Daily Motivator - July

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July 26

Articulate your vision

What specifically could you do to improve and sustain the quality of life for you and for others? Envision it, then give depth and substance to that vision.

You know from experience that you regularly find yourself wishing for this or for that. But mere wishes have negligible power, particularly if they’re for outcomes over which you have limited influence.

A compelling vision that you have the ability to enact is a whole different matter. With such a vision directing your efforts, you can change life for the better.

Perhaps the vision is something as simple as a desktop free of clutter. Or maybe it’s a much more ambitious vision that will take years to fulfill.

Whatever the scope of your vision, when it’s meaningful, realistic, and achievable it pushes you in a positive direction. It constantly reminds you of what matters and urges you to act on what matters.

What good things do you envision yourself doing today, or this month, or over the next couple of years? Give yourself the power of vision, and give your best to all the moments you pass through.

— Ralph Marston

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July 27

Possible things

When you take risks you won’t always get positive results. But when you avoid taking risks you’ll never get any results at all.

You can’t be certain about what will happen tomorrow until it happens, tomorrow. Yet the only time you can act is right now, today.

Pretty much never will you get access to a sure thing that has any significant value. However, every moment of every day is filled with possible things.

Life’s most consequential advances are built not on what’s guaranteed, but on what’s possible. What’s possible has been good enough for everyone who has ever lived, and it’s certainly good enough for you.

Get yourself well informed, mix in some diligence and common sense. Then take a chance on what’s possible.

Not every possible thing you attempt will come to fruition. Yet when you persist, enough of them will.

— Ralph Marston

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July 28

Work on it

How do you transform a pile of rocks into a magnificent castle? You work on it.

How do you transform a rough idea for a story into a blockbuster motion picture? You work on it.

Your life and your world are filled with untapped potential. Turning that potential into value is a matter of time, intention, focus, and effort.

Achievement is relatively rare. Yet the raw materials for it are so abundant you cannot avoid encountering them.

The path from what’s commonly available to what’s highly desirable goes through you and others like you. There’s a whole world of physical reality, ideas, needs, concepts, energy, techniques, and much more to work with.

Value is created by effort. Think of all you can do right here, right now, to make some.

— Ralph Marston

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July 29

All of what you can do

Are you doing all of what you can do? Or are you settling for just some of it?

You’re going through the whole day today, so it’s in your best interest to give your whole effort to it. Don’t end up leaving opportunities and possibilities on the table that you have the time and ability to utilize.

Start each task and work until you finish it. Otherwise, you’re cheating yourself out of large quantities of richness and fulfillment that could be yours.

You deserve the full experience of your own life, of the world you live in, not just a fraction of it. So put your full attention and effort into living the experience and giving all the value you can give.

That doesn’t mean overwhelming yourself by taking on more than you can do. What is means is making thorough use of what’s available to you, and of what you’re capable of accomplishing.

This is your passion, your career, your community, your family, your life, your time, your dream, and it all matters. Give it your best, and do all of what you can do.

— Ralph Marston

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July 30

The price you pay

If you make ambitious, specific plans for the day, the week, the month, some of those plans are likely to fall through. That’s no reason to avoid making meaningful plans and working to carry them out.

If you have long-term goals and dreams for your life, you’re going to encounter some painful disappointments in connection with them. But that doesn’t mean you should avoid having those dreams.

It’s difficult when life doesn’t go the way you planned. Yet what’s far more difficult is to never plan much of anything at all.

Having no ambition, no goals, no dreams, will not shield you from pain and disappointment. It will guarantee pain and disappointment.

Make those plans, even though some may not work out. Set those goals, dream those dreams, and put the best of yourself into following them.

One way or another, you’re going to encounter disappointment and pay its price. That’s all the more reason to make sure you live a rich and fulfilling life in return for the price you pay.

— Ralph Marston

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July 31

Fail your way forward

The first attempt yields nothing usable. The second, the fifth, the fifteenth attempt, they all fall flat.

Keep going, continue learning, refining, figuring out what went wrong before and adjusting your strategy. As you do, you’ll zero in on what works best.

No effort ever has to be wasted. Because every effort results in valuable experience.

Getting it right is often a matter of getting it wrong enough times. Every step is a step forward when you resolve to keep going.

Rather than getting yourself mired in discouragement, acknowledge what went wrong. Use what you’ve learned to fine tune your next effort and to boost your enthusiasm for going ahead with that effort.

Failure is a common experience, and one you can use to great advantage. When it happens, fail your way forward and you’ll be working your way to success.

— Ralph Marston