Daily Motivator - April

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April 1

Purpose to right now

Every minute of every life has within it the possibility of purpose. Every thought, every action, every word, feeling, experience, can add richness to it all.

Don’t judge this moment, this day, this life before you’ve lived it. Resolve instead to put the best of yourself into every bit of it all.

Joy doesn’t care where you are or what you’re doing. Joy is happy for the chance to shine anytime you let it.

Life doesn’t need this particular thing or that specific circumstance in order to be good. You can discover more of how great life can be in every kind of situation.

If you delay the expression of your highest vision for even a single moment, you’re cheating yourself. And you’re depriving a whole world of the beauty only you can give it.

Here you are today with life, and a whole universe in which to live it. Touch the wonder, feel the possible, and give new purpose to right now.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 2

Invest yourself in hope

The reason to be hopeful is because you are hopeful. It is by living day after day with hope that your hopes are realized.

If you convince yourself there is no reason to be hopeful, you're right. However, when you choose to be that reason, hope returns, and improves your whole outlook.

You always have the choice to live with hope. And you have the power to fulfill that hope.

It is perfectly normal to become discouraged when you encounter negativity. And it is completely realistic to melt that discouragement away with your own deep reservoir of hope.

By its very nature, your hope is well founded. Allow it to fill your awareness now, and again and again, as often as you feel the need for it.

The more you live with hope, the more power and reality you give to it. Invest yourself in hope, and bring your best possibilities to life.

Ralph Marston

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April 3

What makes life good

Get good, valuable rewards for your time and effort. Invest your life in what makes life good.

Resentment doesn’t create value, nor do anger, envy, spite. Prompt yourself, when the negative urge comes up, to turn to more positive pursuits.

Love, effort, commitment, kindness, perseverance and integrity, are things that make a life worth living. You already know this throughout your whole being, and it never hurts to be reminded.

The world sometimes can make you feel like a fool for caring so much. But the world at those times is sending a false signal, for caring is always at the heart of who you are.

So let yourself care, and act in the service of all you care about. Keep your life aimed at what is good, what is true, what is right, what you know is best.

Every day you add new substance to your life, to all of life. Make it the kind of substance that truly makes life good.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 4

Rise above all that

The burden is heavy. You can carry it.

Life is unfair. You can deal with it.

The pain is great. You can bear it.

The best way forward is not blame, self-pity, despair. The best way forward is decisive, positive, committed, sustained action.

You complain that you can’t, but you can. And it’s really not as hard as you imagine it to be.

Life can be difficult, yet you can be stronger. Rise above all that, and give life the effort and love it deserves.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 5

Let love be your choice

Love those who hate you, ignore you, demean you, marginalize you. For they are the ones who need your love the most.

Seek to understand those who make no attempt to understand. Forgive those who hurt you, and even those who want to continue hurting you.

Forgive, understand, love, for if you don’t your life will soon be filled with anger, retribution, hostility. That’s not the kind of life you want to live.

You cannot control the choices of others. Yet you never have to let those choices overwhelm your life with negativity.

Let love be your choice, no matter what others do. Choose truth, integrity, compassion, caring, to fill your moments and your days.

Breathe in the pure, fresh, wondrous energy of existence. And let your light brightly shine for all.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 6

Not the problem

The solution will not be found by continuing to rehash the problem. Step back, let go, and point your focus toward the desired outcome.

The problem is just something that blocks your path at the moment. What matters more is where the path leads, and why.

You are an outstanding problem solver. To tap in to that power, your problem solving must have a meaningful purpose and a clear context.

If you confine your thinking, your energy to the problem itself, that limits your options. Instead, bring the full richness of your life to bear on making positive progress.

Though problems impede you they do not have to overwhelm you. For you are more powerful, more versatile and dynamic, more purposeful than any problem.

Give awareness, gratitude, effort, energy and time to the ninety-nine percent of your life that is not the problem. There you will find the wherewithal to move forward.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 7

Let it flow

Don’t try too hard, in fact don’t try at all. Allow yourself to do.

When you see yourself as trying, you’ve already assumed you will fail. Trying too hard doubles down on that negative perspective.

Life never has to be a trying experience. See yourself as doing, as achieving, as making a difference, then follow through on what you see.

Effective effort is a joy, and is never something to be avoided. Remind yourself of that, then claim some of the joy for yourself.

After all, you have a chance to change the world for the better. And you will, when you enjoy the opportunity rather than getting all uptight about it.

You have unique greatness to give. Stop trying so hard and let it flow.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 8

True capability

When you doubt yourself, smile and realize this. You’re wrong.

When you think you’re invincible, stop and remember this. You’re mistaken.

Doubt and ego push against each other, and neither of them does you any good. Your best move is to toss them both out of your awareness.

Replace doubt with humility and replace ego with intention. Now, instead of a squabbling quagmire you have a winning combination.

No, you can’t achieve everything and yes, you’ll need assistance with what you do achieve. Look clearly at reality, free of delusion, eager to get to work.

