Daily Motivator - March

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March 29

Meaningful use of time

You cannot create more hours in the day or more days in the year. Yet you can always make more meaningful use of the time you have.

That does not mean cramming every part of the day full of busyness and activity. It means prioritizing all you do, with the highest priority on what matters most.

Can you identify activities in your life that consume time yet provide negligible value to anyone, including you? Would it really be so difficult to give less time to them?

Time can be a highly valuable resource or it can be a wasted resource. It all depends on whether or not the time you spend adds to the richness of life.

Every minute you invest in one direction is a minute you’ve chosen not to invest in all the other possible directions. Make sure your choice benefits life while acknowledging the value and potential of life.

What is meaningful to you? Whoever or whatever that may be, the most impactful way to give your support is with your time.

— Ralph Marston

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March 30

Who you think you are

Think of yourself in terms of your greatest potential, your highest values, your most effective skills. Then take the actions consistent with the person you think you are.

You know you have standards that you’ve failed to meet. Ask yourself what you can do to improve that situation, and act on your answers.

You’ve thought for a long time about what you could do to make life better. Begin now to put more of those thoughts into practice.

Seek to bridge the gap between the best of who you think you are, the best of who you imagine you could be, and the reality of your day to day behavior. Find and follow opportunities to live your life in accordance with your vision.

There is a caring, thoughtful, creative, competent, effective person inside you. Let that person see more of the light of day and let all of life benefit from the good you can do.

In the challenge of living out your highest expectations your own unique greatness comes to the surface. Make it your business every day to enable that to happen.

— Ralph Marston

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March 31

Positive feedback loop

You determine what you think, say, and do. Those things you think, say, and do, in turn, shape you, who you are, how you live.

It is a self-reinforcing trajectory, a positive feedback loop. What’s important to consider is, which way is it headed?

What specific positive feedback loop are you creating and enabling in your life? How well does it line up with your deepest desires and your most treasured values?

Your experience of life feeds upon your choices, and your choices feed upon your experience. Because of this, the smallest change can become magnified to exert profound influence.

Your smallest thoughts, your most trivial actions matter. Whether they’re harmful or beneficial, you’re giving life and sustenance to them, exponentially expanding their consequences.

Live every moment in a way you’d like to see amplified. Because in many aspects it will be.

— Ralph Marston