Daily Motivator - February

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February 1

Great living to do
Stop waiting for the right time and make this the right time. Stop begging for permission and give yourself permission to live an outstanding life filled with all the experiences and joys you want to have.

You don't have to hope for a lucky break. You just have to step forward, take your destiny in your own hands, and do the work to give your own unique vision to this world.

Right now, right in front of you are actions you can take and positive differences you can make. Don't hesitate another minute to get started making the most of what you already have.

Throw the doubts and excuses out the window and throw yourself into creating new value and goodness. You know you can do it, and you know how great it will feel.

You've already made the massive investment of your whole life to get to this point. Now, do something worthy of all that time and effort.

Raise your expectations, step beyond your doubts, and engage your passion. You have a lot of great living to do, and now is when to do it.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 2

Joy always

Whether rain pours down or the sun shines bright, this is a day for joy. When things go as planned and also when they don't, the time is right for joy.

If you limit your joy to only certain circumstances, you'll fail to have it when you could use it most. Choose to be joyful no matter what, and even on the darkest days you'll brighten the world with your presence.

Let your joy sweeten the victories and ease the defeats. Let your joy shine its light on a positive way forward no matter what the past has been.

Live with joy in your heart and put the power of gratitude, integrity, love, enthusiasm and persistence into your life. Live with joy, do your work with joy, and you'll be more effective at everything you undertake.

Joy is a choice that will give you great power. When you feel positive about life, you are able to do great things.

You never have to be a victim because you always have the option to be joyful. Choose that option, live with joy through every moment and you're sure to be your very best.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 3

Benefit from positive expectation

When people know you expect the worst of them, they will usually act according to those expectations. When you expect the best of people, and they're aware of it, they'll generally do what they can to live up to those expectations.

Sure, some people will disappoint you and others will pleasantly surprise you. For the most part, though, your interactions are heavily flavored by what you bring to them.

Because of that, you can make an enormous positive difference in your own life and the lives of others just by virtue of what you expect. Expect a better day, a better situation, better results, a better world, and you'll begin to make that better world.

Even if you try, you cannot fully hide your expectations. They're shouted to the world through your body language, your tone of voice, your choice of words, and countless other factors.

So go ahead and give yourself the benefit of positive expectation. Expect the best of life, of the people around you, of your circumstances, of everything.

It costs you nothing to expect the best, and there's no good reason to expect anything less. Consistently expect the best, and you'll find yourself, and many of those around you, making it so.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 4

Disruption

When you get too close to what you're doing, you have trouble seeing it all. Focus is essential, and so too is it essential to relax that focus.

The best, most creative solution to the problem does not come from the problem. It comes from the richness of life that exists outside the problem.

With your established routine and habitual thought patterns you can get good work done. With a disruption in that routine you can achieve major breakthroughs.

To make your effort more effective and more creative, back away from it. Stop trying so hard, and allow yourself to be the whole, well-rounded person you know you are.

Make room in your life for mystery, wonder, beauty, color, soft, hot, quiet, dry, wet, bright, dark, and cool. Invite and embrace new experiences, people, places, sensations and ideas.

Always, seek to make a difference, but don't ever make it a chore. Live fully, diversely, even unexpectedly, and in all you do, you'll do well.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 5

Freedom within

Forgiveness eases the burden of resentment. Gratitude releases you from the need to need.

Love unbinds you from fear, anger and worry. Caring and generosity push away the despair.

Understanding liberates you from stale old assumptions. Kindness lifts you out of cynicism and disappointment.

Within you already is the power to escape whatever gets you down. Because within you is the choice to live with goodness and integrity, strength and responsibility.

The latest bright flashy gadget will not save you, really won't even interest or entertain you much. The good values within, though, can light up the whole world.

Feel the power you have for spreading goodness, love, wisdom and all things that matter. Free yourself from within, and dance through life bringing joy to all.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 6

The power to act

All the disappointments that have ever hounded you cannot equal the power of one positive action. Go ahead now and take that action.

Proclaim your confidence in the future by creating something good and useful with the present. Erase doubts by doing work and getting results that prove them wrong.

Thoughts, feelings, worries and opinions can get you down. Positive, productive action cuts through all that and lifts you up.

Don't let a negative attitude prevent you from taking action. Do something, make a difference, and your attitude is suddenly much better.

If you feel helpless and ineffective, like there's no point in doing anything, go ahead, do something anyway. You're feelings will change.

Always, you have the power to act, and it can improve everything in your life. Use it to move solidly, again and again, in the direction of your dreams.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 7

Too good

You’re too good to let a single day of your life go to waste. You’re too good to let the time pass without packing as much great living into it as possible.

You’re too good to put toxic junk into your body, your thoughts and your awareness. You’re too good to be resentful or discouraged.

You hold the power of a unique and beautiful life in your hands. You see things no one else sees, and you have an obligation to make value and meaning out of what you see.

The possibilities are too good to ignore, or to run away from. With so many good things to do, it makes no sense to get caught up in empty or destructive pursuits.

The opportunity that is your life on this day is calling to you. That opportunity is too good to pass up.

Thousands of years of history, and your entire life to this point, have brought you where you are. Tap into that accumulated goodness, and transform it into new greatness.

— Ralph Marston

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February 8

Fresh new life

The world begins again in this moment. New possibilities wash away old disappointments, giving fresh energy to every hope.

Up ahead in the distance, fulfillment and achievement call to you. Keep going, they say, keep doing what you must in the service of all you love.

Already you are well on your way, the experience and wisdom you've gained serving you more powerfully with each new day. You've learned the importance of joy, of purpose, challenge, commitment and gratitude, welcoming new opportunities in every circumstance.