Embrace your true capability, powered by intention, tempered with humility. You have many wonderful things to do.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 9

Inspired by anything

You don't have to depend on sugary platitudes or once-in-a-lifetime spectacular experiences for inspiration. You can be inspired by anything.

You can be inspired by pleasure and by pain. You can be inspired by the routine and the unexpected.

Instead of assuming you must continue to feel sadness, you can transform that sadness into inspiration. When you feel excitement or boredom, love, gratitude, frustration or disillusionment, you can be inspired by any of those feelings.

Life is a grand miracle that constantly unfolds on countless levels. Look, with caring and curiosity, at any of those levels, and you'll find inspiration.

There's no need to wait for the moment to be right for inspiration to come your way. Inspiration is a choice you can make in any situation.

Open yourself to all the inspiration that's possible right now, and always. Any time you wish to lift your spirits, you have plenty of ways.

Ralph Marston

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April 10

Live what you’re worth

Don’t waste time and energy proving what you’re worth. Put all of yourself into living what you’re worth.

It’s not the opinion of others that makes you worthy. It’s not the number of followers or likes you get, or the balance in your bank account that makes you worthy.

Life expresses, advances, improves itself through you in a unique, magnificent way. As such, your worthiness exists independent of any outside factor.

Let go of the need to demonstrate that worth. Embrace the opportunity to create new, living substance out of it.

Respect, appreciate, learn from the opinions of others, from how they see you. At the same time, free yourself from being a slave to those opinions.

Feel the power of worthiness that is always in you no matter what. Live that worthiness in all you do.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 11

Get it over with

On a practical, logical level, you know resentment is a waste of your time and energy. But on an emotional level, it often seems like you cannot help but feel resentment when you’ve been wronged.

One thing you can do is go ahead and feel it. Feel your resentment, and while you’re feeling it notice how useless it is.

Notice how every moment you’re filled with resentment is a moment you’re not getting any good things done. Notice how the resentment drains your energy and your motivation.

See for yourself that resentment doesn’t make anything better. Realize it’s in your best interest to get beyond resentment.

If you need to feel resentment, feel it fully so you can quickly get it over with. Feel it so intensely you understand how much it’s hurting you and holding you back.

Then, with forgiveness, forever free yourself from the need to feel that resentment. Free yourself, fill your mind with positive thoughts, and fill your days with effective action.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 12

Energize you

Energy pulses through everything that comes your way. Seize that energy, make it your own, and point it in a positive direction.

You’ll find energy in joy as well as in frustration. There is energy in anger, peace, disappointment, beauty, in excitement and even in boredom.

Whatever the source of energy may be, the thing that matters is what you do with it. And what you can do with it is whatever you choose.

Realize that you are an energy transformer. You can transform the energy of disappointment into the achievement of a lifetime, as many people have indeed done.

Feel your love, feel your purpose, feel your desires and dreams. Harness the energy coming your way and put it to work reaching those dreams, fulfilling that purpose, supporting all you love.

Let every moment, every experience, every person, problem, situation, every idea energize you. Take all that energy and make it into something wonderful.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 13

Exceed your needs

Let go of need and let abundance flow from you, through you, to you. Let go of need and let your natural creativity take hold.

The need is there, whether you think about it or not. Choose not to focus on it.

You cannot satisfy your needs by obsessing over them. In fact, the obsession diminishes your ability to meet those needs.

Shift focus to your intentions. Direct energy into your actions.

Don’t amplify your needs by letting them take center stage in your thinking. Instead, fulfill your best possibilities by training your awareness on the good things you can do.

Move your thoughts and efforts into a place of power. Exceed your needs by keeping your mind’s eye focused far beyond them.

-Ralph S. Marston,

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April 14

Big enough

Be bigger than the pettiness. Be bigger than those who may hurt or disrespect you.

Be big enough not to return negativity. Be big enough to set your own course, based on your values, not on what this person said or that person did.

Be big enough to care, to show it, to act on your caring. Be big enough to not let the disappointments stop you.

Be big enough to be generous. Be big enough to forgive.

Be big enough to respond with love. Be big enough to choose the most positive way forward from a difficult situation.

Be big enough to be humble, patient, kind. Be big enough to make life great for yourself and for everyone else.

-Ralph S. Marston

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April 15

Fill life with great meaning

There is no such thing as something for nothing. Operating on the assumption that there is, can cause great pain, regret, heartache and despair in life.

When you invest yourself in anything, it has value to you. If you don’t, it doesn’t.

You can make your life great, fulfilling, joyful, satisfying. No person, organization, system or stroke of luck can do that for you.

If you ever seek something for nothing, you are seeking to steal from your own best possibilities. Instead, do the work to fulfill those possibilities.

The substance of your life has meaning because you work to endow it with meaning. You have the opportunity to do that in every moment, and as you do, life’s magnificence grows.

Don’t settle for a worthless imitation of life by trying to get it for free. Create the value you wish to experience, and fill life with great meaning.

-Ralph S. Marston