Daily Motivator - November

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November 1

Let life catch up

Let life catch up to you. Don’t get so ensnared in chasing what seems important that you forget what’s truly important.

Enjoy not just the times when you’ve racked up an impressive achievement. Enjoy every moment along the way.

Allow the way things are right now, to be enough for right now. There is much you can do to make life better, yet already there is much in life that is good.

Balance your ambition for what can be with your gratitude and appreciation for what is. After all, if you can never be satisfied with what you have, there’s no gain in getting more.

Perhaps the longing you feel is not really a longing to acquire more. Perhaps it is a longing to more fully appreciate all that is already yours.

By all means, move forward, work, achieve, make a difference, create value. As you do, give life, and purpose, satisfaction, and fulfillment, the chance to keep pace.

— Ralph Marston

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November 2

Feel joy

Give yourself a break. Have a little fun.

Even if you don’t think you deserve it, do something nice for yourself. Even if there’s nothing to smile about, smile, and mean it.

Enjoy the day, enjoy being you, enjoy what you love, just because you can. Sink deeply into the beauty of the moment, and linger.

Feel good, hopeful, enthusiastic about the future. Enjoy being thankful about where you’ve been, what you’ve done, and the strength you’ve acquired.

Take a deep breath, and in that breath experience the wonder of being alive. Think a positive thought, and realize how amazing it is that you can do so.

The time to feel joy is always now. Let real joy fill your experience, and let all of life benefit from that joy.

— Ralph Marston

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November 3

Starting point

Make this moment a starting point for action. Make this day a starting point for new joy.

Don’t get stuck in the failures or successes of the past. Start fresh right now, and engage your best thoughts and efforts to create a great future.

Whatever mistakes you’ve made, you can now correct. All the skills you’ve developed, all the lessons you’ve learned, you can now put to good use in new and purposeful ways.

The part of your life that you can control, begins right now. Seize this shiny new opportunity and make the most of it.

This is your starting point for achievement, adventure, love, enlightenment and more. This is your starting point for living your life in the best ways you can imagine.

Feel the energy of all the new possibilities that have just been born. Now, from this great new starting point, jump forward and make those possibilities real.

— Ralph Marston

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November 4

Your own unique success

Your experience of life today is worth more than a half-hearted effort. Give it a rock-solid commitment to a meaningful purpose.

You owe yourself more than just doing what is comfortable and convenient. You deserve the rewards that come from doing what must be done to achieve your goals.

This is not the time to let yourself settle for less than your best. This is your moment to take full advantage of the highest possibilities life offers.

Stop wishing for some vague, loosely-imagined lucky break. Push yourself to take specific actions that will result in well-defined, highly desired achievements.

Don’t waste another moment waiting for things to get better. Go ahead, right now, make the most of whatever you have, and act within the situation as it is.

Every success you enjoy will happen when there is a decision, an effort, a commitment to make it happen. Step forward, today, and do what you must do to bring your own unique success to life.

— Ralph Marston

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November 5

Start sooner

When you’re unsure of what you’re doing, hurrying through it does not improve your outcome. When you don’t know where it is you must go, going quickly will not get you there.

If you think dashing around makes you look important, you’re mistaken. It shouts to the world of confusion, disorganization, aimlessness and insecurity.

Here’s a strategy far superior to hurrying. Start sooner.

Start sooner, and give yourself the luxury of being calm, focused, highly effective, and more pleasant to be around. Start sooner, and leverage your time instead of rushing to squeeze your efforts into it.

Work, play, and live at a pace that enables life’s richness to come to full fruition. Get the very most out of your time by beginning to make good use of it the instant it arrives.

Even if you’ve been late all your life, you can begin right away to start sooner. Start sooner, for a new moment, laden with brilliant possibilities, has just been added to your life.

— Ralph Marston

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November 6

The work in front of you

The task seems daunting. But take the first step and it will be much less so.

The challenge feels insurmountable. Begin to rise to that challenge, and you’ll quickly know you can work through it.

Don’t let yourself become overwhelmed by the intimidating concept of the work in front of you. Instead, become empowered and encouraged by the details of everything you can do right now.

Realize that every moment is an opportunity to make a little more progress. And those moments just keep on coming.

