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Question your needs
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Question your needs. Stop being burdened with needs that exist only because of your assumptions or self-deceptions.

Some of your needs are authentic. Others are merely choices you’ve allowed yourself to characterize as needs.

Seek to be more honest with yourself. Is every need real, or are some of them fabrications?

There are plenty of desirable things you can have, and use, and enjoy, and benefit from, without needing them. Indeed, you can improve the quality of those things in your life by making them choices instead of needs.

Look for opportunities to live more by intention and less by compulsion. Examine the differences between what you assume you need and what you actually need.

Refuse to operate at the mercy of needs that are not really needs. Take responsibility for your choices and you will greatly improve where those choices lead.

— Ralph Marston

Live, love, and enjoy
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Live, love, and enjoy. Walk, run, breathe, and relax.

Don’t make every activity into an occasion for proving your point. Don’t make every moment into a reason to worry and fret.

Just be you, and just be fine with that. Let go of any concerns about how you will look or what they will think of you.

Let other people’s foolishness be their problem. Stop complaining that someone else’s crazy behavior is ruining your life.

It’s not your job to save the world and it’s not the world’s job to save you. It’s not your place to set everyone straight and it’s not your obligation to cater to the insecurities of others.

Take a deep breath, smile, and have fun. Let yourself and everyone else enjoy the beautiful day, the beautiful life that is here right now.

— Ralph Marston

Fill today
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Fill today with more than just wishing, planning, and speculation. Fill today with action.

It’s difficult to know the best thing to do but it’s very easy to know the worst thing to do. The worst thing to do is nothing.

If it works, do it again. If it doesn’t work, do something else.

You are alive, aware, capable, and resourceful. Put all that to good use by putting yourself into action.

You have dreams, desires, priorities, goals, passions, and values. Connect with them, understand them, and do something about them, today when you have the opportunity.

Stand up, shake off the doubts, let go of the excuses, and rise above the distractions. Give your best action to this day and get the best of life in return.

— Ralph Marston

Great time to live
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Put your past mistakes behind you. Put the past mistakes and transgressions of others behind you.

Don’t continue suffering for what is no longer happening. Leave the difficulties and disappointments of the past in the past.

Make room in your awareness for new joy, goodness, energy, and achievement. Make more room in your life for all you love and care about.

Today is a new day with new opportunities for richness and fulfillment. Focus your attention on how you can make the most of right now.

Remind yourself of your best possibilities and of all the skills, capabilities and resources available to you. Urge yourself to do something good and meaningful with what you have.

Your life is a beautiful, wonderful thing. And this is a great time to live it.

— Ralph Marston