Daily Motivator - January

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January 14

The honest option

Honesty works better than any alternative. Be honest with yourself, with others, and you’ll always have something useful to offer.

It’s easy for your thoughts to become twisted and clouded by doubt, ego, envy, and so much more. Honesty enables you to break right through all that.

Seek to be honest and you don’t have to second-guess anything you say or do. You don’t have to be perfect when you’re able to be true.

Honesty resonates well, even when it’s not elegantly expressed. Honesty offers substance and value, and those are easy to welcome.

The option to choose is the most honest option. It may not be the easiest choice in the moment, yet it will be the most effective choice in the long run.

Deception can be highly enticing, but its gains eventually ring hollow and cold. Honesty puts you on the side of truth and life, and that’s a powerful place to be.

— Ralph Marston

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January 15

Shine a light forward

Even when you’re in a bad place, you can choose to head in a good direction. That will make all the difference in your perspective, your energy level, and your outcome.

You know where you are, what your situation is. Put your focus on where you intend to go.

Some particular action right now will point you in your desired direction. Take that positive step, then prepare for the next one.

You can quickly make a difficult situation more tolerable by heading in a good direction. Though it won’t immediately improve your reality, it will immediately improve you.

Zero in on an objective that gives each action positive purpose. Shine a light forward that brightens your future in specific, meaningful ways.

Point yourself in a good direction. Then put all you have into moving solidly and persistently toward what you’ve chosen.

— Ralph Marston

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January 16

Growing set of tools

Capability, and putting that capability to use, gives you ownership. It gives you ownership over your own life and over your own corner of the universe.

Living well is a matter of successfully dealing with reality. That means having a positive impact on your environment, on your circumstances, and on the people around you.

Seek out new challenges and you compel yourself to develop new capabilities. Apply those capabilities and they become more robust, informed, and effective.

Imagine what capabilities could be helpful in the future, in the event of some particular set of likely circumstances. Work to develop those capabilities so you’ll be well practiced in them when the need arises.

Give yourself a growing set of tools for transforming various situations into positive, fulfilling outcomes. Then eagerly put those tools, those capabilities, to use.

Already you are highly capable, and able to become even more so. The more you invest in your capabilities, the more life’s various twists and turns will turn out in your favor.

— Ralph Marston

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January 17

Break the pattern

Frustration will cause you to make foolish mistakes. Let it go, calm down, and become more effective.

You have multiple reasons to be frustrated by all the inconveniences and annoying interruptions. Unfortunately, that frustration accomplishes nothing other than making your situation worse.

What if, instead of being frustrated, you decided to be amused? It’s just as easy to laugh as it is to curse, and it’s a whole lot better for your spirit.

Rather than letting some minor annoyance consume you with major frustration, let its absurdity lift your spirits. You can choose to be a relaxed observer instead of a fretful victim.

Stop, break the pattern, take a breath, and smile. Discover how good it feels to regain control of your perspective.

There are plenty of things that can frustrate and disturb you, but most require your cooperation. Decide not to cooperate, but to stride peacefully and intentionally forward, and live the moment at your best.

— Ralph Marston

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January 18

Within you

Within you is the confidence to let go of all that does not lift up life. Somewhere within is the patience to understand, to respect, the wisdom to forgive.

Inside you is the strength to love when love doesn’t seem to do any good. Find that strength, use it, do it.

Discipline, perseverance, tolerance, kindness, commitment, acceptance are all there too. You’ve earned this great store of treasure in all the experiences you’ve made your way through.

Though the world’s bright shiny things can be compelling, always keep this in mind. Inside is where value lives, and you can call on that value in any situation.

Everything that matters to you, matters because of the way you feel inside. Within that reality is power to do just about anything you can imagine.

Somewhere inside you is the will to get up, get started, to keep going and to prevail against all odds. It’s as close as your next thought and as powerful as you choose to be.

— Ralph Marston

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January 19

Light the way ahead

Even on the most challenging days, there’s something to be thankful for. Find it, focus on it, and give yourself added energy to get through the challenges.

Gratitude might feel weird while in the midst of trouble and difficulty. Yet that gratitude will shine a positive, empowering light on the situation.

From a perspective that’s overwhelmed with negativity, all you can see are the problems. Choose instead to find something for which to be thankful, and open your awareness to all the many good, positive resources available to you.

The most valuable opportunities often appear within the most difficult situations. Gratitude helps you to see and understand those opportunities.

Somewhere, somehow, a positive aspect can be found. Always, something exists for which you can be genuinely thankful.

The more challenging the situation, the more valuable it is to have something positive you can hold on to. Identify what you can be thankful for, and light the way ahead.

— Ralph Marston

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January 20

Living with the challenges

There’s something you can be sure of, once you work through a problem. You’ll encounter another problem.

It’s a fantasy to think you’ll ever be completely free of any challenges. But that’s no reason to give up, or to let the challenges overwhelm you.

Because you can be just fine in a world of continually appearing problems and challenges. You have the experience, the strength, and the purpose to live successfully among those challenges.

A few of your life’s problems you’ll be able to eliminate completely. Yet there are others you’ll have to learn to live with and to manage.

That’s not giving up. It’s acknowledging and dealing with reality, and it’s something you’ve been doing your whole life.

Be honest with yourself about which challenges you can get fully beyond and which ones will demand your continued vigilance and effort. Then persist in taking the effective actions that enable you to live a fulfilling life, no matter what the challenges may be.

— Ralph Marston

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January 21

Beyond hope

Hope is a great place to start. Yet for hope to bear fruit, it must inspire action, commitment, and persistence.

A new opportunity, an improvement in circumstances, a fresh revelation, a restored connection, all can bring on hope. Let the energy of hope soak in, then utilize that energy to go beyond hope.

Whenever there is even the slightest reason to be hopeful, you have the obligation to act on that hope. See what can be, hope for the best, and give your best to make it happen.

As powerful as hope feels, it is only a feeling. Your job is to transform that feeling into reality.

Allow hope to guide you and inspire you. Call upon your strength and skill to follow your hope all the way to its promise.

Beyond hope is where hope is actually fulfilled. Do the good work to get there.

— Ralph Marston