You’ve undertaken many actions in the past and you can complete another task right now. You’re skilled at making a difference and that’s precisely what you can do in this situation.

The work in front of you is filled with possibilities for achievement. Moment by moment, task by task, seize those possibilities, and bring the achievement to life.

— Ralph Marston

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November 7

Put structure to positive use

Structures can be confining. They can also be supportive, and even liberating.

If your life has no structure, you have very few limits on what you can do. Yet you lack any kind of reliable foundation from which to act.

Language, for example, is highly structured. To successfully use language, you have to learn a lot of rules, and acquire an extensive vocabulary.

That’s very demanding. However, within the demanding structure is the opportunity for rich, meaningful communication with others.

Perhaps you feel you are being held back by certain physical, social, or professional structures. But maybe you’re choosing to see just the limitations, and not the opportunities.

A powerful structure can work against you or in your favor, depending on the perspective you choose. See if you can put the structures in your life to positive use, and align their power with your best interests.

— Ralph Marston

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November 8

Care deeply

Can you care deeply? Can you, at the same time, not care at all?

Care deeply about your purpose, your efforts, your values. Care not at all about what’s beyond your ability to influence.

Care deeply about the moment, its beauty, its possibilities, its challenges, about doing what’s right. Care not at all about what others think of what you’re doing.

Feel the power of stillness within you. Engage that power to make yourself a positive presence in life.

Always, life swirls around you. Give love, attention, effort and care to life, without getting too distracted by all the swirling.

Care deeply about what matters, about what you can do. Let all the rest take care of itself.

— Ralph Marston

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November 9

Love endures

Love is not just a momentary good feeling. Love persists, perseveres, endures.

Love gives, and then gives more, and keeps on giving. Love gains its nourishment by giving its nourishment.

Love is not satisfied just to be. Love is eager to grow, to deepen, to find new expression, to offer new value.

Love generates energy and enthusiasm, patience, kindness, understanding and connection. Love eagerly seeks to be the source of new goodness in life.

Love challenges you to live at your highest level. Love connects you with the power and purpose to do so.

Give energy, attention and presence to love. And let love enhance all you do.

— Ralph Marston

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November 10

Every moment a miracle

Every moment is a miracle. Embrace the beauty, and live the value.

Photons of golden light cross millions of miles of empty space to fall upon your skin and give you warmth. There is no better place to be than here.

Even the most ordinary day is an astounding experience. Because you are here to dive into its endless possibilities.

Look around right now with your awareness drenched in gratitude. Consider the full extent of your good fortune.

In this small moment exists everything that is. And you are able to experience it, learn from it, create with it, explore it, share it, and live unique joys within it.

A cool breeze stirs the air and thunder rumbles in the distance. All the richness you can ever imagine is yours to live right now.

— Ralph Marston

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November 11

Back up to speed

Don’t despair that you’ve been knocked off track. Just resume what you were doing.

You had some good momentum, and then it was disrupted. That’s okay, because now you will get it back.

This is no time for blame or regret. This is your time to get back in focus, to get back on task.

This is your opportunity to get back in the zone of maximum effectiveness. This is when you can build even more momentum than you had before.

All is not lost, not by a long shot. All is ready and eager for you to get quickly back up to speed.

Realize that you can laugh at the disruption, and then be done with it. Know that your momentum and your good work are right here, ready for you to reclaim and exceed.

— Ralph Marston

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November 12

Let it go, let it be

Maybe it’s okay when you don’t get your way. Maybe you can live with not having everything you want the moment you want it.

In fact, perhaps that’s a good thing. Perhaps your life would benefit greatly if you could take a step back from yourself and your desires.

Life becomes exhausting when it’s all the time all about you. How sweet it can be to connect with the beauty, the wonder, the mystery of not knowing, the power of detachment.

Your purpose, your goals, your objectives are important. Yet that’s no reason to wind yourself to the breaking point with anxiety.

You’re skilled at evaluating what happens and responding effectively to it, and that’s good. Just keep in mind that you also have the option to let it go, to let it be.

Live your life, live it well, with purpose, with dreams, with achievement. And magnify the value of all you do by being able, and willing, to let it go, to let it be.

— Ralph Marston

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Let It Be, let it Be, O let Be, let it Be, Whispers words wisdom let it be:D

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November 13

People with a positive purpose

There’s something about people with a positive purpose. You can see it in their eyes.

