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Daily Motivator - April
April 1
You know What if someone offered you ten million dollars, and the only condition was that you had to explain in advance what you would do with it? Would you take that offer, and would you be able to come up with something meaningful to do with it? Life each day offers you an opportunity that is worth far more than any amount of money. Yet you often fail to seize most of that opportunity because you just can’t commit on which way to go. It’s not because you don’t know. It’s because you don’t allow yourself to believe that you can move in the direction you truly want to move. Yes, you do know what you expect from life when you expect life to be the best it can be. In everything you like and dislike, in every opinion, in every frustration, in every joy, you know. So admit that you know, admit what you desire, let it inform your actions, and let it put the energy of passion into all you do. Love all that you love, with all that you are, and enjoy being who you really want to be. Life is offering you great richness, and what you must do is to let yourself want it, and let yourself know it is yours. Accept it now and live it very, very well. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#1H6CSSZJtoQXwhLw.99 |
April 2
The strength inside Let love and joy and goodness get through to you. Let all the rest fall gently away. Take whatever the world offers and direct it toward what matters. Be strong, inside, where strength makes all the difference. You don’t have to be drawn into the negativity of the moment. You can choose to live at a higher level, not arrogantly but gratefully and lovingly. You can choose purpose over pettiness any hour, every hour of the day. What gets inside and stays inside and grows, is up to you. Imagine joy, and it is there. Imagine looking at life from a perspective of love, and you do. You really can transform difficulty into achievement, anxiety into peace, conflict into cooperation. Decide to nurture and use the strength inside, and make it so. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#VGqI1HCLvl2V8qWW.99 |
April 3
Give in Give in to your best intentions. Give in to your dreams. Give in to the opportunity of this moment. Give in to the positive possibilities, and let them pull you forward. It is good that you’ve been where you have been, because it has brought you to where you are now. Allow the joy that is now possible, allow the fulfillment, allow the love and richness and life. Enjoy moving past any excuses and limitations you may have imagined. Give in to your highest vision, and bring that vision to life today. Spend some time reminding yourself how good life is at its heart. Let go of your hesitation, and experience the great life that you deserve and that you are able to create in this moment. You know how great life can be. Give in to your own unique greatness, and share it joyfully with all the world. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#9j2hzxjV7XHWaQDK.99 |
April 4
Treasure of this day This is a day to be treasured. Enjoy it. Celebrate this life of yours, and the opportunity to live it. Allow yourself to feel the goodness that swirls through each moment. Seize upon every chance to uplift those around you. Experience how great it feels to give value to whatever situation you’re in. Watch and listen and learn from the fascinating stories being told through the words, actions and lives of those around you. Find new, rich and compelling ways to tell your own special story in all you do. Marvel again at the beauty you’re able to witness. And take a little while to simply enjoy, with no agenda, with no particular expectations, and with a joyous newborn sense of wonder. Walk gently and lovingly through the treasure that is this day. Let your thankful presence increase that treasure even more. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#72r1hddKjeJFJ1Sm.99 |
April 5
Your job Today is already beautiful and full of promise. Your job is to make it great. There is already abundance in every direction. Your job is to make something valuable out of it. Today, you’ve been given so very much. Your job is to give it meaning. Choose today to make fewer judgments and to make more joy. Choose today to stop second guessing your intuition and to live the richness of your authentic purpose. You are standing right in the middle of a whole universe that’s filled with great possibilities. Let yourself feel the immensity of that opportunity, then step forward and do something wonderful with it. Your job today is to add new, meaningful experiences to the story of life. So get going, enjoy the challenges and the magnificent rewards your efforts will bring. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/motivate/140405....BIYWE464hbI.99 |
April 6
Pleasant surprises You don’t have to do what’s expected. You have the opportunity to do better. You don’t have to answer anger with more anger. You can answer with understanding, cooperation and compassion. You don’t have to answer criticism by being defensive. You can answer criticism by being open, honest, helpful and appreciative. Look for ways to give life a pleasant surprise. Step away from the expected and predictable, and you yourself will enjoy many pleasant surprises. Instead of just reacting by habit or by conditioning, get creative. See every encounter as your chance to make life more interesting and enjoyable. People love pleasant surprises, so put yourself in the business of delivering them. Be surprising, in a good way, and transform life in your own unique style. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#RLrxxfbmz5jGVcpr.99 |
April 7
