Daily Motivator - September

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September 1

Get it done now

Now is when you can avoid falling further behind. Now is when you can act to get out in front of your life.

It will take just as much effort to do it later as it will take to do it now. So go ahead and get it done, now.

The closer you get to the deadline, the more you’ll be weighed down with anxiety. Now, while you can calmly focus without being frantic, take action, be effective.

If you’d like to relax and enjoy yourself, great. Get the work done now, and then you can truly relax, knowing it’s all finished.

Work yourself to a place where you can feel the satisfaction of being well out ahead of whatever you must do. Rather than waiting until later, get it done now.

Decide to live on your own terms instead of being under a quickly approaching deadline. Take action, take control, get it done, now.

— Ralph Marston

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September 2

Fresh new possibilities

A new world comes to light each morning. A new life is born in every moment.

With the dawning of a new day, disappointments are transformed into positive determination, then eventually into new beauty. What were once mistakes take on new life as valuable experiences.

Life is a process of continuing renewal. As you move forward through time, you encounter new possibilities for more fully expressing the unique beauty that lives in your heart.

What has come before may have been very good, or not so good. What comes now can always be much better and even more meaningful.

Lovingly embrace the fresh new possibilities that are now coming to life. Treasure the best of what has been, and carry that treasure forward as you create new richness.

Open yourself to the new opportunity that comes with each breath you take. Be more fully alive than ever before.

— Ralph Marston

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September 3

Deep tranquility

Breathe in slowly, deeply, then calmly let it out. As you do, relax your life down to its core.

Feel warm, soft release as tension melts gently away. Experience deep tranquility as you focus on the beauty of right now.

Take the opportunity to remember who you are. In this moment, bring your dreams close enough to touch, to admire, to energize you.

Keep breathing slowly, deeply, gently. Although your concerns are all real, none of them have to compromise the peaceful, inner you.

Now, here, experience the positive power that is always with you. Renew your understanding of how you can harness that power to do good.

Linger a while in this state of serene empowerment. Then step forward into the world, and transform it with your love.

-Ralph S. Marston

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September 4

Going your way

Today you are able to reason, to act, to make a difference. Today, life is going your way.

Take stock of your situation, and decide on your best choice in this moment. Act on that choice, and move quickly ahead.

Your life matters much more than the excuses, more than the frustrations, pain and inconvenience. With your ability to contribute to all of life, you can rise above each challenge and move the world forward.

Whatever else is happening, life is going your way. Because you can do something about it, do something with it, do something for it.

When the temptations arise to be resentful, judgmental or discouraged, remind yourself that life is going your way. Fill your awareness with enthusiasm for all the good you can do.

You are here on this unique day, able to chart a positive course, and life is going your way. Give your very best to make the most of your opportunity.

— Ralph Marston

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September 5

Life is good

Life is not always easy, but then you’ve never needed it to be easy. Because you are strong, and willing to grow stronger.

You know the good things demand work. And you’re always willing to do that work.

You’ve learned to take the troubles seriously while being able to laugh about them too. You’ve found that joy is possible in every moment, and multiplies when shared.

You do what you have to do, when it must be done. And you feel the incomparable satisfaction of knowing you’re always helping to push life along.

Most of all, you give until it hurts, then you give and give some more. And when occasionally you turn around to look back, you’re amazed at how much progress you’ve made.

Life is good, because you are eager to accept it as it comes. Life is good, because every day you renew your commitment to make it so.

— Ralph Marston

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September 6

Choose happiness

You cannot be happy if you are chasing happiness. Stop merely pursuing happiness and you can start actually living it.

Go ahead and allow yourself to be happy now, where you are, as you are. Allow happiness, independent of circumstance, unlimited by time.

Don’t insist on exercising control over your happiness, turning it on here, turning it off there. Surrender yourself to happiness, in all places, for all time.

Allow happiness, and allow it to be bigger than you. Be encompassed by happiness, carried along in its never-ending positive perspective.

Life will always have its difficult and unfortunate times and occurrences. Even in such times, you can allow happiness to empower you.

For happiness is not a result, but a choice of how to move forward. Choose happiness, and let your life be an expression of your highest vision.

— Ralph Marston

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September 7

Channel your passion

You have the chance to make a big difference today. Make the best use of that opportunity by letting go of battles that are already over.

Don’t waste your energy blaming yourself and don’t waste your time blaming others. Just get going and do what you can do now.

Wishing that things had been different or complaining about the way events unfolded, will not change anything now. What will change life for the better is your commitment to move positively forward.

Today presents its own unique opportunities. Focus on what you can do with them, not on where they came from.

Transform regret, resentment, anger, and disappointment into determination and inspiration. Channel your passion into positive action.

Respond to the past by giving your best in the present. And create a future that is filled with goodness and real value.

— Ralph Marston

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September 8

Space for enjoyment

Make a generous amount of space in your life for enjoyment of your life. The more you enjoy life, the more you have to give to it.

Fulfill your responsibilities, honor your obligations to others. And make sure to also give plenty of good enjoyable living to yourself.

When you enjoy the world, you become highly effective at making good things happen. That’s a whole lot better than being tense, frustrated, worried or angry.

Enjoy the moment, the situation, the work, the play. Sincerely enjoy, and freely spread that joy to all those around you.

You owe it to yourself to experience enjoyment. You owe it to all those with whom you come in contact.

Open yourself, allow yourself to enjoy. With a perspective regularly refreshed by enjoyment, there is much good you can do.

