Daily Motivator - February

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February 1

Surprise yourself

Some of the most interesting and valuable experiences are the ones you don’t expect. Surprises can bring into your life good things you never knew were there.

It’s comfortable to stick with the same old routine, but comfort is overrated. Choose to regularly jump out of that routine, and get yourself in situations where you can be surprised.

Learn to look forward to the difficult, the unusual and the unknown. When you’re not sure what you’ll find, you’re more likely to find something that will bring new richness to your life.

You are superbly able to be curious, innovative and adaptable, so make use of those powerful abilities. Step out of the comfortable box that houses everything you already know, and enjoy exploring unfamiliar territory.

If you were a typical child, you loved surprises. Make it a point to get some of that magic back.

Go where you can surprise yourself. And experience firsthand just how fascinating and rich your life can be.

— Ralph Marston

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February 2

Always more

You have more strength than you know. Start to make use of that strength, to expect more of yourself, and you’ll begin to find how much is really there.

You have more stories than you realize. Begin to offer those stories, in ways helpful and congenial, and you’ll understand how rich and profound they are.

You are wealthy beyond any level you have ever imagined. Open your eyes to the value in all that surrounds you, and live the joyful, creative reality of that wealth.

Within your life is an ever-glowing treasure, resonating with all of life while also being uniquely you. Allow that gentle glow to spark into a brilliant flame, lighting the universe in its own beautiful way.

You have more resources, skills, experience and capacity to love than you have yet discovered. Focus your life, genuinely and passionately on a meaningful purpose, and let all that goodness pour forth.

There is always more to know, more to do, more to live and more to give. Experience the matchless joy of allowing it all to unfold through you.

— Ralph Marston

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February 3

Be amazed and keep going

Life can be amazing, so by all means be amazed. But don’t be so amazed that it immobilizes you.

Be amazed at the possibilities, at all the great things you can do. Then get beyond your amazement and get busy actually doing.

Be amazed at what others have achieved, at what you yourself have done, and at the beauty the universe constantly proffers. Then find something new and great and wonderful to do with it all.

Life is amazing and you can make it even more so. Be amazed, yet don’t ever let yourself be satisfied with mere amazement.

Drink in the wonder and beauty of life. Let it all inspire you to create greater beauty.

The journey is long, worthwhile, fulfilling and amazing. Be amazed, and keep going.

— Ralph Marston

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February 4

The sooner you start

Taking action and doing the difficult work are not what get you down. Delaying, procrastinating and avoiding action are what get you down.

The way forward is to do something positive and useful. Do something, and remind yourself for the ten thousandth time what a joy it is to make a difference.

When you know it must be done, and still you don’t do it, your own disappointment in yourself grows with every passing moment. Put a stop to that disappointment by putting yourself into action.

As difficult and complicated as it may be, the task is never as bad as the avoidance of it. Just start, just keep going, and just get it done.

Enjoy the experience of putting your skills to work. Enjoy the sense of purpose that results from making your time count for something.

Drink in the satisfaction of turning what you must do into what you have done. The sooner you start, the better it will feel.

— Ralph Marston

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February 5

Where do you find happiness?

Where do you find happiness? The only place you ever find happiness is where you are.

Happiness is not in some far off, fondly imagined time or place or situation. The happiness you enjoy is the happiness you choose to enjoy in the here and now.

You possess the very real ability to be happy just as you are. When you utilize that ability, when you choose happiness, you inject positive power into everything you do.

Are you disappointed, frustrated, feeling ineffective and unappreciated? Choose to be happy, and feel how quickly that all changes.

Being happy for no reason, or even when there are compelling reasons not to be, is not naive. It is a shrewd and effective way to energize your life.

Go ahead and empower yourself with happiness. Be happy with your situation, and it will most definitely improve, because you will improve it.

— Ralph Marston

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February 6

Energy of dissatisfaction

Precisely because dissatisfaction is so uncomfortable, it energizes your life. When you are not satisfied with the way things are, in that feeling of dissatisfaction is the energy to change.

You can tap into that energy to change yourself, or the situation, or both. In every case, you are looking directly at an opportunity for significant improvement.

Experiencing what you don’t want can drive you to create what you do want. The next time that happens, jump at the opportunity.

Take hold of the energy of your dissatisfaction. Immerse your awareness in the focus, in the drive, in the determination it gives you.

