Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2024 8:43 AM

  Tuesday, February 6, 2024

  Wave of achievement

  You can do this. Breathe, focus, direct your attention to the task at hand.

  Make it your intention to quiet the off-topic chattering of your mind. Consider the value that will come from getting good work done.

  Now, take inventory of all the skills, knowledge, resources, connections and energy available to you. You’ve created excellent results before and here you are, doing it again.

  This is your chance to be a humble yet beneficial force in the lives around you. Recognize the profound gratitude you feel to have that opportunity.

  Continue making your way forward. Let your commitment to purpose push you quickly through any possible distractions or interruptions.

  Ride the rewarding wave of achievement all the way to its completion. You can do this, you are doing this, and indeed you’ll get it done.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Feb 7 2024 12:16 PM

  Wednesday, February 7, 2024

  Live it now

  Fill today with living. That’s what it’s for.

  As each moment passes, bring into being some fresh new richness. There’s no shortage of possibilities for doing so.

  What have you always wanted to learn? What experiences, achievements, observations, and joys would best fill the hours of this day?

  Before you dare to wish for more opportunities, make use of the ones you already have. Instead of putting off fulfillment until some later date, go ahead and live it now.

  You’ll always have the excuses, but you only have one shot at living this day. So step beyond those excuses and live today as fully as you can imagine.

  Life is yours, and it’s a great thing to have. Live it now.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Feb 8 2024 9:08 AM

  Thursday, February 8, 2024

  It comes back

  You gain more by giving than you do by demanding. Whatever you need or want or otherwise seek, find ways to offer.

  If you wish to learn, a powerful way is to teach. To be better understood, do the work and spend the time to understand.

  Life, and the people who live it, reflect your attitude back to you, often with remarkable fidelity. Those around you regularly pick up on and mimic your priorities, your actions and expressions.

  You can’t compel anyone to treat you better. Yet you can choose precisely how you interact with everyone else, and that has a big impact.

  You have much more power than you may realize. That power is best exercised not through complaints and demands, but with the contributions you make and the genuine favors you offer.

  Listen patiently, care sincerely, engage respectfully, speak and act honestly. Because one way or another, it comes back to you.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Feb 9 2024 12:02 PM

  Friday, February 9, 2024

  Deeper perspective

  The problems and disturbances are all near the surface. Go deep, and you’ll find your way beyond them.

  The tumult and confusion can be overwhelming if you keep yourself in the middle of it. Take a step back, and give yourself some perspective.

  When you become completely wrapped up in the comings and goings of your outer life, it can quickly wear you down. Connect often to your inner purpose, and let it revitalize you.

  There is nothing to be gained by running away or hiding from your troubles. Yet there is everything to be gained by detaching yourself from them.

  You are more than whatever is troubling you. Give yourself some distance and give yourself the opportunity to successfully address the causes of your problems, not just the symptoms.

  Your difficulties do not define you, yet they do give you an opportunity to move powerfully forward. Go deep, to your most treasured purpose, and the storms on the surface cannot stop you.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Feb 12 2024 8:22 AM

  Monday, February 12, 2024

  It can wait

  You’d like to do it all at once. But that’s just not possible.

  Focus your awareness and energy on the single best choice for now. Intentionally set aside other matters until you can give each one the time and attention it deserves.

  Occasionally you’ll encounter a genuine emergency, a situation you must address immediately. But for anything else, you’ll benefit by reminding yourself it can wait until you’re done with what’s at hand.

  Your eagerness to get started is great, and your concern about waiting too long is well founded. Yet you must work within the reality that there’s only so much you can do at once.

  Certainly you don’t want to put off any important task indefinitely. However, it doesn’t accomplish anything to get too far ahead of yourself.

  Fully enjoy what you enjoy, and deal effectively with what must be handled. Instead of failing to do everything at once, succeed by giving to each experience the time required to live it well.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2024 9:05 AM

  Tuesday, February 13, 2024

  Ordinary wonder

  Experience and enjoy the ordinary wonder that is all around you. Marvel at the enchantment that exists within a single beam of sunlight.

