Daily Motivator - September

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September 1

Act on your care

Saying you care is cheap, easy, and worthless. When you care, then act on your care, live your care.

Give your caring value, give it consequence. Give specific time, commitment, resources, actions and persistence to your caring.

Spend your energy doing what you can do rather than wasting your breath announcing it. If it matters to you, put your effort behind it.

Don’t bother with perfecting your image. Focus on optimizing your positive impact.

Begin each day in gratitude for all you care about. Then turn your attention to the steps you can take to support and to earn all that continuing goodness in your world.

Allow yourself to care deeply and push yourself to live accordingly. Put your caring into action and make all that’s good and meaningful even better.

— Ralph Marston

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September 2

Today’s opportunities

How many of today’s opportunities will you recognize? How many of them will you be willing to make use of?

Every problem you come across is an opportunity to create value. Each passing moment comes with an opportunity to do useful work, to learn, to make a positive difference in some way.

Every frustration gives you the opportunity to strengthen your patience. Every awkward situation provides an opportunity to add to your confidence.

Every challenge represents an opportunity to hone your skills. Every setback delivers the opportunity to become more determined and persistent.

Every person you encounter presents you with an opportunity for kindness. Every disagreement can serve as an opportunity for deeper understanding.

Today is filled with opportunities if you will simply open yourself to them. Each one can add new value to your world when you live with courage, with purpose, with love.

— Ralph Marston

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September 3

Remember and re-energize

Remember all the good things you’ve done, and seen, and experienced. In so doing, re-acquaint yourself with the goodness that’s possible for you right now.

Recall all you’ve endured, the efforts you’ve put forth, the problems you’ve solved, the milestones you’ve reached. Let it spark fresh enthusiasm for the achievements you can now work toward.

Feel gratitude for all the people who have supported you, challenged you, encouraged you, been present with you. Be inspired to pass all that value along to others.

Consider how rich and meaningful life has been, even in the midst of great burdens and uncertainties. See your enduring power to connect to that richness no matter what the circumstances may be.

Past experience has carried you to where you are. Now is your opportunity to extend that journey, to expand the value of what you can do.

Connect again to the purpose that has always driven you. Allow that purpose to push you into increasingly higher levels of living and fulfillment.

— Ralph Marston

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September 4

A good place to be

You don’t have to be spectacular to do a good job. Your life doesn’t have to be filled with glamor and drama to be a good life.

It’s great to work on being more than you are. Yet life can be fulfilling long before you’ve arrived at whatever destination you seek.

In all likelihood, where you are right now is not the perfect place to be. Nonetheless, you can always make it a good place to be.

Your high standards are valuable and admirable. But don’t let those standards prevent you from making good use of every moment.

Even when circumstances are less than perfect, you can live well, with purpose, with grace, with truth. Even when others in your life are less than accommodating, you can maintain a positive, purposeful focus.

Today is your day to embrace what is, to create unique fulfillment right where you are. Life is here now, ready for you to live it well.

— Ralph Marston

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September 5

Courageous competence

When you neglect to take action you open yourself to fear. When you back away from the challenges, fear gains the power to overwhelm you.

The way forward is not to wait or wish for someone to solve all your problems and make you safe. The way forward is to get innovative and ambitious, to actively do everything you can.

Each effort makes you more familiar with what you can do. You grow more effective, more confident, more courageous.

Sure, there are limits to what you’re able to do. Yet by taking every positive action available you begin to exceed those limits and expand your possibilities.

Acknowledge the risk, respect the danger, and act with focus, care, and competence. Take the reasonable, prudent actions available to you, and soon you’ll be able to do even more.

Be fully informed by the challenges but not stopped by them. Do everything you can, and let your courageous competence move life forward.

— Ralph Marston

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Happy New month Kracker, and Tammy, once again thanking God for the for watching over us and our family's during the month of August, thanking Our higher power for bringing us to this beautiful forth day of September. God bless you, and remember to walk by faith and not by sight, for it is faith that get us through the day. Amen.

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Thank you willbe. I pray that God blesses you and watches over you also.

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September 6

The good you can do

It’s often said that misery loves company. But what misery seeks even more than sympathy is change for the better.

If you’re miserable, spreading misery to others won’t improve the way you feel. It will just make things worse for everyone, including you.

What will improve the situation is to break the pattern. Consider all you can do to make that happen.

Instead of looking for people to feel sorry for you, look for people you can help. Instead of focusing on your own troubles, focus on what you can do to lift up life.

Turn your attention and direct your energy toward what will make a positive difference. Challenge yourself to take beneficial actions, even if they’re just small ones.

Get through the difficulties not by dwelling on those difficulties but by setting your sights higher. Remind yourself of the good you can do and work to make everyone’s misery a thing of the past.

— Ralph Marston

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September 7

Discover your way forward

How do you find the answers to life’s most difficult and perplexing questions? By living your life.

