Daily Motivator - September

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September 14

The hope you feel

Hope for the best. Then put some real, effective action behind that hope.

Let hope serve as a starting point rather than a last resort. Draw energy from hope, and focus that energy on fulfilling your hope.

Feel hope as it fills your awareness. And with your persistent efforts, give that hope a way to move forward.

Whatever your circumstance, there are always specific steps you can take to bring about positive change. Call upon hope to illuminate your path as you take one step after another.

Keep your hopes high while taking care not to let those hopes become a substitute for action. Remind yourself that the hope you feel is confirmation of the good you can achieve.

Be inspired by hope to act as the living realization of that hope. With enduring hope in your heart and willingness in your spirit, there’s no limit to how far you can go.

— Ralph Marston

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September 15

Changing your mind

You’re allowed to change your mind. It can actually be a refreshing thing to do, not to mention helpful, productive, and insightful.

It won’t kill you to admit to yourself or others that you were mistaken. Perhaps it could even make the situation a whole lot better.

Sure, it’s a blow to your pride when you acknowledge being wrong, particularly if you’ve been adamant about your position. But is your pride really more important than the truth?

Sincere, honest people admire open-mindedness, and for good reason. Being truly open minded involves an eagerness to change your mind when that’s what the facts call for.

It’s an act of freedom, an act of integrity. It serves to better align you with truth and reality.

When circumstances make it necessary and appropriate, change your mind. Improve your perspective and improve your world.

— Ralph Marston

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I always love keeping hope alive.

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September 16

A little difference

Make a little bit of a difference. Do it again and again.

Know where you desire to go. Proceed in that direction, one small step at a time.

A sure way to bring on frustration and disappointment is to assume you’re going to change your whole world overnight. A sure way to make progress is to be realistic about your ambitions.

You cannot jump instantly to the top of the mountain. Yet you absolutely can follow the winding pathway, climbing a little each day.

Do that, and eventually you’ll be marveling at the spectacular view. Perhaps even more significantly, you’ll feel the power of persistence deep within your bones and muscles.

There’s a little bit you can do right now, and a little more tomorrow. Line up those little efforts in a consistent direction, and go precisely where you wish to go.

— Ralph Marston

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September 17

Winning and losing

Your wins and losses are important, yet the integrity with which you act matters even more. Keep that in mind when seeking the victories and recovering from defeat.

It is great to triumph, to achieve, and to excel. And sure, it’s painful to lose.

Yet if you abandon your treasured values in order to win, the prize is empty. When you compromise your integrity for the sake of accomplishing something, you gain nothing of value.

The enduring benefits of achievement do not reside in the achievement itself. The real value of success is in the way you live your life while you make it happen.

Focus on winning, to be sure. Yet be careful not to destroy your integrity just so you can claim the mere tokens of victory.

Each achievement you pursue is an opportunity to bring out the best within you. Act always with integrity, and whether you win or lose in the moment, you’ll set yourself up for long-term success.

— Ralph Marston

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September 18

Good things are possible

Good things are possible for you. Even with your situation as it is, even with what you’ve been through, good things are possible.

There are aspects of life you dearly love. Let yourself love them even more, and act to expand them.

There is some particular possibility that can have you jumping enthusiastically out of bed every morning. Feel it within you, figure out exactly what it is, and begin to give your time and effort to it.

Expect value, goodness, creativity and fulfillment to come from your actions. Then take those actions, with commitment, love, and positive presence.

When life is going well, you possess the very real ability to make it better. If life is not going well, that ability is even more clearly present and compelling.

On this day, in this place, in this circumstance, and within you, good things are possible. Now is when you can do what you’ve always known you can do, and make new goodness come to life.

— Ralph Marston

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September 19

Where achievement happens

How do you accomplish what must be done? Start by getting yourself precisely in the place where you can do it.

To get in shape, go to the gym. To write your novel, sit yourself down at the keyboard.

You can’t paint a masterpiece while floating in the pool, and you won’t get your garage cleaned out while watching television. Demonstrate to yourself how committed you are by going where you can get it done.

Go there literally, physically. Then once you’re in place, go there energetically, with your focused actions.

It might be fun to wish, to imagine, to plan and prepare. Yet when you’re ready to achieve, you must be present, physically, mentally, spiritually, where achievement can happen.

When you’re present and taking action, then you’re serious, then you’re increasingly effective. Go there, put forth effort, and start creating the valuable results you desire.

— Ralph Marston

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September 20

Insist on reality

Give up your illusions. Go forward with your values, your strength, and with objective truth.

It’s easy to pretend to yourself, and to go along with the pretenses of others. But that doesn’t take you anywhere worth going.

Step away from what’s merely easy, from what just looks good on the surface. Go with what’s truly good at the deepest level, what’s useful, enduring, and real.

Refuse to buy in to assertions that cannot stand rigorous scrutiny. Insist on reality, because when all is said and done, reality is what remains.

Put your assumptions to the test, and discard those that fail. Seek to learn from every interaction, from every experience, what works and what doesn’t, what is true and what isn’t.

Looks can be deceiving, as can narratives, expertise, feelings and impressions. Take it all into consideration, then do the difficult work to determine and to go with what is true, with what is real.

— Ralph Marston

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September 21

You have what’s necessary

If you can invent an excuse to avoid action, you can also come up with a compelling reason to take that action. When there’s a reason to quit, there’s also a good reason to keep going.

Do you have the skill and experience to make yourself miserable? You can transform that same skill to get you motivated, inspired, effective and fulfilled.

Has too much time gone by with not enough meaning or accomplishment? By making more intentional use of your time you have the opportunity to achieve great things.

Is your past littered with mistakes and poor decisions? By learning from those mistakes, by making more positive choices, you can vastly improve the results you get.

Every day, you utilize powerful skills and tap into abundant resources to bring to your life those things you think you most deserve. So what exactly do you think you deserve?

In fact, you deserve the best. Because you already have what’s necessary to make it happen.

— Ralph Marston

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September 22

Your dreams are real

Dreams exist for a reason. They’re meant to get your attention, to captivate your imagination.

So pay attention. Imagine with wild abandon.

Of course your dreams are not practical. Yet they are what can drive you to be extremely practical and highly productive in pursuit of their promises.

You’ve pushed your most treasured dreams aside for too long. But they won’t hold that against you.

Indeed, your dreams will welcome your renewed attention by filling you with a sense of positive purpose. They’ll intensify your appreciation for all you’ve been through and illuminate new possibilities of what can be.

The dreams you have for your life, for your world, are as real as anything there is. Now is a great time to bring them fully to life.

— Ralph Marston