Daily Motivator - November

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November 14

It must be done

If a particular task must be done, it must be done. If a certain goal must be met, it must be met.

Work on finding a way and making it happen. Don’t tolerate excuses from yourself or anyone else.

Those excuses might indeed be valid. But they don’t change the necessity of effective action.

Rather than focusing on why you can’t, put in the work to figure out how you will. Consider all the alternatives, and if none of them will work, seek more.

Pinpoint precisely the necessary result and let it stimulate your creativity, your resourcefulness, your openness to new ideas and techniques. Assume there is a workable way forward and commit to whatever it takes.

Get yourself good and clear about why the result matters. Then do what’s necessary to make it happen.

— Ralph Marston

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November 15

How are you feeling?

When you don’t feel like being kind, that’s the time for kindness. When you don’t feel like working, that’s when work can do you the most good.

Magic occurs when you go ahead and do what you don’t feel like doing. Because when you start to act, the feeling changes.

You realize that your feelings reflect you and inform you but they don’t always have to control you. You are free to achieve, to connect, to care, to persist, whether you feel like it or not.

Yes, of course your feelings matter and they’re certainly not to be ignored. But neither is their purpose to be blindly obeyed.

How are you feeling? It makes a difference, but so do many other factors.

Seek to get the best that’s possible with your feelings, from your feelings. But don’t let them take the best out of you.

— Ralph Marston

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November 16

Reach for the best

How do you achieve a desired result? You reach for it.

Reach physically with your hands, arms, and legs. Move yourself to where you need to be rather than waiting for your goals to come to you.

Reach with your mind. Visualize your objectives in precise detail, then develop and execute a strategy for bringing them about.

Reach with your imagination and creativity. If your path is blocked, imagine alternate ways of getting where you wish to go.

Reach with your spirit. Live each day with gratitude, with joy, and cultivate within yourself a consciousness of abundance.

Use all you have to reach toward the fulfillment of all you value. And experience life’s richness unfolding as you act to bring it about.

— Ralph Marston

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November 17

Time to begin

You know you can be better, you know you can give more. Challenge yourself to do so.

It’s easy to complain, to blame, to dream up excuses, to feel sorry for yourself. But none of that is going to achieve anything.

What makes a difference is your purposeful, focused, persistent effort. So go ahead and do what you know you can do.

The path forward is complicated, uncomfortable, inconvenient, frustrating. Yet it’s also available and attainable, and now is the time to proceed with it.

The world will continually try to entice you with promises of something for nothing. But as you’ve experienced again and again, such promises never pan out.

What does get results, what does bring improvement, is your effort. And just in case you’ve lost sight of what you already know, now is the best time to begin.

— Ralph Marston

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November 18

Perfect conditions

Clear skies and calm seas make for a great day of sailing. But every ship’s captain must also be prepared to navigate safely through wind, rain, darkness, and turbulent waters.

If you’re only able to make progress when conditions are perfect, you’re not going to make much progress. Reality demands that you learn how to successfully proceed when things are less than perfect.

It’s great to have a supportive environment, ample resources, a clear and obstacle-free path, and the absence of external constraints. But that’s not how the real world usually works.

To achieve an ambitious objective, be willing and able to adapt to the circumstances you encounter throughout the process. In addition to making your success more likely, this approach makes your skills and experience more resilient, more valuable.

Favorable conditions are nice when you get them. Just make sure you see them as a lucky bonus instead of an essential requirement.

Achievement happens when you’re committed to do the work of achievement no matter what. That’s a whole lot better than waiting around for perfect conditions.

— Ralph Marston

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November 19

Seeds of fulfillment

By fully appreciating what you have, you gain access to what you seek. Embrace all that is, and you find within it viable pathways to the best that can be.

What you yearn for is already yours in many ways. See it not as something separate from you but as a part of you that you can work to more fully express.

The seeds of your fulfillment have been there all along. Nurture them with your gratitude, your effort, your passion, and let them bear fruit.

You exist in a specific moment, yet your mind and your heart are easily able to transcend time. Through a connection held open by your deepest purpose, energy and meaning traverse the past, the present, and the future.

Right now you can feel that connection and make use of it. Gratitude, hope, wisdom, and love combine together into a powerful force.

Deploy that force across time and space in the service of meaningful purpose. From the best of who you are, and have been, and will be, comes all the unique and immense good you do.

— Ralph Marston

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November 20

Face the challenge early

Face the challenge when it arises. You may not consider yourself ready for it, but it’s there nonetheless.

Whatever your level of preparation, there’s something you can do right away. So go ahead and take that initial step.

You’ll require new knowledge, skills, and resources to successfully deal with the challenge. Yet you can start with whatever you have.

Even if that first response is only a small one, anything is a whole lot better than nothing. Because as time passes, an unanswered challenge will only become more difficult and imposing.

As you grow into the challenge, you’ll gain whatever is necessary to prevail. The sooner you begin that process, the sooner the challenge will be behind you.

It’s not the easiest or most convenient choice, but it’s the best choice in the long run. Face the challenge early and you’ll handle it well.

— Ralph Marston

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November 21

Beauty of living

Unique beauty lives inside you. Bring some of it out into the world today.

You carry possibilities around with you. You encounter new possibilities everywhere you go.

