Focus on the positive

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There is plenty of negativity in the world. Don’t add to it.

Just because unfortunate things are going on, is no reason to be pessimistic. In fact, it is a good reason to redouble your efforts in supporting, promoting and expanding new goodness in life.

You can be entirely realistic without having to buy in to the latest fashionable negativity. The future is yours to create, and you can choose to create a good and fulfilling one.

The only way a negative trend will lead to a negative outcome is if you let it continue. Fortunately, there are a whole lot of things you can do to create much more positive results.

The way to keep the negativity at bay is to keep your dreams and highest visions in front of you. Live in the service of what you know is right with life, and you won’t constantly be pulled down by whatever goes wrong.

Live at your highest level of effectiveness by living with a positive perspective. It’s always the smartest choice.

— Ralph Marston

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Get Happy!!!

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Let happiness light the way
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Happiness is a choice, not an achievement. Nothing will make
you happy until you decide to be happy.

Happiness is not found in a particular set of conditions.
Happiness is a powerful and positive way to deal with the
conditions, whatever they may be.

How can you be happy when the world seems to be crashing
down around you? Even though you may not be happy about
what’s going on, you can be happy for the opportunity to
make a difference.

If you wait until some specific thing happens before being
happy, you’ll have a long, unhappy wait. Choose instead to
live your happiness no matter what, and your happiness will
light the way to those good things you desire.

Being happy is not naive. When you put no conditions on your
happiness, and simply let it flow, it is empowering, and
life-changing.

Forget about how easy or hard it might seem, and find it
within yourself to be happy. Let your happiness push you
forward into a life you can be very happy about.

Ralph Marston

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It’s not that far – reach out

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Not far away
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You are not that far away from where you want to be. You are
only a single decision, a single instant, a single positive
action away from the direction you wish to go.

Whatever you seek is within reach. What you must do, is
reach.

You will always be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you
make progress. Just go ahead and get started.

Learn from all that has brought you to this point. Be
thankful for the wisdom, the experience, the strength and
the purposeful sense of determination it has all given you.

Then point that determination in a positive direction, and
go. Go with gusto, go with enthusiasm and the greatest of
expectations along the path that is already in front of you.

Right now, right here, you are not that far away. Step up
and make the journey, for you deserve it.

Ralph Marston

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Intention

Intention

 

Intention empowers
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Intention empowers your life. Intention activates your
passion, energizes your efforts, and pushes you past your
fears.

For intention to do all these things, it must be authentic.
When it is authentic, intention carries the power to achieve
anything.

To put that power into what you do, acknowledge and embrace
who you truly are. There are specific things you really want
to do with life, so give yourself the intention to do them.

Point yourself in a direction you have chosen, a direction
you care about. Set your path based not on the superficial
fashions of the moment, but on the spirit living deep inside
you.

Feel that spirit, and the positive values connected to it,
and you feel your power. Resolve to give new beauty,
excellence and substance to life, and you will suddenly find
yourself doing it.

Empower your day, your year, your life with authentic
intention. Live the way you are meant to live, and do all
you are meant to do.

Ralph Marston

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