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When something annoys you
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Becoming annoyed helps you identify changes and improvements you can make. Staying annoyed, however, doesn’t do you any good.

When you feel annoyed, notice what your annoyance is telling you, and consider what you can do about it. Then, let the annoyance go.

Continuing to be annoyed just drains your energy and contaminates your attitude. Don’t do it.

Instead, just smile to yourself, and feel the power of your own choice. Then choose to move your thoughts on past whatever triggered your annoyance.

You have higher thoughts to think, better ways to feel, more useful things to do. You never have to let some little imperfection ruin any more of your precious time.

Plenty of things can be annoying. And you can quickly move far beyond every one of them.

— Ralph Marston

Build on your beliefs
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Out of the field of all possibilities, only certain ones are possible for you to accomplish. They’re the ones you believe are possible for you.

Just because you believe something, doesn’t make it objectively possible. Yet if it is indeed possible, your belief makes it possible for you.

Your beliefs enable you to claim your best possibilities. Your beliefs push you, prod you, encourage you and direct you to lead your best life.

You’ve come to believe many truths about yourself, about your skills, your strengths, your shortcomings. Imagine what would happen if you could raise those beliefs a little higher.

Your beliefs have served you well. Now, consider pushing those beliefs beyond where they are, to where they can serve you even better.

Build on your beliefs. And open yourself to a whole new level of positive possibilities.

— Ralph Marston

Ask why
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The world seems very complex, but you have no idea. No one can fully grasp the immense complexity of existence.

We know life is complex, yet it is far more complex than we are able to imagine. Every tiny decision causes a cascade of results that interact with results from every other decision.

Behind what is obvious, are layers upon layers of factors that are not so obvious. Supporting every reason is another deeper reason, and another, and another.

In such a complex realm, you can always gain benefit by seeking to answer a simple question. That question is, why?

Work to know why, and you will discover hidden, valuable possibilities. Ask why, and you will uncover powerful connections.

Life is endlessly complex, and in that complexity you can find great richness. With curiosity, with determination, with purpose, with gratitude, ask why.

— Ralph Marston

People with a positive purpose
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There’s something about people with a positive purpose. You can see it in their eyes.

There’s a certain energy that radiates from people with a positive purpose. It’s compelling, it’s contagious, and filled with the highest expectations.

Get around people with a positive purpose, and you won’t be able to resist. Soon enough, you’ll have that purpose too.

People with a positive purpose find a way. People with a positive purpose figure out how.

People with a positive purpose see what’s possible. People with a positive purpose make it happen.

Doesn’t it feel great to be among all the people with a positive purpose, following that purpose with everything you have? You’re precisely where you were always meant to be.

— Ralph Marston