Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2021 9:14 AM

  Tuesday, December 28, 2021

  How great it feels

  A powerful time to take action is when you don’t feel like it. If you can do what must be done even when you don’t feel like it, you can do it any time.

  Even when you’re not inspired, you can still do something positive and helpful. Even when your heart’s not in it, you can nonetheless make progress.

  Sure, enjoying your work has great benefits. Yet it is absolutely possible to get that work done even when it’s not so enjoyable.

  Yes, there are other things you’d rather be doing. And most of those activities will still be available to you once your work is completed.

  Fortunately, the more you see yourself making progress, the more eager you’ll be to continue the effort. As you invest yourself in the necessary task at hand, you’ll enable yourself to feel better about it.

  Go ahead and do the work that must be done. Discover how great it feels to have it all behind you.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Dec 29 2021 12:44 PM

  Wednesday, December 29, 2021

  Treat yourself

  Give yourself a treat. You deserve it.

  Enjoy a wholesome pleasure you don’t often enjoy. Bring a genuine smile to your face with no guilt, with no regrets and no apologies.

  You’ve been diligent in your responsibilities to yourself and to others, and you know you’ll continue to be. Reward yourself for that outstanding behavior.

  Show yourself how much you appreciate all the good things you do. Motivate yourself to keep it up.

  Your kindness, your actions, and your diligence make a positive difference in the world. Take the time to commemorate that with a little bit of pure, private joy.

  Every now and then, give yourself a treat. Acknowledge and encourage the goodness you can offer by regularly offering it to yourself.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 8:42 AM

  Thursday, December 30, 2021

  Find your courage

  You have great capacity for courage. Put it to good use.

  In ways small and large, fear can prevent you from doing what’s best for your life. Counter that fear with courage.

  How do you activate the courage that is surely yours? By connecting it to purpose.

  Fear typically revolves around the immediate situation and your worst imaginings about it. Courage takes a wider, longer term view.

  What do you care about more than anything else, what gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? That’s where you’ll find strong and sustaining courage.

  Follow that purpose, move forward with that courage. And live fully the live you were meant to live.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Dec 31 2021 10:09 AM

  Friday, December 31, 2021

  Power of expectations

  Expectations chart your course, raise your awareness, and empower your life. Whatever you sincerely expect, you’re much more likely to experience.

  But expectations are not infallible. And nothing happens solely because you expect it will happen.

  If your expectations have disappointed you, that’s no reason to throw them out entirely. It’s an opportunity to re-evaluate those expectations and your commitment to them.

  Are your expectations solidly in line with what matters to you? Or did you choose them just because they sounded good or for the purpose of making a good impression?

  The most powerful expectations are the ones you truly care about, the ones you keep at the center of your awareness. They’re the ones you devote thought and effort to on a daily basis.

  Expectations get their power from the way you incorporate them into your life. Give time, energy, and commitment to your best expectations and they will improve the reality of your life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Sat, Jan 1 2022 8:34 AM

  Saturday, January 1, 2022

  The journey continues

  Some of the days have been memorable, and others you forgot about a long time ago. Yet every experience has served to bring you where you are today.

  Now is the time to continue. Now is when you can take the wisdom, the connections, the experiences and resources you’ve accumulated, and use them all to move forward.

  You have the opportunity to avoid mistakes you’ve made before. You’re able to put hard-won lessons and skills to work in positive and meaningful ways.

  There’s much more to see and do, to learn and discover. You can continue contributing to life in the ways you’ve always done and in new ways as well.

  You’ve known challenges and triumphs and so much more. It’s all made you stronger, more purposeful, more caring toward those you share this existence with.

  Now the journey continues, new possibilities await, and you’re better equipped than ever before. Step forward with confidence, with eager anticipation, and discover how far you will go.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• craigswan 31,819 Posts

  Sat, Jan 1 2022 9:18 AM

  Happy new year to you marion .

  Hope ralph has another 365 days quotes in him .

  May your faith provide you with peace and comfort in the new year!

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Sat, Jan 1 2022 11:42 AM

  Happy New Year to you Craig.

  I think Ralph will have another 365 days in him, if not I will figure something else out. 

  Wishing you many Blessings,

  Marion :-)

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Jan 3 2022 9:04 AM

  Monday, January 3, 2022

  Pursue your best possibilities

  Give your attention and energy to the reality of what is. At the same time, don’t fail to notice the possibilities of what can be.

  There was a time when your possibilities seemed limitless. Though times have changed, and you have changed, many of the most desirable possibilities still await your action.

  Here’s an amazing thing about the position you’re in. You can fully accept the way your life is, while also working to make significant improvements in it.

  Be thankful for all you’ve experienced and all you have. Express that gratitude by using your abilities, your experience and resources to pursue your best possibilities.

  You exist in a realm that’s rich with possibilities. That doesn’t mean the good things are easy to come by, but it does mean that new goodness is always possible.

  Set aside your weariness and cynicism, and open yourself to the new possibilities of right now. Do the good work to bring the best of those possibilities into the reality of your world.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Jan 4 2022 11:51 AM

  Tuesday, January 4, 2022

  Improve understanding

  If you always assume you are correct, before long you will never be correct at all. Your knowledge retains its value and relevance by being challenged.

  Think of something you are certain about, then ask yourself this. What if it were not actually true?

  In considering how and why and in what aspects you could be wrong, you work your way toward being more genuinely right. In challenging your certainties and assumptions, you improve their usefulness and truthfulness.

  When others disagree with you, is your first impulse to work at convincing them toward your point of view? A more fruitful strategy could be to explore their perspective, respectfully and in detail.

  You can do more convincing and more learning with questions than with statements. When you sincerely seek to understand you will gain valuable understanding, and you will be much more clearly understood.

  If the only thing you do with your point of view is broadcast it, you’re causing it to become stale and useless. Choose instead to engage with other viewpoints in the service of understanding, cooperation, and real progress.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Jan 5 2022 11:58 AM

  Wednesday, January 5, 2022

  Give your best

  The moments that make life rich are the moments to which you give value. As each day goes by, make it your business to make more of those valuable moments.

  Every tick of the clock brings another opportunity to add new substance, new treasure to life. Keep yourself in the habit of fulfilling those opportunities as they come.

  Give your attention, your love, your curiosity, effort, kindness and joy to each moment. In your wake leave laughter, warmth, progress and goodness.

  All the money, fame, and power in the world cannot equal the value of a day well spent. Claim that irreplaceable richness for yourself, for those you care about.

  Choose to do what counts with the days and the opportunities you have. The difference you make is what makes life worth living.

  Right now you are here to live, care, engage and add your own flavor to the wonder of existence. With what you have, using all you know and feel, wherever you are, give your best.

   

  — Ralph Marston