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The fact that you can
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Not only are you already highly capable, you are capable of
becoming even more capable. Exercise your capabilities, and
nothing is beyond your reach.

When you’ve enjoyed great success you can step forward and
create even more. When you encounter disappointments and
obstacles, you can raise your own level of ability to get
beyond them.

The way to make full and increasing use of your capabilities
is to have an authentic reason. True desire will push your
effectiveness higher and higher.

Know that you can, know why you must, and you’ll find a way
to get it done. Put your amazing abilities to good use by
giving yourself a powerful and meaningful reason to do so.

Do not agonize over why you can’t. Accept, acknowledge and
express with your actions the fact that you can.

Every situation is your opportunity to put your dynamic
capabilities to good use. Every day is a day in which you
can make a real difference in a meaningful and effective
way.

Ralph Marston

Keep growing
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You’ve done a great deal, and you’re capable of doing a great
deal more. You’re capable and effective, and capable of
becoming even more effective.

With each new day, you have a new opportunity to live up to
your potential. Through focused, purposeful action, you can
raise your standards and then exceed those standards.

Making use of what you’ve already achieved, you can achieve
even more. With your wisdom and experience, you can gain
ever more valuable wisdom and experience.

No matter how far you’ve come, there is always another
adventure to be lived. There’s always a new and fulfilling
way to make a difference.

To live is to grow, in strength, in wisdom, in experience
and accomplishment. To grow is to live, in the richest and
most genuinely satisfying way.

You’ve come a long way, so by all means keep going and
growing. What’s so great about life is that you can make it
greater.

Ralph Marston

Life as it is
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Life is not lived in some far-off, imagined land of someday
where everything is perfect. It is lived here and now, with
the reality of the way things are.

Yes, by all means you can work toward an idealized
existence. Yet to do so, you must successfully deal with the
world as it is.

That, in fact, is much of what gives life its richness. Even
though your present circumstances are less than ideal, you
can nonetheless prevail and prosper.

The real and present difficulties never have to give you a
reason to give up. On the contrary, they provide you with a
clearly defined path for moving forward.

If everything was already perfect, there would be no
opportunity to make improvements. There would be no way to
enjoy the profound satisfaction of making a positive
difference.

Enthusiastically embrace life as it is, with all the ups and
downs. For within the context of life as it is you can make
it truly outstanding.

Ralph Marston

Live it now
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If you postpone your joys until later, the opportunities to
experience those joys will grow fewer and fewer. If you put
off dealing with the problems until later, they will become
much more difficult to get beyond.

Choose instead to live life as it comes. Diligently, and
without complaints, work through each difficulty as it comes
along, and enthusiastically live the opportunities for joy
as they appear.

Your world is filled with abundance. And in order to
transform that abundance into meaningful value, you must
make good use of it as it arrives.

Each moment gives you the opportunity to add richness to
your life. Each day brings you new ways to express the
unique beauty of who you are.

Live that richness and express that beauty not in some
distant, imagined someday. Live it now.

Your life is here today, filled with all kinds of great
possibilities for joy and achievement. Get up, get going,
and live it now.

Ralph Marston