Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Potential for improvement
There’s a continuing opportunity present in your life. On any day, in every situation, you have great potential for improvement.
That doesn’t mean there’s anything particularly wrong with you or the
way you live right now. It does mean you can always increase your
effectiveness and fine-tune your focus on bringing new goodness into
being.
How do you identify that potential and the specific ways to fulfill it?
Look at the world around you, and notice the problems you see.
The reason you’re able to notice an external problem is because the
problem has some degree of resonance within you. So ask yourself, what
actions, habits, and priorities can you adopt in your own life as a
positive response to that problem?
In so doing, you have the power to improve not only your own situation
but also the lives of those around you. You are putting into practice
the well-known admonition to be the change you wish to see in the world.
In a time when so many are so intent on telling others what they should
do, the most powerful, accessible way to improve the world still is to
improve yourself. Devote time and energy to fulfilling your own great
potential, and you raise life itself to a more positive place, time
after time.
— Ralph Marston