Mikes Blog

Keep on keeping on
+++++++++++++++++++

You’re doing good, so keep it up. You’re making progress, so make some more.

You’ve learned, you’ve adapted, you’ve done the work, and improved on it. You’ve had setbacks along the way, and conditions have changed, yet you’ve moved forward anyway.

Now, keep up the effective effort. Now, persist and get the job done.

You’ve resisted the temptation to hide behind excuses. You’ve chosen to pay the price necessary to reach the goal.

You’re heavily invested now, so make that investment count. Follow through, continue to do what must be done, and get where you’ve chosen to go.

You’ve already discovered you can do what it takes. Just keep on keeping on, and finish your good work.

— Ralph Marston

New levels of richness
+++++++++++++++++++

Make the moment enough, as it is. Allow yourself to be enough, as you are.

Maybe you don’t need all those shiny shallow things you clamor for. Maybe you could be living your dream, if you would just realize you already are.

Feel the peaceful relief when you let go of the conditions you’ve placed on joy. Know the freedom of being thankful for whatever may come.

See the great value of what you have, of who you are, of what you can do with it all. Understand the nature of the fortune that is already yours.

Treasure this time that is now, whatever it may hold. For it is a time when you can add entire new levels of richness to life.

Life is worth all you do to support it, to strengthen it, to live and to love it. And it is yours, now, in all its wonder and fullness.

— Ralph Marston

Timely achievements
+++++++++++++++++++

What you can do today, you may not be able to do tomorrow. You must seize opportunity when it arrives, so you’re not chasing it after it departs.

You can’t know exactly what tomorrow will bring, but you do know it will be different than today. So the time to do what you can do today, is today.

None of your options are perfect, but at least you have access to them. That won’t always be the case.

Right now you can choose the best of those options. Right now you can work to transform them into lasting achievement.

Don’t just sit around manufacturing regret. Get up, get to work, and produce new value.

Give yourself the extreme satisfaction of knowing you’ve done all you could do. And give the world the benefit of your timely and meaningful achievements.

— Ralph Marston

Somewhere in the middle
+++++++++++++++++++

Accept the reality of this moment, this situation, for what it is. But don’t be dolefully resigned to it or blithely complacent about it.

If you don’t like what’s going on, things will change. If you do like what’s going on, things will change.

Every day, in fact, is a mixture of challenges to be faced and joys to be lived. Every situation includes difficulties, opportunities, satisfactions, frustrations, uncertainties and inspiration.

You’re not going to encounter a long stretch of time that’s completely perfect in every way. And fortunately, you’re not likely to find yourself in a situation of utterly hopeless despair.

The vast majority of your time you’ll be somewhere in the middle. In that space, with positive intention and focused effort, you can leave each moment a little better than you found it.

Today is the way it is, and that’s an opportunity. You can do something with it, you can do something about it, so go ahead and give it your best.

— Ralph Marston