Highest standard Go ahead and live to your highest standard. Even though you may feel you’re not fully appreciated for it, do what you know is good and right and valuable. When there’s a job to be done, do more than just getting it done. Do your best. Perhaps no one else cares, or perhaps they care more than you realize. In any case, what really matters is that you know you are living to your highest standard. Live to your highest standard, and it will pay off in ways you cannot fully appreciate or anticipate now. Live to your highest standard, and feel the power as it accumulates in the form of confidence, competence, wisdom, patience and true fulfillment. Listen carefully to what others say, but never let anyone’s shortsightedness bring you down. Find new energy and enthusiasm every day, knowing that you are giving your best to life. Live to your highest standard, no matter what circumstances you may find yourself in. Live to your highest standard, because deep inside, you know that’s what you really want and what you are meant to do. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#T0HLZxd2m9oXV0eT.99 |
April 8
Turn things around You don’t have to be mad that you’re not happy. You can be happy that you’re not mad. You don’t have to make excuses to avoid taking action. You can step up, take action, and enjoy living with no excuses or regrets. Life never has to get you down. You always have what it takes to turn things around. From challenges you can make value. Out of the difficulties you can make progress. You can choose to see the best possibilities. And the moment you see them, you can begin moving toward them. There’s never any need to move in a negative direction. Because it’s always your option to turn things around. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#Go7Zp41kFvki8DUH.99 |
April 9
Enjoy your life Enjoy your life. On this day, in this place, whatever concerns, challenges, opportunities and situations you’re faced with, enjoy yourself. Enjoy the little, seemingly insignificant things. Enjoy the big, life-altering things. Enjoy the drama and the peace, the solitude and the fellowship, the activity and the relaxation. Enjoy the work and the play. Enjoy being you. Enjoy not having to impress anyone, just being able to live your life in harmony with your values. You work better, play better, sleep better, eat better and experience better relationships when you allow yourself to enjoy. You’re more interesting, more interested, more loving and giving and creative. It’s really not that difficult to make the choice to enjoy your life. Enjoy your life in an authentic way, and make it a whole lot more enjoyable. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#pifLJ4SwguqdoWeL.99 |
April 10
A day of substance Make today a day of substance. Let go of your concerns about the superficial things that really don’t matter, and devote your energy to the things that do. Life is a grand experience and there is so much more to it than just keeping up appearances. Even the small, unimpressive moments can be profoundly rich if you’ll just allow them to be. Remind yourself how fortunate you are to be living this day. See how silly it is to worry and fret over the things you don’t have when you do have so much. Grab hold of the opportunity that is now. You can make good things happen, and you already know how great that will make you feel. Look around at the world and smile a great, big, satisfied and joyful smile. Realize, at a deeper level than ever before, how great and limitless your possibilities are. Use this day for real, substantive progress, the kind you care about so much. Be amazed at the abundance, and be delighted at what you do with it. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#PDCcT7eHbILWZEub.99 |
April 11
Opportunity to care Today is an opportunity to care. Today is an opportunity to care about what you do, about who you are becoming, about how you treat others, and about all of life. Though it is easy to be apathetic, it is terribly difficult to live with apathy. Be thankful that you don’t have to, and renew your commitment to care. Care, not to impress anyone with how enlightened or compassionate you are. Care, with thoughtfulness, with patience, with love, because it feels so right. Express your gratitude not with empty flamboyance, but with purposeful living. Even when all the world seems careless, especially when the world seems careless, your opportunity to care is more valuable than ever. Jump with passion into this day and give it some good, measured, meaningful caring. Add a little understanding, a decent amount of humility, and you have a formula for real enrichment. Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#UcjyazMeuCkP3U1z.99 |
April 12
The power to choose The pains, disappointments and frustrations tug at you. And yet, you are infinitely more powerful than all of them put together. With your very next thought, you can rise above any kind of negativity. With your next action, you can begin to put real distance between yourself and whatever was bringing you down. You have the power to choose the way you see life, and the way you experience life. You can take whatever comes, and make something positive out of it. The more you make a conscious, intentional choice about how to live, the stronger you become at doing so. Over time, as you continue to exercise your power to choose, you add real richness and fulfillment to your life. Look at this day, with all its problems and challenges, and see the positive possibilities. Look inside yourself, and find the dreams, goals and desires that have the strength to push you forward. Choose to live a life of unique greatness, and to give that greatness to your world. In every moment you have the power to choose, so choose the very best. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/motivate/140412....xkJIYfv3sig.99 |
April 13
