Daily Motivator - August

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August 1

Your potential

You are born to succeed. You are equipped to succeed.

But success is not a foregone conclusion. If it’s to happen, you must make it happen.

That’s entirely possible and even likely. Yet it’s not easy, or quick, or without friction.

What it is, though, is worth the trouble. Your success in achieving meaningful results adds a type of richness to life that’s not attainable in any other way.

Decide what matters and commit yourself to doing something about it. Because in the deepest part of you, that’s who you are, and that’s what you can do.

Understand the unique potential that exists as a result of your own existence. Fulfill the destiny that lives in you, and successfully bring that potential to fruition.

— Ralph Marston

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Happy New Month August Prayer????

O Lord Jesus, Thank You for this brand new month to know You more and serve You more! We are excited for what lies ahead, this new beginning of a new month. Please bless with good health, strength, and wisdom as we face the challenge of this blessed month.

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August 2

Use it up

Today will soon be gone whether you do anything with it or not. So while you have it, use it up and then some.

Fill the hours living life like it matters. Because it does, and you do, with so much to learn, experience, and accomplish.

Time is going by fast. Go right along with it, full of positive purpose, enthusiasm, kindness and gratitude.

Don’t permit yourself to put off until later all the great living you can do right now. This is your chance to taste life at its richest and most meaningful.

Take that chance, seize the opportunity that’s right in front of you. What you take for granted will eventually disappear, but whatever you make good use of creates value that endures.

Here is your present moment, your place, your circumstance. Now, capitalize on what it all has to offer.

— Ralph Marston

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There's no right time but the presence.
Amen?

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August 3

Choose peace

Peace is possible for you, here, now. Peace settles into you when you allow it.

The situation is stressful, the challenges pile on. Even so, peace waits quietly, reliably, for whenever you decide to let it be.

Plenty of forces in your life and in the world at large act to discourage and impair peace. And though you must acknowledge and deal with that reality, you can choose to be peaceful nonetheless.

Your own sense of peace does not magically make everything perfect. What it does, is enable you to act with purpose, intention, kindness, clarity and effectiveness.

Peace is a good place to come from and a good place to go. Peace is not everywhere, but you can make sure it’s always somewhere.

When you need it most, when others can benefit, or just because you can, choose peace. And go confidently forward in its power.

— Ralph Marston

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August 4

What you complain about

You draw into your life what you focus on. One powerful, negative way to direct your focus is by complaining.

As a result, the people and circumstances that exert influence over your life can be the ones you complain most loudly about. Your complaints have the effect of perpetuating themselves.

Your focus, in and of itself, does not cause things to happen in the external world. However, your focus does have a significant impact on the way you perceive and react to what happens in your world.

So by complaining about something, you expand its presence in your life. Fortunately, you have much better alternatives for directing your focus.

You can focus less on what you despise and more on what you love. You can focus on solutions to problems rather than on who is to blame and the harm they cause.

Let your thoughts be occupied by positive possibilities, not by repeated complaints. Instead of complaining, you can always choose to focus on thoughts that lead your life in satisfying and beneficial directions.

— Ralph Marston

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August 5

See the magic

A magical light reaches softly into every corner of the world. Sometimes you can see it.

It sparkles brightly in the eyes of a child who has just discovered for the first time. It warms the forest floor after a bitter, windy storm.

You can think yourself way too busy and sophisticated to pay attention. Yet the magic remains there to enchant, any time you give it the chance.

In the weariness of a sleepless night, you suddenly feel an uncanny comfort. Rounding the top of another mundane hill, you delight in the golden valley stretching out before your eyes.

It’s funny how the magic appears when you least expect it, and most need it. Almost as if to remind you how much you can care, how alive you can be.

You’ve seen the magic once and again, enough to know it is real. Maybe if you were a little more open, just imagine the wonders you’d behold.

— Ralph Marston

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August 6

Harness the energy

Consider what just happened and ask yourself. What energy do I take from this and how can I make good use of it?

Success can energize your life, difficulty can energize your life. Frustration energizes you, and satisfaction energizes you.

Where your energy comes from is not always up to you. Yet what you do with it is very much your choice.

From the worst days you often end up with the best stories, and powerful, memorable inspiration. Even life’s negative incidents provide you the raw material for positive energy.

Find the energy that comes with each experience, good, bad, in between, and utilize it. Always have a worthy purpose ready to act upon whenever a new burst of energy arrives in your life.

When you notice yourself intensely feeling one way or another about something, there’s energy coming your way. Embrace that energy, harness it, and put it to good use.

— Ralph Marston

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August 7

A future to inhabit

What has been, has been. For all its flaws, regrets, lost opportunities, as well as for its many benefits, accept the past and move forward.

