Daily Motivator - February

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February 1

Expect a positive outcome

Think of all the blessings that first arise as troubles. Consider how many opportunities initially appear in the form of problems.

If you give up the moment trouble arrives, you’ll miss out on the good fortune that it’s disguising. When you back off at the slightest disappointment, you deny yourself the chance to transform it into value.

What if you simply make the decision not to categorize anything as a problem? What if you choose to focus on the positive power of your response rather than on the negative aspects of your situation?

Whatever you may be experiencing, there’s some way to turn it to your advantage. Expect a positive outcome, then set about to fulfill your expectation.

No matter what happens or fails to happen outside your control, you can point your mind and your spirit in any direction you choose. You can push successfully through the challenges and transform difficult situations into positive energy.

As difficult as reality can often become, it’s never a reason to give up on your intended purpose. You have the will, the flexibility and resourcefulness to forge ahead, so put it all to good and meaningful use.

— Ralph Marston

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February 2

Complicated mess

It’s a highly complex world out there. However, in that complexity you’ll find plenty of opportunities to live with grace, goodness, and fulfillment.

Various single, simple factors do exert their influences. But no one thing is going to cause or solve all your problems all the time.

Living with positive purpose requires navigating through the complexity with persistence, with fortitude. You must be willing and able to pick yourself up and win after repeated defeats.

Quick and easy answers make for powerful promises. Yet almost always they are a lousy strategy.

Set a clear and meaningful goal. Then be willing to work your way through the complicated mess of reality in order to get there.

Much opportunity exists in the complexity of life. Embrace that complexity, understand and appreciate your ability to deal with it, and live the success that is yours to achieve.

— Ralph Marston

[willbe275]

February Prayer.
May my dear friend Tammy and her family
have a healthy blessed prosperous New Month.
In Jesus Name. Amen.

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February 3

Self kindness

Do something good, healthy, challenging, and wholesome for yourself today. Give yourself an enduring positive feeling that flows into your whole world.

Repeat the favor again tomorrow, and every day. Build within your life a momentum of favorable, real-world action.

Plenty of areas in your life can benefit from some time, attention, and wholehearted care. Offer yourself a gift that deepens your ability to give to all of life.

When you’re tired, discouraged, and disappointed, it’s difficult to be of any use to anyone. So consider what could transform you from down to up, in a genuine and sustained way.

Commit to making it happen by taking the first step. Then continue following through until you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of energy and effectiveness.

At any moment, you’re one act of self kindness away from a more productive, creative, generous and compassionate you. Step forward and bring that transformation about.

— Ralph Marston

[bluidkiti]

Thank you willbe. I pray you do too.

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February 4

The courage to answer

Will you say yes or will you say no? You’ll have plenty of opportunities to say both.

When those opportunities arise, give serious consideration to your answer. Then choose that answer and decisively go with it.

If you never say yes, you’ll miss out on many of the best things life has to offer. If you never say no, you’re inviting others to take advantage of you and to indulge their own mistaken expectations.

Your choice of yes or no won’t always turn out to be the best one. But don’t let that stop you from making it.

Say yes, or say no, then set about to bring the best possible outcome from your decision. Decide in advance to live with your choice, and do what’s necessary to follow through.

No standard answer works in every case, yet you can work to offer the best answer and then to make the best of what you choose. Each time, whether it’s yes or no, have the courage to answer and to move positively forward with that answer.

— Ralph Marston

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February 5

Beyond discouragement

It’s natural and understandable to become discouraged. The feeling of discouragement is normal and healthy in response to adverse, disappointing developments.

But as intensely discouraged as you may be, you never have to let it define who you are. You can choose to be a person experiencing discouragement rather than the walking, breathing embodiment of discouragement.

That’s a key distinction. Because it reinforces to you the truth that you have power over your discouragement.

Discouragement can all too often be a part of your experience. Yet it doesn’t ever have to become a part of who you are.

Who you are is someone with values, dreams, skills, opportunities, and resources. At any time, amidst any degree of discouragement, you can make use of all those things to work your way beyond whatever you’re experiencing.

You can feel the pain of discouragement, then take steps to transform that pain into inspiration, determination, and effective action. Though you may at times go through discouragement, you never have to stay there.

— Ralph Marston

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February 6

Purposeful intention

Are there things you do every day out of habit that don’t accomplish anything? Let them go.

Are there choices you make again and again that you always come to regret? Allow yourself to choose differently.

Life is difficult enough without you needlessly adding to the difficulty. You’re in control of your own thoughts, decisions, and actions, so make smart use of that control.

In every situation, ask yourself this question. What, right now, would bring the most enduring value to you, to those you care about, to life?

Answer honestly, thoughtfully, and follow up your answer with action. Inject purposeful intention into your experience at every turn.

Escape the regrets and the long stretches of habitual ineffectiveness. Live with heightened awareness of all the good you can do, and you’re sure to make much of it happen.

— Ralph Marston