Daily Motivator - July

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July 1

Invest in the solution

Don’t invest in the problem by complaining about it. Invest in the solution by envisioning it.

Assume the problem can be solved. Then get to work justifying your assumption.

To change an outcome for the better, you must make changes to the input. One by one, identify the factors you can change, and visualize in detail what each available change would accomplish.

Certain constraints will always be outside your ability to change. Seek to understand and work within those constraints rather than fighting against them or hoping you can wish them away.

Formulate an effective approach that’s supported by reality. Rather than being dismayed by the problem, find satisfaction in stepping up to the challenge.

Invest yourself in the solution, in applying positive action to a difficult situation. There’s great value waiting to be created, and you’re in a position to do it.

— Ralph Marston

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Happy July first Tammy and Kracker, thanking
God for bring us through the month of June
One day at a time. We pray that in this new month
we will continue to show love to one another.
In Jesus name.
God bless you and your familys always.
Amen.

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July 2

Unfamiliar territory

Do you want a better understanding of who you are and what you’re capable of achieving? Venture into unfamiliar territory.

Put yourself in a situation where you’re forced to depend on your own knowledge, resourcefulness, and strengths. You’ll quickly find out what those strengths are, and you’ll figure out ways to improve upon them.

That new territory could be physical, social, vocational, intellectual, or some combination. Whatever the case, it can energize you, heighten your awareness, and clarify what’s actually important to you.

Though your current situation has its challenges, you’ve mostly figured out how to handle them. Think of what you could learn, and how much you could grow, from a starkly different set of challenges.

Let yourself experience how well you respond to those challenges. Enable yourself to learn and improve from that experience.

A little bit of adventure can add a lot of value to your life. Go where you haven’t been, and gain a deeper understanding of who you truly are.

— Ralph Marston

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July 3

Kindness is being your best

You don’t have to look far to find a place where your kindness will make a difference. Kindness improves any situation and every situation where it is given.

It can be all too easy to get caught up in blame, drama, resentment, retribution, and other harmful thought patterns. A little kindness will bring a more positive perspective back into play.

Kindness reconnects you with what matters. Kindness reminds you about the best you can be.

When you’re not sure what to do, let kindness guide you in making a choice. If you’re filled with despair or discouragement, an act of kindness points your awareness in a more positive direction.

Kindness is you being your best. That’s a very powerful and productive way to be.

Right now there’s an opportunity for you to bring new kindness to life. Take that opportunity, and everyone will benefit when you do.

— Ralph Marston

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July 4

Living with joy

Whether the task is difficult or easy, do it with joy. Whether the day is gray or sunny, live it with joy.

Whatever situation you and your world are in, it’s far from perfect. Even so, there’s plenty of room for joy.

Living with joy is not a matter of ignoring or avoiding life’s difficulties. On the contrary, an inner, abiding joy energizes and inspires you to more effectively meet those difficulties.

Joy keeps you connected to your best possibilities. Joy is a gift you can always give without limit to yourself and everyone else.

You have plenty of good and meaningful reasons for moving forward no matter what is in your way. Joy is an acknowledgement and a reminder of those reasons.

Put some joy here, put some joy there, put some joy wherever you go. Give yourself the clear and powerful perspective of living life with joy.

— Ralph Marston

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July 5

Stay in motion

Keep thinking, keep speaking, keep doing. Even if it’s not much, even if it seems like nothing, keep going.

You may not be making as much progress as you’d like. But you’re making more progress than if you just stopped completely.

Stay in motion, keep the thoughts and words and actions coming, and you’ll get better at it all. Stay in motion and you can adjust, adapt, improve, experience what works well and what doesn’t.

When you get interrupted don’t let it get you down. Just jump back on track and in motion as quickly as you can.

If all that motion is leading you astray, be honest enough to see it. Then point in a more positive direction and get back in motion again.

There’s so much you’re always capable of learning, achieving, and experiencing. Stay in motion, and make the best of it happen.

— Ralph Marston

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July 6

In control

You are in control of you, and there’s much you can do with that. You are in control of you, and that can lead to great adventure.

The choices of others often affect your life, but you have little to no influence over those choices. What you can control are your own choices, and that’s not a trivial thing.

Your choices exert an immediate, significant, and lasting impact on your life. Keep yourself ever mindful of that potential, and make good use of it.

Sure, pay attention to what everyone else is doing and to how their actions will impact your world. Pay much more attention to what you are doing and all that you’re able to do.

Ask yourself which of your choices have improved life and which ones have not. Adjust accordingly going forward.

Direct your time, energy, and resources where they will be most beneficial. With love and care and the highest of expectations, exercise the control you have over your choices.

— Ralph Marston

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July 7

Changing conditions

Things are not the way they were, and never again will be. Yet it’s entirely possible for you to make things even better.

Adjust to the moment as it has become. Enjoy and thrive in the moment as it is.

By its very nature life changes, and you can’t escape that fact. What you can do is change along with it, and unlock plenty of potential in doing so.

It’s easy to assume that certain changes in the world will dismantle the good things in your life. It’s far better to make positive and enriching adjustments in light of those changes.

You could complain endlessly that things are not like they used to be. Or you could challenge yourself to see the opportunities that surely exist within changing conditions.

