspired

  What is necessary to inspire you? What’s necessary is your own choice.

  Do you seek to be inspired? Then respond to life with inspiration.

  A quiet moment can be just as inspiring as a thrilling adventure. A sudden downturn can bring positive inspiration just as surely as a run of good luck.

  You can respond with inspiration to random occurrences as well as to carefully planned events. You’re able to find inspiration in extraordinary developments and in ordinary times.

  The common factor in all situations when inspiration arises, is you. It’s all about how you interpret what’s going on, and what you decide to do with it.

  Anything has the possibility to inspire you. Because you always have the choice to be inspired.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,313 Posts

  Mon, Apr 14 2025 11:55 AM

  Monday, April 14, 2025

  Prepare the way

  You have the opportunity today to prepare the way for tomorrow. Because of what you choose in the present, you can arrive in the future fully prepared to make the most of it.

  Yes, you must spend some effort just getting through right now. Yet you can also add some extra effort and make yourself better able to prosper in the time ahead.

  When you invest that effort well before it’s necessary, it will yield more valuable and abundant outcomes. Prepare the way now, and ignite a virtuous cycle in which you’re better able to further prepare the way again and again.

  Consider all the you would like to accomplish. Then consider the steps you can take immediately to facilitate those accomplishments.

  Though you won’t achieve immediately, you can begin immediately. And the more decisively you begin, the more likely you are to get the whole thing done.

  Right now is your chance to prepare the way. Act on it, and build yourself some unstoppable momentum.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,313 Posts

  Tue, Apr 15 2025 9:14 AM

  Tuesday, April 15, 2025

  Miracle of existence

  The shiny objects are not the beautiful objects. The easy gains are not the fulfilling gains.

  You have so much to live for, so much you can be. You are far from empty, so avoid consorting with emptiness.

  Meaning exists in every particle of your being. To the extent emptiness creeps in from outside, it corrupts the once-beautiful places where it goes.

  A long time ago you knew all this, yet some of that knowledge became suppressed. Now is when you can give it voice and give it action.

  The time is not too late, but rather just right. Meaning floods back into your awareness when you let go and allow the satisfaction of its richness.

  Fill your time, fill your awareness with what matters, with what you know is right and good and substantive. Treasure the miracle of your existence, and take care not to let its beauty be emptied from you.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,313 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2025 9:14 AM

  Wednesday, April 16, 2025

  Make your choice

  In the long run it will improve your life. Yet in your immediate, day to day experience, you’ll have some inconvenience, discomfort, and doubt.

  You know a change is necessary, but it’s also daunting. You’re eager for the benefits of having made the change, while not quite prepared for the cost of getting there.

  Even so, it must be done. As intimidating as it might be, delaying what you know you must do won’t make it any easier.

  For your own sake, focus on the eventual benefits of the challenging, yet positive change. Remind yourself that you have the strength to work through the temporary disruptions and difficulties.

  Though it may not be easy for the first few weeks or months, it will bring value for a whole lot longer than that. You have the opportunity to benefit from the power of your own intention, of your own choice to do what’s best.

  So activate that intention, make your choice and act on the changes you know are necessary. You have what it takes to change, to grow, to improve, and you deserve the rewards of doing so.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,313 Posts

  Thu, Apr 17 2025 9:26 AM

  Thursday, April 17, 2025

  Meaningful effort

  Even when nobody else cares about the good things you do, that’s okay. Because you have the opportunity to care, and to make a difference.

  The point of effective effort is not to impress others. The point is to give your best, to spend your time in meaningful and valuable ways.

  It’s not the cheering crowd that makes a winner. It’s the commitment, the persistence, the execution of fruitful actions day after day.

  Certainly you experience a sense of achievement when you’re recognized for the good work you do. Yet doing the work itself is when you experience the fundamental reality of achievement.

  The results do matter. What matters just as much is your contribution to those results.

  Whether you have permission, recognition, assistance, encouragement, or none of them, you’re able to extend sincere, dedicated, meaningful effort. Give your best, and live at your most fulfilling level, no matter what.

   

  — Ralph Marston