Daily Motivator - November

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November 1

Nice and polite

It’s great to be nice, to be polite. Everyone prefers to interact with other people who are polite.

Yet when you hide or even deny the truth in the interest of politeness, that’s a problem. Politeness that obscures reality is downright deception.

Sometimes reality is not particularly nice or agreeable. And avoiding it out of a desire for politeness is going to allow that difficult reality to get worse.

When possible, be pleasant and polite, because it smooths out interactions and adds genuine value to life. But when being polite prevents you from dealing with reality, choose to deal with reality.

When a few people are standing in a parking lot having a fruitful conversation, it’s rude to interrupt. But when they cannot see a speeding car headed their way, it’s foolish and irresponsible not to warn them.

Reality always wins. Be nice and polite as much as you can, while never failing to acknowledge and accommodate what is true and what is real.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

Its nice to be nice.

Happy November my
Dear friend Tammy.
Thank God for getting us though the
month of October safe and sound
one day at a time.
I pray that this month will be full of peace,
joy and Thanksgiving to you my awesome
sister In the Lord.
In Jesus Name.

[bluidkiti]

Thank you willbe. I am sick right now with a sinus infection and walking pneumonia. I am doing some better today. My hubby has walking pneumonia also. Please keep us in your prayers.

I pray the Lord will keep us all safe and that we may all have a blessed November and Thanksgiving and be surrounded by family and friends.

[bluidkiti]

November 2

Valuable experience

The past is over, but that is no reason to abandon it altogether. Though it’s foolish to attempt to live in the past, it’s just as foolish to dismiss it completely.

Every experience you’ve ever had is now part of the past. All the knowledge you possess, you learned in the past.

As such, it’s good to remember, and to remember in great detail. Because the person you were yesterday, and twenty years ago, can offer great advice and direction to the person you are today.

Your past has shown you again and again what matters most to you. It has also provided you with a detailed database of which strategies and tactics work best for making your way forward.

So your past experience can not only help you determine where to go next. It can also provide expert guidance on how to get there.

Living through the entirety of your past has given you much value that remains with you right now. Treasure all that experience, all that value, and put it to good use today.

— Ralph Marston

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November 3

The work you do

A special form of happiness it is to do a job well. You prove to yourself that you can, that you exist, that you make a difference, that you matter.

Leisure has its place and can offer certain pleasures. Yet it is work that resonates most deeply with the enduring reality of who you are.

That reality is one of great creativity and usefulness. Every effort advances you toward a future in which more value exists than in the present.

During each step along the way, work adds its positive dimensions to your experience. You start with purpose and intention, you continue with strength, and you finish with well-earned satisfaction.

As you apply focus, discipline, and persistence you gain new appreciation for what is, new confidence in what can be. You are engaged by the challenges, energized by the progress.

Throughout your existence is the ever-present magic of what’s possible. Continue to do the work that brings great possibilities to life.

— Ralph Marston

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November 4

Live with competence

There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.

Be inspired by your competence in one area to develop new competence in other areas. Look for how you can get better, then get better at getting better.

Life presents you with obstacles, unfairness, and disappointments, but also with resources and opportunities. To make the best of all that, respond with competence.

Your competence feeds upon itself. Exercise competence and grow even more competent.

Complaining, blaming, making excuses, criticizing, seeking pity, all those dig you deeper into negativity. Competence gets you out, and you have the wherewithal to use it.

Engage your abilities, your energy, your passion, wisdom and purpose. Live with competence, and lift all of life higher.

— Ralph Marston

[bluidkiti]

November 4

Live with competence

There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.

Be inspired by your competence in one area to develop new competence in other areas. Look for how you can get better, then get better at getting better.

Life presents you with obstacles, unfairness, and disappointments, but also with resources and opportunities. To make the best of all that, respond with competence.

Your competence feeds upon itself. Exercise competence and grow even more competent.

