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Wondrous possibilities
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Silently, steadily, relentlessly, this planet spins round and round. Night becomes day, winter melts into spring, again and again without fail.

Unimaginable is the sum of energy necessary to make it all happen. Yet here it is, continuing on and on as an everyday experience.

To know the wonder of this existence, even for a single day, is to be fortunate beyond calculation. The power, the beauty, the spectacle, the potential, all stretch out from you in every direction.

Think for a moment about what you’re choosing to do with it all. Are you making the most of the wondrous possibilities in which you’re constantly immersed?

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how good you have it. Sometimes life’s disruptions, big and small, can make it seem that things are not so good at all.

Yet here you are, alive, aware, and connected to the wondrous possibilities. Realize what that all means, and use it to make some new wonder, right now.

— Ralph Marston

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