Daily Motivator - October

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October 1

A day well lived

In the past, you've experienced the pain of being disappointed in yourself. Take this chance to remind yourself not to create that kind of pain again.

Today you have the opportunity to avoid the painful disappointment that comes when you've let yourself down. Today you can fill your moments with meaningful efforts, and end the day knowing you've done your best.

Instead of spending this day in ways you'll regret, you can invest its hours in activities that will satisfy and fulfill you. Instead of wasting your time, energy and resources, you can make it all count for something meaningful and valuable.

No matter who you are, and no matter what you start with, at the end of the day you'll be answering to yourself for what you've done. Make sure that answer is a good and satisfying one.

Right now, while you can, push yourself in a positive direction. Right now, while you're thinking about it, take some decisive action to commit yourself to excellence.

Avoid disappointment today by seeking out and following a path that will make life better for yourself and all those around you. Give yourself the gift of a day well lived, with no regrets and no disappointments.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 2

Beyond your assumptions

Your assumptions cause you to see things that are not there. Your assumptions blind you to realities that are all too real.

Your assumptions save you the time and effort of thinking everything through. That can be helpful, and it can also be dangerous.

If you assume too little, you can become paralyzed by the need to endlessly evaluate every new situation you encounter and every new decision you must make. If you assume too much, you can lose touch with reality.

Depend on your assumptions, while also challenging and verifying them regularly. Though you've accumulated some great experience and wisdom, life isn't always the way you assume it will be.

Beyond your assumptions, new and valuable possibilities thrive and multiply. As comfortable as those assumptions may be, keep in mind that they can severely limit you.

Remind yourself often that your assumptions are just that, assumptions. Remind yourself often to see the realities and participate in the possibilities that you never would have assumed are out there.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 3

Prove to life how great it can be
Let the beauty of this life encourage you to act with goodness and creativity. When you encounter challenges, let them motivate you to build new value in your world.

Be inspired by the success of others, and push yourself beyond whatever limitations you may have previously imagined. You deserve a life of excellence, and you deserve the matchless experience of working to create that excellence.

Where there are difficulties, see the opportunities for greater fulfillment. Where there are painful situations, injustice and despair, open yourself to the awareness of all the ways you can make a difference.

Whatever happens today, choose to let it support and encourage you. In every circumstance, in each experience, in the news you hear and in the people you encounter, find the positive possibilities.

Let life lift you up, no matter how it unfolds. Be ever mindful of the fact that you can always respond in a loving and life-affirming way.

There is always much to give you encouragement, hope and energy. Whatever happens, take it in stride, fill yourself with inspiration from it all, and prove to life how great it can be.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 4

Jump right in

Stop waiting, dreaming and hoping for someday. Start living and working today to achieve the best of your dreams and to fulfill the highest of your hopes.

Whatever you put off until someday, never happens. Someday is forever out there, just around the corner, but never here and now.

All that you have, and all the great and creative things you’re able to do, are here and now. So jump right in and enjoy making life happen, here and now.

Waiting for someday is a lame excuse and a convenient way to hide from your own best possibilities. Choose today to stop hiding and to start really living.

No matter how ambitious your goal may be, there is something you can do about it right now. There is no need, and there is no point, in putting your fulfillment off until some non-existent someday.

Today is what you have, and it’s filled with energy, with possibility, with life and awareness and with your powerful presence. Embrace this day with all its richness, and use its moments to live true to your highest vision.

— Ralph Marston

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October 5

Purposeful work

Those who achieve are those who take the time to do it. Those who achieve are those who put forth the effort to make it happen.

Achievement can appear glamorous and out of reach at the same time, yet in truth it is neither. Achievement is built on intentional, focused, hard work, and is available to anyone willing to do that work.

When the food tastes great, or the lawn looks beautiful, or the sales of a business are growing, it is because someone did the work to make it happen. When the schedule is organized, when the show is entertaining, when the parking lot is clean, it is because people worked to make it so.

It's easy to complain, or to feel bad about the way things are, or to dream up excuses, but those activities don't create progress. Purposeful work is what creates progress.

