Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Jun 24 2024 11:18 AM

  Monday, June 24, 2024

  Active appreciation

  Take something for granted and you diminish its value. Take it for granted long enough and you could lose it altogether.

  That’s because whatever you take for granted, you fail to make use of. Your inattention leaves it to crumble into disrepair.

  But that doesn’t have to happen. Because you can make it your business to appreciate.

  Appreciation illuminates and gives you access to existing value. Your appreciation informs, inspires and encourages you to build on that value.

  Replace resentment and apathy with gratitude and active appreciation. Connect with the boundless abundance that already exists.

  Think of all you can appreciate, and act on those thoughts. Continually rediscover and give your energy to the good that exists in your world and in your life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Jun 25 2024 9:10 AM

  Tuesday, June 25, 2024

  Time to ripen

  Sometimes you can create results very quickly. Many times, though, you must have some patience.

  Flowers won’t bloom any faster than flowers bloom, no matter how aggressively you work at it. Indeed, giving them too much attention and handling can actually damage them and prevent them from blooming.

  The same is true for all sorts of endeavors. You have to be ambitious and diligent about doing the work, and patient about getting the results.

  But that’s really not such a bad thing. Because the longer you must wait, the more you value and appreciate whatever you’re waiting for.

  Patience is not merely being idle and dispassionate. Rather, it’s an understanding and acceptance of the fact that good things can take time to fully emerge.

  Give the desired results in your life the time they require, the time they deserve, the time that brings meaning and richness. Do swiftly and eagerly what you must do, and go forward with patience as the fruits of your labor take time to ripen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2024 9:06 AM

  Wednesday, June 26, 2024

  Quickly recover

  You had the best of intentions, and even got off to a great start. Then you were hit with a totally unexpected disruption.

  You can’t turn back the clock and prevent it from happening. Anger, resentment, complaints and self pity might feel appropriate, but they’re not going to improve your situation.

  That’s up to you. Fortunately, you’re fully capable and well positioned to do it.

  Make it your purpose to quickly recover. No, you certainly didn’t want to have to do so, but now it’s your best way forward.

  Accept what’s happened, start with what you have, what you’re left with, and take a positive, productive step. Feel the power of your own intention, the effectiveness of your own action, and keep that feeling going.

  You got started, you got ambushed by life, but now you can be right back at it. Make that choice because it’s your best one, and discover how you can prevail no matter what.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Jun 27 2024 7:04 AM

  Thursday, June 27, 2024

  What you allow

  If you allow anything to hold you back it will hold you back. Whatever you allow to push you forward will push you forward.

  There are many factors, circumstances and influences flowing through your life. Whether each one is a liability or an asset is to a large degree up to you.

  Great disappointments and tragedies can arise out of seemingly perfect situations. And magnificent achievements can come from desperate, seemingly hopeless conditions, based on what you allow to get to you.

  What matters most is not usually the nature of your situation. What makes a crucial difference is what you take from it and what you do with it.

  Even in places and pursuits where others may have failed, you have the opportunity to succeed. Even those factors that may have held others back can be your motivation to move forward.

  Many things may seem inevitable, and yet most things are really not. No matter what life may send your way, look for how you can use it in a positive, productive and valuable manner.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Jun 28 2024 8:51 AM

  Friday, June 28, 2024

  Your potential

  You have plenty of unrealized potential. Whenever you choose, you can transform good things that could be into good things that are.

  There is great abundance in this universe. Each day is a fresh new opportunity to harvest and express that abundance in specific, meaningful ways that will enrich all of life.

  Yes, it can be done and you can be the person who does it. Yes, it will take significant effort and you are able to make that effort.

  You’ve already proven how capable you are by navigating your way through life’s many and varied challenges up to this point. Now, use that same power to take on new challenges and to create new value.

  Whatever you have already achieved, you owe yourself the splendid, satisfying experience of working to achieve even more. Your unrealized potential has been waiting long enough, so jump forward and bring it to life.

  Throw away all the excuses, step beyond your doubts and hesitations, and go for it. Feel the great treasure that’s already so very close, and make it real.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Jul 1 2024 7:00 AM

  Monday, July 1, 2024

  Yours right now

  Take in the beauty of this moment and let it fill you. Yet do not try to hold it.

