Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Jan 8 2024 8:40 AM

  Monday, January 8, 2024

  Emerge from your comfort

  Make yourself comfortable and enjoy it for a while. Then get yourself away from the comfort.

  Reward yourself with comfortable, expected experiences. Then get out into life, into the unknown, into the uncomfortable, and earn even more rewards.

  It’s powerful to know you can come back to a comfortable, secure, predictable place. But as soon as the comfort starts to become complacency, you’ve had more than enough.

  In a state of comfort you have potential opportunities for improvement. If you’re moving along at a pace that’s comfortable, for example, you have the chance to pick up the pace and lengthen your stride for a few miles.

  When you find yourself getting too comfortable, let that prompt you to consider the possibilities for your next adventure, your next advancement. When you’re confident that you know what to expect, you’re able to aim that confidence in new and unexpected directions.

  Life is a continuing process of renewal, and effective renewal necessarily involves some challenge. Choose to regularly emerge from your comfort, to face new challenges, and reap the many benefits of doing so.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Jan 9 2024 11:15 AM

  Tuesday, January 9, 2024

  Slowly wade in

  If you can’t bring yourself to make the full effort, perhaps you can make a half effort, or a quarter. What if you simply start going through the motions?

  At least that’s something. At least it puts your focus in a productive place.

  Maybe once you’re sufficiently focused on the effort, you can begin to actually get good work done. It can’t hurt to move in that direction.

  As you spend more time going through the motions, you will develop some momentum. Eventually that momentum can transform the superficial motions into meaningful progress.

  It’s possible that just going through the motions will end up being a useless exercise. Perhaps, but the alternative, which is doing nothing, is guaranteed to be useless.

  The water is too cold to jump right in. Yet there’s a good chance you can slowly wade in, and soon you’ll be swimming along nicely.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Jan 10 2024 9:05 AM

  Wednesday, January 10, 2024

  Potential richness

  It just takes one instant to cross the finish line. Yet you go through every step of the race to get to that instant.

  In reaching any goal, you have to put forth many individual efforts that don’t yield immediate results. Only when every previous step is done and you complete the final step does the achievement become yours.

  Those steps along the way can feel unrewarded, and that might be discouraging. So it’s important to keep yourself reminded of the progress you’re making, even when you have little in the moment to show for it.

  Although your destination is far away in the distance, you’re advancing toward it right here and now. Though you’re not yet close enough to see it, you are working your way in the right direction.

  The longer you persist the more value you’re able to create. As you invest your time and effort you’re making the eventual result more meaningful.

  As you complete each step along the way, envision the potential richness it is adding to your life. Be inspired to keep going all the way to where that potential richness becomes fully realized.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Jan 11 2024 8:43 AM

  Thursday, January 11, 2024

  No matter what

  You start with the best of intentions. Then all too often, life gets in the way.

  Intention occurs in the idealized and protected space of your mind. Action, on the other hand, must take place in the messy, complicated, and difficult realm of reality.

  As such, transforming intention into action takes effort, flexibility, persistence, and more. Intention is necessary for action, but not sufficient.

  From the moment you put forth your best intentions, be realistic about what is required to bring them about. Be prepared to invest yourself in the real-world manifestation of those intentions.

  When you find that you’ve failed to act on your intentions, don’t just chalk it up to life getting in the way. Instead, become curious, take responsibility, understand why you failed to act and what you can do differently to create a more active, positive result.

  Formulate intentions to which you can fully commit yourself, knowing you’re certain to face challenges. Then you’ll be ready to act on those good intentions, no matter what.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Jan 12 2024 8:05 AM

  Friday, January 12, 2024

  Live with richness

  Today comes to you with multiple opportunities for richness. To see those opportunities, look around with an open heart and an open mind.

  There are people in your life whom you see all the time but you’ve barely even met. Get to know a few of them better, and you’re likely to find yourself with some interesting and enriching new friends.

  There are places you hurry right on past every day without even noticing. Make it a point to stop and explore some of them, and find treasures you never even knew existed.

  Ask yourself, what things interest you that you’ve never fully explored? Make the effort to discover and fulfill your passions, and give yourself the opportunity to add new dimensions to life.

