Daily Motivator - December

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December 1

Giving all you can

Here is your opportunity for a day of richness and fulfillment. Seize the opportunity by giving the best of yourself.

Look beyond the empty, contrived spectacles that do nothing other than waste your precious time. Seek instead to engage your body, mind, and spirit in pursuits that genuinely challenge, enlighten, and inspire you.

Pass right on by what is free and effortless and demands nothing from you. You’ll find zero fulfillment or satisfaction there.

Get yourself into situations where you can contribute consequential value. Spend your moments in the service of life, making a positive difference for yourself and others.

Grow stronger by making use of your strengths. Expand your skills by putting them to the test.

Refuse to be trapped by worn out assumptions, false dramas, and hollow transactions. You deserve the incomparable fulfillment of giving all you can to change life for the better.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

Happy December the 1st my dear friend.
God bless you and your family on this
First day of Advent. Tammy we never
Met personally, but you have been part
Of my life for over ten years. Wow.
God bless you and have wonderful
Holiday season in the Lord.
Love you my awesome friend
And sister.

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God bless you too my friend. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year! Love you too brother.

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December 3

Discretionary time

After fulfilling the necessary tasks and obligations, consider how you’re making use of your discretionary time. Look for activities and priorities that enhance and affirm your life, and all of life.

It’s simple to know whether you’re being productive or not based on the results you obtain. It’s a good bit more subjective to determine whether you’re creating genuine fulfillment in your life.

Nonetheless, years of experience have shown you what adds meaningful substance to your existence and what doesn’t. Pay attention, and with your discretionary time do more of whatever injects real richness into your world.

What was enjoyable before is usually enjoyable again. But be careful not to get into such a pleasant, comfortable rut that the joy loses all its essence.

Deepen your fulfillment by expanding the territory in which you experience it. Make life’s goodness even more valuable by using it to bring new goodness into being.

With the time that’s yours to schedule and utilize, enrich your life and the lives around you. Live life at its best by continuing to make it even better.

— Ralph Marston

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December 4

Not quite perfect

Go with a good option, but don’t waste a lot of time holding out for the perfect option. Make the best choice available to you, and make it work.

Yes, you might realize later that an alternative direction would have made things easier, more profitable, more effective. That’s good to know, but don’t let that realization prevent you from moving forward again.

Perfection is a great ideal but a lousy tactic. Go with what you have when you have it, even if it’s not quite perfect.

If conditions or options or priorities change, adjust to the best of your ability. Then keep going, with the time, resources, and knowledge you have available.

Work yourself in the direction of perfection without making yourself dependent on it. Know with confidence that you can continue to make improvements.

Zero in on a good option, putting your time, your skill, and your effort into it. Even if you never achieve perfection, there’s plenty of good you can do.

— Ralph Marston

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December 5

Be selective

What you have is made special by what you don’t have. For an experience to be memorable it must be surrounded by moments that are ordinary.

If you were to feast every day there would be no such thing as a feast. The deprivation, the restraint, the empty space, give meaning to the substance, to the abundance.

When you have everything you have nothing. If you cram stuff into every available cubic inch you’ve rendered it all inaccessible.

Allow for plenty of empty spaces between possessions, between experiences, between encounters and relationships. Those empty spaces are where you make meaningful use of all you have.

Live at a scale that enables your interest, your gratitude, your appreciation, and your effectiveness. Keep in mind that too much can be just as undesirable as too little.

Give yourself plenty to care about, but not so much that caring is impossible. Be selective, seek balance, and live well.

— Ralph Marston

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December 6

Allow yourself to dream

Go ahead and dream. Even though it’s far from practical, and seems a bit silly, it’s a good and useful thing to do.

Consider what could be if you could align the world just the way you wanted. Spend a little time dreaming, reminding yourself of who you are and what you care about.

To fulfill your amazing potential, it’s essential to have a reason, one that matters, one that resonates. With a dream that’s vivid, desirable and sincere, that’s what you get.

The world can deliver plenty of disillusionment, over and over again. Yet each time that happens, you can return to your dream, and actually make it even stronger, more compelling.

Let yourself dream, take that dream seriously, let it sink in and infuse every corner of your life. Then you’ll begin to act on it, very likely without even realizing at first.

Don’t get continually lost in frivolous empty wishes, but do allow yourself a little time to seriously and deeply dream. Bring the energy of your purpose to the surface, and with it you can do beautiful things.

— Ralph Marston

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It is indeed a wonderful and beautiful life
Thank You My Lord The Most High.
In Jesus Name. Amen.

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December 7

One good choice after another

What is the most helpful thing you could do in the next few minutes? What are the most purposeful thoughts you could hold in your awareness as today unfolds?

What attitude would propel you into a more effective, productive state? Imagine choosing that attitude and sticking with it for a while.

The future is about to begin. And right now it is open-ended, filled with every kind of possibility.

As you move into that future you have the chance to make one good choice after another. Go with what you know at the moment to be optimal, and then add more fortuitous choices as time goes on.

The next word you say, the next action you take, all these things make a difference. As time continues to arrive, you get better at making use of it, one good choice after another.

