Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Sat, Mar 11 2023 8:23 AM

  Saturday, March 11, 2023

  Hopes and expectations

  Give your world the energy of hope. Give your life the benefit of positive expectations.

  Your hopes and expectations alone will not cause anything to happen. What they will do is encourage you, inspire you, and push you to create value, to promote goodness.

  Be hopeful, expect the best. Then act on your hopes, put your time, efforts, and resources behind your expectations.

  Give yourself a detailed vision of the best place life can go. Then get yourself up and get going in that direction.

  What exactly can you dare to hope for today? Let that hope take hold, envision what will get you there, and act on your vision.

  Don’t let the moments pass by with nothing in them. Each one provides a new opportunity to work toward fulfilling your best hopes and expectations.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Mar 13 2023 11:59 AM

  Monday, March 13, 2023

  This is your day

  Life happens today. Whether you’re prepared for it or not, this day is here for you to live.

  A time will come when you’ll realize the value of what you have right now. The sooner that realization comes, the better.

  This is probably not what you would envision as your ideal day. Yet this is the day you have, the only one you can currently work with.

  You could wish for and wait for a better situation. Or you could go ahead and make good use of the situation as it is.

  What you have today is the opportunity to make progress. That opportunity does not depend on what has already happened, but rather on what you do about it now.

  This is your day to live, to act, to learn, to experience. Do so now, as fully and richly as you are able.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Mar 14 2023 11:06 AM

  Tuesday, March 14, 2023

  Habit of discipline

  You can make a difference. You can do it with discipline.

  In the short term you’re able to endure actions or situations that are less than desirable for the purpose of creating highly desirable gains in the long term. That’s discipline, and it can be leveraged to an almost infinite degree.

  Whatever you seek to achieve, create, or experience, discipline can get you there. The real, enduring power of discipline comes when you make it into a habit.

  Once you do that, what originally seemed like a big, burdensome sacrifice becomes an expected part of your life, and not so bad after all. As you experience more and more benefits from your habit of discipline, that further motivates you to continue it.

  There’s some small sacrifice you can make today, tomorrow, the next day and the next, that will eventually lead to big rewards. In this way, you can choose again and again to invest in your future.

  What areas of your life could benefit from the power of discipline? You have what it takes to make that happen.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Mar 15 2023 11:14 AM

  Wednesday, March 15, 2023

  Resilience

  Falling down is not pleasant. It does, however, teach you how to get back up.

  That’s an essential skill to have. After all, you can’t avoid all life’s misfortunes but you can position yourself to handle them with resilience.

  There’s the potential for setbacks in every ambitious course of action. But those setbacks don’t have to be permanent catastrophes.

  A well-developed resilience gives you the confidence to take on well-calculated risks. That gives you access to some of life’s most fulfilling rewards.

  It’s important to keep safety in mind when you venture forth. But if you go to extremes to avoid all bad experiences you’ll also end up missing the good experiences.

  Instead, take the knocks, the falls, the failures in stride. The more quickly and confidently you get back up, the more of life’s richness you’ll be able to know.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Mar 16 2023 7:33 AM

  Thursday, March 16, 2023

  Take notice

  Notice what works and do more of it. Notice what doesn’t and ask yourself why.

  Notice what changes and think of how to adapt. Notice what doesn’t and learn the value of being reliable.

  Notice how problems can be filled with opportunity. Notice how the challenges help you to grow.

  Notice how truth always comes to the surface. Notice as kindness improves any situation.

  Notice beauty that increases the more you look. Notice there’s always something you never noticed before.

  Take notice of what’s here, of what could be, of what matters, of what you can do to add value to it all. Notice life in all its expressions, and do your best to live it well.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Mar 17 2023 8:47 AM

  Friday, March 17, 2023

  Being more patient

  Patience costs nothing yet it can change everything. Patience will add power throughout your life.

  You gain nothing when you seek to jump ahead of the moment. Instead, give your activities and experiences the time and attention they deserve.

  Patience lets you see things you would have otherwise missed. Patience enables you to communicate clearly, accurately, in rich detail.

  Patience strengthens relationships. Patience leads you toward wisdom and deep understanding.

  Rather than merely skimming the surface, with patience you can experience great richness in the full story. Calm anxiety, increase intention and reduce carelessness, with patience.

  Remind yourself often that you can be more patient. There’s much to be gained when you do.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Sat, Mar 18 2023 8:53 AM

  Saturday, March 18, 2023

  Activate your power

  There are plenty of powerful outside forces that affect your life. But that doesn’t mean you are powerless.

  You have the power to select your thoughts. You have the power to translate those thoughts into effective action.

  You have the power to choose your attitude. You have the power to direct your attention toward what is important and away from what isn’t.

  What does it take to engage the full force of your own considerable power, and to keep it up? It’s a matter of pointing yourself toward a meaningful enough purpose.

  Admit to yourself who and what you truly love. Build an understanding of the things you care so much about that you’re unwilling to compromise them in any way.

  Based on authentic purpose, set your intentions. And activate your power to bring those intentions to life.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Mar 20 2023 8:19 AM

  Monday, March 20, 2023

  Nexus of life and beauty

  Where and in what way can you create beauty today? Pick one corner of life and make it beautiful.

  There is no limit to what beauty consists of. A well-organized shelf, a restored photograph, a heartfelt letter to a friend, all can be beautiful.

  Beauty can exist in anything, but the essential test of the beauty you create is this. Are you putting time, effort, focus, and something of yourself into it?

  If so, then you are creating beauty. Because you’re extending your own unique beauty outward.

  Other people may like it or not, understand it and agree with its expression or not. Nonetheless, the beauty you honestly create has value because of your work to bring it into being.

  Beauty is meaningless without life and life is terribly dreary without beauty. Seek to be a nexus of life and beauty, giving new value, and positive purpose, to both.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Mar 21 2023 10:34 AM

  Tuesday, March 21, 2023

  Embrace reality

  Events don’t always unfold the way you expect. But just because you didn’t expect to be in a particular situation does not make that situation any less compelling.

  Life will not always bend to your desires. Yet just because you don’t like what’s happened is not a reason to deny that it happened.

  The way forward begins with and depends upon acceptance. Live right now according to the actual reality of right now.

  Waiting for things to get back in line with your desires and expectations is a waste of precious time. This is your day to live, and you owe it to yourself to extract maximum benefit from every moment.

  Rather than lament what you could have done if life had been different, focus in on what you now can do. Respond to disappointment with the transformative power of your own actions.

  Acknowledge, accept, and embrace reality. That will illuminate a whole new set of opportunities for progress and fulfillment.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Mar 22 2023 12:06 PM

  Wednesday, March 22, 2023

  Decide exactly

  Give yourself a specific, meaningful task. Give yourself a compelling reason to put forth effort and a readily accessible object for that effort.

  Good intentions that are vague have no value, no ability to get you moving. Make your intentions clear, detailed, and relevant to your immediate situation.

  When you know exactly what to do there’s an excellent chance you’ll do it. Capitalize on the fact that you’re goal-oriented by nature, and provide yourself with a precise goal.

  Give sufficient thought to your choice of intention, but don’t get lost in that thought. Once you’ve identified an appropriate course of action, begin to take that action.

  If for some reason your intention isn’t the best idea, by putting it into action you’ll find out soon enough. When, on the other hand, it is a good idea, you’ll be well on your way to making it happen.

  You’re skilled at making a difference, so put that skill to use. Decide exactly what to achieve, and give yourself the great experience of getting it done.

   

  — Ralph Marston