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Patience multiplies your efforts
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You’re eager to get it now, finish it now, know it now. Yet there’s a very good chance you could benefit from a little patience.

It’s great you’re so enthusiastic, and have such a powerful sense of urgency. Just remember though, that good things can take time.

Give the good things in your life the time they deserve. Allow for the time that will make those good things far better than anything you could achieve in an instant.

Take a breath, slow your racing mind and hyped-up expectations. Savor what you’re doing, sink peacefully into the moment that is, and avoid speeding ahead too fast.

Don’t compromise the quality of your entire future just to get what you want right now. Give the goodness you seek the time it needs to be the best it can be.

Patience multiplies your efforts far beyond what they could otherwise achieve. Give yourself, and your patience, plenty of time and space to bring new richness to life.

— Ralph Marston

Life’s magnificent bargain
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Don’t shy away from life’s challenges. Those challenges are precisely where you will find new richness.

The more difficult something is to accomplish or acquire, the greater value it has. The more trouble you must endure and the more resources you must expend, the more you will treasure the results.

Difficult times are the times when you grow strong. Challenging efforts are the ones that force you to become more capable.

By its very nature, adventure is not easy. And you certainly deserve a life of adventure.

So accept the challenges and agree to the terms of life’s magnificent bargain. Go to the trouble, put up with the inconveniences, deal with the difficulties, and claim your greatest rewards.

Even life’s worst moments provide you the opportunity to give your best. Take that opportunity every time.

— Ralph Marston

Start anew
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It’s always too late to start over. But it’s never too late to start anew.

You can’t undo what’s already been done. Yet there’s so much more you can do going forward.

Be real, be honest, be completely upfront with yourself. Embrace your mistakes, embrace your desires, embrace what you really, truly love and value.

Let yourself feel what you’ve always wanted to feel. Find a way to say all the things you’ve ever wanted to say.

Just because time has passed doesn’t mean anything meaningful has been lost. You are still very much you, and you are able, right now, to live that reality.

Whatever opportunities you’ve lost have made way for the opportunity that is now. And that makes this moment the most valuable and meaningful opportunity ever.

— Ralph Marston

Those who win
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You don’t win by trying to win. You win by doing something useful, valuable, helpful.

You don’t win by being popular. You win by being good.

You don’t win by putting others down. You win by lifting up as many people as you can.

You don’t win by saying you care. You win by putting your care into effective action.

You don’t win by controlling others. You win by exercising positive, purposeful control over yourself.

All the world benefits from those who win. Be a real winner, again and again, and make life better for everyone.

— Ralph Marston