Then look out at the world with joy, with gratitude and with love for all that is. See the possibilities in a new, empowering light, and let them push you into action.

Feel your dissatisfaction, and resolve its discomfort by growing, building, creating, by becoming smarter, wiser, more capable and generous. In the energy of your dissatisfaction is your opportunity to uplift the whole world.

— Ralph Marston

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February 7

Too good

You’re too good to let a single day of your life go to waste. You’re too good to let the time pass without packing as much great living into it as possible.

You’re too good to put toxic junk into your body, your thoughts and your awareness. You’re too good to be resentful or discouraged.

You hold the power of a unique and beautiful life in your hands. You see things no one else sees, and you have an obligation to make value and meaning out of what you see.

The possibilities are too good to ignore, or to run away from. With so many good things to do, it makes no sense to get caught up in empty or destructive pursuits.

The opportunity that is your life on this day is calling to you. That opportunity is too good to pass up.

Thousands of years of history, and your entire life to this point, have brought you where you are. Tap into that accumulated goodness, and transform it into new greatness.

— Ralph Marston

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February 8

Start the doing

Don’t be too smart for your own good. Don’t be too critical of your own work.

Prepare for what you intend to do, and plan how you will do it, but not to the point of obsession. Sooner rather than later, finish the planning and start the doing.

Even though you won’t get it perfect, focus all your energy on getting it done. Even though you may have your doubts, push on through them and keep going.

Achievement is never clean or linear. Great achievement is messy and inconvenient, daunting and often quite unpredictable, and it is worth all that.

You have great achievement within you, today, in this place, using what you have and what you know. What a shame it would be to never let that unique achievement see the light of day.

So get busy right now and begin to let it see the light of day, on this day. You have so much to give to life, and such exquisite fulfillment to savor from doing so.

— Ralph Marston

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February 9

Think, then do

Think, but don’t overthink. Consider the implications before you act, but don’t agonize and analyze so deeply that you fail to make anything happen.

Think, then do what you think about. You cannot solve every problem in advance, so accept that you’ll have to make some adjustments as you go along.

Figure out what you intend to do, but don’t hold yourself back while you figure it all out. Jump in and get started, and use your powerful mind in combination with your effective actions.

Stop fretting and worrying about what might or might not happen. Get busy and find out.

Commit to a course of well-considered action and then do everything in your power to honor your commitment. That’s the path to achievement.

Imagine, and then create real, live substance out of what you imagine. Think, act, live, and enjoy the richness of a positive, purposeful existence.

— Ralph Marston

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February 10

Some little something

There’s some little something you can do, some little change you can make today, that will make your life better. Go ahead, give yourself a positive gift, and do it.

There’s something you know you’ve been doing, or neglecting to do, that’s been holding you back. This is your opportunity to change it.

You don’t have to change the whole world to make a noticeable difference in your life. Even a small change in what you do can make a big improvement in the way you feel.

As comfortable as your old habit may be, it’s not taking you where you want to go. Very soon, you can be just as comfortable, and a whole lot more satisfied, with a new, more positive habit.

Life is what you make it, and all the little choices add up. Improve the quality of those choices, and you will improve the quality of your situation.

Get the moments of this day working in your favor by making more of your actions work in your favor. Improve some little something you do, and experience the power you have to change your life.

— Ralph Marston

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February 11

Tell yourself

Tell yourself something often enough, and it becomes truth for you. What are you telling yourself over and over again?

If you tell yourself again and again that you can’t do something, you’re never going to do it. Even when you are perfectly able, you can convince yourself you’re absolutely not.

As you look at your world and make your way through it, whatever you’re repeating to yourself will have significant consequences. That can be a big burden, or a grand opportunity.

There’s no benefit in deluding yourself to believe you have superhuman powers. Yet there’s great benefit in constantly reminding yourself of the real and accessible powers you do have.

You can think, you can act, and you can focus your actions toward a specific purpose. You can feel, understand, create, adapt to new situations, build, improve, love and enjoy.

When you think to yourself and talk to yourself, think of all the good you’ve done and all the good you can now do. Remind yourself, again and again, that you can, and you will.

— Ralph Marston

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February 12

Go ahead and start

It’s great to make detailed plans, but you can’t possibly figure out every detail in advance. Get going, keep going, with a clear destination always in mind, and you’ll discover how to make your way there.

