Daily Motivator - March

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March 1

Joy empowers

Why mope around with a scowl on your face and a sluggish spirit when you can choose instead to be joyful? Don't strain to see through a murky window of despair when you can gaze out from a crystal clear perspective of joy.

Though difficulties may hound you, there's no reason to add to them. Read, write, walk, run, work, play, listen and speak with joy.

Joy empowers. Every moment without joy is an opportunity lost.

Joy delivers a steady stream of life's best possibilities to you. Joy connects you with thoughts, ideas, people, situations, places and things that enrich you.

Joy does not need a reason. Joy creates its own reasons.

Make the world a more joyful place by creating some brand new joy right now. There's no reason not to, and no end to the good things joy can bring to life.

Ralph Marston

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March 2

Want to do

Think of how different life would be if you could erase the line between what you have to do and what you want to do. Nothing would be a chore, and everything would be a chance to enjoy and express yourself.

Some of your tasks you probably view as tedious, and others you are thrilled for the opportunity to do. If you choose, you can be just as thrilled about every task.

Imagine there's no distinction between work and play. Imagine no difference between what's required of you and what entices and fascinates you.

Much of what makes any job disagreeable is the judgment you place on it. By simply withholding the judgment, and focusing on the work at hand, you make yourself more effective, and happier too.

Often, the things you fight against doing are the very things that can make life a whole lot better. To the degree you stop fighting and start doing, you greatly expand your options.

Let go of the need to decide whether or not you like the effort, and just do the effort. You'll find yourself enjoying the experience and all the good things it brings you.

Ralph Marston

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March 3

Eject excuses

Excuses can entice you to give up. So make your purpose, your goal, your dream even more enticing than the most powerful excuse.

Excuses rob you of priceless time you could be using to create, to achieve, to make progress, and they give you nothing in return. That's a bargain you cannot afford to make.

If you're clever enough to concoct a reasonable excuse, you're also smart enough to avoid doing so. Put your brainpower to work in your favor, and don't make use of it to hold yourself back.

Don't spend time explaining why you can't when you can instead put energy into doing what you can. Challenges yield to good, sustained effort, so do the work, and keep it up.

Point your attention toward what's possible. Invest your time in bringing the best possibilities to life.

Eject excuses from your life the moment you feel the impulse to make them. And move forward so fast they won't ever be missed.

Ralph Marston

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March 4

Go with what is

Go with what is. Waiting or wishing for things to be different, just wastes time.

Start where you are. Your destination can be whatever you choose, yet your starting point must be the precise place where you are.

Use what you have. Whatever you have is enough to get going, so acknowledge and respect its value, and make full use of it.

Act in this moment. Resist the urge to put anything off until someday, because you deserve to begin making good things happen right now.

Aim for perfection, but don't demand it as a prerequisite. Envision excellence, and start your way to it not from some idealized situation but from here and now.

From the reality of now, anything is possible, so embrace that reality fully. And utilize it to do great things.

Ralph Marston

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March 5

Activate opportunity

Opportunity is not something you wait for, or search for, or find. Opportunity is something you embrace and activate with your actions.

Opportunity is not there to be stared at, speculated about or admired. Opportunity is there to be used.

Opportunity is not a free ride to riches or a foregone conclusion. It is a starting point, and going forward from that starting point requires work.

More opportunity exists today than at any time in the history of the world. In this very moment, people around the world are seizing opportunity and making the commitment to bring its value to life.

In every life, in every problem, in every desire, in every situation, is opportunity. Wherever it may be, whatever form it may take, to activate opportunity you must combine intention with effort.

Opportunity is abundant and growing more so. Activate it, work it, and use it to make a big positive difference in your world.

Ralph Marston

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March 6

Flow of energy

Get the energy flowing in your life and point that energy in a positive direction. Get into action, get involved, become aware, and then give your love and your passion to what you see.

Take the raw material of this not-yet-completed day and transform it into something good. Instead of passing judgment on what has already come your way, figure out how to make it all work for the best.

There’s no value in getting overly worked up about what might or might not happen. Focus your effort and attention on making the best of what does happen.

It’s great to have high expectations. Yet the good things in life do not always arrive in the way you expect.

The building blocks of a rich and meaningful life are arriving on a daily basis, in all sorts of unexpected ways. Your job is to get yourself into the flow of energy, to harness that energy, and to point it in the direction of your dreams and desires.

Be involved, be accepting, and be purposeful. Focus the energy in all that happens, focus the abundance in all that is, and make it work.

— Ralph Marston

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March 7

Unstoppable determination

When things go wrong you can doubt yourself, resent the whole world, seek pity and shrink from life. Or you can grow stronger, focus your intentions like a red-hot laser on the purpose you've chosen, and make great things happen.

Life will kick you when you're down, but you don't have to add your own negative energy to that abuse. Take all the anger, the resentment, the doubt, and transform it into determination and sharply-defined purpose.

If something is causing a problem, fix it or get away from it. Stop blaming and excusing, start building and achieving.

You're worthy and capable and deserve some solid victories. It's your job to make them happen in a way that's uniquely yours.

Be clear and precise about what you intend to do, and make the commitment to never waver. Raise your perspective and your performance to a new, higher level where the petty little distractions and annoyances simply do not get to you.

When things go wrong that's your opportunity to put new, powerful energy into making life better than ever before. Seize that opportunity, let it flood every part of you with unstoppable determination, and go for it.

Ralph Marston

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March 8

Mending what is broken

The places where you hurt are the places where you can begin to heal. The ways in which you are vulnerable are the ways you can gather new strength.

