Daily Motivator - February

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February 16

Passion for the work

Stop waiting for the time to be right. Use the time you have, and make it the right time by virtue of what you do with it.

Don’t wait to be inspired before doing the work. Go ahead, do the work, and your efforts will create plenty of inspiration.

Conditions are the way they are, and you feel whatever way you feel. None of that has to stop you from doing what you must do.

The best way to feel like doing it, is to get started. Get started, keep going, and just one short hour from now you’ll have some powerful positive momentum.

You can’t expect passion to suddenly well up within you. What you can do is create passion for the work by actually doing the work.

If you’re feeling uninspired, that’s a sure sign that the best thing you can do is take action. Take action, and you’ll have the inspiration you seek.

— Ralph Marston

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February 17

Fresh new world

No matter how many times you have failed in the past, you can go positively forward now. No matter how often you’ve wandered from the path, you can now choose to move straight ahead.

Do not be dismayed by anything that has come to pass. For this is a new day, with new possibilities, and you’re here to live them, now.

Whether you’ve let yourself down for a few minutes, or for decades, that time is now over. This is your time to fill your life with purpose, action, joy and fulfillment.

Whatever has been, has been, and is done. What is to be, is yours now to choose.

Every disappointment you’ve ever felt can now fuel your determination. Every opportunity you’ve missed can remind you to fully seize the opportunities you now have.

Open your eyes, your heart, your everything to the fresh new world of possibilities. There is so much you can do, and now, right now, is when you choose.

— Ralph Marston

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February 18

Possibilities you’ve never imagined

There is something you’ve been telling yourself forever you cannot accomplish. Today, prove yourself wrong.

A new moment has arrived, and past assumptions no longer have to hold you back. Decide to be free of those limitations you’ve imposed on yourself.

See now that every big and little thing can inspire you, support you, motivate, encourage and empower you. Today, take the first step toward the accomplishment you’ve been putting off for so long.

Every past experience has prepared you for today, when you can now move forward in a new way. Feel the power of the momentum you’ve already established and point it in the direction you choose.

Push your expectations beyond where they have been. See possibilities you’ve never before imagined and see yourself fulfilling them.

Enjoy watching yourself do what you used to think you could not. Let the satisfaction of achievement energize you to achieve much more.

-Ralph S. Marston

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February 19

What is true

Even if a thousand people tell you today is lousy, it does not have to be that way for you. Even when everyone you know tells you something cannot be done, that does not make it impossible.

Opinions are useful, interesting, revealing, instructive. But don’t mistake opinions for reality.

Every person has an opinion. Yet no person, not even an expert, has all the answers.

What is true is not necessarily what is popular. Widely held opinions are still just opinions.

Listen patiently to the opinions of others, and consider them thoughtfully. Then insist on understanding for yourself, through your own experience, what holds truth, what works, and what doesn’t.

Do the work to arrive at the truth. Truth is worth all the effort you put into knowing it and living it.

— Ralph Marston

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February 20

Everything that is now

Accept this moment fully, and you will find in it no stress, no anxiety, no tension or worry. Accept what is, as it is, and you have access to its full power and potential.

Your ego wants to fight, to prove it is bigger than reality. But fighting against reality is a battle that’s lost before it begins.

Do not strive to find some clever shortcut around reality. Seek instead to find your place within it, to imagine the value you can add.

Allow your heart to fill with gratitude for what is. Watch as the entirety of your self rises to the occasion and springs into effective action.

Here is great opportunity. Here and now, your thoughts, your actions, your love and care make a difference.

Let all resistance fall cleanly away. You have everything that is now, and you are here to live it fully.

— Ralph Marston

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February 21

Offering of love

There’s a job to do, and as difficult and demanding as it may be, it never has to be a fight. Let it be an offering of love.

You have the opportunity to invest your time and energy in something worthwhile. Choose to do the work with gratitude and a positive presence.

Decide to find fulfillment in working through the complications instead of automatically reacting with frustration. Recognize value in the challenges rather than letting your attitude be poisoned with resentment.

The work demands much of you. Remind yourself what a good thing that is.

Your intention makes all the difference in the way the work unfolds, in the value that you create. Proceed and persist with the intention to offer your best, to offer your love.

You are spending your irreplaceable time on the work, so make it time well spent. Make it an offering of love.

— Ralph Marston

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February 22

Rise above thoughtlessness

Pretty much no one in your life is going to treat you the way you want to be treated all the time. Decide to be okay with that.

Certainly if you’re being threatened or abused you must extract yourself immediately from that situation. But if you’re being slighted, or offended, inconvenienced, not fully appreciated, so what?

The way people treat you is their problem, and you never have to make it yours. You can exercise and expand your strength by rising above the negative, thoughtless behavior of others.

No, that doesn’t mean acting aloof and superior. It means focusing on what you can control, on your own good thoughts, your own words, your own behavior.