Meaningful effort Choose to do what you believe in, and then put the full power of your belief behind what you are doing. Follow what you are passionate about, and give the energy of your passion to it. That might mean making big external changes in what you’re doing with your life. Or it could mean making changes that are more internal, in how you think about and relate to what you’re doing. Meaningful effort is not just an idealistic concept, and not just for a lucky few. It produces practical, valuable results, and is attainable by anyone. Doing what you believe in does not mean you must quit your job or walk away from your responsibilities. Following your passion is not necessarily a matter of abandoning the commonsense, practical considerations in your life. It is much more a matter of your expectations, your motivations, and your attitude in every moment. Though it may be challenging, you can find a way to express your highest values, and to follow your deepest passions, in any circumstance. Resolve to meet that challenge, and to do what you do in such a way that you can truly believe in it. Make every effort a meaningful effort, and enable those efforts to produce great and satisfying results. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#YMGKMyvYFhtWHV6d.99 |
April 14
Making sense of it all All the goings on in the world around you are important. The thoughts, feelings, passions and values within you are just as important, even more so in fact. Waves of new information wash over your awareness on a constant basis. Don’t let all that data crowd out your sense of who you are, of what you care about, and of what you intend. By all means, pay attention to what’s going on in the outer world, and respond appropriately. Pay at least as much attention to the abiding values that form the essence of who you are. Life is more than a mere stream of disjoined events and experiences. Life is the ability to fashion enduring meaning out of it all. You can pay attention to what’s going on without being consumed by it. You can live your life according to the direction you’ve set, instead of being tossed around by every new development. The way to make sense of it all, the way to find value and fulfillment in it all, is to see it all from a solid, stable perspective. Keep yourself grounded in the truth of who you always are, and you can make the most of whatever new things come along. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#A6GBURGhlZY2y9wH.99 |
April 15
What gives you richness What is easy is not fulfilling. What is fulfilling is not easy. The effort necessary for achievement is what gives the achievement value. You cannot get anything for free and expect it to make a meaningful difference in your life. What gives you richness is what you give yourself to. It is a beautiful dynamic and a challenging one. Grab that challenge, treasure it, work it, grow stronger through your efforts and know the fulfillment it will bring. Find in every day and in every encounter the opportunity to offer life the unique gift of you. Earn what you enjoy, and enjoy what you earn. Invest yourself in life and take joy to a whole new level. Now is your chance to give, to make a difference, to make life richer and more meaningful with your efforts. Celebrate life through those efforts, and delight in all the good you can do. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#Mtf0qsj8E5SS1CjX.99 |
April 16
Not far away You are not that far away from where you want to be. You are only a single decision, a single instant, a single positive action away from the direction you wish to go. Whatever you seek is within reach. What you must do, is reach. You will always be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you make progress. Just go ahead and get started. Learn from all that has brought you to this point. Be thankful for the wisdom, the experience, the strength and the purposeful sense of determination it has all given you. Then point that determination in a positive direction, and go. Go with gusto, go with enthusiasm and the greatest of expectations along the path that is already in front of you. Right now, right here, you are not that far away. Step up and make the journey, for you deserve it. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#aLydGGjgCzGKHxSS.99 |
April 17
Wishes and actions Do you wish you had done certain things differently in the past? Going forward, you have the power to make those wishes come true. There are times when you wish you had been more diligent, more disciplined, more considerate, or any number of things. Though there is nothing you can do about what has already happened, there is everything you can do about what will now take place. Whatever you’ve wished you had done, this is your chance to do it. This is your opportunity to turn regrets into action. You don’t have to create any more painful wishes about how life might have been. You can take the actions that will create the life you wish to live. Take all those wishes about the past and transfer their energy into purposeful actions in the present. Enjoy making life happen the way you choose. This is your day, filled with great possibilities. This is your moment to stop wishing and start living. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#yLeJG5pVeKjbqPJO.99 |
April 18
How great it feels Remember how great it feels to make a difference? Remember how great it feels to set a goal and then to get it done? Remember how powerful it feels to be faced with a difficult challenge and to work your way through that challenge. Remember how warm and good and right it feels to know you’ve been of real help to others. Remind yourself of the power and effectiveness of your own actions. Remind yourself of how far you can go just by making the commitment to do so. Remember all these things, and let those positive memories ignite your passion. Remember all the good you’ve done, and then look for opportunities to make more great memories. That wonderful feeling of achievement is already within you, stronger now than ever before. Use this day to give it new expression. Remember how great it feels to make the effort and to make it count. Remember to make more great memories of achievement right now. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#A3vwAB0bpVgABYp7.99 |