The path to a magnificent life consists of one purposeful, intentional step followed by the next, and the one after that. Take the step that’s here now, give it your highest and best consideration, and keep going.

— Ralph Marston

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December 8

The best within you

Perhaps today is not your best day. And it’s likely you’re not in an ideal situation.

Nonetheless, you can visualize what you would do if you were in fact experiencing your best day. And you can, to the best of your ability, work on doing it.

You can imagine how you would move forward if indeed you were in an ideal situation. And you can incorporate elements of that response into the existing situation.

External circumstances certainly have their impact. Yet your internal drive, purpose, motivation, and concept of yourself also have important roles to play.

The best within you is always present, always possible, even in the worst of situations. And it is precisely at those times that the best version of yourself can come forward to push life in a more positive direction.

No matter where you go, no matter what you encounter, you carry with you the desire and ability to make a difference. When that ability is called for, when it’s needed most, reach inside, call it up, and put it to good use.

— Ralph Marston

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December 9

Your moment

Find joy in the effort, and not merely in what the effort will bring you. Give attention and awareness to the time and place you’re in, rather than being consumed with where it all will lead.

Take good care of the present, and you position yourself well for the future. Work to give today value, and that value will travel with you through all your tomorrows.

Enjoy being where you are without getting so attached to it that it holds you back. By focusing on the reality and possibilities of now, you rise above frustration, worry, and regret.

Be satisfied with how far you’ve come while also being eager to keep going. Live fully in the present as you create goodness that will live long into the future.

You have brought everything about you to this day. Go through the day expressing and fulfilling the best within you.

Joy and fulfillment do not have to wait for the future, nor do they have to become lost in the past. This is your moment to live life’s treasure, so make it everything it can be.

— Ralph Marston

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December 10

Conquer the challenges

Problems arise without waiting for other problems to be solved first. And as a result you can quickly find yourself managing multiple challenges.

When that happens, instead of wrangling all those different problems, empower yourself with a change of perspective. See your task not as addressing an array of negative challenges, but as achieving a single positive outcome.

That doesn’t materially change the situation. What it does is increase your energy level and enable you to focus your efforts in a consistent, positive direction.

With an overarching, desirable objective, all the various challenges become aspects of one larger challenge. As you deal successfully with each aspect, you create momentum in the direction of your goal.

In this way, each bit of progress paves the way for more progress. Though your activities change from one issue to another, you’re able to remain unwavering in your focus and commitment to a specific outcome.

Rather than being pulled apart by multiple problems, bind your efforts and energy together in the service of a specific, meaningful goal. Strategically put the power of intention to work, and conquer the challenges no matter how numerous they may be.

— Ralph Marston

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December 11

Go one better

Do what you intend to do, then go one better. Achieve the goal you’ve set for yourself, then add to it.

Once you are speeding along with the momentum of achievement, don’t let that momentum go to waste. Make more good use of it.

If you’ve already contacted a dozen people, it’s not much more effort to contact one or two more. When you’ve written a thousand words, continue on that established trajectory and write a hundred more.

Usually, the most difficult parts of any task are getting started and getting into the flow. Once you’re there, it makes a lot of sense to keep on going a little longer.

After all, you’ve given yourself the chance to get ahead of the game. Going a little further once you’re ahead is much better than working to catch up after you’ve fallen behind.

When you’ve done what had to be done, don’t stop just yet. Make the most of the opportunity you’ve earned for yourself.

— Ralph Marston

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December 12

Be direct

Dancing around the edges can waste your time and effort. Step in and tackle the issues directly.

Don’t bother with resentment, posturing, avoidance or procrastination. Simply get busy and get the work done.

If you make a mistake, there’s nothing gained by covering it up, offering excuses, or pretending it did not happen. Instead, accept it, admit it, deal with the consequences, and move forward.

Seek to navigate the most direct route between intention and fulfillment, between problem and solution. Sure, you’ll likely need to make some detours along the way, but always aim your next step in the direction of your goal.

In your words, your actions, your plans and your thoughts, take a direct approach. Invest your energy in what’s proven to make a difference, in what moves you steadily toward the desired results.

Respect your own time and the time of others. Be clear, be honest, and be direct.

— Ralph Marston

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December 13

Constant adventure

Wherever you go, you are surrounded by the potential for fascination, inspiration, and abundance. Whatever you’re doing gives you the opportunity for a satisfying and fulfilling experience.

If you expect to always be comforted, encouraged, or entertained without any exertion on your part, you’ll often be deeply disappointed. Yet when you put a little effort into recognizing the amazing reality of what’s right in front of you, life becomes a constant adventure.

No contrived spectacle is necessary for the world to be spectacular. There’s plenty of magic in every ordinary moment when you are caring and curious enough to look.

Find energy and inspiration not in quick, easy fixes but rather in sustained appreciation. Invest your attention and the whole of your being in the place where you are, the time you’re in, the people you’re with, the actions you’re taking.

All of existence sparkles with obvious richness. And under the surface are layers upon layers of even more.

Open your eyes, your mind, and your heart to the possibilities. Embrace the wonder, and live fully the constant adventure.

— Ralph Marston