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| | From:  Ednpride (Original Message) | Sent: 9/27/2008 3:29 PM |
Daily Motivation Saturday, September 27, 2008
Give yourself the power
Your power depends on your perspective. And your perspective is yours to choose.
If you convince yourself that you're having a bad day, you will indeed experience a frustrating and unproductive day. If you assume that circumstances are allied against you, then you'll encounter great trouble in getting anything done.
There is a much more powerful alternative. You can choose to adopt and embrace a perspective that will work for you rather than against you.
Think of how you would feel if conditions were perfect, if your actions were highly effective and if everything was going exactly your way. Then, once you imagine how it would feel, go ahead and allow yourself to actually feel that way.
How would you act today if you knew you were going to be completely successful? Go ahead and act that way, and the success will come.
Put yourself in a position of power by choosing to feel the positive influence and effectiveness that you know is yours. Adopt the thoughts, feelings and actions of success, and you will indeed bring success to life.
-- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Tuesday, Dec 9, 2008 Closer than ever Failure does not prevent success. In fact, failure is what leads to success. There is no failure, no disappointment, no mistake in your past that can stop you from taking a positive step forward right now. No matter how many times you may have fallen short of the mark before, success is closer than ever. Each time you get it wrong, you learn more about how to get it right. Keep putting that growing knowledge and experience to use, and you'll reach your goal. Every disappointment you've ever known is now in the past. The past is over and cannot hold you back. Now is when you're able to move forward. Today you can take the valuable lessons you've learned and transform them into effective action. Every step you've taken, whether it seemed to work or not, has brought you closer to success. Now go ahead and take the additional steps that will bring you all the way there. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008 No more resistance Allowing the best of life involves nothing more than becoming aware of your resistance to it. Shine the light of awareness on your resistance, and that resistance dissolves into nothing. Allow life's richness to be, and it flows freely into your experience. See your pain and frustration for the resistance that they are, and suddenly they are no more. If you focus on the concerns of your ego, the resistance builds up. Realize that you are not your ego, and suddenly the resistance has no basis. Resisting the limitless abundance of life is your own choice. As soon as you understand you've made that choice, you can quickly let it go. Imagine what will happen when you simply stop judging, criticizing, and resenting yourself and others. You open yourself to a whole new world of beautiful possibilities. Feel the resistance that you've created within your own life, and know that you can choose to peacefully let it go. Let it go, and come fully to life. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Thursday, Dec 11, 2008 A little bit Making a little bit of progress is much better than making no progress at all. Even though the going may be slow, keep going. Moving slowly toward your goal is much better than not moving at all. Do what you can, when you can, with what you have. Time will work in your favor when you use that time for positive purpose. Over time, even the small efforts bring big results. If you waste your time wishing you could do more, you end up doing less. Cheerfully use your time as it comes to do the best you can. Even when you're not able to take a major step forward, you can always take a small step forward. Keep taking those small steps, and the opportunity to take that big step will surely come. A little bit here and a little bit there will soon add up to a lot of progress. Even when you can't do much, you can always keep yourself actively headed in a positive direction. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Friday, Dec 12, 2008 Unfair You won't become successful by complaining that life is unfair. Certainly there are many injustices in the world, yet you won't get anywhere by using those injustices as excuses. Your best response is to work over, under, around and through them. Accept the fact that life is unfair, and choose to experience outstanding success anyway. It is admirable to fight against injustice. But fighting against injustice may very well make that injustice even stronger. A better way to end injustice is to make it irrelevant. When you create ways for yourself and others to succeed in spite of unfair circumstances, then you render those circumstances powerless. The world is filled with inequity and unfairness. And yet, there are always plenty of workable and creative ways to rise above those negative circumstances. When something in life is unfair, choose to succeed anyway. And make that unfairness so small and insignificant it won't even matter. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Saturday, Dec 13, 2008 Your sincere best If reality isn't working for you, change it. If there are limitations that hold you back, transcend them. Reality is what you make of it. Life is the way you choose to live it. Gently accept the way things are. And then put the energy of your focus on exactly how you would like for things to be. Everything in your world happens for a reason. Get yourself some good, meaningful, compelling reasons and use them to drive events forward. You don't have to settle for anything less than the absolute best for yourself and your world. For you can act in every moment with the positive, purposeful energy of your own unique life. Give your sincere best in every moment, at every opportunity. And make the reality of life as outstandingly beautiful as you know it can be. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Sunday, Dec 14, 2008 Peaceful effectiveness
Be continually at peace with yourself, and absolutely anything is possible. Rid your mind of all inner conflict, and the outer conflicts will not matter.
