Daily Motivator - November

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November 1

Engage your imagination

You can always get more from each experience than just the experience itself. Engage your imagination to add its own flavor of richness.

Beauty is just as much about what you perceive as what is actually there. Enjoy the kinds of beauty that enable imagination to play an active role.

Make every day an immersive and creative experience. Find ways for your imagination to fill in the details.

Your imagination can turn an ordinary chore into a satisfying adventure. No day, no task, no situation is ever boring when you bring along some imagination.

With your imagination, you invest a deep, meaningful part of yourself in life’s moments. Layered right on top of what is, imagination shows you what can be.

Don’t limit your life experience to mere sensations. Add to them with a unique, active imagination, and elevate your experience into entire new realms.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 2

Get the job done

Sure, the task might be mundane, frustrating, difficult, inconvenient. Yet you have nothing to gain by fighting against it.

Complaining and feeling sorry for yourself will produce no real benefits. Skip all that wasted time and energy, get the job done, and move on ahead.

If you feel like avoiding the work altogether, that’s understandable. So feel that feeling, understand it, then let it go completely and get to work.

If you feel like giving up, stopping, making excuses, let those feelings go too. Feel the resistance, then stride right on past it and get the job done.

Remind yourself how fortunate you are to be able to take action, to make a difference, to get good work done. Then get busy and claim that good fortune, with action, with enthusiasm and gratitude.

Once you get started you’re well on your way to getting it done. Now is the time for action, and you know what to do.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 3

Raise your perspective

Do what you do not for attention or glory. Do what you do because it is good and right and worthwhile.

Live your life not to gain social standing or to collect empty sensations. Live to make each moment more filled with love, care, and goodness than it would have been without you.

Seek positive, beneficial results, yet don’t let them define you. See yourself not as a collector of trophies but as an enabler of possibilities.

Let go of any need to prove you’re right, or to be praised, or to feel superior. Fill yourself with peace, gratitude, and the love of making a difference.

The world rushes by, its false urgencies shouting, shoving, mostly ignoring the great beauty that is life. Lovingly raise your perspective high enough so you can see more of the beauty and less of the pettiness.

The value of your life today exceeds all you can imagine. Fill it with what matters.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 4

The good you do today

Before you respond to anything that happens, consider this. Does your response diminish life, or does it enhance, support and encourage all of life to move forward?

Instead of worrying, take positive action. Instead of complaining, take positive action.

You won’t make progress by scolding others about their poor choices. You’ll be much more effective when you demonstrate by example how to put better choices into action.

Get clear about what matters to you, about all you love and value. Then act affirmatively to support it all.

Every moment is an opportunity to live with meaningful, positive intention. In every situation you can deepen your commitment to your highest values by putting those values in to action.

Increase hope for the future by the way you live in the present. And position yourself to look forward to tomorrow because of the good you do today.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 5

Joy and grace

Put joy and grace into this day. Have fun, jump into some adventure, make a little mischief.

Go up in the air and come down where it surprises you. If what you’re doing doesn’t gush out tears of joy, do differently.

Pages torn off the calendar cannot change the fact that you’re just getting started. See with fresh wonder the possibilities as they grow in value and number.

Leave the pundits to do their punditry and the worriers to do their fretting. You have your life to live, your work to do, your gifts to offer the world.

Express your love, your caring, your concerns with positive action rather than with anxiety. Always know you can respond with joyful intention to whatever way events play out.

In what you do, do your best. And joyfully embrace the rest with grace, confidence and purposeful energy.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 6

Smile from your heart

Offer the world a smile from your heart today. It's a simple, easy act that upgrades whatever situation you're in.

You look better when you smile, because you are better. A genuine smile pushes away negativity and supercharges your attitude.

Say what you say with a smile on your face, and you exude confidence, enthusiasm and credibility. Spread that smile into the core of your being, and a world of new possibilities suddenly appears in front of you.

Smile when there's a reason, and smile when there's no reason. Smile, and let your smile create its own reasons.

Dare yourself to visualize this day in the most positive, empowering light. Smile with your face, your words, your actions and your attitude.

Give life permission to shower you and all those around you today with goodness and value. Smile, and turn up the brightness in this world.

Ralph S. Marston

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November 7

Follow through on inspiration

It’s good to be inspired, but merely being inspired is not enough. Get inspired, and then follow through on that inspiration.

Inspiration without action is wasted. Not only that, but with no action the inspiration itself soon turns sour.

Don’t waste the inspiration and don’t waste the opportunity. Do the hard work, take the difficult actions, meet the challenges with inspired effort.

Let inspiration lead you to take the first step. Keep renewing and refreshing that inspiration as you persist through every effort.

When you add action to inspiration, you get even more inspiration. And, you get results.

Get yourself inspired, then do something with that inspiration by acting on it. Discover how very far your inspired effort will take you.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 8

Here you go

You know what you must do. So here you go, making it happen.

Here you go, with confidence, with enthusiasm, persistence and purpose. Here you go, living richly and giving generously of your own spirit, your wisdom, your effort and kindness.

Here you go, breaking free of outdated assumptions. Here you go, knowing the vastness of abundance exceeds anything you could imagine.

Possibilities pull you forward to envision and create new value. Excuses, limitations, pains and inconveniences fall by the wayside as achievement floods into your world through your efforts.

