Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Sat, Jan 11 2020 8:43 AM

  Saturday, January 11, 2020

  Positive spin

  Being cynical doesn’t make you more sophisticated. It just makes you miserable.

  Being positive doesn’t mean you’re ignoring or denying the problems. It means you’re choosing to move forward with hope rather than languish in despair.

  Your attitude doesn’t have to be dictated by the way things are. You can choose your attitude based on where you intend to go next.

  A more positive future begins with more positive thoughts. A more satisfying future begins with higher expectations.

  You can think whatever you want to think, and feel however you wish to feel. Doesn’t it make sense to focus your thoughts on positive possibilities, to feel hopeful about your efforts?

  Whatever is going on, give your attitude a positive spin. And you’ll give your results a major boost.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Mon, Jan 13 2020 8:15 AM

  Monday, January 13, 2020

  Fresh baked cookies

  You remember more than you think you do. At the same time, you remember less than you thought you would.

  What you remember is what matters to you. And the way you remember is not with logic, but with emotion.

  The mind of anyone else works the same way. You make yourself memorable to others by making your words and behavior meaningful to them.

  You can accomplish this in a good way or a bad way. Good is better, by a long shot.

  How much and how well do you want yourself, your business, your ideas, your cause, to be thought of? It comes from you, making a difference in the way people feel.

  Fresh baked cookies arriving at your front door will surprise and delight you. Be like that, and you’ll earn a positive place in the thoughts of others.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Tue, Jan 14 2020 8:30 AM

  Tuesday, January 14, 2020

  Welcome this moment

  Refresh your spirit, renew your energy, right here, right now. Where you are is the perfect place to deepen your connection to the best of life.

  With anything that happens, or with nothing at all, you can elevate your thoughts, your awareness, your gratitude. Choose to live with a positive, empowered perspective, and it is so.

  You control the way you perceive all that happens as this day unfolds. You decide, again and again, what to think, what to say, what to do with it all.

  You choose which opportunities to follow, where to invest your energy and time. You decide how to express your purpose, and find new ways to support all that you love.

  Remind yourself, what is now is more than enough. From wherever you are, you constantly transform your life into what you imagine.

  Welcome this moment and with it, the best of what is possible. Now, let the richness within you come fully to life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Wed, Jan 15 2020 11:47 AM

  Wednesday, January 15, 2020

  Beauty and significance

  You’ve talked yourself into needing it, but do you? You’ve become accustomed to having it, but is it what you desire?

  How much time do you waste chasing things you’d be better off without? How much treasure do you give up to acquire and maintain what you don’t need, what you don’t even want?

  You have true, consequential needs and authentic desires. Take care to focus your efforts on those.

  You live in a world with an unimaginable number of things to own, to experience, to consume. Meet that enormity of possibility with a sober responsibility.

  Everything you have that you don’t need takes time, space, money and focus away from what truly matters to you. You owe it to yourself to make more room in your life for real joy, purpose, and fulfillment.

  Don’t let yourself, or anyone else, convince you to need what is needless or to want what is meaningless. There is too much beauty and significance in life to settle for anything less.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Thu, Jan 16 2020 12:27 PM

  Thursday, January 16, 2020

  Trouble into treasure

  What would happen if you could be thankful for what you usually complain about? Think of the power in that.

  Transformation doesn’t happen just because you want it to. Transformation requires you to think different, to act different than you’ve been acting.

  Are you perpetuating a pattern of negative thoughts and undesirable results in some area of your life? Gratitude smashes through that pattern, and positions you to rebuild it in a more beneficial way.

  Can you really express your thanks for those things that aggravate you? Yes, you can, and by doing so you transform aggravation into admiration, frustration into enthusiasm.

  Do you really want to keep complaining about what’s wrong, or would you rather work on making it right? Gratitude harnesses what was negative energy and enables you to put it to positive use.

  Choose to be thankful. And watch yourself transform trouble into treasure.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Fri, Jan 17 2020 12:39 PM

  Friday, January 17, 2020

  Amen to this one!

  Misunderstood

  Often you will not be fully understood. Don’t let that stop you from doing the useful things you can do.

  No one will ever understand you as completely as you would like to be understood. Yet even when you’re a little misunderstood, or a lot, you can do plenty of good.

  It’s great to work with people who understand you well. It’s also possible, though, to make progress with those who misunderstand you to varying degrees.

  Be clear with yourself about your standards, set them high, and live up to them. Rather than feeling you must explain those standards, let your valuable results be sufficient explanation.

  Seek to understand, to be understood, and step forward with confidence in your purpose. Never let your creativity or ambition be stifled by the fear of being misunderstood.

  Do your best, and let others do with it what they will. Give your best, and let others make of it what they make of it.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• TopShelf2010 10,935 Posts

  Sat, Jan 18 2020 4:26 AM

  Ladychipper:

  Friday, January 17, 2020

  Amen to this one!

  Misunderstood

  Often you will not be fully understood. Don’t let that stop you from doing the useful things you can do.

  No one will ever understand you as completely as you would like to be understood. Yet even when you’re a little misunderstood, or a lot, you can do plenty of good.

  It’s great to work with people who understand you well. It’s also possible, though, to make progress with those who misunderstand you to varying degrees.

  Be clear with yourself about your standards, set them high, and live up to them. Rather than feeling you must explain those standards, let your valuable results be sufficient explanation.

  Seek to understand, to be understood, and step forward with confidence in your purpose. Never let your creativity or ambition be stifled by the fear of being misunderstood.

  Do your best, and let others do with it what they will. Give your best, and let others make of it what they make of it.

   

  — Ralph Marston

  Outstanding.

   

  Don

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Sat, Jan 18 2020 11:23 AM

  Saturday, January 18, 2020

  Let life be as life is

  Seek to know, and seek also to accept the limits of your knowledge. Work to make a difference, and make peace with the reality that you cannot change everything.

  Let life be as life is, and allow yourself to be as you are. Make good use of nature, including your own nature, without fighting against it.

  Learn all you can, and grow in appreciation for the fact that you can never learn all there is. Feel your strength as you put it into action, and know the even greater strength of letting things be.

  When you are bitten by the sensation of need, see if you can let it gently dissolve into nothing. Open yourself ever more fully to the abundance that has always been.

  Relinquish any restrictions or conditions you may have imposed on joy. Surrender yourself to the beauty of each moment, each place, every experience you inhabit.

  The wind blows, the snow falls, the sun shines, and the richness unfolds in every direction. Let it all be, and live it all well.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• TopShelf2010 10,935 Posts

  Mon, Jan 20 2020 7:23 AM

  Just a simple thank you as always for providing these wonderful words

   

  Don

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Mon, Jan 20 2020 7:31 AM

  Hi Don,

  You are most welcome! 

  I often wonder how many people do read this daily, but if it helps just one person it is worth doing. 

  Blessings,

  Marion :-)