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Give yourself

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Give yourself dreams, goals, and plans you can look forward to. Give yourself challenges that will energize you.

Give yourself some confidence in your own perspective and abilities. Give yourself the time and patience to get things right.

Give yourself a short break when you grow weary. Then give yourself a solid push to get back to work.

Give yourself the discipline to get difficult jobs accomplished. Give yourself the persistence to continue with your efforts.

Give yourself the support and respect that come from taking good care of your health and well being. Give yourself laughter, passion, and joy.

Give yourself the irreplaceable fulfillment of giving to others. Give yourself a life overflowing in every part with purpose, meaning, and love.

— Ralph Marston

Beyond mere wishing
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be free of a particular burden? Wouldn’t it be nice to be living life in precisely the way you want to live it?

Yes, of course it would be nice, and in fact it would be great. So get yourself to work making it all happen.

Wishing is fun, yet you can do a lot better than just wishing. You can transform your wishes into specific goals, and then transform those goals into reality.

If there’s something you’re wishing for, let that wish point you in the desired direction. Then transcend your wishing, and start taking real, effective steps in that direction.

Let the energy of your wishes take you beyond mere wishing. Let that energy push you into action.

Think of all the things it would be nice to do, to have, to be, to know. Then get up, get going, and enjoy the remarkable experience of bringing those great things into your world.

— Ralph Marston

Take Big Bites

Tested by life
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Do you want to know what you’re capable of? Then get yourself in situations where you’ll be tested by life.

You cannot acquire capability and confidence just by admiring them and wanting them. You have to be tested, challenged.

The way to know for sure how to do something, is to do it. To be absolutely confident in your ability you must experience making use of that ability in challenging situations.

Seek out challenges, and what you’ll find are opportunities to expand your own competence. Be willing to be tested, and you’ll be able to grow stronger.

Go where you’ll be compelled to learn, to improve, to innovate, to endure. When the situation demands that you must, you will.

Choose often, willingly, to be tested by life. And you’ll enable yourself to pass with flying colors.

— Ralph Marston

Act the way you want to feel
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Want to feel more positive, energetic, enthusiastic? Then act like it.

If your thoughts are defeating you, overpower those thoughts with positive behavior. When you can’t think your way out of a negative attitude, start acting your way out.

A single positive action can quickly overcome hours or days worth of negative feelings. Get yourself on the move, get yourself physically doing something useful, and your frame of mind suddenly improves.

Even better, find a way to do something positive and helpful for someone else. Something as simple and easy as a genuine smile can make a big difference for everyone who experiences it.

Stand up straight, hold your head high, breathe deeply, walk confidently forward. You will immediately feel the way such actions improve your outlook on life.

When you take positive action, your whole being takes notice and follows along. Act the way you want to feel, and that’s precisely how you’ll be.

— Ralph Marston