There’s a certain energy that radiates from people with a positive purpose. It’s compelling, it’s contagious, and filled with the highest expectations.

Get around people with a positive purpose, and you won’t be able to resist. Soon enough, you’ll have that purpose too.

People with a positive purpose find a way. People with a positive purpose figure out how.

People with a positive purpose see what’s possible. People with a positive purpose make it happen.

Doesn’t it feel great to be among all the people with a positive purpose, following that purpose with everything you have? You’re precisely where you were always meant to be.

— Ralph Marston

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November 14

Source of good feeling

What would it take to get you feeling good about your current situation? The answer is, your own choice.

You can wait and hope and fight and beg for external validation. But the truth is, you can feel good without any outside reason.

You can feel good because that’s the way you choose to feel. You can see the hope, the possibilities, the positive aspects of this moment just by deciding to do so.

Do you find yourself longing for something to feel good about? Then go ahead and feel good about right now.

Feel good about the fact that you treasure and desire goodness in life. Feel good about your ability to choose a positive perspective any time you wish.

Be the source of good feeling for yourself, and for others as well. See the goodness, live the goodness, and share the goodness that flows from your own desire to make it so.

— Ralph Marston

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November 15

Ask why

The world seems very complex, but you have no idea. No one can fully grasp the immense complexity of existence.

We know life is complex, yet it is far more complex than we are able to imagine. Every tiny decision causes a cascade of results that interact with results from every other decision.

Behind what is obvious, are layers upon layers of factors that are not so obvious. Supporting every reason is another deeper reason, and another, and another.

In such a complex realm, you can always gain benefit by seeking to answer a simple question. That question is, why?

Work to know why, and you will discover hidden, valuable possibilities. Ask why, and you will uncover powerful connections.

Life is endlessly complex, and in that complexity you can find great richness. With curiosity, with determination, with purpose, with gratitude, ask why.

— Ralph Marston

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November 16

What you want

Life won’t go your way just because you want it to. Good things won’t fall into place just because you think you deserve them.

What will move life in your preferred direction are all the choices you make. What will cause events to break in your favor are your preparation, commitment, focus, perseverance.

It’s not about what you wish for, hope for, or consider yourself entitled to receive. It’s about what you do in every small moment.

You may have plenty of opportunities, or just a few. You may have access to vast resources, or hardly any at all.

What matters is what you do with what you have. What matters is the way you choose to make use of your time.

Life doesn’t much care about what you want, unless you care enough to do something about it. Each day, act to honor and fulfill your great potential, and build the life you want.

— Ralph Marston

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November 17

Value in the living

The value of life is in the living of it. And the living of life is now.

Happiness is not found in some imagined perfect someday. Happiness is ready for you to make it happen, to enjoy and experience it now.

It’s great to have dreams, goals, ambitions, and to work steadily toward them. Yet while you do, remember to enjoy the quiet, beautiful treasures in each ordinary moment.

Let go of any judgments and conditions you’ve placed on joy, and simply allow joy to flow, right now, right here. Every day, every person, every activity, every conversation has value to add to your life.

Don’t put off the living of your life just because conditions are not perfect. Go ahead and experience fully this day’s portion of the amazing journey you’re on.

Fill your heart with gratitude, and open your awareness to the best possibilities. Life is experienced in the living of it, and now is here for you to live.

— Ralph Marston

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November 18

Build on your beliefs

Out of the field of all possibilities, only certain ones are possible for you to accomplish. They’re the ones you believe are possible for you.

Just because you believe something, doesn’t make it objectively possible. Yet if it is indeed possible, your belief makes it possible for you.

Your beliefs enable you to claim your best possibilities. Your beliefs push you, prod you, encourage you and direct you to lead your best life.

You’ve come to believe many truths about yourself, about your skills, your strengths, your shortcomings. Imagine what would happen if you could raise those beliefs a little higher.

Your beliefs have served you well. Now, consider pushing those beliefs beyond where they are, to where they can serve you even better.

Build on your beliefs. And open yourself to a whole new level of positive possibilities.

— Ralph Marston

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November 19

Resist temptation

You’re skilled at resisting temptation. Keep up the good work.

