Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Sep 5 2024 12:12 PM

  Thursday, September 5, 2024

  Upward spiral

  Take the world as it is and add the value of your effort and love to it. Embrace the moment when it comes and give meaning to it.

  Accept what exists and serve as the bridge to what can be. Imagine all that’s possible and move toward the best of what you imagine.

  Each experience brings new wisdom and increased strength. Every occurrence prompts you to focus more clearly on your purpose.

  Work to build achievement on top of achievement. Utilize existing value to create new value.

  Set your sights on higher levels of meaning and fulfillment. Envision specific goodness and bring it into being.

  Express your gratitude for what is by giving your time and abilities to improving upon it. Join in the upward spiral that life at its best can be.

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Sep 6 2024 9:04 AM

  Friday, September 6, 2024

  Vigorous supporter

  What can stop you most effectively is you. What can stop you most routinely is you.

  Fortunately you don’t have to let that happen. You have control over your thoughts and actions, and you can exercise that control to benefit yourself and your world.

  Various circumstances arise, with their obstacles, interruptions, frustrations, pains and discouragements. As difficult as life can be, there’s never any good reason for you to add to that difficulty.

  Though many forces can push you back, you always have the ability to push forward. Set your sights on a meaningful enough purpose, and you activate that ability and the willingness to use it.

  Some days you can make real, discernible progress, some days you just stay even, and other days you might slip backwards. Yet on every one of those days, you can seize the opportunity to give your absolute best.

  Choose to be the most vigorous supporter of your own life and your own highest purpose. No matter what other factors may come into play, that’s always your most positive and powerful choice.

   

  — Ralph Marston

   

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Sep 9 2024 12:10 PM

  Monday, September 9, 2024

  Intentional attention

  What you’re paying attention to directly influences what you’re investing your life in. Could you be making more beneficial investments?

  Attention uses time, attention provides perspective, and attention drives effort. These factors significantly impact the quality of your life and your world.

  If you allow, your attention can be hijacked by trivial or even nefarious matters. Yet you can choose not to allow that.

  Certainly it’s important to know what’s going on in the world around you. But it’s also important to point your precious, powerful attention toward furthering goodness and achievement.

  Every minute of every day your attention is focused in one direction or another. Challenge yourself to manage your attention in a smart and purposeful manner.

  Attention serves you best when it is intentional. Invest your attention where it does the most good, and your life will benefit greatly.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Sep 10 2024 11:24 AM

  Tuesday, September 10, 2024

  Value along the way

  Speed matters, but direction matters more. In most cases, getting there faster is not as important as getting there well.

  The value embedded in your chosen destination is not in merely arriving. You can also gain great value in the journey.

  Rushing through that journey not only produces needless anxiety, it forces you to bypass opportunities. Choose instead to let your life unfold at a pace that leaves plenty of room for goodness and fulfillment along the way.

  If you feel the need to rush through anything, do you really even want to do it? If you cannot savor the process, you’re unlikely to be satisfied with the result.

  Go steadily forward, and don’t dawdle. But don’t hurry so much that you far outrun the value of the experience.

  Make sure you’re going in a positive direction, and give yourself the time to do it well. Value every moment along the way, and put all that time on your side.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Sep 11 2024 11:49 AM

  Wednesday, September 11, 2024

  Wondrous reality

  Nothing can fully substitute for firsthand experience. Nothing can equal the value of face to face interaction.

  It can be less time consuming and more convenient to engage in life’s activities from a distance. But don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re getting the full experience by doing so.

  An ultra high resolution video of the ocean projected on a massive screen can be stunning. Yet you will not feel the wet sand under your feet or the salty breeze against your face.

  Virtual and vicarious encounters have their place. Even so, they are no match for the richness and depth of reality.

  You deserve the real things, in your experiences, in your relationships, with your senses. The profound truths of your existence, embodied within all of existence, are composed of more than mere information.