Yet there's something even better. Apart from the rewards it brings, purposeful work is a highly satisfying thing to do.

And right now is your time to do it. Take the time, make the effort, and feel great as you bring new value to life in this world.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 6

Desire to be happy

Every person you encounter today has something in common with you. Just like you, every person holds a deep-seated desire to be happy.

The definition of what constitutes happiness varies greatly from person to person. And another person's strategy for achieving happiness may not make any sense to you.

Nevertheless, each person you talk to, or do business with, complain to, receive praise, insults or advice from, is seeking happiness. Each person is seeking happiness in his or her own way.

On your own, you cannot make other people happy. And other people cannot confer happiness upon you, or withhold it from you.

However, what you can do is respect in your actions, in your words, in your thoughts and attitude, the desire of every person to be happy. Your respect can make all the difference.

Do you want to live in a world filled with people who are disappointed, disgusted or angry with life, or in a world where people are happy with life? Choose to respect, encourage and support the universal desire for happiness in others, and you'll find your own desire for happiness to be increasingly fulfilled.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 7

Push through the reluctance
Rest for a while when you are weary, but only for a little while. If you rest too long, you will grow even more weary.

The way to have more energy is to utilize more energy. The way to feel like taking action is to build and maintain the momentum of taking action.

Traveling the first mile gives you the vitality to go the second mile, and the third, and the one thousandth. Improve your ability by putting that ability to work.

Push yourself to take the first few steps. Soon enough, momentum will help to push you forward.

At times it can be difficult to find others who will encourage you. So go ahead, get started, and be encouraged by your own action.

When you don't feel like doing anything is precisely when doing something will make you feel a whole lot better. Push through the weariness, push through the reluctance, and enjoy the power and strength of creating your own momentum.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 8

Your day to be strong

This day provides you with plenty of opportunities to be strong. Embrace those opportunities and experience how great it feels to exercise your own strength.

Frustrating situations do not have to frustrate you, because you're stronger than that. Temptations do not have to tempt you, because you have the strength to move on past them.

You have the strength to be purposeful and focused. You're able to accomplish what you choose to accomplish by harnessing your strength to do what must be done.

Whether your strength has recently been dormant or whether you've been making use of it, today it can grow even stronger. Commit yourself to be your true self in a way that's stronger and more positive than ever.

Feel your own strength as it grows, and watch new possibilities jump into view. Enjoy the richness that comes from living with strength, and be inspired to expand that strength.

Today is your day to be strong, purposeful and full of life. Give yourself the great satisfaction of living your strength in every moment.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 9

Live in gratitude
Every moment you live in gratitude is a moment you do not have to live in fear, or anger, frustration or disappointment. Every moment you live in gratitude empowers you to be more purposeful, effective, kind and creative.

It's easy to be grateful, though sometimes hard to remember to be. Let this serve as your reminder.

In fact, you can remind yourself to be grateful in a lot of different ways. It's obvious that you would be grateful for your blessings, yet there are plenty of other things you can add to the list.

When a challenge arises, you can be grateful for the strength and experience you'll gain and the new value you'll create by working through that challenge. When you've been disappointed or suffered a loss, you can be grateful for your ability to care about life.

Gratitude keeps you connected to the good and valuable parts of your life. When you remember to be grateful, you suddenly equip yourself with a powerful, positive perspective.

No matter what may happen, you can find a way to be grateful. Live in gratitude, and live at your very best.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 10

You can take action
Do what must be done, and care about what you do. It's not complicated, and you can do it, so stop making excuses and get going.

Think of how great you'll feel when you have transformed a necessity into an accomplishment. Imagine that feeling, and then get to work making it happen.

You have an amazing ability. You can formulate an intention, and then work that intention into reality.

Right now, on this day, in this place, you literally have the ability to change the world for the better. So decide precisely how you wish to change it, and get going.

Instead of just thinking, wishing, hoping or begging, you can take action. Yes, the task will likely be difficult, and yet in working through that difficulty you are creating original, unique value.

