Daily Motivator - May

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May 17

Obligations

You need to be needed. As burdensome as they may be, your obligations add greatly to your life.

Obligations don’t care about your resentment of them. So rather than resenting them, make it your business to embrace those obligations.

By doing so, you are embracing your own competence, perhaps your generosity and thoughtfulness as well. You are actively making yourself more useful to yourself and others, and that’s a beneficial thing.

Obligations impose structure on your life. That structure can end up providing enduring support to all aspects of your existence.

You enrich your life when you take on new obligations. You raise your level of discipline by meeting those obligations.

Have the courage to obligate yourself in meaningful and beneficial ways, and find the strength to honor your obligations. You’ll simultaneously add value to your own life, to all the lives you touch, and beyond.

— Ralph Marston