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A way that matters
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Do you want your life to go somewhere? Then you must give it somewhere to go.

Do you want a good and fulfilling existence? You make that possible by developing a clear and specific understanding of goodness and fulfillment.

After all, if you can’t articulate what is meaningful to you, how can you support and expand it in your world? To make progress requires that you point your efforts in some particular direction.

To zero your life in on a purpose is a difficult thing, and yet that’s the whole point. For in that meaningful difficulty, the richness of your life is able to arise.

It has become easy to comfort yourself with the pleasures of the moment. But those pleasures can never satisfy your longing to experience meaning that transcends time and circumstance.

Go beyond saying you care and appearing to care. Live in a way that matters to you by having the courage to discover and give life to exactly what does matter to you.

— Ralph Marston

Power of your love
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Don’t let yourself get repeatedly drawn into fighting against what you dislike. There’s a good chance that will only make it stronger, and give it a more prominent place in your life.

Choose instead to invest your time, energy, and awareness in more beneficial and compelling alternatives. Direct your focus and support to what’s good and desirable.

Break away from any fixation on assigning blame and seeking retribution. You have better things to do.

You can move beyond the past and into a future where you build and support what you care most about. You can seek to fill your world with so much positive value that there’s little room for anything else.

For every negative influence in your life, look for something positive that can render it irrelevant. Challenge yourself to uncover and to travel that positive path.

Don’t make the bad things worse by giving them the energy of your resistance. Make the world better by giving the power of your love.

— Ralph Marston

Changing conditions
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Things are not the way they were, and never again will be. Yet it’s entirely possible for you to make things even better.

Adjust to the moment as it has become. Enjoy and thrive in the moment as it is.

By its very nature life changes, and you can’t escape that fact. What you can do is change along with it, and unlock plenty of potential in doing so.

It’s easy to assume that certain changes in the world will dismantle the good things in your life. It’s far better to make positive and enriching adjustments in light of those changes.

You could complain endlessly that things are not like they used to be. Or you could challenge yourself to see the opportunities that surely exist within changing conditions.

Engage your ability to adapt and adjust. Discover how you can make changing conditions into a good thing.

— Ralph Marston

Living with joy
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Whether the task is difficult or easy, do it with joy. Whether the day is gray or sunny, live it with joy.

Whatever situation you and your world are in, it’s far from perfect. Even so, there’s plenty of room for joy.

Living with joy is not a matter of ignoring or avoiding life’s difficulties. On the contrary, an inner, abiding joy energizes and inspires you to more effectively meet those difficulties.

Joy keeps you connected to your best possibilities. Joy is a gift you can always give without limit to yourself and everyone else.

You have plenty of good and meaningful reasons for moving forward no matter what is in your way. Joy is an acknowledgement and a reminder of those reasons.

Put some joy here, put some joy there, put some joy wherever you go. Give yourself the clear and powerful perspective of living life with joy.

— Ralph Marston