Complaining, blaming, making excuses, criticizing, seeking pity, all those dig you deeper into negativity. Competence gets you out, and you have the wherewithal to use it.

Engage your abilities, your energy, your passion, wisdom and purpose. Live with competence, and lift all of life higher.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

Good November the 4th my
Dear Tammy, I just read your message
about you not feeling well.
I will most definitely put you and
your husband on my prayer list.
What is your husband name?
Father God, I pray for healing Mercy
Upon my sister in Christ, and pray
that you touch her and her husband
from the top of there heads to the
bottom of there feet and bring them
total healing.
In Jesus Name.
Amen.

[bluidkiti]

Thank you willbe.

November 5

Resonate with purpose

Envision life at its most fulfilling. What do you see?

Look beyond merely getting what you want in the moment. Focus on what will fulfill the purpose that lives within you, and will advance life itself.

Consider what experiences and interactions would deepen your comprehension of truth and reality. How might you more completely understand who you are and the goodness you can bring?

Getting through each day is of course essential. Seeking to know why, and to connect with that purpose, empowers you to reach far beyond everyday concerns.

Although you cannot fully articulate or explain your purpose, you can feel it. You also know when you are moving toward it or away from it.

Pay attention, and your vision becomes more clear. Seek to resonate with purpose, and bring fulfillment to life.

— Ralph Marston

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November 6

Reliable reality

Some things change from day to day, and give life a fascinating, though perhaps frightening array of new flavors. Most things, though, are the same as they were the day before.

New developments bring challenges, opportunities, perspectives and resources that were never available before. At the same time, unchanging factors provide a stable foundation upon which to take refuge when necessary and move forward when possible.

When conditions change, it’s never as good as you wished, and never as bad as you feared. You and everyone else will adapt, adjust, find ways to move forward, maybe even learn something.

You’ll continue to treasure what you treasure, to value what you value. You’ll have plenty of chances to apply those values toward real and lasting goodness.

Take a look around, and much of what you see is what you’re already accustomed to seeing. In that reliable reality, find the comfort and confidence to thrive amidst whatever changes may come.

Change is essential for life, and so is steadiness. Embrace the challenge to make the best of both.

— Ralph Marston

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November 7

When you’re mistaken

Discovering you’ve been mistaken is not pleasant. But it’s a whole lot better than remaining oblivious to the mistake.

Only when you know something is wrong, can you correct it. As soon as you admit your mistake, you begin to transcend it.

No one is perfect. And in the imperfections you can find great opportunity.

Imagine that you’re doing a hundred things right and just a couple of things wrong. By adjusting those two mistaken behaviors, you greatly improve the effectiveness of all the others.

It’s nice to receive praise when you do things right. But it’s even better to get honest criticism if you’re doing something wrong.

Be eager to identify your mistakes and to learn from them. It’s an excellent means to enhance everything you do.

— Ralph Marston

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November 8

Possibilities now available

Even when you start from behind you can still get ahead. Although you may have gone through an unproductive stretch of time, it doesn’t have to continue.

Glance back at the missed opportunities just long enough to muster some determination. Then focus on what’s ahead, and on the possibilities now available to you.

What matters most right now is what you can do with right now. This is when you can choose a more effective, productive, purposeful version of yourself.

Whether your past disappointments have come from yourself or from others, as of today they’re over. Now you’re in position to leave the excuses behind and successfully meet the challenges of moving ahead.

Feel the energy of opportunity as it surrounds you and begins to flow through you. Step forward, engage that energy, and begin to transform it into meaningful value.

What you choose now is what you can do with now. Select the best you can imagine, and find great fulfillment in making it happen.

— Ralph Marston

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November 9

Listen generously

Almost no one cares about what you say. Yet pretty much everyone is thankful to have someone who genuinely listens.

What you say matters. But if you rarely listen, the things you say have negligible value.

Don’t depend on your assumptions about others. Take the time and listen to what they’re saying.

