Daily Motivator - March

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March 1

Special something

It doesn’t take much to make life good. But it does take something.

It’s nothing really to set the sails at just the right trim. Yet that’s what enables you to ride on the wind wherever you wish to go.

The world offers you what you’re willing to give it. Now, today, with all you know and feel, what exactly will that be?

Wishes and concepts and dreams are empty until they have some action. Just a little is enough to get fulfillment started.

At most things you’re not an expert, and still you can do something. Time and resources are always limited, and with them there is nonetheless always something good you can do.

Choose a special something to do that’s right here within your reach. Show yourself again what a difference you can make.

— Ralph Marston

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Happy March the 1st family.
Thanking God for getting though the
month of February one day at a time.

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March 2

Revival and renovation

Weeds, rot, dust and rust point out places you have neglected. With a little work you can bring those places back up to their full beauty and potential.

Where there is decay and decline you have a precisely defined opportunity. Echoes of what has been show the value of what can be, and instruct you in exactly how to make it come to life.

There are parts of your life, places in your world that could benefit greatly from a revival or a renovation. They represent large investments already made that will end up being either worthless or highly valuable, depending entirely on what you do.

Maybe it’s best to let some parts of your garden return fully to their natural state. Perhaps it’s appropriate to let certain relationships fade into nothing but distant memories.

Yet you do have much in your life that’s well worth saving, not only for you but also for others. What a shame it would be not to make the effort that will revive and refresh what has too long been neglected.

Look where disarray has crept in and see if you can envision new value there. Perhaps now is a good time for a little revival and renovation.

— Ralph Marston

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March 3

Put imagination into action

If you knew how close you are to making progress, you’d keep up the effort. But you don’t know, and that can be discouraging.

You can, however, do another powerful thing. You can imagine.

Imagine that a breakthrough is just a few minutes away. Imagine you’ve reached the goal and are filled with gratitude for your own persistence.

Imagine, then put that imagination into action. Imagine, and what you imagine will energize and drive you to make it real.

Transform the negative energy of doubt into the positive energy of action and achievement. Imagine in detail your desired outcome and let yourself be inspired by it.

There’s power in your thoughts. Make use of that power to bring about the breakthroughs and the results you seek.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

There's always a breakthrough around the corner
just keep looking for it.

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March 4

Enrich your life

Pick a challenge and embrace it. Choose a challenge and do the work to conquer it.

Challenges are not always fun, usually not particularly pleasant. But challenges are essential to defining an environment where achievement is possible.

A game with no rules is not a game worth playing. It is just chaos in which satisfaction and fulfillment are impossible to attain.

Do you want to be coddled or do you want to be competent? Keep in mind that competence is a whole lot more sustainable.

Would you like to push a button and solve all your problems or would you rather discover what is meaningful to you? In working through challenge you work your way toward clarity of purpose.

How can challenge enrich your life? You owe it to yourself to continue finding out.

— Ralph Marston

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March 5

Embrace the difficulty

You won’t make the problem any less problematic by hiding from it. Embrace the difficulty and you begin to give yourself a measure of control over it.

Exercise your courage and improve your effectiveness at the same time. Admit the shortcomings, limitations, mistakes, and disappointments, then do something about them.

You’re not going to fool anybody by pretending there’s not a problem. What you can do is impress everyone, including yourself, by meeting the problem head-on.

Look at the situation with clarity and with the highest expectations. Throw in a little humor and good cheer.

Ask yourself, what would turn a negative into a positive? From what areas within this challenge, with what specific actions, can you extract opportunity and value?

Look honestly and bravely at the problem and what you’ll see is a chance to add new richness to life. Feel your courage take hold as you embrace the difficulty and transform it into something good.

— Ralph Marston

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March 6

Darkness to see

Sometimes you need darkness in order to see. Sometimes you need silence to be able to hear.

Listen, and you find meaning not only in the sound but in the silence that envelopes the sound. Watch as daylight fades, and your vision grows more perceptive.

When you’re gulping noise, color, data, sensation, how can you possibly find value and meaning in it all? Consider taking a step back from the torrent.

Find for yourself a quiet, peaceful sanctuary, away from the glare and the constant motion. Feel your own breath and the miraculous, mysterious life it nurtures.

In that space, let go of the need to perceive everything all at once. Treasure and explore the opportunity to understand and connect with what matters most.

In the gentle darkness you can see the faintest of lights. Often those are the ones that can make the biggest difference.

