Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Nov 7 2023 8:49 AM

  Tuesday, November 7, 2023

  Add life to life

  This day, this situation beckons you to add life to your life. Now is when you step forward to satisfy the stirrings of your soul.

  Adventure is not some distant concept. It begins wherever you are, the moment you act from the truth of who you are and all you love.

  Challenges and complications get in the way, and they’re all part of the experience. They provide ample opportunity to deepen your commitment and to sweeten the rewards.

  You transform your life into a meaningful endeavor one hour at a time. Here now is another golden hour with which you can bring enduring value into existence.

  It’s tempting to decline that opportunity, to wrap yourself in the comfort of doing nothing. Yet so much more is possible.

  You deserve all the richness you’re capable of creating and experiencing. As time moves forward, choose to move forward with it, always adding new life to life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Nov 8 2023 9:17 AM

  Wednesday, November 8, 2023

  Get playful

  Carry a sense of playfulness into the heart of whatever you’re doing. You have work to get done, and you might as well make it fun.

  Start things off with a smile. That in itself elevates your mood and ignites your creativity.

  Discover how you can be resolutely serious about what you’re doing while maintaining a playful demeanor. As complicated, difficult, and demanding as life can be, you’re able to have fun with it.

  Playfulness connects you with the authentic person you are, and with the authenticity in others as well. That will boost your energy, unleash creativity and enhance resourcefulness.

  Do successful people have fun because they’re successful or are they successful because they have fun? It’s probably some of both, yet it never hurts to find out for yourself.

  Not only is playfulness fun, it’s powerful. So why not?

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Nov 9 2023 9:08 AM

  Thursday, November 9, 2023

  Make more encouragement

  Encouragement is cumulative. Every little bit matters because those little bits add up.

  Encouragement is omnidirectional. Giving encouragement to someone else, even merely observing it, encourages you too.

  What could you do to give yourself a little bit of encouragement right now? What could you do to encourage someone else?

  Raising the level of encouragement in any moment is always a good thing. The energy it creates will continue to resonate across time, across distance.

  It can seem like a little thing. Yet it could just be enough to make a big difference.

  Wherever it comes from, wherever it goes, encouragement benefits your world. Use every opportunity to make more.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Nov 13 2023 12:34 PM

  Monday, November 13, 2023

  Active, continuing involvement

  Celebrate the good things but don’t let your celebration become tinged with arrogance. Enjoy your good fortune without allowing it to make you complacent.

  In much the same way, when you lament the inevitable losses don’t let it fill you with intractable despair. Accept whatever difficulties may come while at the same time working to move toward more positive results.

  Momentum is a powerful force, but that does not mean your current trajectory will continue indefinitely. Your active, continuing involvement has great power too.

  So whatever yesterday looked like, make your actions today purposeful, positive, and productive. Whether your recent results have been favorable or not, there’s something to be learned from them, and useful responses you can choose.

  What matters more than where you’ve been is what you do today. Let the past inform and inspire you without letting it immobilize or confine you.

  Your choice is here, your choice is now, regardless of what has happened before. Make it a choice that propels your life in the direction you most want it to go.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Nov 14 2023 12:16 PM

  Tuesday, November 14, 2023

  It must be done

  If a particular task must be done, it must be done. If a certain goal must be met, it must be met.

  Work on finding a way and making it happen. Don’t tolerate excuses from yourself or anyone else.

  Those excuses might indeed be valid. But they don’t change the necessity of effective action.

  Rather than focusing on why you can’t, put in the work to figure out how you will. Consider all the alternatives, and if none of them will work, seek more.

  Pinpoint precisely the necessary result and let it stimulate your creativity, your resourcefulness, your openness to new ideas and techniques. Assume there is a workable way forward and commit to whatever it takes.

  Get yourself good and clear about why the result matters. Then do what’s necessary to make it happen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Nov 15 2023 12:30 PM

  Wednesday, November 15, 2023

  How are you feeling?

  When you don’t feel like being kind, that’s the time for kindness. When you don’t feel like working, that’s when work can do you the most good.

  Magic occurs when you go ahead and do what you don’t feel like doing. Because when you start to act, the feeling changes.

  You realize that your feelings reflect you and inform you but they don’t always have to control you. You are free to achieve, to connect, to care, to persist, whether you feel like it or not.

  Yes, of course your feelings matter and they’re certainly not to be ignored. But neither is their purpose to be blindly obeyed.

  How are you feeling? It makes a difference, but so do many other factors.

  Seek to get the best that’s possible with your feelings, from your feelings. But don’t let them take the best out of you.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Nov 16 2023 8:20 AM

  Thursday, November 16, 2023

  Reach for the best

  How do you achieve a desired result? You reach for it.

  Reach physically with your hands, arms, and legs. Move yourself to where you need to be rather than waiting for your goals to come to you.

  Reach with your mind. Visualize your objectives in precise detail, then develop and execute a strategy for bringing them about.

  Reach with your imagination and creativity. If your path is blocked, imagine alternate ways of getting where you wish to go.

  Reach with your spirit. Live each day with gratitude, with joy, and cultivate within yourself a consciousness of abundance.

  Use all you have to reach toward the fulfillment of all you value. And experience life’s richness unfolding as you act to bring it about.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Nov 17 2023 8:33 AM

  Friday, November 17, 2023

  Time to begin

  You know you can be better, you know you can give more. Challenge yourself to do so.

  It’s easy to complain, to blame, to dream up excuses, to feel sorry for yourself. But none of that is going to achieve anything.

  What makes a difference is your purposeful, focused, persistent effort. So go ahead and do what you know you can do.

  The path forward is complicated, uncomfortable, inconvenient, frustrating. Yet it’s also available and attainable, and now is the time to proceed with it.

  The world will continually try to entice you with promises of something for nothing. But as you’ve experienced again and again, such promises never pan out.

  What does get results, what does bring improvement, is your effort. And just in case you’ve lost sight of what you already know, now is the best time to begin.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Nov 20 2023 8:47 AM

  Monday, November 20, 2023

  Face the challenge early

  Face the challenge when it arises. You may not consider yourself ready for it, but it’s there nonetheless.

  Whatever your level of preparation, there’s something you can do right away. So go ahead and take that initial step.

  You’ll require new knowledge, skills, and resources to successfully deal with the challenge. Yet you can start with whatever you have.

  Even if that first response is only a small one, anything is a whole lot better than nothing. Because as time passes, an unanswered challenge will only become more difficult and imposing.

  As you grow into the challenge, you’ll gain whatever is necessary to prevail. The sooner you begin that process, the sooner the challenge will be behind you.

  It’s not the easiest or most convenient choice, but it’s the best choice in the long run. Face the challenge early and you’ll handle it well.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Nov 21 2023 12:16 PM

  Tuesday, November 21, 2023

  Beauty of living

  Unique beauty lives inside you. Bring some of it out into the world today.

  You carry possibilities around with you. You encounter new possibilities everywhere you go.

  Through your efforts, enable those possibilities to interact and blossom. Transform their positive potential into valuable reality.

  It is never too early, never too late to bring new meaning and richness to life. Be true to the highest and best within you, and make good use of right now.

  You don’t have to be rich or famous or clever to change the world for the better. You do it anytime you choose to act in accordance with what’s true, what’s real, what’s good, what’s authentic.

  Give time and energy to all you love and care about. Reward your own life and your whole world with the beauty of living.

   

  — Ralph Marston