  Know yourself and your world not just as concepts, but as solid and interconnected manifestations of wondrous reality. Get real, be real, live real, and experience the fullness of your miraculous being.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Sep 12 2024 7:30 AM

  Thursday, September 12, 2024

  Inspiration and humility

  Work yourself into a heated state of inspiration. Then splash yourself with the chilled water of humility.

  Yes, you can dream big and you can make progress in the direction of those dreams. Yet doing so requires a healthy and persistent dose of reality.

  Humble yourself in the presence of your own aspirations. Dare to dream and humbly acknowledge that your dream demands a massive amount of hard work and time.

  That’s a powerful combination. Your dreams will keep you motivated while your humility keeps you honest and disciplined.

  You’re fully capable of great achievement, but it’s not because you’re the greatest achiever who has ever lived. It’s because you have the opportunity of doing the often tedious work, day after day, year upon year, to reach your goal.

  Envision the highest and best, then temper that vision with humility. For that’s precisely how you make it come to life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Sep 16 2024 1:03 PM

  Monday, September 16, 2024

  A little difference

  Make a little bit of a difference. Do it again and again.

  Know where you desire to go. Proceed in that direction, one small step at a time.

  A sure way to bring on frustration and disappointment is to assume you’re going to change your whole world overnight. A sure way to make progress is to be realistic about your ambitions.

  You cannot jump instantly to the top of the mountain. Yet you absolutely can follow the winding pathway, climbing a little each day.

  Do that, and eventually you’ll be marveling at the spectacular view. Perhaps even more significantly, you’ll feel the power of persistence deep within your bones and muscles.

  There’s a little bit you can do right now, and a little more tomorrow. Line up those little efforts in a consistent direction, and go precisely where you wish to go.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Sep 17 2024 9:25 AM

  Tuesday, September 17, 2024

  Winning and losing

  Your wins and losses are important, yet the integrity with which you act matters even more. Keep that in mind when seeking the victories and recovering from defeat.

  It is great to triumph, to achieve, and to excel. And sure, it’s painful to lose.

  Yet if you abandon your treasured values in order to win, the prize is empty. When you compromise your integrity for the sake of accomplishing something, you gain nothing of value.

  The enduring benefits of achievement do not reside in the achievement itself. The real value of success is in the way you live your life while you make it happen.

  Focus on winning, to be sure. Yet be careful not to destroy your integrity just so you can claim the mere tokens of victory.

  Each achievement you pursue is an opportunity to bring out the best within you. Act always with integrity, and whether you win or lose in the moment, you’ll set yourself up for long-term success.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Sep 18 2024 12:36 PM

  Wednesday, September 18, 2024

  Good things are possible

  Good things are possible for you. Even with your situation as it is, even with what you’ve been through, good things are possible.

  There are aspects of life you dearly love. Let yourself love them even more, and act to expand them.

  There is some particular possibility that can have you jumping enthusiastically out of bed every morning. Feel it within you, figure out exactly what it is, and begin to give your time and effort to it.

  Expect value, goodness, creativity and fulfillment to come from your actions. Then take those actions, with commitment, love, and positive presence.

  When life is going well, you possess the very real ability to make it better. If life is not going well, that ability is even more clearly present and compelling.

  On this day, in this place, in this circumstance, and within you, good things are possible. Now is when you can do what you’ve always known you can do, and make new goodness come to life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Sep 19 2024 8:36 AM

  Thursday, September 19, 2024

  Where achievement happens

  How do you accomplish what must be done? Start by getting yourself precisely in the place where you can do it.

  To get in shape, go to the gym. To write your novel, sit yourself down at the keyboard.

  You can’t paint a masterpiece while floating in the pool, and you won’t get your garage cleaned out while watching television. Demonstrate to yourself how committed you are by going where you can get it done.

  Go there literally, physically. Then once you’re in place, go there energetically, with your focused actions.

  It might be fun to wish, to imagine, to plan and prepare. Yet when you’re ready to achieve, you must be present, physically, mentally, spiritually, where achievement can happen.

  When you’re present and taking action, then you’re serious, then you’re increasingly effective. Go there, put forth effort, and start creating the valuable results you desire.

   

  — Ralph Marston