No matter how far you've come, no matter what lies ahead, the pure, majestic substance of life is yours right now. Treasure it dearly and make use of it fully.

Let the brightness astound you and the stillness inspire you. Let the darkness humble you and the tumult energize you.

Fresh new life is born today, and you are here to live it. Give to it what it deserves, which is everything.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 9

Your outlook

If you look for reasons to be angry, you'll find plenty of them. Look instead for reasons to be joyful, and see them everywhere.

This day, this world, the events and people in it will reflect yourself back to you. Give joy, love, respect, understanding, creativity and good cheer, and get back much of the same.

Choose to be hopeful and you'll find yourself putting your hopeful outlook into action. Almost like magic, you'll also find yourself connected to others who share your positive perspective.

Even your small corner of the universe is so stuffed full of motion, objects, ideas, events and other stimuli you can't possibly comprehend it all. Out of limitless possibilities, you choose your outer experiences based on your inner stories.

What kind of stories are you repeating to yourself? Are they stories of fear and despair, or stories of hope, of love, of giving and sharing and achievement?

Your outlook is more than just what you think of the world. It is what you make of the world, of your life, and you have every reason to make it the best you can imagine.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 10

Two choices

When things go wrong, you have two choices. You can make things worse or you can make things better.

You can feel sorry for yourself or you can let the situation inspire you to take positive action. You can look for someone to blame or you can make a decisive move forward.

Just because you've been disappointed is no reason to add to that disappointment with your own actions. In fact, just because you've been disappointed is no reason to act disappointed.

Your actions are based on your choices in this moment, not on past history. Your actions are based on what you've decided to make of yourself, not on what life has dealt you.

What if you could emerge from the situation and be stronger, more positively focused, with a greater sense of purpose and unstoppable confidence? In fact, you can.

Make the choice that will ultimately benefit you and everyone else in your world. No matter how unfair or unjust or disappointing life may be, choose to look ahead, act ahead, live ahead and get ahead.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 11

Power of happiness

Instead of seeking to be happy, be happy. Instead of waiting to be happy, be happy now.

Happiness is not something you must prove or justify. Happiness is not something for you to place conditions upon.

Happiness is yours when you simply allow it. You can do that at any time, in any situation, as often as you choose.

When you choose to be happy with life you choose to be highly effective at living it. You choose to be generous, creative, energetic and inspired.

Happiness feels good, and that's not a trivial thing. When you feel good about life, about yourself, about others, you can do great things.

Stop resisting the power and possibility of happiness. Be happy, now, and be all you are meant to be.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 12

Embrace the resistance

Don't see it as an obstacle. See it as a chance to discover how committed you are to moving forward.

Don't see it as a problem. See it as a way to gain new strength.

Does it seem that the world pushes against you every time you set out to make progress? Actually, the resistance you encounter is providing a path to your goal, and a way to create something of value.

If the quest were too easy, reaching it would have no significance. It is precisely the difficulties, challenges and obstacles that give your work meaning.

You're already strong and capable, becoming stronger with every challenge. Embrace the resistance, appreciate it for what it offers, and you'll find yourself moving steadily through it.

Instead of complaining that the work is too hard, celebrate that it's sufficiently challenging to produce a valuable, meaningful reward. Then keep up the good work, reaping all the benefits that come from doing so.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 13

First response

If you find yourself feeling judgmental, let it be a reminder to feel thankful instead. When you notice yourself obsessing over what's wrong, let that prompt you to focus instead on all that is good and right with life.

Gratitude is a quick-acting remedy to whatever gets you down. Gratitude opens your awareness to positive possibilities and gives you greater access to the abundance that surrounds you.

A day that begins with gratitude is a day likely to result in meaningful progress. Begin the day being thankful and you'll end the day with even more to be thankful for.

Gratitude is more than just being nice and saying thank you. Gratitude is a powerful strategy that energizes you with effectiveness and resourcefulness in every area of life.

Every situation is an opportunity to be thankful. Take those opportunities, and turn those situations into positive, fulfilling experiences.

Make gratitude your first response. It makes everything you do more effective and fulfilling.

Ralph S. Marston

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February 14

Create from what is there

Creativity is not making something out of nothing. Creativity is making meaning out of something.

The raw material of life and of creativity has always been present. In order to be creative, you don’t have to make anything materialize out of thin air.

Creativity is never out of reach because life’s abundance is always very much within reach. To be creative, take what is already there and apply it in a way that makes life richer and more enjoyable.

Whether you wish to create an object, an idea, a story, song, picture or experience, the ingredients are already present. Start with what you know, with what you have, add a lot of what you love, and you’ll create value.

Instead of waiting for a great idea to hit you, realize that you already are the great idea. Go with what feels good, interesting, useful, satisfying and fulfilling, and you’ll go far.

Creativity is your birthright, so claim it in every area of your life. Take what is there, add yourself to it, and live creatively every day.

— Ralph Marston

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February 15

Already well on the way
The achievement is already in place. Allow it to unfold through your actions.

It's not a matter of whether you can do it, because you can. The possibilities, the time, the resources and the pathway are all here now.

It's a matter of whether you will. Set aside fear, rise above doubt, throw out hesitation and do what you know you can do.

Laugh at how flimsy your excuses now appear. Smile with confidence as you get the job done.

Crush old negative assumptions with new positive actions. Transform time and possibility into progress and value.

Feel your passion as it grows stronger and more engaged with every action. You can do this, and you're already well on the way.

Ralph S. Marston