— Ralph Marston

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March 7

Work with what you have

What at first seems to be a burden may eventually become a blessing. Welcome life as it comes, the way and the flavor in which it arrives.

Then give your honest best, mindful of what matters. You have time and space and energy to work with, so do just that, work with what you have.

In the roughest of places you can find beauty. In the most challenging times you can create fulfillment.

Assess the situation, but don’t wade too deeply into judging the conditions. Keep your focus on the good work you can do, and keep doing it.

If you expect everything to magically fall into place you’ll be disappointed. Yet when you activate the true magic of your own being, your love, caring, and sharing, you’ll be amazed.

The day begins, you are in it, and it’s more than enough to get you started. There’s much to be achieved, experienced, and lived when you go ahead and work with what you have.

— Ralph Marston

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March 8

Steady effort

Don’t give up when you’re behind. Don’t slack off when you’re ahead.

Put forth steady effort. That’s what creates progress.

You could rationalize your way out of continuing the effort, just this once, just temporarily. But a temporary halt is likely to become a permanent halt, causing you to lose all the ground you’ve gained.

Modest skill with steady effort is able to outperform high skill with occasional effort. Be consistent and you’ll set yourself up to be effective.

Make it your priority to make the effort. That’s especially important when you don’t want to.

It’s not particularly glamorous but it is extremely powerful. Steady effort gets good stuff done.

— Ralph Marston

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March 9

A choice to make

You have a choice to make. You can choose to live your best life today, right now, or you can choose something less.

You can choose courage, truth, fortitude. Or you can choose to give in to weakness.

You can choose to lift up those around you. You can choose to be diligent, kind, filled with joy and energy.

You can choose action. You can choose to live with positive purpose, focus, intention.

Or you can choose to waste the richness that’s yours to make use of. You can choose to decline the good opportunities that appear in every moment.

What you choose makes all the difference in the quality of life you live. You always have a choice to make, and every day, every time, you can choose the best.

— Ralph Marston

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March 10

Take a breath

You crash against the wall of someone else’s incompetence. Take a breath, and put it in perspective.

You’re frustrated by all the work you have to do and the obstacles that stand in your way. Take a breath, and let that frustration fall away.

Take a breath, and turn your attention toward all you are thankful for. Consider the many possible good experiences you have to look forward to.

Refuse to get caught up in resentment for factors you cannot change. Take a breath, and feel all the potential goodness that lives inside you.

Inspire yourself by imagining the many ways you can express that goodness in the real world. Inspire others by acting on what you imagine to make it happen.

When the world’s confusion pulls your awareness away from who you are, what you care about and why, take a breath. Give yourself the chance to get back where you truly belong.

— Ralph Marston

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March 11

Hopes and expectations

Give your world the energy of hope. Give your life the benefit of positive expectations.

Your hopes and expectations alone will not cause anything to happen. What they will do is encourage you, inspire you, and push you to create value, to promote goodness.

Be hopeful, expect the best. Then act on your hopes, put your time, efforts, and resources behind your expectations.

Give yourself a detailed vision of the best place life can go. Then get yourself up and get going in that direction.

What exactly can you dare to hope for today? Let that hope take hold, envision what will get you there, and act on your vision.

Don’t let the moments pass by with nothing in them. Each one provides a new opportunity to work toward fulfilling your best hopes and expectations.

— Ralph Marston

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March 12

Live the promise of now

Celebrate this moment that is now because now is where you live. Make good use of now because now is what you have, everything that is.

You can conceptualize the past and the future, and that can be useful. Yet now is the only time where you can actually be.

Now is when you can make progress. Now is when you can enjoy the richness of life.

All the things you’ve ever done have brought you to now. You’re already highly invested in now, so be sure to live it fully.

Now also holds great potential for all you can be. What you do with now will impact all the days ahead.

Give now the respect, attention, energy, and action it deserves. Live the promise, reap the value, of now.

— Ralph Marston

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March 13

This is your day

Life happens today. Whether you’re prepared for it or not, this day is here for you to live.

A time will come when you’ll realize the value of what you have right now. The sooner that realization comes, the better.

This is probably not what you would envision as your ideal day. Yet this is the day you have, the only one you can currently work with.

You could wish for and wait for a better situation. Or you could go ahead and make good use of the situation as it is.

What you have today is the opportunity to make progress. That opportunity does not depend on what has already happened, but rather on what you do about it now.

This is your day to live, to act, to learn, to experience. Do so now, as fully and richly as you are able.

— Ralph Marston