Daily Motivator - April

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April 1

Positive is always possible

Even when a positive response is not the most appropriate response, it is the most powerful. Even when there's no reason to be joyful, appreciative or enthusiastic, those qualities benefit you greatly.

When darkness is all around, it is still possible to shine a light. And a light in the darkness can abruptly change the situation for the better.

If you're surrounded by despair, be different than the despair. When you encounter negativity of any kind, respond in a positive way.

What matters most is what happens next. And what happens next is influenced by your attitude and expectations.

Whatever else the moment may hold, it also holds the possibility for progress. Shine your light on the best possibilities, and then act to follow them.

Positive is always possible. With a positive response, you can turn life around when life needs it the most.

Ralph Marston

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April 2

Invest yourself in hope

The reason to be hopeful is because you are hopeful. It is by living day after day with hope that your hopes are realized.

If you convince yourself there is no reason to be hopeful, you're right. However, when you choose to be that reason, hope returns, and improves your whole outlook.

You always have the choice to live with hope. And you have the power to fulfill that hope.

It is perfectly normal to become discouraged when you encounter negativity. And it is completely realistic to melt that discouragement away with your own deep reservoir of hope.

By its very nature, your hope is well founded. Allow it to fill your awareness now, and again and again, as often as you feel the need for it.

The more you live with hope, the more power and reality you give to it. Invest yourself in hope, and bring your best possibilities to life.

Ralph Marston

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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

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April 4

Peaceful energy

You can be energetic without being frantic. Peaceful energy is the kind of energy that gets work done.

Peaceful energy is sustainable energy. Peaceful energy is smart, purposefully directed energy.

There's no need to approach your work with a sense of dread or anxiety. Approach it with a sense of joy and positive expectation.

Be thankful for the job you have to do. Be thankful for the opportunity to make a difference.

If you're going to make the effort, you might as well make it enjoyable and productive. Instead of clenching your jaw and being uptight, relax and put a genuine smile on your face.

Give peaceful energy to your efforts. And many good things will come of them.

Ralph Marston

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April 5

Dos and don'ts

Care about other people, not about what they think of you. Focus on doing what's right, not on proving you're right.

Let happiness be the fuel for your actions all along the way, rather than just a reward at the end. Allow joy to flow out from you instead of expecting it to be given to you.

Create value out of what you have instead of making excuses out of what you lack. Set your goals high but not so high that you fail to act.

Be dependable and reliable without being tedious and predictable. Live fully in the moment today while working to create an even better tomorrow.

Expect the very best while gracefully accepting and dealing with whatever life brings. Think before you act, but don't let thinking take the place of actions.

Sing your own special song in harmony with all the other songs being sung. Make each moment you inhabit the best for all who are there.

Ralph Marston

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April 6

The arrival of now


Lovingly let go of the beauty that has been, so you'll always be able to treasure the experience of it. Make room to welcome the beauty being born right now.

Happiness continues as long as you don't try to hold it. Let it be, let it go, and let it enrich you again as it arrives in new and surprising ways.

What you pursue eludes you. What you allow fills your world.

As long as you focus on need, fulfillment is pushed away. Put energy into creating more of what you love using all of what you have, and need is nowhere to be found.

Every effort transforms abundance into new richness. Keep letting the richness inspire new effort.

Have the courage to allow the substance of now. And in it you will always find new richness to live.

Ralph Marston

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April 7

Dealing with mistakes

What's the best course to follow when you've made a mistake? Admit it, correct it, apologize for it, learn from it and get on with life.

Everybody makes mistakes, and most people understand that mistakes happen. Even those who expect the very best in every interaction do not expect perfection every moment of every day from every person.

If you try to cover up a mistake, or deny it, you make it ten times worse. Eventually, the truth always comes out, and when it does you want to make sure you've consistently been in agreement with that truth.

The way you handle a mistake, whether your own or someone else's, shines a bright light on your true character. It can in fact be an opportunity to demonstrate how much you care and how capable you are.

Aim for perfection, but don't pretend you are perfect. Give every effort your best, and don't be afraid to admit when you've fallen short.

When you quickly admit a mistake and then make it right, you show how authentic and honest you are. And those are two excellent qualities to be known for.

Ralph Marston

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April 8

Decisive action

Do more than merely deciding. Act on your decision.

Don't just think about it. Put sustained effort into it.

Action pays off. It's not always a sure thing you'll get the desired results, but it's a thousand percent better than nothing.

Be careful, but don't be paralyzed by fear of what might happen. Get busy with action and determine what does happen.

You can turn your life around with action. You can expand on what's already great, on what's already working, with action.

The time for dreaming, planning, wondering and considering is past. Now, today, your life deserves your decisive action.