Listen well, and learn much. Listen generously, and improve at least two lives, perhaps many more.

People are happy to tell you who they are. That’s always a powerful and helpful thing to know.

Go beyond what you think you know. Listen, and benefit from the truths that so many others are eager to share.

— Ralph Marston

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November 10

Purposeful focus

Don’t beat yourself up for the time you’ve wasted, because that would waste even more. Just decide what good, productive, meaningful use you can make of your time now, and begin.

Stop ruminating over what caused you to lose focus. Simply set aside a generous and specific amount of time and commit it to staying focused on what will make a difference.

The potential distractions will always be there to entice you. Yet your commitment to purposeful focus gives you the power to resist their temptations.

It’s your mind, it’s your awareness, it’s your effort, it’s your time. You can choose to focus, you can choose the subject of your focus, and you can continue making that choice.

By so doing, you immunize yourself and your thoughts against intrusions that could otherwise disrupt and derail your efforts. You give your mind space in which to do miraculous and meaningful work.

You are one choice away from the power of purposeful focus. Experience all the valuable results that come when you put that power to work.

— Ralph Marston

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November 11

Amazing truth

Are you hiding inside a comfortable cocoon of assumptions? Or are you venturing boldly into the amazement of this moment?

Possibilities surge into reality, ready to enrich you, enlighten you, fulfill you. Embrace their challenge and you extract their value.

Flush the doubts, complaints and excuses out of your awareness. Fill your thoughts with wonder and gratitude.

Experience your purpose as it resonates through all you’ve ever done. Pay attention as it illuminates the potential for what you can now be.

The courage, energy and effectiveness you need are always near at hand. Give them a good enough reason, and without delay they come to life.

There are far too many treasures today for you to let them pass you by. See the amazing truth and value of now, and live it in your own best way.

— Ralph Marston

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November 12

Lock in the goodness

A new world arrived this morning. Walk out and discover what’s there.

Possibilities arise, linger for a while, then fade quickly away. Do the work and bring the best ones to life while they’re available.

Transform the massive potential value of this moment into enduring value that spawns even more. Lock in the goodness that exists by appreciating it, supporting it, and expanding on it.

Refuse to accept less from yourself than purposeful, disciplined behavior. Offer kindness not because it looks good but because it is good for everyone involved, especially you.

Gratefully take notice of patterns you may have previously ignored, denied, or been oblivious to. Recognize the opportunities embedded within them to do truly beneficial work.

A new world arrived this morning, and another is on the way. Make good use of each one as it comes.

— Ralph Marston

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November 13

Work with what you have

You can’t make everything perfect. No one else can make your life perfect.

But you can make the choice to live well despite the imperfections. Whatever your resources, whatever your shortcomings, many good situations and outcomes are possible.

Your world is as it is at this moment. Identify your opportunities and work with them.

No circumstance is one hundred percent negative or one hundred percent positive. There exist plenty of possibilities for improvement.

You’ll gain nothing by wishing the past had delivered you into a better situation. Instead, fully utilize the present by working to transport yourself into a future of your choosing.

Work with what you have and you’ll cause what you have to get better. Always, you can work with what you have, and that’s your best path to whatever outcome you desire.

— Ralph Marston

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November 14

Once you decide

Desire points you in a specific direction. That’s a start, but not enough.

There is a distinct, dynamic point when fulfillment begins. It comes at the moment you decide.

Once you decide, you begin to take action. Once you decide, the commitment is made and there’s no going back.

What you say, what you wish for, what you intend and plan to do, these things have their place. What you actually decide is what makes a real difference.

Decide, and you become consumed with what you’ve decided to do. Decide, and one action quickly follows another.

Get yourself to that critical point. Decide, and set the momentum of accomplishment in motion.

— Ralph Marston

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November 15

Do not relent

This is possible, this can be done. Go to work, do not relent.

Now is your starting point. Stretching out in front of you is your opportunity.

