Daily Motivator - March

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March 1

Set trouble aside

Set all the troubles aside for a moment. Remind yourself that those troubles do not define you.

The problems are real, present, persistent. Yet no matter how messy, complicated, dangerous, or numerous the problems may be, they do not have to overwhelm you.

Difficulties may run deep. Fortunately you are deeper, by orders of magnitude.

Living in you is great and diverse substance, ability, wisdom, reason, experience, creativity and so much more. You are dynamic, adaptable, passionate, fueled by love and driven by purpose.

View life from the perspective of all you are. If anything seems overwhelming, it’s because you’ve temporarily forgotten what you’re capable of doing.

So now, let yourself remember all the good you can do. Now, step forward, face the world with justified confidence, and get it done.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 2

Not the easiest

Your greatest blessings often don’t seem like it at the time. Your most valuable experiences are rarely the most enjoyable ones.

Is there something you feel the need to complain about? Instead of complaining, challenge yourself to find the value in it.

If you cannot find any positive value in the situation, challenge yourself to create some. The greatest successes are pulled, albeit with much effort, from the greatest challenges.

Enjoy life’s comforts and pleasures, but don’t let them trap you in endless mediocrity. Some of the most memorable and fulfilling times come when you venture beyond what’s comfortable and predictable.

Fulfillment is not found in a life of ease. To quench your insatiable desire to matter, to make a difference, you must necessarily endure discomfort.

The greatest things you’ll do are not the easiest things you’ll do. And that offers you the profound satisfaction that comes with investing the very best of yourself in life.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 3

Looking good

When you don’t need to impress, you’re free to excel. When not preoccupied with taking credit, you become more effective at taking action.

If you’re not wasting energy on being offended, you have more energy to put into being productive. If you can quickly let go of resentment, envy, anger and frustration with others, you can latch on to the best opportunities.

Improve your trajectory by regularly considering the following question. Do you want to just look good, or do you want to achieve great things?

When your primary goal is to burnish your image, then your image will suffer because even a child can see through that. The best thing for your image is to forget about your image and focus on all the ways you can make a difference.

No one but you really cares how impressive you are. Everyone cares about the authentic value you manage to add to their lives.

Raise your expectations far above merely looking good. You have the ability and the opportunity to actually do good, and that’s a whole lot more satisfying.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 4

The value inside

Encourage, honor, support and add to the value inside. Strengthen that inner value with new experience, love, learning, peaceful and joyful moments.

The value inside can never be diminished or taken away by anyone else. The value inside propels quality and substance into every experience.

The value inside makes you more articulate, more interesting, more understanding and effective. The value inside is grounded in truth, in authenticity, in the unique beauty of the real you.

The quality of your inner life directly drives the quality of your entire life. Although the value inside is not everything, it touches and positively affects everything that matters to you.

Take good care of the value inside. Respect and appreciate it, and share it freely, for the more you express it, the more powerful and beneficial it becomes.

Make frequent use of the value inside. Let it give wisdom, purpose and energy to all you do.

-Ralph S. 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

Choose your direction

A ship that’s not underway is at risk of being blown onto the rocks by an onshore wind. Yet when the ship gets moving, the rudder, not the wind, determines where the ship will go.

Do you fear being blown in an undesirable direction by events in the world around you? Then get going, get your ship underway, and choose your own direction.

Just because the world can make you weary and discouraged, doesn’t mean it has to. You can propel your thoughts, your attitude, your actions in a positive direction.

Fill your days with your own efforts, your own passions, your highest values and priorities. The more compelling your objective, the less power anything else has to bring you down.

Invest your energy where it matters, in the good things you can achieve. Direct your focus into the factors you can influence and the places where you can make a difference.

Amid noise, uncertainty, confusion, choose to live with clarity, with purpose and effectiveness. And lead all of life forward by positive example.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 7

Leave anger behind

When it comes, let anger get your full attention. Then even more quickly, let it go.

Time you spend being angry is time you’ll never get back. The energy you devote to anger, to resentment or frustration, creates nothing of value in your life.

When you give in to anger, you give up control. When you act out of anger, you’re letting someone else dictate those actions.

Let the anger inform you and motivate you. Then move beyond that anger before it hurts you, before it leads you to make foolish, costly choices.

Whatever has angered you, don’t make it worse by letting it dominate your awareness. Step back, take a breath, remember how much good you can do when you chose, and turn in a positive direction.

Feel your goodness, feel your values, feel the positive, creative power you possess. And leave the anger behind as you make the best of what’s ahead.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 8

Living this day fully

This is the day when life happens. This is the day when your intentions become achievements.

Today is when you make full use of everything you’ve learned. Today is when you rise above limitations and push beyond challenges.

Today is the day when you express your values, your priorities, your dreams, with your actions. Today is when you show how much you care with how much you do.

