Make new progress

After disappointment, take positive action. After success and achievement, take positive action.

What matters now is not what has already happened. What matters now is that you can focus your energy, your awareness to make new progress.

Discouragement is never the best choice, and neither is complacency. Whether you’ve failed miserably or succeeded spectacularly, don’t keep yourself stuck there.

This new moment glimmers with fresh potential and opportunities never seen before. Take up the unique challenge that is now, and make new progress.

Don’t let your ego lock you into a sad, small box where it’s all about you and what you’ve already done. Utilize your past not as a place of refuge, but as a springboard from which to jump into new levels of effectiveness.

The rewards and tokens of achievement are nice, yet you never stop longing for the act of achievement. Go ahead, satisfy that longing, for now is when.

Ralph Marston

The Daily Motivator

Posted on January 02, 2018

Pure possibility

Now is pure possibility. Live joy fully in its newborn splendor.

What seem to be limitations consist mostly of faint echoes from a reality that no longer exists. Now is as fresh as the breath you just drew in, vibrant with energy and richness.

You transcend another year, and another. The timeless purpose and love at your center, grow in abundance as they flow out from you.

Gather new beauty and carry new hope as you skip across the moments. Embrace the miracles your mind cannot explain and your heart cannot deny.

Celebrate the pure possibility of now by transforming it into new goodness. Jump at the exhilarating chance to invest your thought, action and passion.

Here, now, time and beauty, love, possibility, energy and abundance all converge. Feel the immensity of opportunity, honor it and draw upon it in every choice you make.

Ralph Marston

The Daily Motivator

Posted on January 01, 2018

Make a difference

 

The fact is, you can make a difference. Will you, today?

Even if no one notices, even if no one understands, even if no one seems to care, you can make a difference. You can give the world a persistent nudge in a positive direction.

Sure, you could choose to skim along the glossy surface of life, and add to your stash of meaningless sensations. Or you can stop, dig in, and do the difficult, often thankless work, to make a difference.

Next time you pass a mirror, pause, take a look, and ask yourself, what do you really want to be doing with your life? Do you want to just upload pretty pictures of your face, or would you rather look others directly in the eyes and see the difference you've made in their lives?

There's no such thing as a life well lived if it's lived only in your narrow self-interest. Go beyond merely posing as someone who cares, beyond just voicing support for all the proper, impressive causes.

Find a way, your own special way, to make a difference. And do it.

Ralph Marston - The Daily Motivator