  Stop, open yourself, and give life the chance to amaze you. It always will.

  Slow down and examine the endless implications behind some of those things you normally rush right on past. Discover the extraordinary depth and richness that stretch out in every direction.

  Everything you know gives you the opportunity to know more. There is no end to what you can explore.

  As useful as your knowledge and models and assumptions may be, they are all based on partial information. You can always experience anew, always learn more, and thereby vastly improve the quality of your life and your world.

  Great treasures forever remain in the ordinary wonder that constantly surrounds you. Find a few and share them today.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Wed, Feb 14 2024 12:41 PM

  Wednesday, February 14, 2024

  Dedication to truth

  Speak up, and speak the truth. Be honest, and give others the opportunity to be honest with you.

  Make no apologies for recognizing and acknowledging what is true, what is real. Your dedication to truth not only improves your own life, but is ultimately beneficial to everyone.

  It can be convenient in the short term to pretend that what’s obvious is not really there. But all that does is create more problems down the road.

  The sooner you get the truth out in the open, the better. The longer you wait to deal with a painful truth, the more painful it will be.

  Being truthful is an act of love, of confidence, of trust and understanding and kindness. Even when truth hurts, it helps.

  Speak and act and live on the side of what is real. As challenging as life certainly can be, it is always best when aligned with truth.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Thu, Feb 15 2024 11:18 AM

  Thursday, February 15, 2024

  Incremental progress

  You can’t learn a new language overnight. But you can learn two or three new words each day.

  You can’t jump instantly over a 300-foot hill. Yet you can walk up one side and down the other without too much trouble.

  Everything you seek to do is going to require some effort over time. When you take the necessary time, and make the appropriate effort, just about anything is possible.

  It’s not usually going to be quick or easy, maybe not particularly simple. Still, with sufficient persistence, you can work your way from where you are to where you wish to be.

  In doing so, you’re likely to face more challenges than some people would face, and probably less than others. Rather than wasting your time obsessing over the unfairness of that reality, put your energy into the achievement itself, every chance you get.

  Each moment is an opportunity for incremental progress. Make wise use of all those opportunities that continually arrive.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Fri, Feb 16 2024 8:01 AM

  Friday, February 16, 2024

  Dialing down your desire

  A certain amount of ambition is healthy and beneficial. But don’t let your ambition blind you to the value of what’s already yours.

  Yes, you can always desire more, always think of ways to improve your life, your situation, and the lives of those around you. Yet it’s also good to enjoy, appreciate, and fulfill the potential of what you already have.

  Perhaps today is not perfect, not completely ideal. Nonetheless, it is here right now, here for you to live.

  Instead of obsessing over what would make it better, you could focus on what makes it good. You could dial down your desire and simply enjoy your reality.

  Maybe you could simply let yourself be happy and content for a while. After all, you’ve put much time and effort into getting here, and you deserve a little enjoyment.

  The challenges will continue to arrive, and it’s good that you’ll continue to have plenty of ambition to deal with them. Yet it’s also good, every now and then, to give that ambition a rest, and to enjoy being the beautiful person you are.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,050 Posts

  Mon, Feb 19 2024 8:34 AM

  Monday, February 19, 2024

  What you can when you can

  You don’t have enough time to get it all done. But you always have enough time to do what you can.

  The clock is ticking. But then, it always is.

  You can fret and complain about your limited amount of time. But that will drain even more time away.

  Instead, go ahead and do just a little bit of what needs doing. And although it might only be a fraction, it’s a whole lot better than nothing.

  Then eventually you’ll have a little more time. With that time you can do a little more, and even more with the time that will surely come later.

  And you’ll discover that by doing what you can when you can, something amazing will happen. You’ll get it all done.

   

  — Ralph Marston