Utilize what you have, do what you can. Learn from all that goes right, from everything that goes wrong, adapt, expand, and keep up the effort.

Don’t expect it to be easy or instantaneous. Do what’s necessary to persist, to endure, and to eventually triumph.

You have the chance to make a difference in your own life and in the lives of others. What could possibly be more meaningful, more satisfying, more fulfilling than that?

Take that chance and run with it, now. This is possible, this can be done, and it’s you who can do it.

— Ralph Marston

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November 16

Actually doing

Intentions arise in your heart and in your head. But if that’s as far as they go, they’ll eventually fade away to nothing.

Don’t keep those intentions trapped within you. Get them out into the world where they’ll do some good.

There’s a reason behind every intention. Let the reasons energize you to take action.

Transform promise into reality. Upgrade potential into value.

What have you been thinking about doing? Honor those thoughts, and the purpose behind them, by actually doing what you’re thinking about.

You have the power to think great thoughts, and the power to forge those thoughts into reality. Use both of those powers in the best ways you can envision.

— Ralph Marston

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November 17

Time to begin

You know you can be better, you know you can give more. Challenge yourself to do so.

It’s easy to complain, to blame, to dream up excuses, to feel sorry for yourself. But none of that is going to achieve anything.

What makes a difference is your purposeful, focused, persistent effort. So go ahead and do what you know you can do.

The path forward is complicated, uncomfortable, inconvenient, frustrating. Yet it’s also available and attainable, and now is the time to proceed with it.

The world will continually try to entice you with promises of something for nothing. But as you’ve experienced again and again, such promises never pan out.

What does get results, what does bring improvement, is your effort. And just in case you’ve lost sight of what you already know, now is the best time to begin.

— Ralph Marston

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November 18

Treasures in difficult places

Go where you face the possibility of failure. That’s where you learn, where you improve, where you grow stronger.

Go where you feel a little bit of discomfort. That’s where you’ll also feel energized to expand your perspective.

Wade into subjects that interest you but that you don’t understand. Allow curiosity to pull you forward as you accumulate new knowledge and successfully connect it to what you already know.

Embrace something that challenges you. Discover how much your life is enriched by the experiences that result.

Take a small risk and as you endure it, notice the way your confidence ramps up. Put your increasing confidence to increasingly productive and meaningful use.

Great treasures await you in difficult places you’ve been hesitant to go. Steadily, mindfully, teach yourself to navigate those places, and make the treasures your own.

— Ralph Marston

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November 19

Rise up to reality

You are stronger than you were. And in large part, the disappointments have prompted that added strength.

When life is going well, it’s easy to get complacent. When things have fallen apart, you have no choice but to learn, adjust, improve and grow stronger.

The victories are fun, but fun is not a good long-term strategy. The defeats bring pain, and in that pain is opportunity to grow, and indeed to grow out of it.

When the champagne corks are popping, sober up and look for a meaningful challenge to address. When obstacles block you in every direction, seize upon the opportunities embedded within them.

Whether you’re elated or disappointed, it’s time to go to work. It’s time to re-establish a solid connection with your purpose and to act on that purpose.

Give yourself a few minutes to wallow in despair or to celebrate with elation. Then rise up to reality, and embrace the opportunity to grow.

— Ralph Marston

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November 20

Each day, be you

You’ll never achieve satisfaction pretending you’re someone you’re not. Breathe in, breathe out, feel your existence, and be who you are.

Do your best to understand and empathize with all sorts of different people. Yet keep in mind that in order to do so, there’s no need to compromise your authenticity.

You have unique, valuable energy and perspective to offer. Share it generously, sincerely, respectfully, without compromise.

People are meant to be people, not flat, unchanging images. You are best when you are you, not a predictable persona but a deep, complex, ever-evolving spirit.

You’ve made some mistakes and will make some more. Yet there’s never any reason to apologize for the real person you are.