April 19
With every choice Every choice you make, makes a difference. Remember always to use that power wisely. Every moment you live provides you with opportunity. Transform that opportunity into meaningful value in your own unique way. You have immense power over the quality of your life and the shape of your world. That power is exercised in the choices you make. When you live with positive purpose, a positive attitude and positive expectations, you’ll make positive, life-enriching choices. Those choices will reliably create a life of great fulfillment. What you think, what you feel, what you say and what you do all matter very much. In every moment, with every choice, you move your life in a specific direction. Make the commitment to always make that direction a good and meaningful one. Choose wisely, and live magnificently. — Ralph Marston |
April 20
Allow and accept Allow the beauty and allow the challenge. Allow the frustration and allow the joy. Allow the time and people and places and events to come into your life. And allow them to go peacefully on their way. Allow the ideas, the actions, the creative thoughts and even the disconcerting ones. Accept what happens, and accept that there’s a positive way forward no matter what. Accept the praise and the criticism of others, allowing yourself to grow stronger and more compassionate as a result. Allow yourself to be inspired and energized by life as it is, however it may be. Allow the certainty, the confusion, the harmony and the dissonance. Allow what you love and what you do not yet love. Allow yourself to be, in this unique and magnificent moment. Feel the full power of existence, feel the goodness that is possible, and allow it to come to life. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#QBrxoAFuEpch7GT3.99 |
April 21
At peace with the moment Frustration is caused by wanting to be where you are not, or to do what you are not doing, or to stop what you are already doing. Enjoy where you are and what you’re doing, and frustration is no more. Of course it goes against your grain to enjoy something you’ve decided is not enjoyable. But it is not as hard as you might think. Would you prefer to be frustrated, anxious and inefficient, or would you rather choose to enjoy the moment? Do you want your attitude to work against you, or would you like your attitude to work in your favor? Can you find it within yourself to be at peace with the moment, with the situation, with the task at hand? Of course you can. Let your choices, rather than habitual reactions, determine your state of mind. Let yourself be your best by letting go of the need to fight against whatever is going on. Express your high standards not by getting frustrated, but by getting peacefully and purposefully busy. Be at peace with the moment, and enable yourself to live it at your best. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#14rfPJxOkwCmpvGX.99 |
April 22
You deserve a great tomorrow You deserve to look forward to tomorrow with eager anticipation. What will make you able to do so are the actions you take today. You deserve a great tomorrow, and you have the opportunity to earn it today. With your priorities and your actions, you can make use of today so everything falls into place for a rewarding and fulfilling tomorrow. The good thing is, you can enjoy yourself today while putting in the focused effort that will produce a great tomorrow. Knowing that you’re headed in a positive direction is enough to improve whatever situation you’re in. Tomorrow is not that far away, and now is your chance to fill its moments with precisely the kind of life you envision. Realize the power of the opportunity you have, and make full use of that opportunity while you can. The direction you choose right now will determine where you are when tomorrow arrives. The things you do on this day can give great value to the life you live tomorrow. Tomorrow will be great. Today is a great day to make it so. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#uUA7doHI5uv2RPFw.99 |
April 23
Gift of achievement There is a gift you can give yourself at any time, in any place, that will make you feel great. It is the gift of achievement. Nothing feels quite the same as making the effort that results in achievement. When you make that effort, and reach that achievement, it helps not only you, but the whole world as well. Achievements can be big, spread over many years and requiring thousands of people. Or they can be much smaller, taking only a few minutes and yet making a real difference. Yet no matter what size the achievement may be, it always feels great to make a difference. And no matter what situation you are in, there is always a way to make that positive difference. You can give yourself, and your world, the gift of achievement right now. The more you do so, the more richness and fulfillment you’ll experience. At its very core, life is about making a difference. Now is a great time to give to yourself, and to everyone else, the gift of achievement. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#IyqvjAr1U3jPg7Qz.99 |
April 24
Where to start Are you not sure where to start? The place to start is where you are. Are you having trouble deciding on the first step to take? Just pick a step, take it, and you’ll suddenly be in a much better position to know what must be done next. Instead of waiting and wondering, speculating and procrastinating, worrying and making excuses, just go ahead and start. Put your time and energy into moving forward. You may not get it exactly right at first, in fact you probably won’t. Yet even if you make some initial mistakes, that’s a whole lot better than doing nothing. Start where you are, and go from there. Start where you are, and discover how much you enjoy the effort. The best way to know what to do next is by doing what you can do now. This is where to start, so do. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#hi3cEoTmFjVmhdXs.99 |