Respond to disrespect with respect, to thoughtlessness with kindness and understanding. You can be the person to improve the quality of interaction, and that is a powerful position in which to place yourself.

Most people don’t want to be rude or hurtful, they’re mainly dealing with their own fears and insecurities. Always keep that in mind, and be an example of how a positive, accepting attitude can create a more positive world.

— Ralph Marston

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February 23

Choose to enjoy

When you enjoy something, you naturally come up with ways to make it even better. Enjoy where you are, and suddenly where you are has more value.

Enjoy the moment you’re experiencing. And suddenly your enjoyment opens your eyes to new, positive possibilities.

Enjoy whatever you’re doing, whether it has a reputation for being enjoyable or not. When you do, your effort becomes a pathway to great achievement.

Enjoyment, or lack of it, is not a function of your outer circumstances. Enjoyment is a perspective, an attitude, an experience you choose, whatever the circumstance may be.

Enjoyment empowers your efforts with persistence, enthusiasm, effectiveness. Enjoyment is a magnet that attracts the support of others to whatever you’re doing.

Enjoyment is a choice you make, a choice that delivers major positive benefits. Choose to enjoy, and you’re choosing to live, to think, to act, to work at your highest level.

— Ralph Marston

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February 24

Good things in life

You are much more valuable for what you are than for what you have, or consume. As you let go of superficial desires, you free yourself to be yourself.

Lusting for momentary pleasure will interrupt and delay your progress toward deeper fulfillment. Learn to step beyond those cravings that always lead to disappointment and regret.

You receive from life what you are willing to invest in it. The problem with instant gratification is that it disappears in the next instant.

Just because you’re able to get your hands on some particular shiny object, doesn’t mean it’s your best choice. Seek to choose based on purpose more than impulse.

It’s great to possess good, beautiful, useful things. Yet life becomes increasingly empty when you cling to the expectation they will fulfill you.

Let your outer possessions and experiences be expressions of your inner beauty, not the other way around. When you’re not enslaved by the good things in life, you can truly enjoy them, and everything else.

— Ralph Marston

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February 25

Your day to fill with richness

You are alive and living, so today, act like it. Put your imagination to use, and then put effort and commitment into creating the good things you imagine.

When conditions change, adapt. When you encounter beauty, enjoy it, without guilt, without judgment, without doubt or worry.

Instead of wondering what certain experiences would be like, find out. Instead of wishing for things to be better, get busy making a positive difference.

Say what you think and do what you say. Follow the dreams that live in the heart of who you are.

Welcome the challenges and feel yourself growing strong as you work through them. Admit what you don’t know and make use of what you do know to learn more.

This is your day to fill with the richness of life. See what a great opportunity you have, and live it with all you can.

-Ralph S. Marston

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February 26

True success

Let go of the need to chase mere tokens of success. Allow yourself to create your own unique, authentic success.

Detach the idea of success from your ego. Connect it instead to your soul.

Get away from needs and worries and the toxic tension they produce. Immerse your awareness in the abundance around you, in the possibilities, in your love of making a difference.

Gently embrace each challenge, grateful for the opportunity to transform it into value. Recognize in each person you encounter, in every situation, the chance to bring new fulfillment into the world.

What can you do with this day, that you’ll remember and be thankful for ten years from now? In pondering such things, you will discover yourself pointed toward true success.

Seek ever to serve, to expand, to celebrate and share what nourishes you at the deepest level. Live the reality of true success.

— Ralph Marston

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February 27

Energy of frustration

When you’re feeling frustration, you’re feeling a powerful energy. The problem is, that energy is pointed in a negative direction.

You can change that. You can direct the energy of frustration toward a positive purpose.

Frustration means you care, and that’s a good thing. In frustration is the strong desire to take action.

So go ahead, embrace the frustration, gather its energy, feel how much you care. Then, in that powerful, motivated state, think of one immediate step you can take in a positive direction.

Frustration wears you down if you resent it and fight it. Decide instead to experience it and transform it.

Frustration has great power, yet it doesn’t have to push against you. Harness the energy of frustration, and put it positively to work for you.

— Ralph Marston

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February 28

Imagine the wonder

Imagine the weight of the world has been lifted clean away from you. There’s no pain, fear, worry, or anxiety.

There’s just you, and this moment, and the wonder of existence that surrounds you. Feel how easily you are amazed by all that is.

Your eyes gaze in wonder and awe at what just a moment ago seemed so ordinary, so plain. You realize how magical it is to be, here, now, alive, aware.

Weariness and cynicism seem at first like a distant memory, then disappear altogether in the brilliance of now. Beauty, possibilities, and new wonders stretch out in every direction.

This unique, magical now has been in the making since the instant that time began. Allow its energy to fill your spirit, gently encouraging you forward with inspired purpose.

Imagine the wonder that is, the wonder that can be. Now, live what you imagine.

— Ralph Marston