There is no shame in being a victim. Yet there is no reason to remain one.

You are stronger already than every pain you have experienced. Each time you remind yourself of that, you grow even stronger.

Take a long, deep breath of fresh life energy in this brand new moment. You can do amazing things right now, and you know it.

Decide that the disappointments have distracted you long enough. Decide to live more by intention, less by reaction.

By mending what is broken, you discover how very much more is intact and able to do great things. Heal the hurt, feel the strength, and with it make life better than ever.

Ralph Marston

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March 9

Lift your awareness

Look up from whatever you're doing and simply take a look around for a moment. Notice what a beautiful world you're in.

Take your mind off the problems, and direct your focus toward the positive possibilities. Remind yourself how much you have the opportunity to do.

Turn your attention away from the worries and anxieties. Think instead of all the good things with which your life is blessed.

Whatever you most consistently focus upon is the direction your life will go. Let your life move toward what matters, toward what is valuable, strong and true.

Whatever you allow to fill your awareness is what will end up filling your world. Expand your awareness beyond the momentary concerns, and toward the best of your possibilities.

Lift your awareness and your spirit toward the highest vision you can imagine. As soon as you do, you're on your way there.

Ralph Marston - The Daily Motivator

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March 10

Choose to act

This is when you change the world. This is the time to get good, valuable stuff done.

Someday is the territory for empty wishes and dreams that have been set aside, so do not deal in thoughts of someday. Focus your thoughts and energy on now, for now is the realm of action and achievement.

If there's something you wish to change, today is the day to change it. If there's something you wish to achieve, now is your opportunity to make it happen.

Look around at your situation. See it as the field upon which you can push forward into achievement.

Lift your hand high in the air. Let it remind you how you can take action as soon as you choose it.

Now is the moment when your possibilities await. So choose to act on them, now.

Ralph Marston

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March 11

Let go of doubt

It's easy to doubt yourself. Fortunately, it's just as easy to stop the doubt.

Doubt is nothing but a thought. You can choose to hold, to discard, to build upon or to let go of any thought at any time.

The moment you feel doubt beginning to arise, acknowledge that doubt fully and then let it go completely. Quickly replace it with positive, meaningful intention and action.

Don't fight against the doubt, for that will only make it stronger. Just let it be and then very quickly let it go.

Then keep the doubts away with action. The more you see yourself using your time and efforts to make a difference, the less you'll have to deal with doubts.

Prove to yourself how worthy and capable you are by acting to make the most of every moment. And doubt will have no place in your life.

Ralph Marston

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March 12

You hold the power

You hold the power to reach whatever you seek. You possess the ability to live the life you envision.

Today, make use of that power. Today, engage that ability.

It can be easy to feel like events beyond your control are holding you back, pushing you down. But deep inside, you know that's not the case, and you know there's much more you can do.

Yes, the challenges are formidable. And yes, you can work your way through each one.

Though many factors are beyond your control, you choose your own attitude, thoughts and actions, every moment of every day. In those choices you'll find the power to move life in whatever direction you wish.

Right now, exercise your power, make a difference, then do it again and again. You deserve the best life imaginable, so do what you know you can do, and create it.

Ralph Marston

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March 13

Treasure it all

Without the difficult times, you could not fully appreciate the good times. Without the good times, the difficult times would be infinitely more difficult.

Life changes, and that’s what makes it life. Life changes, and in the changes live every possibility.

Do not boast too loudly about your good fortune or despair too long about the disappointments. Things will change, and with that change will come new opportunities and new challenges.

Instead of fighting and judging, worrying and fretting, make the choice to marvel at the richness of it all. Enjoy, learn from, and be inspired by what’s here while it’s here, then be ready to move quickly forward as life continues its ceaseless transformation.

Care deeply and profoundly, but don’t let yourself take things too seriously. Walk that fine, marvelous line between unshakable responsibility and joyous serendipity.

In the ups, in the downs, in the detours and straightaways, there is much to treasure. So breathe in the richness, and treasure it all.

— Ralph Marston

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March 14

Beyond anger

Even when you have a right to be angry, anger is not your most effective choice. Anger only perpetuates the pain.

In anger is great energy. Transform that energy not into destruction, but into useful, productive effort.

Your purpose is not to extract revenge or to prove a point. Your ultimate purpose is to live well, to experience joy and fulfillment.

In your life and in the world are many injustices. Let your response to those injustices be positive action, to make a difference, rather than uncontrolled anger.

Directing anger toward others does not help you or anyone else. Be angry, then be smart and quickly let that anger go while you direct its energy into positive pursuits.

The impulse for anger is strong, and you are stronger. Exercise that strength and build on it by moving beyond the anger and by raising up all of life.

Ralph Marston

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March 15

Ongoing state of balance

It is not enough to build for the future, and it is not enough to live for the moment. You need both, every day.

Remember today to balance the long-term concerns with the short-term opportunities. Be focused and purposeful, while also being curious and playful.

Make time in each day for doing what you have not planned on doing. Allot other time in each day to create the good things that require planning and persistence.

Living with no regrets means living in an ongoing state of balance between work and play, rest and activity, focus and spontaneity. It is when you get too far out of balance that stress and disease begin to arrive.

In one part of your life's garden, plant seeds that will take a while to grow, feeding, watering and nurturing those seeds. From another part of the garden, cut fresh flowers and place them in your home where you can enjoy them, or better yet, enjoy giving them away.

Your future is important, and so is each present moment you're in. Give attention and effort to both, and live in healthy, fulfilling balance.

Ralph Marston