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What’s to become
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What’s to become of this life you love so much? It’s largely up to you, right now.

The future does not just play out on its own. You have a key role, particularly in those aspects of life that you care most about.

This moment can be a positive turning point. This day can be one you decide to utilize to the fullest.

Set aside those factors you cannot control. Focus intently on your purpose, and on what you can actually do to advance that purpose.

The path forward is not simple or easy or comfortable, yet it does exist, and is accessible. Just because it has challenges is no reason to avoid it.

Get on that path right now and get going. What’s to become depends largely on what you’re willing to do.

— Ralph Marston

Live today
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Live today as if you will never have it again. Because you won’t.

Live today as if it is filled with unique opportunities. Because it is.

Live today with a generous spirit. And you’ll resonate fully with its endless abundance.

Live today far removed from the doubts and angers that would bring you down. Fill your thoughts instead with curiosity, forgiveness, kindness, and joy.

Live today with gratitude for its possibilities. Live today with patience for yourself and others as you move forward through the challenges.

This is a moment like no other, and you’ve arrived at it with more wisdom and experience than you’v ever had. Live today, and live it very well.

— Ralph Marston

Every day, a few things go wrong. But a whole lot more things go right.

Do your best to fix what is broken. And remember to appreciate, support, and maintain the many things that continue to work very well.

It’s natural, and smart, to focus on the dangers and the risks. But imagine what would happen if you chose to focus a little more on the opportunities.

You’ll always have a number of issues to complain about. Yet there’s much, much more for which you can be thankful.

Be very careful not to discard or disparage all that’s good in your attempt to remedy what is wrong. Put your problems in perspective, for that’s what will enable you to solve them.

Yes, by all means improve on what’s wrong. Do it by fully valuing and making good use of all that’s right.

— Ralph Marston

A day to fill
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You can do nothing to change the way the world was when you got out of bed. You can do everything to improve the way the world will be at the end of the day.

Your choices have consequences. Make full and positive use of that power.

Don’t seethe about what may have happened or worry endlessly about what may come. Let your intelligence and your influence be driven by love, and give this day the best you have.

Right in front of you are precious hours to make good use of. Close at hand are the tools with which you can bring new meaning and progress to life.

Your journey through this day has already begun. Take each step in a manner that causes value and goodness to linger in the places you go.

No task is too tedious, no challenge is too great. You have a day to fill with positive, purposeful living.

— Ralph Marston