Through your efforts, enable those possibilities to interact and blossom. Transform their positive potential into valuable reality.

It is never too early, never too late to bring new meaning and richness to life. Be true to the highest and best within you, and make good use of right now.

You don’t have to be rich or famous or clever to change the world for the better. You do it anytime you choose to act in accordance with what’s true, what’s real, what’s good, what’s authentic.

Give time and energy to all you love and care about. Reward your own life and your whole world with the beauty of living.

— Ralph Marston

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November 22

The understander

Understanding arises from more than just facts, information, knowledge. To truly understand, you must take into account the understander.

Your own understanding of anything takes place within a specific context. That context is you, and your life, your experience, all you know, all you feel.

That’s the case with you, and with everyone else. As such, understanding is not something that can be forced, or automated, or replicated en masse.

Certainly understanding can be encouraged, enabled, and facilitated to a great degree. Yet it remains an intensely personal activity, and occurs only when the person is fully involved.

If you seek understanding, you have to gain it within the realm of your own existence, and not as some disinterested observer. When you seek to be understood, proceed with all the empathy you can muster for each very real and complicated person in your audience.

Understanding can be a powerful, beautiful, and highly useful part of life. And it happens when you respect the real, live person who is doing the understanding.

— Ralph Marston

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Better understand then to be understood.
Happy Thanksgiving my dear friends.

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone!

November 23

Unconditional gratitude

In the joys, in the annoyances, in the wins and losses, in the frustrations and moments of shining insight, is life. Every little bit of it is connected with all the rest.

Because of such connection, gratitude for anything amounts to gratitude for everything. That gratitude is a desirable vantage from which to embark.

When you embrace what is, as it is, you align yourself with reality, with truth. Though it’s not always comfortable or pleasant, it’s your most authentic and effective way forward.

The forces that push against your progress show you clearly where and why you must grow stronger. As you grow in strength and experience, you’re able to make better use of the beneficial parts of life.

With unconditional gratitude the distractions can aid in your focus, the defeats will set you up for victory. You’ll harness the ever-changing winds to carry you in a consistent and meaningful direction.

Allow gratitude to flow throughout the connection between all you are, all you have, and all that is. Be a positive force as you discover and expand upon the goodness in it all.

— Ralph Marston

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November 24

Mental environment

Are your thoughts in a gloomy, unproductive place? You have the ability to quickly carry them somewhere else.

Would you prefer to be on a beach in Fiji or a forest in the north woods? Simply instruct your imagination to go there, and to bring your thoughts along.

Of course you cannot transport your physical self across time and space just by thinking. Yet you absolutely can take your thoughts to any time, any place, any situation you choose.

And you can achieve real value in the real world by doing so. By upgrading your mental environment you can improve your mental performance.

Enabling your thoughts to soar can lead to soaring creativity. Keeping your mind in a positive, supportive state will enhance the quality of any activity or experience.

Use your imagination, and bring your mind to a place where your best thoughts can be nurtured. Then enjoy the benefits as your good and useful thoughts flourish.

— Ralph Marston

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November 25

Go to the trouble

Go to the trouble. Life is worth it.

Make the sacrifice, spend the time, put forth the effort. Achieve the gains that are available for you to achieve.

Endure the pain, the inconvenience, the frustration, the perplexities. Enable your world to benefit from the rewards that flow out of discipline, focus, and boldness.

You already have it far easier than your ancestors. Your task is not to make your life easier, but to make it meaningful.

The meaning you seek comes from honest engagement with people, places, forces, and circumstances. Get on with it at every opportunity.

You’re well equipped and well positioned to do it, to live it, to make this day more beautiful, meaningful and valuable than you found it. Go ahead, and go to the trouble.

— Ralph Marston

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November 26

Utilize today

This is your one chance to put life and richness and value into today. Make the most of it.

Here in front of you are hours and minutes that will never come again. They contain unique opportunities you can utilize to the benefit of yourself and others.

Today you can finally undertake what you’ve been putting off until later. Today you can identify specific actions that will improve your world, and you can take those actions.

Today you have more experience, more knowledge and a more clearly defined sense of purpose than ever before. It would be a shame not to put all that to good use.

Put yourself in a position where you can look back on today with satisfaction and gratitude for all you did with it. Though it’s one day out of many, it’s the one you now can work with, and one that can make a big difference.

What could you work to create, improve, support or replenish today? Here is your moment to get started.

— Ralph Marston

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November 27

The latest thing

You seek answers, comfort, and richness in what’s new. Yet what you long for is not likely to be found in the latest thing.

Much of what’s new is empty and useless, contrived solely for the sake of novelty. It’s shiny and bright, designed specifically to capture your attention, but beneath the irresistible veneer is nothing.

Certainly, authentic new things have the power to bring much value to your life. Genuine novelty can stimulate your imagination and energize your spirit.

But just because something is new does not magically make it useful. Having the latest version does not automatically equate with having the best version.

There already exist thousands of years worth of values, insights, and innovations that have stood the test of time. While not themselves new, most are indeed new to you, and very accessible as well.

Don’t dismiss all the good and useful old things you’ve never known just to chase what everybody is currently chattering about. The substance you seek might very well be found in what’s been there all along.

— Ralph Marston