Much of the value of any achievement comes from all the new things you learn along the way. So even if you’re not sure you’re ready to start, go ahead and start.

Embrace experience as your teacher. Welcome the challenges that will strengthen every part of you.

Speculation, pondering and learning from others all have their place. At some point, though, you must put it all into practice and work your own way to the goal you have chosen.

Make that point sooner rather than later. Give more of your life the benefit of your real-life experience.

Demolish your doubts with action. Go ahead, get started, and enjoy discovering how great you can do.

— Ralph Marston

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February 13

Narrow the possibilities

Every restaurant has many different items on the menu, yet you have to choose one or two of those items in order to enjoy a good meal. Every day is filled with countless possibilities, and you must narrow down those possibilities if you are to get anything done.

If you attempt to do everything, your focus becomes scattered and diluted. And you end up doing very little.

Eating every item on the menu, if you could even do it, would make you miserable. Choosing wisely, sticking with your choices and seeing them through, creates a much more enjoyable experience.

The quality of your life is not based on the quantity of things you can stuff into it. The quality of your life comes from the love and attention and genuine joy you are able to give.

Don’t drive yourself crazy in a vain attempt to know everything, do everything, see everything and have everything. Instead, choose a few things at a time and enjoy giving depth and meaning to them.

Narrow the possibilities of each day down to the ones you can truly care about. Let go of the need for quantity, and find joy in the quality life you deserve.

— Ralph Marston

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February 14

Create from what is there

Creativity is not making something out of nothing. Creativity is making meaning out of something.

The raw material of life and of creativity has always been present. In order to be creative, you don’t have to make anything materialize out of thin air.

Creativity is never out of reach because life’s abundance is always very much within reach. To be creative, take what is already there and apply it in a way that makes life richer and more enjoyable.

Whether you wish to create an object, an idea, a story, song, picture or experience, the ingredients are already present. Start with what you know, with what you have, add a lot of what you love, and you’ll create value.

Instead of waiting for a great idea to hit you, realize that you already are the great idea. Go with what feels good, interesting, useful, satisfying and fulfilling, and you’ll go far.

Creativity is your birthright, so claim it in every area of your life. Take what is there, add yourself to it, and live creatively every day.

— Ralph Marston

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February 15

Allow the best

Allow your world to be beautiful now. Allow your life to be rich and full and joyous.

There are infinite possibilities, and yet the ones you experience are the ones you allow. Make the choice now, and always, to allow the best.

Allow your thoughts to be positive and empowering. Allow your actions to move your life forward.

Allow your spirit to envision life at its very best for you and your whole world. Allow yourself to make that vision real in each moment and with each choice.

Don’t struggle to move yourself toward or away from what might or might not be. Instead, allow your life to unfold according to your highest vision.

The power to make a positive difference is always yours. Allow that power to flow through your life, creating magnificent, meaningful results.

— Ralph Marston

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February 16

Put your skills to work

Life is demanding and you have succeeded in meeting all those demands. You have persisted through every challenge and you can do it again.

In fact, you’ve become skilled at working your way forward. Today is another great opportunity to put your skills to work.

Over and over again, you have proven you can make a difference. Think of how you can apply that ability to make this a richer, more fulfilling and enjoyable day.

Take a deep breath, feel your strength, your competence, and your desire to bring new beauty to life. Remind yourself of how thankful you are for the progress you’ve been able to create.

Then turn toward the world, turn toward the possibilities, and create some more good substance. Seize upon the chances to put your skills to work in meaningful ways.

Make good things happen today. Because that is what you do.

— Ralph Marston

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February 17

Intention empowers

Intention empowers your life. Intention activates your passion, energizes your efforts, and pushes you past your fears.

For intention to do all these things, it must be authentic. When it is authentic, intention carries the power to achieve anything.

To put that power into what you do, acknowledge and embrace who you truly are. There are specific things you really want to do with life, so give yourself the intention to do them.

Point yourself in a direction you have chosen, a direction you care about. Set your path based not on the superficial fashions of the moment, but on the spirit living deep inside you.

Feel that spirit, and the positive values connected to it, and you feel your power. Resolve to give new beauty, excellence and substance to life, and you will suddenly find yourself doing it.

Empower your day, your year, your life with authentic intention. Live the way you are meant to live, and do all you are meant to do.

— Ralph Marston

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Empathy

You have your own perspective, and it is well-informed and valuable. Yet you do not know it all, and it’s a good idea to avoid the assumption that you do.

