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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

What can you choose right now that will make you wish you had chosen it a long time ago? Choose it, and go forward with it.

What path do you know would be a very good one, that you’ve been hesitant to begin? Today, as you feel the courage to do so, take your first step on that path.

Somewhere deep within, you know what will bring your life to a new level of fulfillment. Remind yourself that there’s no reason to put it off any longer.

For so long it’s been all too easy to numb yourself with distractions of every sort. Yet through it all your purpose and your destiny have remained.

Allow that purpose to fill your awareness. Realize, perhaps for the first time in a very long time, how right it feels and how essential it is.

Go ahead and give in fully to who you know you are, to what you know you can do. Your destiny awaits.

— Ralph Marston

Goodness you cannot see
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Life finds a way to improve. Often the process is difficult, painful, unexpected and baffling, yet it does eventually make headway.

When you’ve experienced disappointment, keep going. Adjust your expectations, adjust your strategy, and you’ll find a way forward.

Rarely is anything ever as good as you hoped it would be, or as bad as you feared it would be. And in between those extremes, slowly and steadily, is the space to move ahead.

No matter what has come before, you can build on it. No matter what is going on now, you can find something of value in it.

Know the possibility is there, and you will come to see it. Live and work as if you’re making progress, and the progress will happen.

Have faith in the goodness you cannot yet see. Your faith will bring it to life.

— Ralph Marston

Love this life
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Love this amazing life. Love every bit of it, every minute of it.

Love the difficulties, love the joys. Love the contradictions and the dilemmas.

Love the memories and the hopes. Love the frustrations, love the satisfactions.

Love being able to make things happen. Love standing in awe of things you cannot possibly change and would never even want to.

Love all you have and the things you cannot ever have. Love moments of relaxation and love the times of effort.

Love the dawn, the dusk, the dark of night, the thunder and the sunshine. Love until you have no more to love, and then find more.

— Ralph Marston