Daily Motivator - August

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August 24

The benefit of kindness

Kindness may not be the easiest thing to do. Yet it is the right thing to do.

When you’re not sure what choice to make, choose kindness. It is always a choice you can live with.

Kindness requires no lengthy explanations or excuses. The value, the power, the authenticity of kindness are immediately self-evident.

Yet true kindness is not ever done for show or for glory. Kindness is done to lift up and enhance the experience of life for everyone involved.

Your kindness will not always be repaid. But that doesn’t matter because its value to you begins the moment you act.

Genuine kindness connects you to others in a way nothing else can. At every opportunity, give yourself the benefit of that connection.

— Ralph Marston

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August 25

Every experience

Don’t get caught up in judging whether one experience is more interesting, beneficial, worthwhile than another. Every experience is part of the adventure.

From every experience you gain insight, wisdom, and the strength to bring new goodness to life. Every experience gives you the opportunity to make a positive contribution to your own life and to others.

You cannot possibly know all the ways that whatever you’re experiencing right now will benefit you and add value to your life in years to come. So live this moment with the full faith and confidence that it is worth all the attention, effort, and love you can give it.

Look back, and you’ll understand that some of your most difficult times have resulted in your most useful strengths. Those past challenges, frustrations, and setbacks provided you with valuable raw material from which to build a full, rich life.

How utterly boring a story would be if only good things ever happened in it. How shallow and empty your relationships would be if they had not been tested and deepened by difficult experiences.

Get out there and immerse yourself completely in the experience that is right now. Know that you will find the good in it, and know that you will grow stronger from it.

— Ralph Marston

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August 26

Another path

Make the effort, expect to achieve. But don’t expect the achievement to unfold exactly the way you thought it would.

Plan carefully, without getting trapped by your plan. Pay attention to the plan, and pay even more attention to where the plan leads.

Don’t ignore opportunities, ideas, approaches just because you didn’t think of them when formulating your plan. Go with what actually works, not just with what you thought would work.

Be uncompromising about the goal. Be flexible about the way you get there.

Even when the path you’ve chosen is blocked, you can still reach the destination. There is another path, another approach that will bring you to the place you intend to go.

Keep up the effort, know that you can find that path, that you can travel that path. And you will.

— Ralph Marston

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August 27

Problems no more

What makes something a problem is not the reality of the situation. What makes it a problem is your perception of it.

A smooth stone on the bottom of a riverbed does not have any problems. A star lighting up its own corner of the universe has no problems.

Each problem is a problem because you think it is a problem. Yet you can think differently.

You can choose not to label it as a problem. You can decide to focus on the benefits and opportunities in the situation.

You can work to embrace those benefits and to fulfill those opportunities. You can allow yourself to access more of the resources available to you, more of the knowledge and wisdom that can be yours.

Remind yourself of all you are, of all you can do, of all you know and love, of all to which you are connected. And problems are problems no more.

— Ralph Marston

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August 28

Allow yourself to be

You are happy only when you allow yourself to be happy. You are happy always when you allow yourself to be happy.

You learn, heal, achieve, and make progress by allowing yourself to do so. You experience peace by allowing peace into every corner of your awareness.

The life you allow to unfold within you is the life you live. Let go of need, of striving, of envy, ego, and fear, and allow yourself to allow.

You cannot fight your way to fulfillment, and chasing what you seek only pushes it away. Stop fighting, stop chasing, and allow.

Allow yourself to be your highest vision of yourself, today. Allow life to be the best you know it can be, now, in this place, in this circumstance.

Discard the conditional thinking that falsely imprisons your beautiful spirit. Allow, and live the magnificent truth of all you are.

— Ralph Marston

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August 29

Authentic desire

Admit to yourself what you really, truly desire. In the truth and authenticity of your desire exists more than enough energy to make it happen.

Let go of the desires you’ve borrowed just because they are trendy or impressive. Let your heart point the way to what matters.

When it is painful for you to not be following, supporting, committed to what you desire, you know that’s a genuine desire. Do the work, live the effort to zero in on those things you love so intensely you must give yourself to their fulfillment.

Your time has incalculable value. To feel profoundly good about yourself, spend your time and energy on the outcomes, achievements, and purposes you love and desire.

Remind yourself that the desire to matter, to make a difference in your own unique way, lives at your core. Seek out positive, beneficial ways to satisfy that desire in all you do.

What will make things right with the world? What can you do to bring that vision to life?

— Ralph Marston

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August 30

You can do it

The road is long, the climb is steep. You can do it.

Time is short, the demands are many. You can do it.

No one else understands or appreciates all you must go through to get the work done. You can do it anyway, and do it very well.

It’s lonely, frustrating, tedious, wearisome at times. Yet the more difficult the challenge, the more fulfillment you’ll experience by getting it done.

You can do it, and what’s more, you really want to do it, and must do it. And deep inside, it means the world to you that you are.

Feel the depth of challenge, the immensity of opportunity, and the great power of your own intention. You can do it, and you know it will be great.

— Ralph Marston

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August 31

Transform disappointment

Life will sometimes disappoint you. Embrace the disappointment, and transform it into inspiration.

When you feel disappointment, it means you know things could have been, and can be, better. Take hold of that vision, and work on bringing it fully to life.

Disappointment enables you to experience firsthand what you don’t want. Use that experience to develop new clarity about what you do want.

No disappointment ever has to be permanent. Take what is positive, informative, and motivating in each disappointment, and leave the rest behind.

Look for opportunities to channel disappointment into positive action. Though you can’t do anything about what has already happened, you can choose what you do with it.

Feel the disappointment, then gather all the energy in that feeling and put it to good use. You’ll soon leave the disappointment far behind as you move forward to do great things.

— Ralph Marston