Daily Motivation

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Fri, Jan 3 2020 8:40 AM

  Friday, January 3, 2020

  Making time into achievement

  Intention transforms empty time into a fulfilling life. Supply yourself with intention, and you’ll provide your world with achievement.

  You are highly capable, yet mere capability doesn’t put food on the table. Intention activates your capability, with results that seem miraculous.

  Know with clarity what you are choosing to do. Harness all your energy, focus it, apply it, with intention.

  Shield yourself from meaningless distractions, with intention. Put your time, your attention, your skills to worthwhile use, with intention.

  Set an ambitious intention, and discover how very much you can accomplish. Live the day with intention, and give yourself cause to be thankful for the way you’ve made use of your time.

  Live with the power of intention. Decide what you’re going to do, and let that intention continue transforming time into achievement.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Sat, Jan 4 2020 8:51 AM

  Saturday, January 4, 2020

  You are responsible

  Yes, you are responsible. Yes, your most powerful, effective choice is to embrace that responsibility.

  Avoiding the difficult issues will only make the situation worse. Seeing yourself as a victim will only separate you from your best options.

  It’s your life, it’s your future. Take full ownership of your circumstances, of your consequences.

  Actively participate as each new moment unfolds, with purpose, integrity, care, and love. Give expression to your values, give life to your dreams, by giving your best, again and again.

  Recognize the immense value of opportunity that’s always available to you. Continue to discover the beneficial results of empowering your thoughts, your attitude, and your actions with responsibility.

  Yes, responsibility is a serious challenge, one that will impart focus, strength, wisdom, skill, achievement, and an abiding sense of purpose. Yes, you are responsible, and that’s a very good thing.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Mon, Jan 6 2020 12:08 PM

  Monday, January 6, 2020

  Begin by being thankful

  Before you dive headlong into the scramble to get more and more, step aside. Take a moment to let yourself be overwhelmed with gratitude for all you have.

  Your choices matter, all of them. And you’ll always make better choices when you come from a perspective of gratitude.

  You’ve worked your whole life to get where you are, to have what you have. Whatever that encompasses, the more you respect and appreciate it, the more you can make of it.

  There is great value in your life, and great potential value as well. Gratitude shines a bright light on all that value, enabling you to make the most of it.

  Gratitude gives you the ability to see the positive aspects of each situation. That positions you and equips you to achieve useful, beneficial results.

  Whatever the challenge, whatever the activity, whatever the ambition, gratitude makes you more genuine, more purposeful, more effective. Begin by being thankful for what is, and you’ll soon be thankful for even more.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Tue, Jan 7 2020 8:33 AM

  Tuesday, January 7, 2020

  Put joy into life

  Whatever the task may be, put joy into it. However the moment may be, put joy into it.

  Make an unpleasant situation into an enjoyable experience. Put your own joy into it.

  You don’t have to let your feelings be dictated by random, outside events. You can let your feelings be driven by your own choice.

  Select a perspective that acknowledges and celebrates the positive possibilities. Choose to put joy into it.

  When the work is difficult and demanding, put joy into it. That’s always better than complaining and making yourself miserable.

  As long as you’re going to make yourself one way or another, make yourself joyful. Put joy into life, whenever, whatever, wherever, and you’ll get great things out of it.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• DoctorLarry 4,312 Posts

  Tue, Jan 7 2020 5:51 PM

  Ladychipper:

  As long as you’re going to make yourself one way or another, make yourself joyful. Put joy into life, whenever, whatever, wherever, and you’ll get great things out of it.

   

  Thank you, Marion, for bring joy to us 6 days a week.  A nice respite in a sea of noise.

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Tue, Jan 7 2020 7:50 PM

  DoctorLarry:

  Thank you, Marion, for bring joy to us 6 days a week.  A nice respite in a sea of noise.

  You are most welcome DoctorLarry!  It is my pleasure if I can bring some happiness to you and others in here.  :-)

   

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Wed, Jan 8 2020 12:00 PM

  Wednesday, January 8, 2020

  Grab the opportunity

  Getting started late is a whole lot better than not getting started at all. Go ahead, and do it.

  Conditions are less than ideal, yet you can move forward nonetheless. Go ahead, and get going.

  You can think of a hundred perfectly valid excuses for not taking action. But those excuses will add zero value to your life, and contribute nothing positive to your world.

  Stop fighting against your own possibilities. Stop avoiding, procrastinating, and wishing things were different, and just get yourself going, right now.

  Ten minutes from now, when you’re well into the effort, you’ll realize it’s not so bad. A day or two from now, you’ll thank yourself for going ahead with it.

  Whatever the past has been, however the present may be, get yourself going. There’s a whole lot of good you can do right now, so grab the opportunity before it slips away, and do it.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Thu, Jan 9 2020 8:43 AM

  Thursday, January 9, 2020

  Fulfilling life

  Would you like to experience yourself living today at your highest level of fulfillment? Then make yourself useful.

  Even the most luxurious luxury gets tedious and boring after a short while. Don’t let yourself settle for mere opulence, overconsumption and overindulgence.

  Instead, put your skills, your knowledge, your discipline, your competence and persistence to use. Figure out what you can do to make a positive difference, and then do it.

  There are things you are passionate about, people you love, ideas you believe in. Engage that passion, that love, that belief in worthwhile endeavors.

  No matter what burdens you face, or how much or how little you have, one thing is always true. You can instantly make your life better by working to make life better for others.

  Lift yourself far above the dreary indifference that saps life out of your spirit. Make yourself useful, and enjoy the fulfilling life that you deserve to give, and to live.

   

  — Ralph Marston

• Ladychipper 23,071 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2020 8:38 AM

  Friday, January 10, 2020

  This is life

  Give time and space to your curiosity, your taste for wonder. Let all of life amaze you and enchant you.

  Allow this moment to be the way this moment is going to be. Accept its unique value and experience.

  Stand in awe of all that is. Find great hope in all that is now possible.

  Treasure the beauty of existence as it unfolds before your eyes. This is life, your life, right now, its depth, breadth, and substance incomparable.

  Forge new, uplifting connections, with love. Give your most authentic gifts, with joy.

  Another day, another moment of life comes into being. Let it be the best one yet.

   

  — Ralph Marston