Daily Motivator - October

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October 1

Ongoing care

The best time to do the hard stuff is while it’s easy. Get far enough ahead of your deadlines and you won’t become squeezed up against them.

Tend to the small problems early. That prevents them from becoming big problems.

Get in the habit of using your spare time to make modest, incremental progress. Before long you’ll discover your persistent efforts have resulted in major gains.

Routine maintenance and steady improvement are not as exciting as some of your other options. Yet they can save you from the trauma and expense of desperate emergency repair.

Every meaningful part of your life benefits from regular, ongoing care and attention. A great way to express gratitude for the good things you have is to keep them in good shape and improve upon them.

Rather than always wishing for more, put effort into making what you already have more valuable and durable. A little extra care today can improve the quality of all your tomorrows.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

Happy October the 1st my amazing daily reading Family.
I'm so grateful to God for watching over us during the month of September,
He is merciful and worthy of all praise. I pray that He will continue watch over my
Friends Tammy and Kracker, and may He continue to watch over our family's during
these next 31 days of October one day at a time.
God bless you with all of my heart.
Wayne (aka Willbe275)

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October 2

Reality always wins

Reality is often painful. Yet opposing reality is much more painful because it is ultimately impossible.

You can deny reality but your denial carries no weight beyond your own perception. Whether you accept it or not, reality always wins.

Your best choice is clear. Whatever dreams, goals, hopes, intentions you may have, be realistic.

Keep yourself on the side of truth, on the side of reality. Don’t let yourself be seduced into thinking, hoping, or acting contrary to what’s real and true.

The world presents you with an abundance of very real possibilities. Though it will take work, you can experience much goodness and fulfillment while at the same time being realistic.

As demanding as it may be, challenge yourself to keep your perceptions and expectations realistic. Reality always wins, so set yourself up to win along with it.

— Ralph Marston

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October 3

Venture forward

The unknown is filled with terrifying threats and wondrous beauty. Do you dare to go there?

If you avoid everything you don’t already know, your awareness, your spirit, your power collapse in on themselves. Your once-brilliant potential is corrupted into a losing battle for meaning and relevance.

Your very existence is established and supported by your ability to explore and encounter. Your desire to venture into the unknown and to deal with whatever you find, is what enables you to experience goodness itself.

You will run into problems, and maybe even monsters, as you expand the boundaries of your known world. Yet out there beyond where you now are, that’s where your life in all its richness must be lived.

Courage is not some rarefied, unobtainable quality available only to a select few. Courage is what you do, what you’ve done, what you’ll continue every time you step beyond what you already know.

All that dangerous, unexplored territory is where your treasures await. Keep yourself strong, capable, and clear about the dangers as you venture outward to claim those treasures.

— Ralph Marston

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October 4

Failing forward

Not only is failure a possibility, it’s a certainty. If you’re working on anything that’s the least bit ambitious, at some point you will fail.

Failure gives you the chance to prove how much you want to succeed. Failure gives you the opportunity to grow.

Take that opportunity and run with it. Pick yourself up and push forward, because success is now within sight.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve lost. It means you’re pursuing something useful and valuable.

Be thankful for failure and what it means. Take the inspiration it gives you and carry it all the way to success.

Learn, grow, adapt, improve, and become more determined with each failure. As you fail you’re creating achievement, so keep going until that achievement is yours.

— Ralph Marston

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October 5

Having enough

Don’t be complacent but do be content. Don’t stop making a difference but do let go of the need to constantly strive for more.

Achievement is good, but it’s not what makes you good. Before you ever formulated your first goal, you had unique value.

Your efforts enable you to express, expand, and offer that value to others. Those efforts are more effective when they come from a place of contentment and confidence rather than from need and anxiety.

Though there’s more you will do, you can allow what you’ve done to be enough. Experience the deep, abiding peacefulness of allowing what you have and who you are to be enough.

From that place of peace you can generate much new value in your own life and in the lives of others. And you can do it without being burdened by the need to prove anything.

Give yourself the richness of having enough. Be your best by not needing to be anything more than you already are.

— Ralph Marston

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October 6

Notice more

Notice more than you have noticed before. Find great joy and enlightenment in your awareness.

In old and familiar places, see new aspects, fresh details. In new and unexplored territory, compare and contrast what you observe to places you have been before.

No matter what you’ve already experienced, you can always spot something that will activate your curiosity. Wherever you go, you have the opportunity to more deeply understand the existence of which you’re a crucial part.

Look at what is there and contemplate what you see. Let life be an continuous source of inspiration and fascination.

Set yourself free from the same old stories that keep playing and playing in your mind. Discover the new and illuminating realities unfolding around you in every moment.

Notice more, embrace what you see, make it a part of your wisdom and experience. Recognize and celebrate the endless richness in which you have the great fortune of being immersed.

