Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Apr 18 2023 8:49 AM

  Tuesday, April 18, 2023

  New territory and old routines

  You find comfort sticking with your routine. But too much of the same routine will numb your spirit and mind.

  It’s great when you can build and maintain a solid, stable structure to support your life. From that base you can add vibrance and energy by making regular forays into new territory.

  Both the reliable routines and the challenging novelties can bring you value. See your life as an intentionally mediated balance between what you can depend on and what will compel you to grow.

  Make it your choice to benefit from what you’ve never before experienced as well as from what you continue to experience. Bring treasures from home out into the world and bring treasures from the wider world back home.

  When your existence feels too predictable, shake it up with something new. When things seem overly chaotic, seek refuge in the people, places, and activities you know and love.

  Find strength in what endures and energy in what is new. Continue to enrich your life and your world with a healthy balance of both.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Apr 19 2023 8:27 AM

  Wednesday, April 19, 2023

  Acknowledge reality

  You are a participant in reality whether you acknowledge it or not. Your best option is to acknowledge it.

  In your own mind, with your words, perhaps even with your actions, you can deny reality to various degrees. But what beneficial result can that possibly achieve?

  Sure, you can envision a more favorable version of reality. Yet as desirable and compelling as that vision might be, it’s only a vision until you act to make it real.

  And current reality is the ground upon which you’re able to act. You must acknowledge the world as it is if you’re to have any possibility of transforming it into the world you want it to be.

  You can find ideas, inspiration, insight in fantasy. Nonetheless, where you live, where you can make a difference, is in reality.

  Be eager to open your eyes and see that this is your reality. Now, get to work doing beautiful, useful, life-affirming things with it.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Apr 20 2023 8:10 AM

  Thursday, April 20, 2023

  Intentional focus

  Do you seek to utilize the power of focus? Then get your priorities straight.

  To focus on one thing is to ignore all the other things. That can be costly because many of those other things have value.

  Focus involves an intentional choice. What is important enough to focus on to the exclusion of all else?

  Know specifically what you can afford to ignore for a while, and why. You’re paying a price for focus, so be sure to get sufficient value in return.

  Second-guessing your choice to focus will erode that focus. Be certain of your commitment to that choice, and give your focus power, stamina, resilience.

  Where you direct your focus is a serious and potentially life-changing choice. Choose honestly with yourself, and wisely.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Sat, Apr 22 2023 8:07 AM

  Saturday, April 22, 2023

  Fulfill the promise

  This is the day when you can live your experience. Here is the place where you will make a difference.

  Now is the moment when you transform intention into action. The spot where you stand is your place to start.

  It can be tempting to wait until later, but later never really gets here. The richness of life is always lived in the time that is, in the place you are, with the conditions you have.

  Those conditions will never be perfect. Yet they are always sufficient and accessible, ready for you to act upon.

  Invite yourself to be filled with gratitude and amazement at the extent of opportunity that’s now yours to sieze. Give yourself a little push and initiate the momentum that can be.

  Here you are with possibility all around you. Fulfill the great promise of the moment you’re in.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Apr 24 2023 7:29 AM

  Monday, April 24, 2023

  Abundance of living

  Fill the day, fill the season, fill your life with life. This moment is your opportunity to do what you haven’t already done in previous moments.

  Take that opportunity and make the most of it. Add new dimensions of richness to your experience, to your world.

  Sure, there are tasks that are important to repeat, or enjoyable and fulfilling to engage in again and again. Even so, you can always add new experiences, new challenges, new ideas, relationships and activities along the way.

  Doing so intensifies your energy level, broadens your understanding, brings freshness and zest to life. It enables you to taste a whole range of possibilities.

  You can’t say yes to everything, nor would you want to. Yet there are plenty of new directions that it’s appropriate and worthwhile for you to explore.

  Give to yourself an abundance of living. Continue to discover how full and rich life can be.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Apr 26 2023 8:17 AM

  Wednesday, April 26, 2023

  Earning your way

  You get what you pay for. You get what you work for.

  If you’re not willing or able to invest in it, you’ll eventually find yourself disappointed by it. What you can give your work, your attention, your care, time, and resources to you can have some reasonable hope of being able to depend upon.

  A free ride is not a good ride. A free lunch is not really a thing.

  That’s actually great news. Because the necessity of earning your way is among life’s best opportunities.

  By very definition, to experience a meaningful life you must fill your life with meaning. What demands the best of you is what engenders the best within you.

  In this place, using whatever constitutes this moment, with your energy, intention, and love, make value. And join in as life benefits from the fruits of your efforts.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Apr 27 2023 8:33 AM

  Thursday, April 27, 2023

  Learn from this

  Learn from this. Then act on what you learn.

  Understand what went wrong and what went right. But rather than bragging or complaining, seek to apply your insights.

  Find effective solutions to the problems you’ve identified. Work to expand and to build upon the successes you’ve enjoyed.

  You’ve paid for your experience with time, effort, and resources. Now make good and thoughtful use of that experience.

  Sweep aside any inklings of resentment, arrogance, anger, or complacence. Instead, set an ambitious goal informed by what you’ve been through, and work to make it happen.

  You promised yourself that next time you’ll do better. Now, next time is here.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Sat, Apr 29 2023 11:29 AM

  Saturday, April 29, 2023

  One day at a time

  Day after day you live your life. And day after day is when you can make progress.

  Walk a few miles one day, then again the next day, and the next. One day you’ll turn around and realize you’ve covered thousands of miles.

  You cannot do everything in life all at once. Yet you can fill each day, and the next, and the one after that.

  Very soon it begins to add up. Achievement comes one day, one step, one action, one advancement at a time.

  If you’re in a hurry, there are limits to what you can do, or have, or experience. Give it more time, though, more consistent effort, and many of those limits fall away.

  Where do you truly want to go? Life goes where you take it, one day at a time.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, May 1 2023 7:47 AM

  Monday, May 1, 2023

  Treasure of existence

  Treasure the strength you have gained in dark times. Treasure the joys you have discovered in the sunshine.

  Treasure the friends you’ve made, the loves you’ve lost, the opportunity to share life with them all. Treasure the memories of what’s been, the beauty of what is, and your possibilities for the future.

  What you treasure becomes more of a treasure. And you can find it in yourself to treasure it all.

  Even the days that are far from pleasant still have value to add to your life. Even the stories with sad endings bring richness and depth to your experience.

  Instead of striving to find things to treasure, see the treasure in whatever fills each moment. Life’s treasures are always present if you let them be.

  Here, now, the treasure of existence surrounds you. See it, appreciate it, live it, and make it even more of a treasure by doing so.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, May 2 2023 9:01 AM

  Tuesday, May 2, 2023

  Simply enjoy

  Some things you can change, some things you must accept and endure. Some things you can simply enjoy.

  Without the need to capture, to possess, to preserve or to modify, you can simply enjoy. Without having to impress yourself or anyone else, you can simply enjoy.

  Let go, and enjoy the sound of water tumbling over the rocks. Delight in the experience of children playing as they will, without being coached or coddled or scolded.

  Enjoy the moment in the moment. Enjoy not having to save it for later, confident that there will be other moments you can enjoy.

  Enjoy when everything goes as you planned and even when everything doesn’t. Enjoy being able to enjoy, whatever each day may bring.

  Joy is a powerful state to be in. Gently guide yourself there, and enjoy.

   

  — Ralph Marston