Here you go, living life and enriching its moments with your highest values. Here you go, sharing the richness, transforming lives in ways large and small.

This place, this instant, this confluence of purpose and energy creates your greatest opportunity ever. Here you go, transforming it all into goodness and fulfillment.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 9

Keep the richness growing

Life is about the living, and you can do that right now. Fulfillment happens in the moments, and there’s always a new one arriving.

Sometimes events will unfold to your liking, and other times you’ll feel painful disappointment. In either case, in any case, a new day arrives for you to fill with purposeful positive living.

Through the years you’ve experienced life’s goodness, seen the beauty, felt the wonder. Now is your chance to create some more.

Whether conditions are pushing you forward or pushing against you, one thing is always true. You can act to make a positive difference.

Use the opportunity of this day to breathe new energy into your sense of purpose. Do something to show life how good, how rich, how fulfilling it can be.

Whatever has happened, whatever comes next, give your best to life. And keep the richness growing.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 10

Invested

To be creative, be invested. The more you put yourself into the work, the more creative you’ll be at it.

You don’t have to wait or search or hope for people, places, situations or stories to inspire creativity. Just go to work, then keep the effort going, and you’ll have plenty of creativity.

The more you care, the more you’ll see, understand, empathize and resonate with life. Powerful, useful, appropriate creative ideas will spring from your thoughts.

Get interested, involved, active and committed. Where you focus your love, effort and awareness is where creativity manifests.

Your most brilliant and creative ideas revolve around what you care about the most. Put all of yourself into the work and liberate the full extent of your creative power.

Invest your time, effort, energy, attention, and your love. Great new value will be the result.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 11

The deeper you go

All people have very real reasons for believing what they believe, for feeling what they feel. Your best strategy is to understand those reasons.

If you want to find common ground, you have to do more than just advocate your own position. You have to listen, understand, empathize, compromise.

Drama and outrage are the junk food of human relationships. Their empty calories quickly satisfy, but provide no lasting nourishment.

Understanding and cooperation are difficult, time consuming, demanding, humbling. Yet they are what produce real progress.

Problems are not solved by shouting, blaming, judgment and recrimination. Choose instead to take a deep breath, let go of anxieties, and get to work creating value.

No matter how much you differ with someone on the surface, the deeper you go, the more you’ll find in common. Do the work, spend the time, care enough to create deep connections, and get great things done.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 12

Stronger than negativity

Being positive is not a matter of hiding or denying what’s negative. Being positive is being stronger than the negativity.

When you’re wrong, admit it. Then you can let the error go, correct it, and move forward.

When you’re frightened, admit it. When you no longer fear the fear itself, that fear loses power and you gain the strength to deal with it.

When something is not working, admit it. The sooner you do, the more solidly you can move on to something else.

You have the power to face the problems, to act on them, to come out ahead. Engage that power by admitting what’s wrong, by choosing to see it clearly.

Have the courage to shine a bright light on what’s holding you back. And you’ll find the strength to move successfully beyond it.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 13

Feel good about yourself

Sure, it's easy to feel sorry for yourself. Yet feeling good about yourself is just as easy, and a lot more empowering.

Whether you decide to feel sorry for yourself or good about yourself, you can come up with all kinds of reasons to support your decision. So make the more positive choice to feel good about yourself.

The way you feel is a choice, not a foregone conclusion. You can make the choice that serves you best, and being positive serves you better than being negative.

Feel good about yourself, and that good feeling will carry over into every part of your life. You'll improve interactions with others, the effectiveness of your efforts, your creativity, resourcefulness, energy level and many other things.

Feel good about yourself, your life, your situation, your expectations and possibilities. Feel good about your own life and you'll resonate with the goodness that's all around you.

Go ahead, let yourself feel good about yourself. And give powerful, positive value to everything you do.

Ralph S. Marston

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November 14

Get great things done

You might not feel your best today but that doesn’t prevent you from being your best. The more you give of yourself, the better you’ll feel.

Reach inside, draw upon the strength that’s always there, and take another step forward. With gratitude for all the good you’ve known and all the good you know is to come, push forward.

See the precise reality of your world just as it is, with no illusions. And see within that reality opportunities, possibilities, hope, and a multitude of reasons to move forward.

You don’t have to deceive yourself in order to be optimistic. You just have to apply yourself, and experience the power of your own intention as it drives your efforts.

You don’t have to land yourself in the perfect situation in order to achieve. You just have to be able to work with commitment and persistence, with whatever you have.

Don’t waste another day with excuses, procrastination, self-pity or doubt. Get up, get moving, get focused and get a lot of great things done.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 15

Achieve the vision

Stop wondering why you can’t, or why you don’t or why you won’t. Figure out how and why you will.

Have you successfully avoided taking action? Use that same power now to take the action, make the effort, do the work.

Fulfillment does not come while waiting for good things to drop into your lap, even if that actually happens. The fulfillment is in the challenge, the effort, in actively creating the value you seek.

Leave your past shortcomings, with their reasons, justifications and excuses, behind. Focus on the possibilities of now, step forward, jump in, and participate.

Visualize what success looks like to you, in such great detail that you feel the reality of it. Let that positive feeling drive you to transform your vision from feeling to fact.

Yes, you can achieve the vision. And when you convince yourself to act on that truth, and to persist until it is done, you will.

-Ralph S. Marston