Realize that you can transcend anything, and everything becomes an opportunity. Decline to be caught up in the wasteful, destructive power struggles of the world, and you'll find the real power to create according to your highest vision.
Gratefully and graciously accept each day as it comes. Let go of what has been, and eagerly take in all that is.
Choose your intentions as if they will come to life in great abundance. For when those intentions are sincerely filled with positive, meaningful purpose, they will indeed become real.
Instead of struggling to get one up on everyone else, raise your awareness to the point at which the competition is insignificant. Get in the habit of creating value, and you won't feel the need to take it from others.
To be truly effective, be truly peaceful, sincere, thankful and accepting. Find delight and fulfillment in pulling all of life forward.
-- Ralph Marston
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Daily Motivation Monday, Dec 15, 2008 Into action When you don't feel like doing what you know you must, that's the best time to go ahead and do it anyway. That's when you can break through your old habit patterns to a new level of focus, performance and achievement. That first step will require you to go against your natural tendency to put it off until later and to stay comfortably where you are. So how do you get beyond that? Use your power of visualization to do two things. First, use your thoughts to make it even more uncomfortable, even more painful for you not to take action. Next, visualize in great detail all the positive and desirable rewards you'll create by going ahead and getting it done. In your mind, make it so compelling to take action that you cannot avoid doing so. Many times in the past, you've successfully avoided action by telling yourself why you can't or why you won't. Now, choose to use that same power to tell yourself why you can and why you will. You control the awesome power of your thoughts. And with your thoughts you can successfully visualize yourself into action every time. -- Ralph Marston |
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| Daily Motivation Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008
Motivation “Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. .�?BR>�?Jim Rohn
"People have more options than they think they do. But most people spend more time planning their vacations than thinking about what they want to do with their lives."
- Bob McDonald
Power Tip of the Day:
When You Have to Make an Important Decision, Don't Leave It (Entirely) to Chance The Situation: You've done all the analysis and narrowed your options to two courses of action. Both have strengths and weaknesses, risks and rewards. You can't make up your mind. The Solution: Flip a coin or put each option on one side of an index card and flip it. The Secret: Pay attention to how you feel about the winner. Are you relieved? Disappointed? That feeling represents your intuition -- which has been overwhelmed by all the heavy analysis you've been doing. Action to Take: Follow your intuition, not chance. |
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Daily Motivation Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 Everything you have There is so very much available to you. In reaching for your dreams, make use of everything you have. Don't be dismayed or embarrassed by what you have to work with. Instead, work with whatever you have and it will grow more useful and effective with each effort. Don't place a judgment on your abilities before you even put them to use. Go ahead, get to work, and see how quickly your skills increase. Look back at the good things you've accomplished in the past. That power of accomplishment is still with you, so choose now to put it to use again for even more exciting and compelling purposes. Think of all the great ideas you've had but have never followed through on. Now is when you can make the best of them come to life. The challenges are great and yet the value that flows through your life is far greater. Use everything you can, and you can accomplish anything you choose. -- Ralph Marston
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| Daily Motivation Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 Connection Conflict is not your nature. Peace is your true home. When you choose to see yourself as apart from others, you separate yourself from your greatest possibilities. Feel the connection with all that is, and naturally know the peaceful power and effectiveness that is yours. Improve the lives of others, and your own life benefits greatly. The more joy you give away, the more joy you experience. You can never truly gain at another person's expense. Yet you always receive when you work to sincerely give. Live each day with awareness and respect for your ever-present connection with everything that is. Work to enrich every little corner of your world, and you will experience the abundance of that richness. Let the peace that lives deep within you influence each thought and deed. And make the whole world a more beautiful place. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Friday, Dec 19, 2008 Higher expectations When you discover that you've exceeded your own best expectations, don't be frightened. Be curious, and get a little more ambitious. After all, you've done something you never expected you could do. Think of what else you could now do that you would have never before considered. Though it's great to succeed beyond your expectations, it can also be very uncomfortable. And that discomfort can pull you back down, getting you to underperform in order to compensate for your recent spectacular performance. Instead of giving in to that need for comfort, get excited about what you've just accomplished. Instead of bowing to your previous expectations, choose to raise your expectations even higher. No, you didn't just get lucky. You took the actions necessary to accomplish even more than you had expected. Now you have the outstanding opportunity to build on that accomplishment. Step boldly forward, don't look back, and continue amazing yourself with all that you can do. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Saturday, Dec 20, 2008 Positive direction The magnitude of your next step does not matter nearly so much. What really matters is the direction. To turn your life around, you must first turn your focus around. To move toward your goals, you must first be facing them. Just a small step in a positive direction is a step nonetheless. Just one small positive thought has the power to turn you away from years of negative actions. Every moment is a choice. And every moment you can choose to orient your life in a positive direction. You don't have to take big strides, for the small steps will get you there just as reliably. Just make sure that each thought, each action, each feeling, however insignificant it might seem, points toward where you desire to go. Maintain a positive direction, and no matter what else happens, you'll always be making progress. Keep yourself pointed in the direction of your dreams, and every day will bring you closer. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 Be thankful Be thankful for this day, and you will fill it with joy. Be appreciative of those around you, and they will bring much value to your life. Be grateful for your opportunities, and you'll find yourself making the most of them. Be thankful for what you have, and you'll get more from it. Be grateful for the challenges, and they will help you become stronger. Appreciate the dark, cloudy days and they'll instantly become brighter. Appreciate the sunny days, and you'll enjoy them even more. Those things you take for granted will fade from usefulness as you forget they're even there. By contrast, those things for which you're thankful remain readily available and will grow even stronger as a result of your appreciative attention. Consider how very fortunate you are. Consider it often. The more you count your blessings, the more there will be to count. - Unknown |
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Daily Motivation Monday, Dec 22, 2008 Enjoy the achieving Consistent achievers enjoy more than just the achievement. They also enjoy the process of achieving. Those who attain the biggest rewards do not merely seek those rewards. They also crave the challenges that they must go through in order to reach those rewards. Winners understand that the goal, as valuable as it may be, is only a small part of the overall achievement. They know that the real substance of the achievement is in the achieving. In fact, you cannot truly benefit from the reward unless you have worked through the challenging process to attain it. To truly enjoy the achievement, you must also enjoy the achieving of it. Sure, that process of achieving will have its unpleasant and disagreeable aspects. Yet think of how great it will feel when you purposefully transcend them all. Let go of your judgment about what's pleasant, what's comfortable, and what's not. Sincerely enjoy the journey of achievement, and you'll surely reach the goal. -- Ralph Marston |
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Daily Motivation Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008 Top yourself When you've done well, set your sights on doing even better. If you've successfully reached high, reach even higher. Make it your business to top yourself. Make it your goal to exceed your own best efforts. As great as it has been, what you've already finished achieving will not drive you forward. Before you reach each goal, be ready with another one. The possibilities for growth and achievement have no limit. When you're going strong, there are plenty of ways to get even stronger. One of the very best things about success is that it serves as the basis for greater success. Don't let your success go to waste by simply sitting on it. Find a way to top yourself. You've done great so far, and now you can do even better. -- Ralph Marston |
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