Engage your ability to adapt and adjust. Discover how you can make changing conditions into a good thing.

— Ralph Marston

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July 8

Power of your love

Don’t let yourself get repeatedly drawn into fighting against what you dislike. There’s a good chance that will only make it stronger, and give it a more prominent place in your life.

Choose instead to invest your time, energy, and awareness in more beneficial and compelling alternatives. Direct your focus and support to what’s good and desirable.

Break away from any fixation on assigning blame and seeking retribution. You have better things to do.

You can move beyond the past and into a future where you build and support what you care most about. You can seek to fill your world with so much positive value that there’s little room for anything else.

For every negative influence in your life, look for something positive that can render it irrelevant. Challenge yourself to uncover and to travel that positive path.

Don’t make the bad things worse by giving them the energy of your resistance. Make the world better by giving the power of your love.

— Ralph Marston

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July 9

A single hour

How will you feel about yourself in exactly one hour? That depends on your attitude and your actions between now and then.

Will you use the time to live life fully? Or will you spend the time so wastefully and destructively that you soon come to regret it?

The choice is yours here and now. The quality of your future depends on what you do with the present.

A single hour will pass quickly. The way you live that next hour can impact your life for a long time to come.

Is there anything you wish you had done in the past hour, the past week or past few months? Now is your chance to stop wishing and start doing.

The next hour of your life begins now. Live it as if it’s the most important one yet, because it is.

— Ralph Marston

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July 10

Choose a positive future

How do you envision the future? Whatever you expect plays a key role in the way your future unfolds.

Of course nothing is going to work out exactly as you anticipated merely because of your expectations. Yet the best chance to end up in a positive place is to move in a positive direction.

Your future is fast approaching, and the way you live right now makes a difference in how that future will be. Your future is as bright and fulfilling as you choose in the present to make it.

Sure, there are plenty of understandable reasons to be discouraged about the future. Yet because the future isn’t here, and because you play a key role in it, being positive about the future is just as realistic.

At this point, the future you envision is completely up to you. So your best strategy is to envision the most positive future you can imagine.

Go ahead, choose to be positive about the future, and arrange your actions accordingly. By so doing you’ll lift your world higher starting right now and extending into all the future days to come.

— Ralph Marston

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July 11

A way that matters

Do you want your life to go somewhere? Then you must give it somewhere to go.

Do you want a good and fulfilling existence? You make that possible by developing a clear and specific understanding of goodness and fulfillment.

After all, if you can’t articulate what is meaningful to you, how can you support and expand it in your world? To make progress requires that you point your efforts in some particular direction.

To zero your life in on a purpose is a difficult thing, and yet that’s the whole point. For in that meaningful difficulty, the richness of your life is able to arise.

It has become easy to comfort yourself with the pleasures of the moment. But those pleasures can never satisfy your longing to experience meaning that transcends time and circumstance.

Go beyond saying you care and appearing to care. Live in a way that matters to you by having the courage to discover and give life to exactly what does matter to you.

— Ralph Marston

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July 12

Having things go your way

Are you holding yourself hostage to forces you cannot control? Are your happiness and self-esteem based on the random whims of fate?

Don’t make yourself and your effectiveness dependent on always having things go your way. Because things are not always going to go your way.

It is precisely when things are not going your way that you need to be at your best. By detaching from your outcomes you empower yourself to create more favorable outcomes.

Sure, it’s great when life unfolds in accordance with your desires. But because there are so many factors you cannot control, that’s not always going to happen.

Rather than cursing your fate every time something goes wrong, here’s a better approach. Accept what has happened, look realistically at your best options, and take positive action.

By acknowledging that many things are out of your control, you’re able to focus on what you can control. Do that, and you can cause a lot more situations to turn in your favor.

— Ralph Marston

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July 13

Grounded in reality

There’s more to every person than what you see. There’s more to every situation than what’s immediately obvious.

Lots of things can happen that you could never think to anticipate. You’re clever, aware, and deeply thoughtful, but it’s impossible for you to know everything.

You’re skillful, experienced, innovative and resourceful. You can do a whole lot of good, yet you can’t do it all.

That’s why humility serves you so well. Humility gives increased power to your intelligence and abilities by keeping them in a realistic context.

Proceed with confidence, taking care not to let it spill over into arrogance. Remind yourself that every time you act as if you know it all and can do it all, you’re setting yourself up to fail.

Allow genuine humility to keep you grounded in reality. And you’ll continue to fulfill the great potential that lives within you.

— Ralph Marston

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July 14

What worries you

Worry won’t protect you from whatever you’re worried about. What can protect you are truth, strength, and action.

Here are the questions you must ask yourself. What can you do about it, and what will you do about it?

The good thing about worry is that it points your awareness specifically toward what you care about. That’s a valuable start, but it’s not enough.

Once you understand what you care about, worry has done its job. At that point you can transform the energy of worry into the energy of focused, effective action.

You can make a commitment to improve some particular aspect of your world. Then you can follow through on that commitment with the time, energy, and resources available to you.

Make note of what worries you, and determine what you can do about it. Then leave the worry behind by virtue of your positive actions.

— Ralph Marston