Others can teach you, guide you, inspire you, point you toward meaningful challenges. You have the opportunity to emulate people throughout history who have lived lives of positive purpose.

Yet learning or hearing about someone else’s experience does not fully transfer that experience to your life. It’s up to you to apply the lessons, to follow the inspiration, and to discover your way forward.

Fulfillment is not something that can merely be handed to you, or sold to you, or forced upon you. Fulfillment requires your active and continuing participation.

That’s what makes it so valuable. Its value is a combination of life itself, of all you’ve learned, and of all you’ve done in the process of living.

Today is your chance to add more steps to the journey. Travel well.

— Ralph Marston

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September 8

Guided by experience

What worked well for you yesterday? What can you do to expand upon it today?

What was the biggest factor working against you over the last month? What changes can you make to minimize or eliminate that drag on your efforts?

If you want to improve your future results, then pay close attention to your past experiences. Be honest with yourself about what works and what doesn’t.

Every day serves as a valuable experiment in how to live. What are all those daily experiments demonstrating to you?

Success happens for a reason, and so does failure. Be endlessly curious about those reasons and how they apply to your life, to your situation.

With every experience you gain new wisdom and the opportunity to improve. Take that opportunity and let experience guide you, step by step, day by day, to your most highly desired outcomes.

— Ralph Marston

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September 9

Live the richness

What do you find fascinating? Learn all you can about it, then use what you’ve learned as a starting point to explore even more.

What inspires you? Figure out how to add much of it to your life and how to share it with others.

What challenges you? Embrace the challenge and slowly, steadily, persistently work your way through it.

What brings awe, wonder, mystery to you? Deepen your thoughts and stimulate your feelings with questions that cannot be answered.

Who, how, what do you love to love? Allow love and its ineffable power to resonate through all you do.

You are complex, beautiful, imperfect, and possessed of limitless possibilities. Understand all you can, make peace with the rest, and live the richness as it unfolds in every moment.

— Ralph Marston

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September 10

Every kindness

Every kindness you extend to anyone else is also a kindness you give to yourself. Giving kindness gives you hope, purpose, connection.

Do you ever find yourself feeling down, aimless, irrelevant, or frustrated? Give genuine kindness and it will lift you up, pointing you in a positive, intentional direction.

Only those who never practice kindness see it as a weakness. In reality, kindness demonstrates your strength while also adding to that strength.

In your thoughts and actions, in the words you speak and the intentions you adopt, are opportunities for kindness. Kindness magnifies your effectiveness and empowers the lives of those around you.

Kindness eases your stress and inspires you to improve your world. Kindness gives as much to you as you give to others.

Live life from a perspective of kindness. And you’ll never run out of good, valuable things to do with your time, energy, and resources.

— Ralph Marston

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September 11

Come to life

Come to life today. Live your life right now.

The tide will rise, the tide will fall. Fortune smiles on you a while, then turns away for a time.

Through it all, live your life. Set your intentions and follow through on them.

Life and love, richness, wonder and beauty are all meant specifically for you. Step beyond the fear, rise above the doubt as you journey through the magical experience of being you.

Feel the energy that is your life and let it flow throughout your world. Now is when you get to be the best you’ve ever been.

You’ve waited and wondered and worried long enough. Come all the way to life today and find delight in what you can know and do and see and be.

— Ralph Marston

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September 12

Merge expectations with reality

Expect the best of what can be. At the same time, embrace the reality of what is.

Your expectations exert a powerful influence on the way you interact with life. Use that power wisely, and don’t let it become a burden on your experience.

Let your expectations lift you, inspire you, illuminate the possibilities. But don’t allow them to set you up for disappointment.

Keep in mind that your expectations are there to point you in a desired direction. They cannot serve as an exact, detailed map of reality.

Your job is to integrate the hope and intention of your expectations with the actual truth of your situation. Be ever mindful of where you have chosen to go while also being fully present and aware of where you are.

Make your highest expectations more than mere fantasy. Work to merge them with reality, so that you can bring them fully to life.

— Ralph Marston

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September 13

Power of momentum

If you’re experiencing positive momentum, work to make good use of it and to make more of it. Don’t let complacency steal your momentum away.

If you’re stuck in a period of negative momentum, break the pattern. Don’t go along with a force that’s holding you back.

Momentum is powerful, but it is never a foregone conclusion. Be aware that momentum can and does change, and be prepared to make sure those changes work to your benefit.

When momentum is empowering you, apply some of that power to keep the momentum going. When momentum is blocking you, disrupt that momentum so you can turn its power in a more favorable direction.

Where has momentum become entrenched in your life? Ask yourself, is it helping to push you forward or threatening to push you back?

Whatever your situation, work to bend momentum in the direction of your goals, your dreams, your intentions and values. Get momentum on your side, keep it there, and utilize its power to make life as beautiful and fulfilling as you know it can be.

— Ralph Marston