Take a deep breath, and realize what a magnificent opportunity you have. Then get yourself going and experience the fulfillment of making it into a magnificent reality.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 11

Fulfill the promise

You are making progress. Now, make some more.

You are experienced, capable and effective. Now, put your abilities again to good and meaningful use.

You are very knowledgeable. Now, build on what you know and learn some more.

There have been some beautiful and fulfilling moments in your life. Take the opportunity today to create some new ones.

You know how great true joy feels. Let more joy now flow out into the world from your life, your words, your feelings and actions.

You are alive in a universe filled with possibilities. Now, fulfill the awesome promise of all that is with the best that can be.

— Ralph Marston

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October 12

Storms of change

Changes slam into your life whether you want them to or not. Some changes frighten you, inconvenience you, frustrate and annoy you.

As unavoidable and difficult as the changes may be, you never have to let them get the best of you. For you can make your own changes, and make them for the better.

The world changes, and those changes challenge you to respond. Though you rarely can control or even influence the changes, you have full control over the way you respond.

Though the changes may seem to threaten all you know, including your very identity, that's really not the case. Even while storms of change rage on the outside, you can remain strong and firm in your values, priorities and commitments on the inside.

You can use that strength to take every change in stride. With it, you can support and expand all you love and value through every change that comes.

Changes are uncomfortable, and in that discomfort you feel your own power, urging you to put it to positive use. When changes come, engage that power to learn, adapt, improve and make the best of who you are, even better.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 13

Peaceful part of you

Your life, in the way it continues to unfold, demands much from you. You attempt new things, you care in new ways, you seek to make your world a better place and as a result, the pressures mount.

But those pressures don't have to translate into stress. Though you are heavily invested in the turmoil, you don't have to let it throw you around.

You can be active, involved, responsive and ambitious, and still be firmly at peace. Though what you do is important and demanding, and expresses your values, it is not who you are.

You could walk away from all you do and still be you, still have worth and integrity. Though you would never think of failing to honor your commitments, at your core you exist apart from those commitments, strong and still and at peace.

Choose often to feel that peaceful part of you, letting a soothing sense of peace wash over you. Feel your inner peace, not to abandon your outer life but to bring new strength to it.

The world is filled with all kinds of turmoil, pressure and demands. Fortunately, you can choose to deal with it all from a position of strength, stillness, confidence and peace, so do.

Ralph S. Marston

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October 14

A beautiful future

Everything you know about yourself and your world is based on what has happened in the past. Though that is useful knowledge, don't let it limit you.

People change, circumstances change, and new possibilities are born with each dawning day. What you do with the future does not have to be restrained by what you've done in the past.

If you've been disappointed or uninspired, dismayed or lacking in energy, that can stop right now. If it seems you've been having a bad month, a bad year or a bad decade, let yourself know that your fortunes are about to change.

Look forward with a positive perspective and act accordingly. Respect and treasure your past, while living in the present to create a fulfilling future.

Make good use of what you know, while keeping in mind that there's always a whole lot more to learn and to experience. Dare to dream of the best world you can imagine, and know the joy of doing all you can to make it happen.

This is a new moment, so take full advantage of its freshness. Go forward with the best of intentions, the highest integrity, energy and enthusiasm, and make the future a beautiful thing.

Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

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October 15

Not too satisfied

One of the worst things you can do with an achievement is to be fully satisfied with it. Sure, be satisfied, but not so satisfied that you stop taking any further action.

You didn't let the challenges stop you. It would be a shame to let your victory stop you.

Complacency can rob you of not only your achievements, but of your very will to achieve. Though you have earned the right to take a little break from your efforts, it's in your best interest not to make that break too long.

Let the achievement satisfy you for a little while. Then look for how it can challenge you and spur you to further achievement.

The most painful regrets are for opportunities missed. Don't let the good things you've done lull you into complacency about the new opportunities that have just been born.

Rather than resting on your achievements, build on them. Find even greater satisfaction by putting your skills and experience to work again, and again.

Ralph S. Marston