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A Future to inhabit

A future to inhabit
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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

See the magic
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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

Choose peace
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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

Use it up
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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