Ralph Marston

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April 9

Inspired by anything

You don't have to depend on sugary platitudes or once-in-a-lifetime spectacular experiences for inspiration. You can be inspired by anything.

You can be inspired by pleasure and by pain. You can be inspired by the routine and the unexpected.

Instead of assuming you must continue to feel sadness, you can transform that sadness into inspiration. When you feel excitement or boredom, love, gratitude, frustration or disillusionment, you can be inspired by any of those feelings.

Life is a grand miracle that constantly unfolds on countless levels. Look, with caring and curiosity, at any of those levels, and you'll find inspiration.

There's no need to wait for the moment to be right for inspiration to come your way. Inspiration is a choice you can make in any situation.

Open yourself to all the inspiration that's possible right now, and always. Any time you wish to lift your spirits, you have plenty of ways.

Ralph Marston

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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

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April 11

Problem solving power

Solutions come from problems. Achievements come from difficulties.

When something doesn't work, you have a strong incentive to figure out what does work. When all your options have been exhausted, that's when you create new, better options.

No matter who you are or where you come from, life has its difficulties. By working through those difficulties you can find some of life's greatest blessings.

You are a powerful problem solver. All that power becomes fully engaged when you have a meaningful problem to address.

A problem is not a lifetime sentence of burden. It is your chance to do what you do best, to achieve.

Out of each problem, positive possibilities can arise. Find satisfaction in using your problem solving power to bring those possibilities to life.

Ralph Marston

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April 12

Peaceful power

In springtime, rich green foliage and flowers in a rainbow of colors burst into being. The magnificence is all born with no effort.

Flowers do not try to grow, nor strive to display their colors. They simply allow themselves to unfold according to their true nature, with spectacular results.

Wind stirs and mighty storms thunder across mountains, plains and valleys. It all happens because nature is simply being what nature is.

Gravity does not make any attempt to hold planets in their orbits, yet the orbits continue on and on. Seasons follow seasons, waves arrive upon shorelines in never-ending succession, not from trying but from the very nature of reality.

What beauty, what power within can you allow to unfold in similar fashion? What achievements can you give to life without the need to strive against the truth of who you are?

Enjoy the gentle breeze as it effortlessly touches your face. Learn from the peaceful power, allowing your own unique beauty and value to spring to life in its flow.

Ralph Marston

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April 13

Quality relationships

You cannot gain the support of others by shaming or lecturing. You won't succeed through begging or desperation.

The way to earn respect is to be respectful, helpful and consistently honest. The way to be loved is to give love without requiring or expecting love in return.

People don't really care so much about who you are or what you have or the things you've done. More than anything, by far, people care about how you treat them.

And faking it doesn't work at all. It doesn't take a college degree, or even a high school diploma, to spot a fraud.

You already know all this, and have for quite some time, yet situations arise when you're tempted to lay it all aside. Let this be your reminder to not give in to that temptation.

Care about people, with your words, actions, priorities, and people are more likely to care about you. The highest quality relationships come from putting your highest and best qualities into them.

Ralph Marston

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April 14

Inner perspective

Everything you know, everything you experience, is within the context of your own inner perspective. What you think of life determines how you experience life, literally, from moment to moment.

From your point of view, nothing can really be objective. Everything is filtered through your assumptions, your preferences, your fears and your love.

Though you cannot escape your own unique perspective, you can shape it in whatever way you choose. Though outside influences act upon you, inner choices determine how it all affects you.

You will always live whatever you focus upon. Focus on love, on goodness, on respect, compassion, value, joy, and your experience is filled with those good qualities.

No, you cannot change iron into gold merely by thinking it to be so. What you can do is much more powerful, much more beautiful.

You can transform despair into joy, hatred into love, boredom into passion, emptiness into fulfillment. Take care how you think of life, because from your perspective, it affects everything.

Ralph Marston

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April 15

Allow yourself to be you

Let go of anger and joy fills the space left behind. Allow apprehension to fall away, and peace begins to encompass you.

When fear loses its hold, love proceeds to work its miracles. As you move beyond the hollow demands of ego, you also move beyond its limitations.

Fulfillment is built upon effort but that effort is not a struggle. Indeed, the effort of fulfillment is your natural inclination.

That inclination to create and achieve with love, positive purpose and generosity has always been there. Stop fighting to suppress it, and watch it spring into action.

Even in ordinary, everyday concerns, you can operate from a deep sense of purpose. In moments big and small, you can be powered, informed and encouraged by all the good things you truly care about.

Step away from the assumption that you must struggle to be this or that, and simply allow yourself to be you. In the truth of who you are, in the power of all you love, is the fulfillment of all you could ever desire.

Ralph Marston