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Highest level
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Throw the worthless junk out of your mind. Now, put that mind to work, along with your body, your spirit, the whole of your self.

Stop allowing the meaningless nonsense to dominate your awareness. Disconnect from it, and do all the good, useful things you are able to do.

There’s no shortage of foolishness in this world but it doesn’t have to slow you down. Leave it all alone and focus your existence on positive purpose, on love, compassion, and excellence.

Engage yourself fully in life and connect richly with all who live it. You can do so without being dragged down into the pettiness and absurdity.

Remind yourself how precious your own life is, and how precious every other life is. Let your respect and desire for the highest possibilities drive your every thought, word, and action.

With utmost kindness and understanding, refuse to accept any less than the best from yourself and from others. Live at your highest level, and bring the whole world along with you.

— Ralph Marston

THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Monday, December 7, 2020

Healthy challenges
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Much of the value of what you push toward is established by the resistance you encounter. Your muscles grow strong by being challenged, not by being assisted.

The fact that any particular thing is difficult to obtain is what makes it worth having. Whatever comes with negligible effort has negligible value to you.

Those who wish only to take from life without giving to life end up with nothing worth having. Your potential is too valuable to waste it on such a foolish pursuit.

The best opportunity is not a situation that yields something for nothing. That is neither realistic nor sustainable.

Seek instead those opportunities that ask the most of you. They’re the ones from which you’ll gain true richness.

Go where the muscles of your body, mind, and spirit will encounter healthy challenges. That’s how you make life the best it can be.

— Ralph Marston

You have what it takes
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You can find wisdom in every corner of life. Open yourself to it.

You will gain knowledge and strength from every experience. That goes double, triple, ten times for the difficult ones.

Get out there, get going, live and learn. Dig out new ways to transform that learning into richness, into beauty, into fulfillment.

Stop wishing in vain that you could rearrange the past or be magically inserted into a different present. Reach within yourself and figure out what you can do with whatever you have, with whatever the situation may be.

It will absolutely require some difficult choices, and you’re absolutely capable of making those choices. Go ahead, for your own sake, for your family’s sake, for the world’s sake, move forward with those choices.

Decide right now to be a fully active participant in the future. You have what it takes, so put it all to good use.

— Ralph Marston

The way you think about this moment, this day, this life, affects the way you live it. The way you live determines the life you experience.

Just because you think something doesn’t make it true. Yet over time, through choices and actions, your thoughts do drive the reality of your life.

In what direction are your thoughts pointed right now? Make sure it’s a direction you really want to go.

Are you focused only on what has gone wrong and extrapolating that into more that will go wrong? Though it’s essential to acknowledge the difficult realities, you never have to do so from a negative perspective.

Activate the power of your observation, your wisdom, your experience. Make an intentional choice to see the positive possibilities, and you will.

Allow fear, anger, resentment, and worry to all fall away. Zero in on the positive and realistic possibilities, and go from there.

— Ralph Marston