— Ralph Marston

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September 9

Yes you can

Yes you can live this day in accordance with your most treasured values. Yes you can create an intention and then do the work to fulfill that intention.

Yes you can overcome the obstacles. Yes you can successfully deal with the challenges.

Yes you can make real progress in the direction of your dreams. Yes you can focus on getting good, effective work done.

Yes you can find satisfaction and fulfillment in every step along the way. Yes you can add something positive to the life of every person you encounter.

Yes you can persevere through the disappointments and emerge even stronger than before. Yes you can meet your highest expectations and then raise those expectations.

Yes you can get past your fears, build a positive future, live with integrity and prosper in a world that often does not seem to care. Yes you can, if you will.

— Ralph Marston

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September 10

Keep complacency away

Complacency wins by doing nothing. If you’re not actively supporting a meaningful purpose, you’re growing complacent.

You gain power, control, resources by accepting the situation as it is in the moment. But don’t let your acceptance become complacence.

Value fades when it is not utilized, built upon, and expanded. Yesterday’s victories will be worthless tomorrow if you don’t continue the effort.

By very definition, life is a dynamic experience, and standing still is not an option. Either you move ahead or you fall behind.

Any time you feel complacency begin to engulf you, reach deep inside. Connect with those things that make you determined to make a difference.

Let your purpose, your determination, your desires, dreams and passions keep complacency away. Make the most of the progress you’ve already made by keeping it going.

-Ralph S. Marston

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September 11

When the task is draining you

If you resent the work, you won’t do it very well, and besides, your resentment gains you nothing. What’s the point of that?

If you avoid the work, you make it more difficult when you eventually have to do it. That’s not such a great plan.

When you do the work halfheartedly, you’re using up your time but wasting an opportunity. Instead, put full attention and enthusiasm into it, and seize the opportunity to excel at it.

When you feel like the task is draining you, it’s not the task that’s doing the draining. It’s your attitude.

Improve your attitude, and you immediately improve the way you feel about what you’re doing. Improve your attitude, and the work flows much more smoothly.

No matter what you’re doing, you might as well do it in a positive frame of mind. It’s your time, it’s your work, it’s your life experience, so make the choice to make it your best.

— Ralph Marston

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September 12

Opportunity to improve

You’re never too far behind to improve. You’re never too far ahead to improve.

Whatever you’re doing, you can do it more effectively. You can make your efforts more compelling, more appropriate, more profitable, more timely.

See every setback as an opportunity to improve. Consider every achievement an opportunity to improve.

But don’t wait to be prompted. Use every situation, every experience as a chance to improve.

Learn from what went wrong and from what went right, and apply what you learn. Look for opportunities that were missed, for techniques that worked, and transform experience into improvement.

Every new day is a chance to be better than you were the day before, so rise to the challenge. Facilitate your own continuing process of improvement, and enjoy discovering how far you can go.

— Ralph Marston

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September 13

Positive questions

Your mind is built to seek answers. Just by asking a question, you engage your mental resources in finding an answer, or several good answers.

As such, it is important to ask yourself positive questions. Because positive questions produce positive answers.

Don’t focus your questions around why things are so bad or what’s wrong with the world or what’s the matter with you. Instead, ask yourself what the opportunities are, what things can you do better, and how you can make the most of the moment you’re in.

In every question is a presumption and an expectation of what kind of answer you’ll get. Make it a habit to ask questions of yourself that presume and expect a positive answer.

The person you listen to most, and trust the most, is you. The questions you ask yourself have a powerful influence on the direction of your focus, your actions, your outcomes.

What can you do to feel great about the possibilities of this day? How will you begin to bring the best of those possibilities to life, right now?

— Ralph Marston

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September 14

Respond from the heart

Your ego is always ready to pounce on whatever comes your way and react to it. But you know there’s a better way.

Rather than reacting with your ego, you choose to respond with your heart and mind. Instead of being consumed with petty, superficial acts, you make your actions smart, helpful, considerate.

You’ve learned that your ego can drain your energy, waste your time and poison your relationships. So you go deeper, listening to and acting in accordance with your true self.

Though ego can be enticing in the moment, you’ve seen again and again how much regret it produces. Now, you know better than to give in to ego’s enticements.

As you increasingly tune out the noisy ranting of your ego, you discover more deep and awesome value in your authentic self. And that gives great power and purpose to all you do.

Now, you’re strong enough, thoughtful enough to respond from the heart. Now, you’re able to leave ego behind and to create a more positive future ahead.

— Ralph Marston

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September 15

Empowering choices

When you’re in a position to complain about anything, you’re also in a position to do something positive about it. And that’s a whole lot more effective than complaining.

If you have a good reason to be angry, you also have a good reason to point the energy of that anger in a positive direction. By doing so, you’ll create new value for all concerned.

Whenever something is frustrating you, you’re highly motivated to find a way to move beyond it. Harness the energy of that frustration to improve the situation or to grow yourself beyond it.

Any time you experience disappointment, you’ve learned a valuable lesson. From there you can go forward, and make that disappointment into a positive turning point.

Every day, life comes your way, and it’s difficult to predict or control exactly what lands on your doorstep. Yet no matter what you get, you always have the choice of what to do with it.

You’ve made great, empowering choices in the past and you can continue to do so, day after day. With thankfulness in your heart, keep going on the positive path you’ve chosen.

— Ralph Marston