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Find the good
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It’s just as easy to choose joy as it is to choose despair.
It’s just as easy to imagine the best that can happen as it
is to imagine the worst.

It’s really not so difficult to find the good in any
situation. You simply have to make the decision to look with
positive expectations.

It is just as realistic to respond to life with positive
enthusiasm as it is to respond with negativity. And it puts
you in a whole lot better, more powerful place.

Take a step back away from your ego. Look objectively and
carefully at the way you live each moment.

See that you always have a choice when it comes to your
attitude, your actions, your assumptions and expectations.
Then imagine arranging all those things into a highly
effective positive perspective.

Rather than living by habit and reaction, make the choice to
live by intention. Decide that it will be a great day, a
great year, a great experience, a great life, and then make
it so.

Ralph Marston

Let in the possibilities
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When you can let go of the need for something, you are much
closer to attaining it. Move beyond the need, and you move
into the reality of whatever you desire.

By very definition, as long as you need it, you don’t have
it. More to the point, as long as you see yourself as
needing it, you’re not seeing yourself as having it.

Choose instead to see yourself as already living the reality
of whatever you wish to have in your life. Then, choose to
more fully implement and express that reality each day with
your thoughts, feelings, words and actions.

Realize that whatever you desire is already yours in many
important ways. Understand that you do not have to need it
because you can already begin to live it whenever you
choose.

To the extent that you feel need, you fill your mind with
thoughts of lack and limitation. A much more empowering
choice is to lovingly and gratefully accept each day as it
is, and to open yourself to the countless possibilities for
fulfilling your highest desires.

Let go of the needs and let in those possibilities. Let go
of the needs and let your life be filled with richness and
joy.

Ralph Marston

Do good
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The way to feel good is to do good. The way to feel
successful is to take the actions that bring about success.

You cannot truly feel what you do not truly live. Be honest
and authentic with yourself, with others, and with life,
because anything less is just cheating yourself.

Spend this day being a unique and enthusiastic expression of
life’s goodness. See how much of a positive difference you
can make, and experience what a genuine, positive feeling
you get from doing so.

Seek to add richness to the lives of others and be delighted
at how much richness it brings into your own life. Do
something good and useful just because it is the right thing
to do, and discover how right it feels.

Let go of the tiresome fight to gain advantage, and direct
your energy toward appreciating and creating goodness. Move
beyond the need to prove yourself and focus instead on
improving all of life.

Give more and more of your own unique goodness to those
around you, to the world, and to life. And feel the
outstanding richness as it grows increasingly abundant for
you.

Ralph Marston

Your awareness
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Life can wear you down, or life can lift you up. It all
depends on how you choose to see it and live it.

The primary component of weariness is not age or infirmity
or circumstance. It is attitude.

The main ingredient of enthusiasm is not youth or comfort or
good fortune. It is your attitude, based on your awareness.

What do you look for, think about, focus on and expect? That
is what you will experience.

Focus the bulk of your awareness not on transient
trivialities, but on what truly matters to you, to your
dreams, and to your values. Pay much less attention to the
fears and frustrations, and much more attention to the
positive possibilities and opportunities.

Sincerely see life as beautiful and fulfilling, and you will
make life beautiful and fulfilling. Your awareness has
awesome power, so use it wisely and lovingly.

Ralph Marston