Daily Motivator - July

[willbe275]

Yesterday was my 35th Anniversary by God's grace.
I'm truly grateful for my A.A. Family and friends.
I'll be celebrating on Zoom tomorrow at 3:00 p.m ET
ID# 261-537-1403/ no Passcode.
Please come if you can. I would love to
meet you Kracker and Tammy. God bless you.

[bluidkiti]

Congratulations!

[bluidkiti]

July 15

Respect yourself

The best option is not necessarily the one for which you can merely come up with a justification. Your best option is the one you can genuinely respect yourself for choosing.

Will you respect yourself tomorrow for doing this, or many years from now? It’s a benchmark that can be difficult to meet, yet rewarding to live with.

Would you gain respect for anyone else who does what you’re about to do, or not? Hold yourself to that same standard.

Life has taught you much about what behaviors to respect and which ones to be wary of. Every day you can utilize that wisdom by holding a bright mirror up to your own words, thoughts, and activities.

You’ve gained respect for what makes sense, for what works, for what usefully contributes to life. Seek to align yourself, your efforts, your inclinations, with those things you respect.

Pause and consider your level of respect for whatever you’re about to do. If you can honestly respect yourself, you’re on the right track.

— Ralph Marston

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July 16

Let life be beautiful

Let life be beautiful. Let your needs be few.

Let clouds drift across the deep blue sky. Allow yourself to know the joy that has no reason or hidden design.

Take breath in, let breath out. Do the best at what you do, see the best in others.

Be slow to lose your patience, and eager to forgive. Offer kindness every time you can, and candor when it’s called for.

Embrace the life that this day brings. Forge new goodness and value from whatever comes your way.

Understand the immense value of everything to which you’re connected. Allow the beauty, and be the beauty.

— Ralph Marston

[Kracker]

Congratulations Bro. That's alot of years. May God bless u with many more years to come. That u can serve and continue to spread the message of hope through the program of A.A. God b with u

[willbe275]

Thank you Tammy. God bless you.

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July 17

Increasingly positive direction

The life you’ve lived has successfully gotten you to this point. Now expand on that success.

Your experience has not been perfect, but neither has it been a complete disaster. It’s positioned you to move beyond what hasn’t worked well and to more fully embrace all that has been helpful.

Encourage yourself to be thankful for all you’ve been through so far. With a perspective of gratitude, you can appreciate and utilize the great value life’s experiences have provided to you.

At this point you can smile about the disappointments of the past. Because you know how much they’ve enabled you to grow.

You’re also at a place where you can understand what has made the good times so good. As you apply that understanding going forward, there are many more positive memories to be made.

See the profound success that’s evidenced by your presence in this moment. Continue the momentum, and commit yourself to keep life going in an increasingly positive direction.

— Ralph Marston

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July 18

Do it by doing

If you try hard to do something, the trying leads you to be frustrated and ineffective. Instead, let go of the idea that you’re trying and just begin to get it done.

Trying starts off with a negative assumption. When you see yourself as trying you’ll be focused on the possibility you won’t get it done.

Simply taking one action after another puts you in an entirely different frame of mind. You experience yourself having an impact, and that’s a positive perspective you can build on.

You can do it without trying. You can do it by doing.

Take the initial step and let your active participation give you confidence. With each incremental result you’ll be inspired to create more.

Melt away the resistance that comes from the thought that you’re trying. Stop merely trying, go ahead and get it done.

— Ralph Marston

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July 19

Form the future

What you cannot do now is change the past. What you cannot avoid doing now is to form the future.

The past is where you’ve learned and experienced, yet you’re not there anymore. The future is where you’re unavoidably headed.

That future has not been determined yet. And therein lies inexhaustible opportunity.

To whatever extent you regret the past, you can improve the future. You’re able to transform the energy of that regret into inspiration, determination, and effective action going forward.

Your disappointment with what has been has the very real potential to push you in a more positive and fulfilling direction. Let your past exert its favorable influence on your choices right now, and continue to do so going forward.

Today you have the power to expand upon what has served you well and to redirect what has let you down. You’re better positioned than ever before to form a positive and fulfilling future.

— Ralph Marston

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July 20

Comfortable

Comfort is helpful until it is not. Too little of it wears you down, while too much of it can hollow you out.

A comfortable situation will give you space to heal, to re-energize, to build strength. Other times, too much comfort for too long engulfs you in thick, smothering complacency.

Seek to avail yourself of those comforts that enable you to act with confidence, initiative, and effectiveness. Distance yourself from the comforts that entice you into endless repose.