  For as soon as you attempt to possess it, the beauty is lost. When you grasp it too tightly, you lose the ability to experience it.

  Let this unique moment flow toward you, and then let it flow away from you as the next moment comes to take its place. Allow the beautiful experience of life to be born again and again.

  The real value of this moment is in the way you live it. Live it fully, lovingly, gratefully, and there is no need to hold on to it, for the best of it will always be a part of you.

  Each moment offers its own special treasure. Let go of your need to judge, to analyze, to possess, and simply experience the wonder that is yours right now.

  You are free in this moment to live, to create, to give, to grow. Lovingly open your eyes to the abundant possibilities, and dive gently into this beautiful moment.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Jul 2 2024 8:50 AM

  Tuesday, July 2, 2024

  All you’ve experienced

  Your failed attempts have taught you crucial lessons. Those good intentions you never followed through on have given you an appreciation for the value of commitment.

  Regrets born in your past provide inspiration and energy that you can put to good use. Now you can benefit from it all.

  Not only can you expand upon whatever successes you’ve created. You’re also able to find wisdom and fresh determination in recalling those painful times when you’ve disappointed yourself.

  From the richness of your life experience, today you can begin to take effective action. You have what it takes to continue doing so until you’ve achieved the results that truly matter to you.

  Your past has played a significant role in the person you now are. Yet no matter how definitive that past has been, your future is not a foregone conclusion.

  That future will be shaped by what you do today, drawing upon all you’ve experienced and all you know, using whatever you have. Now is your opportunity to make it the best you can imagine.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Jul 3 2024 11:12 AM

  Wednesday, July 3, 2024

  Meaningful life

  Meaning has infinite potential. You can always experience more, create more, and offer more meaning.

  Indeed, every experience of a particular form of meaning that already exists, results in more meaning. Through your own life, through all of life, meaning is kept alive.

  Meaning flows in all directions. Through every connection, every activity, you accumulate meaning and you disperse meaning.

  To live with rich meaning is a matter of opening yourself up to the potential for meaning that is everywhere. Be eager to imbue meaning and you find it in abundance.

  Your meaningful self continually interacts with your rational self and your emotional self to enrich your life. And yet meaning is not constrained by or limited to reason or feelings.

  Your life, your world, what you know and what you don’t, all mean something because you are able to experience meaning. However it unfolds, yours is a meaningful and precious life, with value far beyond what can ever be imagined.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Jul 4 2024 8:08 AM

  Thursday, July 4, 2024

  Mental work

  Take the time, have the courage, to explore your own thoughts. Within those thoughts you can find great treasure.

  Every thought you think is informed by the totality of your knowledge and experience. Give those thoughts the time, space, and focus to interact with each other.

  No, you don’t want to spend all your time wandering through your own thoughts. However, a regular, reasonable period of uninterrupted thinking is well worth the investment.

  It’s quite amazing that you have quick and easy access to the expressed thoughts of so many other people. And yet for all that insight to have value in your own life, you must do the mental work to integrate it well.

  Think, listen to your thoughts, make a record of them, review them, challenge them, refine them. Among your many advisors, make sure one of them is you.

  Your life can always benefit from some serious, prolonged, and introspective thought. Offer yourself that benefit often.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Jul 5 2024 7:47 AM

  Friday, July 5, 2024

  Truth is easier

  It’s easy and often convenient to say what you don’t mean, to claim what is not true, to hide what is real. But the further you venture from the truth, the more difficult is your way forward.

  By very definition, reality always has a way of asserting itself. Every falsehood requires additional falsehoods to support it, and also to support those, until at some point no more falsehoods are possible.

  As difficult as truth can often be, it is easier than the alternative. Especially when truth is difficult, the sooner you accept it and express it, the better.

  For once the truth is out, it does not have to be constantly propped up. Though living truthfully can be a lot of work, it has the great advantage of not being at odds with reality itself.

  Though it could take years and years, being delusional eventually ends up as the only remaining alternative to being truthful. And acting from a delusional perspective quickly becomes ineffective.

  Truth can be a hard and painful choice. Yet it’s a whole lot easier than any other choice.

   

  — Ralph Marston