You understand the importance of avoiding negative behavior. You’ve paid the price of regret too many times, and you’re not eager to do it again.

So the next time temptation arrives with its powerful enticements, you know what to do. Decide to be even more powerful.

Let your own commitment to doing what is right overpower the temptation to fall into what is wrong. Remind yourself how stubborn you can be, and utilize that stubbornness in your favor.

You can’t always avoid encounters with temptation. Yet you can always avoid giving in to it.

Feel the goodness of your own positive power, of your own will, of your own disciplined choice. And enjoy how much better that feels than giving in to any temptation.

— Ralph Marston

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November 20

Joy in the doing

Joyfully do what must be done. Engage your mind, body, spirit, time, and resources in beneficial, rewarding activity.

It’s cold, windy, and dark out there, and your bed feels so warm, so comfortable. Get up, take a deep breath, feel the energy of your life, and put that energy to use.

Step forward, toward the challenge, into the effort. Marvel at the fresh new opportunity to make a difference, and then do it.

This day will soon be over and when it is, here’s how you’ll feel. You’ll feel a thousand times better that you did something with it rather than wasting it.

In the meantime, now is not the time for complaints, excuses, procrastination, or distraction. Now is your time for action, your time to live at your highest level of competence and effectiveness.

Now is your time to discover new joy in the doing of what matters, of what makes a difference. Now, get going and get it done.

— Ralph Marston

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November 21

Keep at it

You won’t always get it right on the first attempt, or the fourth, or the fifth. But that’s no reason to give up.

Re-affirm your commitment, and keep at it. Learn from what didn’t work, and transform that knowledge into a strategy that does work.

Achievement is not easy, not necessarily simple, not always straightforward. Yet you can keep at it, and you can figure it out.

If it’s important to you, then it’s worth your effort, and your persistence. Keep at it, and draw upon the strength, the wisdom, the skills you’ve spent your life building.

The easy problems were solved a long time ago. You’re fortunate to be faced with the more stubborn challenges that lead to the most valuable rewards.

This is your great opportunity to keep at it. Your best work is ready to be done, and your highest success waiting to be claimed.

— Ralph Marston

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November 22

Your powerful thoughts

There are so many places you can go in your mind. Go somewhere positive and empowering.

You can explore any trail of thoughts you wish to think. Make those thoughts inspiring, uplifting, encouraging.

You’re thinking about one thing or another all the time. Put those many thoughts to good use.

Your thoughts have much to do with the things you notice, how you feel, and what you do with each valuable moment. Choose thoughts that serve you, and your world, best.

Whatever you dwell on in your thoughts is what takes center stage in your awareness. With every thought, you have the opportunity to send your life in a more positive, fulfilling direction.

Your thoughts have great influence, and what you think is up to you. Choose with care, with purpose, with love.

— Ralph Marston

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November 23

When something annoys you

Becoming annoyed helps you identify changes and improvements you can make. Staying annoyed, however, doesn’t do you any good.

When you feel annoyed, notice what your annoyance is telling you, and consider what you can do about it. Then, let the annoyance go.

Continuing to be annoyed just drains your energy and contaminates your attitude. Don’t do it.

Instead, just smile to yourself, and feel the power of your own choice. Then choose to move your thoughts on past whatever triggered your annoyance.

You have higher thoughts to think, better ways to feel, more useful things to do. You never have to let some little imperfection ruin any more of your precious time.

Plenty of things can be annoying. And you can quickly move far beyond every one of them.

— Ralph Marston

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November 24

What you can gain

Whatever challenges your skills, improves those skills. Whatever challenges your beliefs, can make those beliefs even more compelling, persuasive, and rewarding.

Certainly challenges are difficult to go through. However, challenges are great to have gone through.

When a challenge comes your way, take a moment to look at it from the other side. Imagine looking back on it and seeing all you’ve gained by working through it.

The bigger and more imposing the challenge appears when it arrives, the more value you’ll have gained when it is behind you. And that experience will prepare you to conquer even bigger challenges, and to enjoy even greater rewards.

Challenges have always brought out the best in you, and will continue to do so. It’s not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is.

Choose to give your best to the challenges. And what you gain in return will be even better.

— Ralph Marston

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November 25

Being here now

This moment is what you have. Live it, and all it is, here and now.

