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A choice to make
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You have a choice to make. You can choose to live your best life today, right now, or you can choose something less.

You can choose courage, truth, fortitude. Or you can choose to give in to weakness.

You can choose to lift up those around you. You can choose to be diligent, kind, filled with joy and energy.

You can choose action. You can choose to live with positive purpose, focus, intention.

Or you can choose to waste the richness that’s yours to make use of. You can choose to decline the good opportunities that appear in every moment.

What you choose makes all the difference in the quality of life you live. You always have a choice to make, and every day, every time, you can choose the best.

— Ralph Marston

Put imagination into action
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If you knew how close you are to making progress, you’d keep up the effort. But you don’t know, and that can be discouraging.

You can, however, do another powerful thing. You can imagine.

Imagine that a breakthrough is just a few minutes away. Imagine you’ve reached the goal and are filled with gratitude for your own persistence.

Imagine, then put that imagination into action. Imagine, and what you imagine will energize and drive you to make it real.

Transform the negative energy of doubt into the positive energy of action and achievement. Imagine in detail your desired outcome and let yourself be inspired by it.

There’s power in your thoughts. Make use of that power to bring about the breakthroughs and the results you seek.

— Ralph Marston

Special something
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It doesn’t take much to make life good. But it does take something.

It’s nothing really to set the sails at just the right trim. Yet that’s what enables you to ride on the wind wherever you wish to go.

The world offers you what you’re willing to give it. Now, today, with all you know and feel, what exactly will that be?

Wishes and concepts and dreams are empty until they have some action. Just a little is enough to get fulfillment started.

At most things you’re not an expert, and still you can do something. Time and resources are always limited, and with them there is nonetheless always something good you can do.

Choose a special something to do that’s right here within your reach. Show yourself again what a difference you can make.

— Ralph Marston

Your thoughts show
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What if the people around you could see your every thought? Would you be proud of those thoughts, or would you be embarrassed and ashamed?

In fact, the world can see your thoughts. Because your thoughts do eventually make themselves known in the way your life plays out.

If you carry around hateful, angry, cynical and destructive thoughts, those thoughts will infect your life with misfortune, disappointment and emptiness. When most of your thoughts are thankful, loving, creative and joyful, those thoughts will be expressed through your life as success, achievement, and good fortune.

In each moment, you are able to choose your thoughts. As the moments build on each other, those thoughts you have chosen become clearly apparent in the details of your life.

Your thoughts are yours to create, control and direct, to hold on to, to let go of. By increasing the positive value of your thoughts, you bring real, positive substance into your world.

Choose thoughts that you’d be pleased for all the world to see. And those thoughts will lead to a life that is impressive indeed.

— Ralph Marston