Perhaps it would seem desirable to change the past, but can you really be sure what that would gain you? And in any case, it’s not possible.

Fortunately, you can impact your own future. It’s something you’re able to do every day.

That’s much more preferable. Because the future is where you’ll live the rest of your life.

Rather than useless wishing about changing the past, you can act right now to create a future of your choosing. Instead of fighting against reality, you can put it to work for you.

Transform your thoughts about what could have been into actions that determine what will indeed be. You have a future to inhabit, and it’s as bright as you’re willing to make it.

— Ralph Marston

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August 8

Pushing ahead

You are on your way forward. Keep going.

You are doing many things well. Continue with the good work, and add to it.

You’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. Persist in putting that wisdom into practice every day.

You’ve accumulated valuable experience. Make good and purposeful use of that experience.

Despite the numerous setbacks, you know what progress feels like and how to bring it about. Even when you occasionally find yourself wandering off track, you’re able to quickly get back on.

Today is another great day to be the effective force you know you can be. You’ve successfully made it this far, and now is your opportunity to continue pushing ahead.

— Ralph Marston

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August 9

Feeling and thinking

Emotion informs you, discipline empowers you. Both are necessary, in measured balance.

Drama inspires purposeful pursuits, and rationality enables effective action. Both have their place, and it’s your place to mediate between them.

Yes, by all means let yourself feel the feelings. At the same time, do your best to look objectively at the facts.

Decisions based purely on feelings will leave you powerless. Decisions based purely on facts will leave you empty.

What’s far preferable to either of those fates is to live a life of wholeness, with thoughts and feelings supporting each other. Embrace the mysteries of life while also recognizing the factual realities of the world in which you live.

It’s a great wonder of your existence that you can harmonize your thoughts and feelings to consider and support each other. Keep that harmony going, and live in the richness it enables you to create.

— Ralph Marston

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August 10

Reach, reach, reach

Somewhere beyond you is your highest possibility. Reach for it.

If you attain that possibility, you win. And even if you fall short of the mark, you still win.

For it is the reaching that truly counts. The results absolutely do matter, yet what makes them so valuable is the process you go through to attain them.

When you put forth the effort and get the results you want, that’s great. When the effort’s there but the results aren’t satisfactory, you’ve prepared yourself to come back even stronger next time.

Winners are not those who merely have good fortune handed to them. Winners are people who do what is necessary to reach their good fortune.

Reach, reach, reach, with every moment, every thought, every action, and you will get the results you seek, or at the very least you will get the experience you need. Either way, you win.

— Ralph Marston

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August 11

All the good you do

Your ego will never be satisfied. Whenever you manage to obtain what it desires, it reacts by wanting more.

That’s an empty, frustrating road you don’t have to go down. At any point you can choose another path.

There’s no need for constantly seeking ways to exhibit how great you are. It’s tiring for you and tiresome to others.

Instead, set about to discover how genuinely good, useful, kind, and encouraging you can be. Seek authentic experiences, connections, relationships that uphold truth at their center.

Ego tempts you with promises of thrills and adulations that it never fully delivers upon. Yet you can resist that temptation with a life of goodness and sustainable quality.

To truly experience satisfaction, stop endlessly chasing it. Instead, allow lasting satisfaction and fulfillment to flow from all the good, kind, and helpful things you do.

— Ralph Marston

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August 12

Patience to be

Have the patience to be. Let yourself experience yourself as you are, in the world as it is.

There are numerous improvements you can make. Yet there exists even more goodness that currently is.

Go deep into the existence that already envelops you. Appreciate the now that encompasses so much life and value and substance.

Relax the stiffness in your jaw, and let go of the constant thought that you have to be somewhere. For you are somewhere, and it is well worth the entirety of your attention.

Allow yourself the satisfying wholeness of being. Stop needing and seeking long enough for a healing dose of life’s magnificence to settle upon your soul.

Gift your life and your world with a little bit of pure patience. Discover again how beautiful it is just to be.

— Ralph Marston

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August 13

Putting forth the effort

Steadily, calmly, with purpose and integrity, achieve. Envision a desired endpoint and devote yourself to reaching it.

There’s no need for a lot of hype or frenzy. Just put the time in, know where you’re going, and get there.

When a particular task must be done, focus your attention and your effort on it and make it happen. When a challenge pushes against you, allow yourself the flexibility and creativity to work past it.

You can do this, not just by thinking you can or saying you can, though those things can help. Ultimately, you achieve by putting forth the effort.

Take the next steps on the journey. Lay the next row of stones in the wall.

It will happen because you choose to make it happen. Now, re-commit to what you’ve chosen to do, and put forth the effort.

— Ralph Marston