Today is the culmination of all you’ve ever said, done, experienced, learned, promised and expected. Today you’re able to mold the best possibilities into reality.

This is a day too precious, too full of promise to waste on worry, procrastination, resentment or doubt. By the end of the day you can be miles ahead of where you woke up this morning, having added achievement, love and meaning along the way.

Living this day fully is something you cannot put off a moment longer. Embrace today and its possibilities with all you have, and make it the best one yet.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 9

Keep creating more

You never have to force yourself to do what you don’t want to do. You can always allow yourself to do what you know you can do.

Instead of fighting the effort, unify yourself with it. Feel your level of energy increase, feel your purpose deepen as you persist with each task.

At your core is a brilliant creative force. Unleash it by dropping all pretense, by finding great soothing joy in your own authenticity.

Break free of arbitrary judgments and rusty old assumptions that impose needless limitations. Discover the fulfillment you deserve to enjoy in whatever work you’re engaged in.

In your ability to make a difference, in your experience of getting it done, you taste life’s true magic. Persevere in the effort through whatever may come, and build that taste into a continuing magnificent feast.

Feel the intoxicating power of purpose as you exercise it and express it with action. Driven by your love of life, of beauty, of meaning and substance, keep creating more.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 10

The way you look at it

If you don’t like the world you’re looking at, look at it in a different way. What upsets you is not what is there, but what you see in it.

You experience everything through the lens of your perspective. Instead of blaming, fearing, fighting, fretting over what you see, change the way you look at it.

No, looking at reality in a new way won’t change that objective reality. What it will change is you, your energy level, your degree of hope, the way you respond.

Every situation is what it is. Yet what you see in it, what you take from it, what you make of it, is up to you.

The results you achieve depend not so much on where you start or what you have. They depend on what you do with what is there, and that is driven by your vision, by your perspective.

In any circumstance, you are free to choose your perspective. Choose one that’s empowering, energizing, purposeful, and let it lead you to create the best outcome possible.
-Ralph S. Marston

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March 11

Real world action

Not sure what to do? Don’t let that stop you.

The only way you can be sure of what will happen is after it happens. Take action, see where it leads, and use that experience to improve your next action.

Of course, consider what you’re doing, and think through the possible consequences. Just don’t think so long and hard that you fail to make a move.

Don’t take foolish risks, but do be willing to experiment. Do step forward into unknown territory, for that’s where you’ll encounter rich new possibilities.

Put thought into what you do, and remember this. You’ll discover much more by doing than you will by thinking.

Allow real world action to solidify your direction. Go ahead, get going, and soon you’ll be doing something great.

-Ralph S. 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

People matter more

Causes matter, but people matter more. Ideas and opinions matter, but people matter more.

If you must disrespect others because of what you believe in, you’re veering into dangerous territory. Good people can disagree, and any belief that doesn’t acknowledge that sits on a shaky foundation.

Don’t let your beliefs and opinions isolate you. Let them inspire you to connect in positive, helpful ways.

Vilifying others is never an effective way to garner their support, respect or cooperation. Instead, seek and embrace opportunities to work toward a common good.

Find good, practical ways to make a positive difference for those who agree with you and for those who don’t. As well-intentioned as any cause may be, what matters more is the quality of life all people lead.

Look beyond the causes, opinions, beliefs and differences. Offer value, act with respect, and give love to people no matter what.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 14

Up to the challenge

You are up to the challenge. Just get started and you’ll see.

You are capable of doing more than you’ve discovered so far. Persist in giving focused, committed effort and watch as your strength and effectiveness grow.

This is no time to back down. This is your opportunity to move into a higher level of achievement.

Summon your strength and it will come. Lock your mind on a good solid reason to be willing, and act, act, act on that willingness.

Feel the strength of your purpose, of your life, of all you love. Let your moments, your actions, your results reveal that strength in valuable, life-affirming ways.

Fill every corner of your world with the feeling of how much you care, of how much you want to make a difference. With thankfulness in your heart step forward, for this is when great things get done.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 15

Great value in you

There is great value in you that you ignore, that you forget about because it is so familiar. There is great value in you that you resist because it is too challenging.

You have ideas, inspiration, love, strength, passion, caring. Your life could benefit from pulling it all out into the daylight and making good use of it.

Living well, living true to purpose, is a beautiful, satisfying way to be. It is also a lot of work.

Yet it is well worth the trouble to give your best to life. For what you experience in doing so is nothing short of miraculous.

This troubled world has a way of heaping discouragement on you. The beautiful thing is, you don’t have to respond in kind, for you have the power to make things better.

Spend a quiet moment just feeling the great beneficial value your life has accumulated. Let the energy of that feeling push you forward as you make a real positive difference in the world right now.

-Ralph S. Marston