Daily Motivator - October

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October 30

Good work you can do

What to do when the pressure is on? Focus on the work, not the pressure.

Your thoughts go in the direction you aim them. Practice aiming them away from matters you can’t do anything about.

Make all the bandwidth of your awareness available for productive effort. Start by choosing to do so, put it immediately into practice in a small way, then expand on it from there.

Let the noise and confusion bear down upon you. And rather than fighting it or getting dismayed about it, target your awareness tightly on the good work you can do.

The world is as it is, and time moves relentlessly forward. You can be equally relentless in making use of it.

Decide what you will get done and put all of yourself into doing it. Rise above whatever else may be going on, and follow your intentions toward the success you know you can create.

— Ralph Marston

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October 31

Work through complexity

A complicated situation can be intimidating to the point you’d much rather avoid it. But once you step into it and start methodically working through it, you’ll begin to get a handle on it.

Diving into a frustrating complexity is certainly not most people’s idea of a good time. But doing so is likely to bring valuable results.

Establish a starting point by finding some aspect that you can understand and articulate. Then work outward from there.

Admit what you don’t know and be eager to ask honest questions. Seek to be humble and cooperative rather than arrogant and accusing.

Instead of trying to prove something, focus on learning all you can. In place of casting blame, identify opportunities to solve problems and improve the situation.

As daunting as it appears from the outside, there’s plenty of value hidden within complexity. Be willing to work your way through the complexity, and bring that value to life.

— Ralph Marston