This task, this activity, is what you’re doing. Focus on it, without being distracted by thoughts of other things you might be doing.

Free yourself from your own resentments, wishes, judgments, worries, and doubts. Give the whole of your self and your awareness to the experience of being here now.

Exercise the power that exists in you, in this time, in this situation. Allow yourself to be enough, to have enough, to be fully at peace with all that is.

There is nothing you need in order to be you, nothing you need in order to be here now. Realize how free you are, right now, to give, to achieve, to love and live without condition.

Nothing can take now away. With confidence, pure focus and gratitude, be here now, and live it well.

— Ralph Marston

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November 26

Positive spirit

Don’t waste your energy on anger. Focus that energy into effective action.

Don’t weigh yourself down with resentment. Activate your enthusiasm with meaningful work.

The way you feel doesn’t have to compromise your activities. Instead, make it so that your actions improve and uplift the way you feel.

Imagine how your breathing, posture, and actions would be if you felt better than you’ve ever felt. Then mimic all you’ve imagined, and see how great you feel.

You never have to be held hostage by negativity. You can liberate your positive spirit with positive action.

What you do makes all the difference in how you feel. Feel good now by doing good, useful, energetic things now.

— Ralph Marston

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November 27

Life goes right

Occasionally, things go wrong. Yet an overwhelming profusion of things go right, each and every moment.

Every leaf on every tree bears witness to the fact that life goes right, over and over again. Every cell in your body, precisely situated, enables you to do all you do.

You’re able to notice the disorder only because the underlying order is so ubiquitous. What makes a problem a problem is because it is so rare.

When the problems do come, gain great power over them by putting them in perspective. Draw upon the vast accumulation of goodness in your life.

When things go wrong, open yourself to the power of all that continues to go right. Boost your confidence, raise your expectations, engage your energy, and push forward.

You’ve persisted through every difficulty you’ve ever encountered. Much more often than not, life goes right, and there’s a way through this difficulty too.

— Ralph Marston

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November 28

How can you be thankful?

How can you be thankful? That’s a great question.

It’s easy to be thankful for the uplifting, enjoyable, and satisfying aspects of your life. Yet there’s great power in also being thankful for the troublesome parts of life.

Gratitude connects you to life’s abundance, and illuminates possibilities. Some of your most valuable possibilities are hidden in the difficulties.

So, ask yourself. How can I be thankful for this?

In your effort to reach an answer, you’ll deepen your understanding of the situation. You’ll discover ways to transform the problem into new strength and value.

How can you be thankful? By knowing that in gratitude and humility, you’ll find new pathways to richness and fulfillment.

— Ralph Marston

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

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November 29

Let life amaze you

The world is full of wonder today. Open yourself to it, experience it, share it and expand upon it.

Life is filled with opportunity right now. See it, be inspired by it, and make something of it.

You are surrounded by possibilities, right where you are. Notice those possibilities and bring them to fruition.

In what’s obvious, in what’s subtle, in the smallest details, in the widest panorama, live the bounty of life. Before you strive and struggle to get more, realize the great extent of what’s right in front of you.

Let life amaze you. Let that amazement deepen your commitment to live with goodness, generosity, and excellence.

See the beauty, feel the wonder. And live the amazing experience that is your life in this moment.

— Ralph Marston

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Yesterday was Thanksgiving, let's keep the Thanksgiving momentum going as we approach this joyous Christmas season. Thank you Lord for all you provide in every way and everyday. Amen.

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November 30

The adventure begins

What you’ve worked toward your whole life, you’ve now attained. Certainly it’s not exactly the way you imagined, but that just makes it even better.

Your most authentic priorities have brought you to this moment, to this situation. You’ve successfully created a unique and valuable set of experiences.

Perhaps you’re thrilled about how it has gone and what you’ve done. Or maybe you’re disappointed about some of it, or much of it.

Either way, now is your time to put it all to a newer, higher, more enlightened use. Here you are, with the wisdom and experience to live more richly than ever.

Consider all the opportunities you’ve had, and smile to yourself. Because no matter how they all turned out, now you are greeted with an even better opportunity.

Now is your chance to move forward, with understanding, with purpose, with love. Now the adventure begins, and here you are, ready to give it everything you have.

— Ralph Marston