  Living richly has very little to do with how much money you have. It has everything to do with how deeply and sincerely you appreciate the unique potential that is your life.

  You never have to let the little things get you down when you have so many real and meaningful things to lift you up. Make the choice today, and every day, to live with richness, because you can.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Jan 15 2024 9:08 AM

  Monday, January 15, 2024

  Living your values

  Your purposeful living has brought you far. Keep up the good work.

  Your discipline, effort, and commitment have created much value. Continue to offer the best of yourself.

  Your integrity and honesty provide fertile ground for meaningful achievement. Do all you can to keep those achievements coming.

  Your curiosity and sense of wonder throw off creative sparks in all directions. Again and again, enable and allow yourself to be genuinely amazed.

  Sometimes it feels that the progress is slow, the challenges oppressively overwhelming. But to be sure, you’re getting somewhere good, living the values you know to be true.

  Your courage has made a difference. And you have a whole lot more.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Jan 16 2024 9:08 AM

  Tuesday, January 16, 2024

  Do what you envision

  Dream, and then do. Envision, and work toward your vision.

  You have an idea of what would add value to life. Begin with that idea and then build upon it.

  On its own an idea is nice to contemplate, but without action it is not much else. Go ahead, contemplate, and if the idea has merit, move forward with bringing it to life.

  Allow inspiration to flow from your vision into the rest of you, and into the world. Let that inspiration empower real, focused, effective action.

  Invest time and effort in what you envision. Use the experience and wisdom you gain to refine your vision, to make it resonate well with reality, and finally to fully implement that vision in the real world.

  Look lovingly and respectfully at life, and envision new goodness that can be. Then utilize your skills, your time, your available resources to make it happen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Jan 17 2024 8:10 AM

  Wednesday, January 17, 2024

  Live with yourself

  In every choice you make, remember this. You always have to be able to live with yourself.

  Much of your activity you can successfully disguise, distort, and completely hide from others. But you cannot escape your own knowledge of your thoughts and actions.

  What you do, what you decline to do, what you offer, what you compromise, what you withhold, all of it you live with. Every decision is a chance to make a decision that can sit well with you for the entirety of your life.

  That can seem ominous and threatening to ponder. Yet in reality and in practice it is highly empowering.

  Because holding yourself to your own highest standards pays off not just in the moment. It delivers a positive impact into the whole of your life that compounds in value with every subsequent good choice.

  Follow the course that most enduringly enables you to live with yourself. For you and all those whose lives you touch, do your sincere best to make life well worth living.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Jan 19 2024 12:42 PM

  Friday, January 19, 2024

  Light the way ahead

  Even on the most challenging days, there’s something to be thankful for. Find it, focus on it, and give yourself added energy to get through the challenges.

  Gratitude might feel weird while in the midst of trouble and difficulty. Yet that gratitude will shine a positive, empowering light on the situation.

  From a perspective that’s overwhelmed with negativity, all you can see are the problems. Choose instead to find something for which to be thankful, and open your awareness to all the many good, positive resources available to you.

  The most valuable opportunities often appear within the most difficult situations. Gratitude helps you to see and understand those opportunities.

  Somewhere, somehow, a positive aspect can be found. Always, something exists for which you can be genuinely thankful.

  The more challenging the situation, the more valuable it is to have something positive you can hold on to. Identify what you can be thankful for, and light the way ahead.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Jan 22 2024 8:48 AM

  Monday, January 22, 2024

  Here and now

  Here and now you can forgive, laugh, appreciate, enjoy. Life’s goodness is really not so distant or difficult.

  From pain to healing, it’s not that far. From conflict to cooperation, you can jump in an instant.

  Stop caring so much about proving you were right. What makes life worth living is who you can be, the love you can give.

  Here and now is one little slice of time for you to fill with simple goodness. Offer a small kindness, a bit of understanding, a little effort that adds to life’s beauty.

  Encourage and you’ll find encouragement. Act in the direction of your highest hopes and bring them steadily into reality.

  There’s always space for improvement, and your beneficial actions can fill that space. Here and now, add to the value and meaning of life.

   

  — Ralph Marston