Celebrate the special strength that lives and grows in you. More and more each day, be you.

— Ralph Marston

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November 21

Fill the voids

Because of silence, sound has an environment in which to exist. When emptiness abounds, fulfillment becomes possible.

Any time you sense emptiness in your world, you’re actually feeling your own ability and desire to create. What at first seems to be an absence is really an opportunity.

In silence you’ll find opportunity to speak, to express life in your own special way. In darkness is a place to shine your beautiful light.

Empty spaces provide ample room to live with abundance. The voids in your experience are where you can establish joy, love, meaning and fulfillment.

See that each empty moment is truly a treasure. For you’re able to give life and meaning to it.

When nothing is there, everything becomes possible. Take the opportunity, and fill the voids with the miracle of purposeful living.

— Ralph Marston

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November 22

Beyond yourself

Existence is what you know, but only a fraction of a fraction of existence is about you. You intensely experience climbing the mountain, nevertheless the mountain dwarfs you even when you reach the top.

Your thoughts become much more purposeful and effective when they are not just about you. Go beyond anxiety, fear, and despair by focusing those thoughts away from your immediate concerns.

There is so much more to consider, to learn from, to discover, that can bring awe and inspiration to your life. The beauty, wonder, energy and possibilities will never be exhausted.

Rather than going around in hopeless circles of your own troubles, rise above them, send your thoughts far away from them. You don’t have to abandon your responsibilities, but rather reframe them.

With mind and spirit you can take journeys that bring tangible, enduring goodness into your world. By thinking and feeling beyond the limitations, you gain new skills to thrive and to share the value of your own being.

Look beyond yourself, beyond your problems and dramas. See new richness that’s possible, and make it real.

— Ralph Marston

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November 23

With purpose

Keep pushing yourself back toward what matters. However far you may have strayed before, or may stray again, continue returning to purpose.

Purpose drives you and determines where you end up. It very much deserves your care and attention, and so do you.

Though it goes against the fashion of the moment, give continuous consideration to purpose. Within purpose runs the path along which the great adventure of your life unfolds.

In the seemingly unbearable weight of your focus and effort to serve purpose, arises great fulfillment. What you give to purpose you reap a thousand times over, across time, across life.

Armed with purpose, you are able to make sense, to extract understanding from an overwhelming flood of facts. Through that understanding, coupled with purpose, you bring new, enduring value and goodness to life.

Keep yourself aimed toward purpose, toward your highest vision of life’s magnificence. With purpose, live true and live well.

— Ralph Marston

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November 24

Mental environment

Are your thoughts in a gloomy, unproductive place? You have the ability to quickly carry them somewhere else.

Would you prefer to be on a beach in Fiji or a forest in the north woods? Simply instruct your imagination to go there, and to bring your thoughts along.

Of course you cannot transport your physical self across time and space just by thinking. Yet you absolutely can take your thoughts to any time, any place, any situation you choose.

And you can achieve real value in the real world by doing so. By upgrading your mental environment you can improve your mental performance.

Enabling your thoughts to soar can lead to soaring creativity. Keeping your mind in a positive, supportive state will enhance the quality of any activity or experience.

Use your imagination, and bring your mind to a place where your best thoughts can be nurtured. Then enjoy the benefits as your good and useful thoughts flourish.

— Ralph Marston

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November 25

Greet the day

Start early to set a positive direction for the day. Lock yourself solidly onto a purposeful track and make it nearly impossible for anything to knock you off that track.

Right off the bat, establish a pattern of effective action. Continue adding to that action to create unstoppable momentum.

You’re going to spend the first minutes of the day doing one thing or another. So decide to invest that initial time in a way that gives you an advantage for the entire remainder of the day.

Begin with a positive, purposeful thought. Then immediately act on that thought.

Nudge yourself to get fired up about what you can do with the time in front of you. That’s a whole lot better than getting bogged down in worry and doubt.