The comforts that serve you best are the ones you can venture away from, knowing you can rely on being able to return. Whether they are places, ideas, people, or experiences, they encourage and facilitate the exercise of your strengths and capabilities.

The comforts that can entrap you are those that threaten not to be there when you come back. Such comforts that limit your participation in life are not in your best interest.

Make yourself comfortable, but not too comfortable. You’ve got a rich, challenging, and fulfilling life to live.

— Ralph Marston

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July 21

Ready for opportunities

Today will offer you opportunities. Are you able to recognize them, and prepared to make something out of them?

A sense of meaningful purpose illuminates opportunities, letting you see them for what they are. Be clear about what you seek, and opportunities that otherwise would be invisible jump sharply into view.

When you do see those opportunities, you’ll need a potent place where you can put them, nurture them, and bring them to fruition. That comes from establishing and maintaining structure, organization, and discipline in the way you live.

If you’re searching for an automatic windfall that just brings vaguely defined goodies into your life, you won’t find opportunity. Yet when you have the clear intention of working to create specific value in the world, you’re sure to encounter numerous opportunities.

Arrange your life so it can resonate with the kinds of opportunities that are meaningful to you. Invest yourself in being open to opportunities, and you’ll find yourself connecting with them.

Opportunities are out there, and more are arising all the time. Be the person who can see them, who will do something with them, and the opportunities become yours.

— Ralph Marston

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July 22

What you should do

It’s what you should do, right? But what if it isn’t?

You assume you should stack today’s activities in a certain way because, well, that’s the way you’ve always done it. Yet perhaps there’s another approach that would work better, would give you access to more enriching possibilities.

You say what you should say, react as you should, and feel the way you should. Consider how much of it all is based on well entrenched assumptions and habits.

Those habits and assumptions can be helpful most of the time. But that doesn’t mean they’re your best choice all the time.

You can always ask yourself whether the path you’re about to take is merely because you think you should or because it’s actually the best option at the moment. Don’t let an assumption of what you should be doing limit the choices of what you could be doing.

Sometimes you can discover great new value outside the familiar territory of what you assume you should do. The world is bigger than you previously thought and the possibilities more numerous than you’ve yet considered, so be sure not to box yourself in.

— Ralph Marston

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July 23

Live like it all matters

You can get by in life without caring about anything. But why in the world would you want to live your life that way?

You can get through your work just doing the bare minimum, being sloppy and inattentive. Yet the time you’re wasting on meaningless activity is your own precious time.

You can get through the day being selfish, rude, and inconsiderate. But the person damaged most by your selfishness is you.

Life without caring wears you down and empties you out, even if just for a few hours or minutes. Fortunately, you never have to live that way.

You can always choose to care, to give your best, to be kind, considerate, diligent, purposeful. It’s not always easy, not always convenient, but it’s always available and always your best option.

Give your sincere care to the people, activities, circumstances, and possibilities in your life. Live like it all matters and you’ll know without a doubt how much it all does.

— Ralph Marston

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July 24

Acting early

With a small effort right now you can avoid a much larger effort and expense later. For example, a fresh coat of paint today saves you from having to replace rotten boards a couple of years from now.

It’s tempting to let things slide when they’re not urgent. But doing so tends to turn simple tasks into complicated, compound problems.

Plenty of issues arise that you don’t really want to face. Yet as you’ve discovered again and again, avoiding them pretty much always makes them worse.

Indeed, the fact you don’t want to deal with something right now is a good argument in favor of going ahead and handling it. Acting early is a powerful way to leverage your time.

It can also reduce the stress and anxiety in your life. The problems you’ve already addressed are no longer hanging over you.

Act at your earliest opportunity. You’ll get more done with less effort and expense, and have more time to enjoy the beautiful existence in which you’re immersed.

— Ralph Marston

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July 25

With courage

In the day ahead you’re likely to encounter problems, dilemmas, challenges of various kinds. You can either complain about them or you can work your way through them.

If you seek to avoid all difficulties you won’t succeed in doing so. And in the process you’ll miss out on some of life’s most enriching experiences.

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to invite trouble. What it means, and what is enormously helpful, is to face each day with courage.

Courage comes from accepting that there will be difficulties, there will be unknowns, and living your life anyway. Courage grows when you’re following a purpose that’s sufficiently compelling to make the pain and trouble well worth the trouble.

To get up and get going each morning is not the easiest thing. Yet it is certainly preferable to the alternatives.

With courage you can make the choice to move forward through life with its inevitable pitfalls. With courage, you create the value and fulfillment you are meant to create.

— Ralph Marston