Other people may often frustrate and annoy you, and you may wonder how they could be so ignorant, immature, misinformed or whatever. But you only see a very small part of their perspective, and cannot possibly know everything that goes into their decisions.

Being overly judgmental rarely does anyone any good. Look for opportunities to replace judgment with empathy.

By all means, live and act with excellence, and expect excellence from others. When others fail to live up to your expectations, find ways to offer help rather than to cause hurt.

Seek to understand, and to encourage genuine understanding in others. Let go of the need to lecture and to rant, so you can spend more of your precious life in a positive state.

Make connections instead of judgments. And make the best of every situation and of every person you encounter.

— Ralph Marston


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February 19

Embrace the inconvenience

Life doesn’t happen only after you neatly tidy everything up. Life happens all the time, in the moment that is now.

You can’t just put off your enjoyment, put off your actions, and put off living your values until conditions are ideal. Now is the time to enjoy, to get work done, and to give focus and substance to those things that matter most.

So what if it’s not perfect, or if it’s complicated, confusing or inconvenient? This is your opportunity to live and to make progress, so take full advantage of it.

You won’t ever get all the questions answered and all the loose ends tied up. However, there is much you can accomplish when you decide to go ahead no matter what.

If something is inconvenient, then embrace the inconvenience and resolve to make good come out of it. Be okay with things not being perfect and you’ll be able to get much more done.

Under any circumstance, at any time, is a time that you can use to make the world better. Take life as it comes, and give it your best.

— Ralph Marston

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February 20

Allow peace inside

Being active and ambitious does not have to mean being frenzied and stressed. In fact, being at peace on the inside can make you much more effective on the outside.

Do what you do without fighting against it. Give your presence and full attention to what you’re doing while keeping your spirit in a place of peace and acceptance.

Choose your actions by being fully involved in and informed by the world around you. Choose your attitude by being ever thankful for your opportunity to experience it all.

Life is constantly placing demands on you. You can choose to feel peacefully empowered by those demands and by the positive possibilities for progress that come with them.

Don’t make an unnecessary burden for yourself. Instead of creating stress inside, allow peace to fill your spirit.

Equip yourself in the most effective way to deal with whatever may come. Allow peace, deep inside, and act always from a place of peaceful power.

— Ralph Marston

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February 21

Unrealized potential

You have vast amounts of unrealized potential. Now is your time to transform the good things that could be into the good things that are.

There is great abundance in this universe. Today is a fresh new opportunity to harvest and express that abundance in specific, meaningful ways that will enrich all of life.

Yes, it can be done and you can be the person who does it. Yes, it will take significant effort and you are able to make that effort.

You’ve already proven how capable you are by navigating your way through life’s many and varied challenges up to this point. Now, seek to take on new challenges and to create new value.

Whatever you have already achieved, you owe yourself the splendid, satisfying experience of working to achieve even more. Your unrealized potential has been waiting long enough, so jump forward and bring it to life.

Throw away all the excuses, step beyond your doubts and hesitations, and go for it. Feel the great treasure that’s already so very close, and make it real.

— Ralph Marston

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February 22

Richness in every moment

You don’t have to live extravagantly to live richly. You can find extraordinary richness and fulfillment even in the simple, ordinary things.

You don’t have to wait or hope for some big, impressive windfall before you can begin to fully enjoy life. You can experience immense enjoyment right where you are, with whatever you have.

Living a life that’s full and rich is more about your inner attitude than your outer situation. Richness is found not so much in what comes to you but rather in what you make of it all in each moment.

Don’t limit your experience and enjoyment of life’s richness by limiting your ideas of what it should be. Open yourself to discover and delight in the richness that’s in every moment.

There is so very much available to you right here, right now. Go ahead, let go of the need for this or for that, and live the richness that is always yours to live.

Let the experience of great richness come from your choice to live it. Your life is now, so fully and richly enjoy it here and now.

— Ralph Marston

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February 23

Live your love

Today, live your love. Live your passion, live your curiosity, and live your dreams.

In this moment, live your values. With each person you meet, live your compassion, your respect, your authenticity.

Don't just think about, or wish for, or admire whatever is most meaningful to you. In every moment, in every action, in every word and thought, live it.

Spend your time really, truly enjoying whatever you enjoy. Go beyond the mere appearance of richness and fulfillment, and live your richness, live your fulfillment.