April 25
How to keep going How do you keep going when things get rough? The same way you keep going when things are good, by simply choosing to do it. The particular conditions of the moment are not that much of a factor. What really matters is the story you are telling yourself. When you decide to keep going, you will. When you tell yourself that you can, you can. Life can sometimes be discouraging, with each effort painful and each moment full of difficulty. Yet you can choose to see that difficulty as a stronger reason than ever before to keep going. If for no other reason, you can keep going just to get some distance beyond where you are now. You can keep going because it’s what you’ve done for a long time, and you’re actually very good at it. The way to keep going is to keep reminding yourself that you’re independent of any conditions you may face. You can keep going, because that is what you have chosen to do. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#RxUW7Hr6B0VelUow.99 |
April 26
Let it all motivate you The way to be highly motivated is not to go out and look for things to motivate you. The way to be highly motivated is to let everything motivate you. Be motivated by the defeats as well as the victories. Be motivated by the challenges and difficulties just as much as you’re motivated by the positive possibilities. When you hear encouraging news, be motivated. When someone gives you discouraging news, be just as motivated. Your level of motivation does not depend on what happens. It depends on the way you choose to respond. Choose to respond with a sense of positive and meaningful motivation. No matter what happens or fails to happen, let it motivate you to reach higher and to create new value. You cannot know everything that will fill this day, yet you can choose right now what to do with it. Let it all motivate you to make the efforts that will make it all even better. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/motivate/140426....MfHkMCcOViY.99 |
April 27
Activate your energy Tell yourself, right now, that you’re going to live this day with a high level of positive energy. Remind yourself, right now, that you don’t have to let anything make you sluggish or hesitant. Let the comments, dramas and situations come and go as they will. Through it all, offer your own enthusiastic energy to life. This is a day to make real progress in a meaningful direction. This is a day to engage yourself with your best possibilities. Though others may sit around nurturing their doubts and dreaming up excuses, you have much better things to do. You have the energy and the willingness to make good things happen. It’s nice when you get encouragement and validation from others for what you’re doing, but not an absolute necessity. You can activate your energy and move forward even when there’s no one there to urge you on. This very day offers all kinds of great rewards. Put your energy into living this day and earn yourself the best of those rewards. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#vt9WF6LGzyBqdpUw.99 |
April 28
Always a new way There’s always a new way to appreciate life. There’s always a new way to be helpful to others. No matter how much you’ve seen or done, there are always new things to experience. No matter how much you’ve achieved, there are always new ways to create value. There are new problems to be solved and new beauty to be enjoyed. There are new people to meet and new ways to enrich the relationships you already have. There are new and more compelling ways to express what you’ve always known. There are new ways to give your love to those you’ve always loved. There is never any reason to be bored or complacent or unmotivated. Every moment offers the possibility of living life in new and more satisfying ways. There’s always a new way to make this a great day. In this moment, life begins again, so live it with the fresh, new enthusiasm it deserves. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#Zv3Fy3J6WSf4AQZV.99 |
April 29
Beyond the limitations The world does not persecute you so much as you would think. Anything that holds you back is assisted in great part by your own imagination, or lack thereof. Imagine for a while that the barriers are not there. Imagine what you could do if you stepped outside your current assumptions. The more you focus on what holds you back, the more it holds you back. Imagine being free of the limitations and suddenly, in a very real way, you are. The energy of your mind has great power. Apply that energy in a positive direction. Visualize life beyond the limitations. You won’t erase those limitations, yet you can make them far less significant, and much less confining. Seeing that something is possible, makes it possible for you. Imagine life beyond the limitations, and go do what you have imagined. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#zYM1fsgklEOHl0rr.99 |
April 30
Purpose you cannot deny The thing that will keep you focused is not a strategy or technique or condition. What will keep you focused, and disciplined, and committed, is a purpose you cannot deny. If you’re serving a purpose that isn’t really your purpose, you’ll easily be distracted from it. Yet when you follow a purpose that lives at your very core, nothing can pull you away from it. Focus is not about trying hard. Focus is about living true. Great achievement demands great effort. A clear, authentic purpose is what will drive that effort, and make it feel like no effort at all. Be honest with life, be honest with others and, most of all, be honest with yourself. It is an unwavering commitment to truth and openness that enables you to connect to the power of your purpose. Live the purpose that lives at your heart. And live with richness in every moment. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#I5mxt7KoZ3RMSRWe.99 |
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