Just Let it Be

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Mike

Peaceful pause
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Take time often to give yourself a long, sustained experience of peace. Let go of all cares, concerns, pressures, and let yourself enjoy the pure experience of being.

There is much you wish to accomplish, problems to solve, goals to achieve, and that’s great. But you can’t be going and doing nonstop all the time or you’ll burn yourself out.

You deserve a peaceful pause. Give yourself one regularly, and often.

At some point, efforts stacked on top of efforts begin to yield diminishing returns. Before you reach that point, stop and refresh your body, mind, and spirit with a time of peace and rest.

Just because you can always stay connected and engaged, doesn’t mean it’s in your best interest, or anyone else’s, to do so. Make your efforts more productive, more creative, more effective, by taking a regular break from them.

Allow time and space for a refreshing sense of peace to wash over you, to cleanse you, to fill you with new energy and purposefulness. Breathe deeply, relax fully, be at peace.

— Ralph Marston

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You Can handle it

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Mike

You can handle it
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When life throws you a challenge, relax. You can handle it.

It won’t be easy, and it will demand a great deal of your time and effort. Yet you can handle it, and when you do you’re likely to be better off than before the challenge arrived.

Look back, and you’ll see that some of the best times in your life were also some of the most challenging times. When you have no choice but to be your best, you always come through.

So go ahead and walk confidently up to whatever challenging obstacle has just dropped onto your path. You’ve done this before, and now is your opportunity to do it again.

Let your thoughts rise above the challenge, and envision how much new value you’ll be able to create. Then take a deep breath, count your many blessings, and get to work.

Go ahead, feel the power of knowing you can handle it. And keep putting that power into action.

— Ralph Marston

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Your Thoughts

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Mike

Power of your thoughts
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If you are in good physical condition, you can make your way up a long, steep hill. But only if you think you can.

Your thoughts give you access to what is possible. Your thoughts put you in the frame of mind to achieve what you choose.

You are the vehicle through which good things can come. Your thoughts are what power that vehicle and determine its direction.

Negative, low-energy thoughts result in low-energy action. Positive, uplifting thoughts can make you unstoppable.

It’s really very easy to choose your thoughts. And by choosing your thoughts you are choosing the way your life proceeds.

What are you thinking, what will you think today? The choice is yours, and it matters very much.

— Ralph Marston

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Perception

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Mike

Smile at the disruptions
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Something will interrupt your concentration today. Decide right now that you’ll take it in stride.

Some situation won’t turn out the way you planned. Whatever it may be, make the commitment to take it in stride.

You have every right to be upset, flustered, frustrated when life doesn’t go the way you want. Yet you never have to exercise that right.

You can choose instead to take it in stride. Rather than wasting your time and energy, you can quickly adjust to the new development and keep going.

Feeling upset and sorry for yourself never gained you anything in the past, and it won’t help you now. What will help is your determination to smile at the disruptions while you stick firmly with your original purpose.

Smile at the disruptions, take them in stride. And you’ll quickly put them behind you.

— Ralph Marston

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