Daily Motivator - May

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May 28

Good to everyone

Kindness toward others is kindness toward yourself. Patience with others gives rise to more patience with yourself.

There’s nothing particularly selfish about acting in your own self interest. Because in order to truly do so you must also further the interests of others.

Even when you create value solely for yourself, the benefits of your good work extend far beyond you. When you act with love, creativity, and goodness, that goodness cannot be contained.

In the very same way any time you create value for others, you too are a beneficiary. No matter where your good intentions and actions are directed, they reflect back on you.

Your sincere generosity raises the energy level of all life. So do beauty, understanding, appreciation, wisdom, gratitude and more.

Never pass up the opportunity to act with goodness, no matter its direction. Be good to you, and good to everyone else.

— Ralph Marston

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May 29

Truth above opinion

Your opinions can be highly useful. They can also be very dangerous.

Opinions help you to make sense of the world. Yet they can also blind you to important realities.

A strong opinion could prevent you from seeing what is otherwise perfectly obvious. It could also cause you to think you see what is actually not even there.

How do you benefit from your opinions without being deprived or deceived by them? Make sure your sense of humility is at least as strong as your strongest opinion.

The willingness to admit that you could be wrong makes your opinion more valuable, not less. Because it helps to square your opinion with what’s objectively true.

Find ways for your opinions to serve you without allowing them to dominate you. Seek truth above opinion, and receive benefit from both.

— Ralph Marston

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May 30

Enjoy life

Enjoy the full and amazing experience of life. Yes, there are plenty of difficulties in the world, but that’s no reason to make yourself miserable.

Self-imposed misery will not be of any benefit to anyone. Yet your enjoyment of life can result in value for lots of other people.

Enjoy life, and you grow more effective and purposeful in your living of it. Enjoy life, and you become more engaged, more curious, better able to make a positive difference.

Enjoy the experience of your work, enjoy the times you spend playing and relaxing. Enjoy dealing with the challenges, enjoy soaking in the pleasures.

Enjoy being who you are, and enjoy the uniqueness of each person you encounter. Enjoy the energy of the people around you, and enjoy the quiet contemplation during times of solitude.

Enjoy the wide and wonderful range of life’s experiences. Let that enjoyment help you become better able to give real value and goodness to life in return.

— Ralph Marston

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May 31

Give yourself a goal

Give yourself a goal. Give yourself a deadline.

Give yourself a challenge. Give yourself a nudge.

When you’re acting with a purpose you’re acting with clarity, discipline, and effectiveness. When there has to be a way, you find a way.

Want to get more done? Give yourself more to do.

Give yourself some ambitious and realistic expectations. Give yourself the effort, discipline, passion and persistence necessary to meet those expectations.

Give yourself a clear and compelling direction. And discover for yourself just how much good you can do.

— Ralph Marston