Stop doing things just to say you've done them. Do whatever you do because there is something deep inside that implores you to do it.

Life is yours to live right now. Be true, be you, and be filled with the unique joy that is yours to experience.

Ralph Marston - The Daily Motivator

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February 24

Keep yourself accomplishing

Keep yourself active, and make all that activity count for something. Keep yourself active, and keep yourself accomplishing.

Before you devote your valuable time to anything, consider what it will actually accomplish. Invest your time in purposeful, meaningful activities, not in empty busyness.

It’s great to stay busy. It’s much more advantageous, though, to have something to actually show for being so busy.

A moment wasted can never be regained. A moment spent in meaningful accomplishment, however, can extend its value indefinitely.

You have more than enough time to achieve whatever you choose, if only you will respect and make full use of the value of that time. Step back, look at what you’re doing with your time, and remind yourself it is among your most valuable assets.

With the time available to you, keep yourself accomplishing. Let go of the meaningless, wasteful pursuits, and exchange your time for the rich, wonderful life you deserve.

— Ralph Marston

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February 25

Choose to do it

You can do it if you choose to do it. So choose now to do it.

Set a goal and make it happen. Keep going until you have it done.

The way forward may involve some complexity and a good deal of effort, yet at its heart it is not complicated. Boiled down to its pure essence, success is just a matter of choosing to make it happen, and then using the best of what you have to get there.

The days ahead will surely pass no matter what you decide to do with them. Decide to make good use of them, to show yourself and all the world how good life can be.

Step decisively away from the excuses, past the doubts and beyond your hesitation. Step into a satisfying sense of momentum and achievement.

Choose to actually do what you really wish to do. And choose to take great delight in all that’s necessary to make it happen.

— Ralph Marston

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February 26

Ruffle some feathers

If you’re not ruffling a few feathers, you’re probably not getting much done. If you’re not running into difficult problems, then you’re falling far short of your potential.

You are superbly equipped to meet great challenges and to create great achievements. If you’re just maintaining the status quo, there’s a whole lot more valuable stuff you could be doing.

What you did yesterday was fine for yesterday. However, today is a new day, filled with new possibilities, so get busy exploring those possibilities.

Make yourself a little bit uncomfortable by reaching a little beyond what you’re sure you can do. Challenge yourself in a meaningful way, and you will quickly grow to meet those challenges.

Ruffle a few feathers, including your own. Explore the vast territory that lies beyond your comfort zone, and discover value you never knew existed.

This is a new day, so live it as a new day. This is your opportunity to add something to your life and your world that’s never been there before, so take that opportunity and run with it, now.

— Ralph Marston

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Keep yourself in action

When you seek to do something ambitious, there will be a certain number of unsuccessful attempts you make before finally getting it right. Go ahead and get those unsuccessful attempts out of the way as quickly as you can.

When the initial effort fails to yield the desired result, there’s no reason to get upset about it. Because it means you’re one attempt closer to the one that does get the result you want.

Though it seems natural to feel discouraged when you fall short of the mark, you’re actually moving yourself closer to the goal with every action. Keep going, keep learning, and you will soon get it right.

When you keep yourself in action, good things are sure to come of it. When you keep yourself in action, you’ll find your way to whatever you seek.

Make another phone call, write another paragraph, walk another mile, read another book, paint another picture, sing another song, and work another hour. Yes you can do it, and when you keep doing it, you work your way to spectacular results.

Don’t give up just when you’re a few attempts short of the achievement. Keep yourself in action, and make some great things happen.

— Ralph Marston

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February 28

What you can do

What you can do is to do your best. Honestly, authentically, with no excuses or cutting corners, just go ahead and do your best.

Some people might appreciate it, and many others probably will not. What really matters, though, is not what others think or say, but the fact that you’ve given your very best to the effort.

So don’t hold yourself back out of fear or anxiety about the way you’ll be received. Push yourself forward, true to your highest ideals, focused on your dreams, your values, your passions.

What you can do is to do your best, and it can be spectacular. What you can do is contribute to life in your own special way.

Courage comes from realizing how profoundly blessed you are to be able to make a difference. Feel your good fortune, feel your courage, and put it into action.

Today, experience how right it is to do what you can do. Give your best to every situation, to every opportunity, to every hour of this day, and reap the rewards of a day well spent.

— Ralph Marston

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