Activate the power of your intention to put yourself ahead before any outside influences have a chance to push you behind. Greet the day with high energy, with the best of expectations, and delight in discovering all the good you can do with it.

— Ralph Marston

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November 26

Able to care

What you value determines what you see. What you see is an indication of all you value.

Your values blind you to some things and sensitize you to others. Though you glimpse objective reality through your senses and thinking, there is no entirely objective perception or perspective.

You are directed by what you care about. Everything coming in, and going out, passes through the filter of what matters most to you.

You strive to be rational, and succeed to a respectable degree. But you can never be cold and uncaring enough to proceed solely on reason.

Yet by understanding and accepting who you are and what you are, great things become possible. Though you are by nature biased, that bias gives you the capacity to love, to offer kindness, to appreciate beauty and to be awed by wonder.

In many areas you’re able to reason very objectively, yet at the same time you’re able to care. Understand what a powerful combination that is, and commit each day to make use of it in the service of life’s goodness.

— Ralph Marston

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November 27

Specific goals

A vague goal is not really a goal at all. Specific goals are the only goals that have a chance of being reached.

What do you intend to to, exactly, precisely, with details? In the laying out of those details is when the achievement begins.

Nestle your dream firmly in an exact location. Know the size, sound, color, cost, duration, and everything else that is a function of its existence in reality.

Then you can draw up a realistic and workable pathway to it. Then you can begin to make your way along that path.

Any time you wander off in the wrong direction, stop and re-clarify the goal. With fresh, rich details, you can quickly get yourself back on track.

Every result is a specific result. Make your goals specific, and get the results you desire.

— Ralph Marston

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November 28

More gratitude

Gratitude never gets old. Indeed, it becomes even more beneficial with age.

Every moment of gratitude strengthens your connection to abundance. It sharpens your comprehension of all the good you can do.

Express your thanks, but don’t consider it to be one and done. Be thankful again and again, spreading the goodness of gratitude into every corner of life.

You’ll often have occasion to call upon that goodness. The more time you’ve spent in thankfulness, the more readily available its goodness will be.

Many of life’s pursuits, even the most enjoyable ones, can eventually make you weary. But you’ll never grow tired of gratitude.

More gratitude is always a good thing. Today is a great day to remember that.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

Happy Thanksgiving Tammy,
I hope and Prayed you and your
Family had a great day.

[bluidkiti]

Thank you willbe. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! :)

[bluidkiti]

November 29

Intentional time

Make time to focus on what carries substance and meaning. Carve out significant periods that you can spend doing what matters, what’s fulfilling, and making progress.

Quality, focused time is not likely to simply appear on its own. You must be intentional to compete with the endless notifications, deadlines, obligations and complexities the world sends your way.

Block out hours, perhaps even days or weeks, when you exercise your prerogative to say no and to say yes. Say no to all the urgent but unimportant issues, and say yes to the meaningful things that benefit your life and your world.

Carefully and honestly consider your priorities, your assumptions, your goals, your dreams, and your values. Work to get them all in alignment.

Then seek to allocate your time based more on who you truly are than on what you’ve always assumed you should be doing. Give yourself plenty of opportunity to focus on and achieve what matters most.

Designate and spend generous amounts of time as intentional time. And enable yourself to live the life you choose to live.

— Ralph Marston

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November 30

Engage with vigor

Today you are surrounded by unrealized opportunities. What will you do with them?

You’re filled with energy, purpose, ability, and wisdom. In what unique way will you enable those positive attributes to work with each other?

There are people willing to listen to you, encourage you, and support you in your efforts. How will you interact with them to bring new goodness to life?

You have time, resources, expectations, and dreams. What specific forms of new value can you create with all that’s available?

Abundance pervades all of existence, and opportunity is everywhere. Yet none of it matters until you do something with it.

Your future is arriving. Engage with vigor and all the best you can give.

— Ralph Marston