— Ralph Marston

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October 7

Changing your mind

Give yourself permission to change your mind. Respectfully extend that courtesy to others as well.

It’s good, valuable, important for you to be consistent in your thinking. Yet it’s not helpful to be stubborn just for the sake of being stubborn.

Admitting that you were mistaken is rarely an easy thing to do. However, it’s a whole lot better than doubling down on what you know is not true.

Conditions change, priorities change, new information becomes available, time and experience provide fresh insight. What made perfect sense in the past could become the wrong choice in the present.

You’re not locked into what you once thought just because you thought it, or said it, or did it. When circumstances warrant, you have the option to change your mind.

Go with what’s most accurate and beneficial. If that means changing your mind, have the courage and the honesty to do so.

— Ralph Marston

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October 8

Count yourself in

Make life happen. Bring meaning to the moment.

Fill the day with richness. Instill joy wherever you are.

Don’t just watch, wonder, speculate and criticize from afar. Jump all the way in and participate.

Add your voice to the songs that arise. Make your efforts essential to the experiences that unfold.

You deserve to play your part and it’s your responsibility to do so. Life yearns for what you can give just as keenly as you yearn to give it.

Life is now, life is full, and life is worth every bit of your involvement. Count yourself in and make yourself count.

— Ralph Marston

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October 9

Leave outrage behind

Your anger and outrage are well justified. And that’s precisely why you must let them go.

Anger and outrage will call your attention to meaningful problems. But they will not solve those problems.

You won’t make any progress by focusing solely on what you’re opposed to. You make progress by envisioning and working toward what is valuable and desirable.

Go beyond the anger, go beyond the outrage. Go to work and create a more compelling and favorable alternative.

Don’t get sucked into endlessly fighting what you oppose. Instead, get busy making it irrelevant.

Take the energy of your anger and point it in a positive direction. Leave the outrage behind so decisively and successfully that it cannot happen again.

— Ralph Marston

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October 10

Your life changes

Some of the choices you made yesterday made life a little bit better. How can you make even more of those same kinds of choices today?

From some of your past challenges you’ve been able to create new value. What can that teach you about the challenges you face right now?

Many of the things you worried about last week, you can’t even remember because they turned out to be nothing. How many of your present worries are similarly unfounded?

In the last five years you’ve made real progress in certain areas of your life. How can you apply that experience going forward?

Your life changes and you play a big role in that change. Consider the very real opportunity that situation presents.

Good things are built a little bit at a time. And right now, right upon you, is that precious time.

— Ralph Marston

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October 11

Unexpected

Relax into the challenge. Find comfort in the unexpected.

Discover for yourself how life can be so much more than what you assume it will be. Understand the deeper perfection in an imperfect world.

Let the wind sting your face and the sun warm your skin, both at the same time. Find serenity in the noise and astonishment in the ordinary.

Experience the similarities of fire and ice. Realize how satisfying a question can be when no clear answer is possible.

Improve your resilience by upsetting your balance. Deepen your wisdom by recognizing what you do not know.

Don’t expect life to work the way you expect life to work. Live the wonder as it goes far beyond anything you could ever imagine.

— Ralph Marston

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October 12

Turning point

What will help you to think more clearly? What will prompt you to care more deeply?

What will get you to stop procrastinating and take action? What will clarify your highest priorities?

What important things must you lose before you fully appreciate all you have? What might force you out of the rut you’ve been in?

Various events can push you in a thousand different directions. What are you doing, what purpose are you following, to push yourself?

There’s always a turning point coming in your life. How can you conduct yourself right now so the next turning point will be a positive one?

Before long, circumstances will push you or prompt you to push yourself. Think about and prepare for the direction in which you prefer it to be.

— Ralph Marston

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October 12

Turning point

What will help you to think more clearly? What will prompt you to care more deeply?

What will get you to stop procrastinating and take action? What will clarify your highest priorities?

What important things must you lose before you fully appreciate all you have? What might force you out of the rut you’ve been in?

Various events can push you in a thousand different directions. What are you doing, what purpose are you following, to push yourself?

There’s always a turning point coming in your life. How can you conduct yourself right now so the next turning point will be a positive one?

Before long, circumstances will push you or prompt you to push yourself. Think about and prepare for the direction in which you prefer it to be.

— Ralph Marston

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October 13

Someone special

You are something special. You are someone special.

That doesn’t mean you get to jump to the head of the line. It means you’re obliged to live up to your unique potential.

It means your perspective matters. It means what you value has value.

The good things you do contribute to the goodness of all that is. Those things you decline to do or neglect to do impose a cost on everyone.

No one else can add to life what you are able to add. No one else sings life’s songs in the beautiful voice that is yours to share.

You are someone special, living in a world where every person is uniquely special. Remind yourself of all the good that can come from such, and play your special role to make it so.

— Ralph Marston