Daily Motivator - January
 

January 1

Here is your time

Here is a new year, a new day, a new moment, different from any that’s ever been. Here is your chance to make the most of it all.

Here is a world teeming with possibilities. Here are new treasures to be discovered.

Here you are, filled with purpose and energy. Here is time that you can put to positive use.

Things are certainly not perfect, yet you can make them much better. In every shortcoming, you’ll now find opportunity for improvement.

From here there is a path to what you need, what you desire, what you dream. Get yourself in motion, and find your way along that path.

Here is your time, your life, your potential. Consider all you have, here, now, and live it well.

— Ralph Marston

January 2

Enrich your life

It’s not standing in your way. It’s pointing the way.

It’s not holding you back. It’s strengthening your determination to move forward.

It’s not an inconvenience, frustration, embarrassment, or ordeal. It’s a situation through which you can enrich your life.

Some day, you’ll be thankful it’s behind you. And you’ll also end up being thankful you went through it.

Life’s richness does not simply pour forth unimpeded, with no effort necessary on your part. Indeed, your effort to build, acquire, nurture, sustain and preserve anything is what makes it into richness.

So go ahead now, go to the trouble, give whatever it takes. And you can make new richness out of whatever comes your way.

— Ralph Marston

January 3

Making time into achievement

Intention transforms empty time into a fulfilling life. Supply yourself with intention, and you’ll provide your world with achievement.

You are highly capable, yet mere capability doesn’t put food on the table. Intention activates your capability, with results that seem miraculous.

Know with clarity what you are choosing to do. Harness all your energy, focus it, apply it, with intention.

Shield yourself from meaningless distractions, with intention. Put your time, your attention, your skills to worthwhile use, with intention.

Set an ambitious intention, and discover how very much you can accomplish. Live the day with intention, and give yourself cause to be thankful for the way you’ve made use of your time.

Live with the power of intention. Decide what you’re going to do, and let that intention continue transforming time into achievement.

— Ralph Marston

what an awesome message for the New Year.

January 4

You are responsible

Yes, you are responsible. Yes, your most powerful, effective choice is to embrace that responsibility.

Avoiding the difficult issues will only make the situation worse. Seeing yourself as a victim will only separate you from your best options.

It’s your life, it’s your future. Take full ownership of your circumstances, of your consequences.

Actively participate as each new moment unfolds, with purpose, integrity, care, and love. Give expression to your values, give life to your dreams, by giving your best, again and again.

Recognize the immense value of opportunity that’s always available to you. Continue to discover the beneficial results of empowering your thoughts, your attitude, and your actions with responsibility.

Yes, responsibility is a serious challenge, one that will impart focus, strength, wisdom, skill, achievement, and an abiding sense of purpose. Yes, you are responsible, and that’s a very good thing.

— Ralph Marston

January 5

Welcome the resistance

Seek to create or improve, and you’ll meet resistance. The more ambitious your goal, the more powerful the resistance is going to be.

Welcome that resistance, because it represents the value of what you’ve decided to do. Welcome the resistance, because it proves you are making meaningful progress.

Welcome the resistance, but do not succumb to it. Do not let it stop you, or distract you, or turn your focus away from your intention.

Smile knowingly at whatever person, force, or situation seeks to block you. You knew it was coming, you’re ready for it, and you’ve taken full responsibility for getting around it.

Whatever you seek, the resistance you encounter is your opportunity to prove how much you want it, how much you deserve it. Be eager to seize that opportunity, and enthusiastic about the great value it enables you to create.

The resistance is strong but you are stronger because you have a worthy purpose. Welcome the resistance, and do exactly what it’s trying to prevent you from doing.

— Ralph Marston

January 6

Begin by being thankful

Before you dive headlong into the scramble to get more and more, step aside. Take a moment to let yourself be overwhelmed with gratitude for all you have.

Your choices matter, all of them. And you’ll always make better choices when you come from a perspective of gratitude.

You’ve worked your whole life to get where you are, to have what you have. Whatever that encompasses, the more you respect and appreciate it, the more you can make of it.

There is great value in your life, and great potential value as well. Gratitude shines a bright light on all that value, enabling you to make the most of it.

Gratitude gives you the ability to see the positive aspects of each situation. That positions you and equips you to achieve useful, beneficial results.

Whatever the challenge, whatever the activity, whatever the ambition, gratitude makes you more genuine, more purposeful, more effective. Begin by being thankful for what is, and you’ll soon be thankful for even more.

— Ralph Marston

January 7

Put joy into life

Whatever the task may be, put joy into it. However the moment may be, put joy into it.

Make an unpleasant situation into an enjoyable experience. Put your own joy into it.

You don’t have to let your feelings be dictated by random, outside events. You can let your feelings be driven by your own choice.

Select a perspective that acknowledges and celebrates the positive possibilities. Choose to put joy into it.

When the work is difficult and demanding, put joy into it. That’s always better than complaining and making yourself miserable.

As long as you’re going to make yourself one way or another, make yourself joyful. Put joy into life, whenever, whatever, wherever, and you’ll get great things out of it.

— Ralph Marston

January 8

Grab the opportunity

Getting started late is a whole lot better than not getting started at all. Go ahead, and do it.

Conditions are less than ideal, yet you can move forward nonetheless. Go ahead, and get going.

You can think of a hundred perfectly valid excuses for not taking action. But those excuses will add zero value to your life, and contribute nothing positive to your world.

Stop fighting against your own possibilities. Stop avoiding, procrastinating, and wishing things were different, and just get yourself going, right now.

Ten minutes from now, when you’re well into the effort, you’ll realize it’s not so bad. A day or two from now, you’ll thank yourself for going ahead with it.

Whatever the past has been, however the present may be, get yourself going. There’s a whole lot of good you can do right now, so grab the opportunity before it slips away, and do it.

— Ralph Marston

January 9

Fulfilling life

Would you like to experience yourself living today at your highest level of fulfillment? Then make yourself useful.

Even the most luxurious luxury gets tedious and boring after a short while. Don’t let yourself settle for mere opulence, overconsumption and overindulgence.

Instead, put your skills, your knowledge, your discipline, your competence and persistence to use. Figure out what you can do to make a positive difference, and then do it.

There are things you are passionate about, people you love, ideas you believe in. Engage that passion, that love, that belief in worthwhile endeavors.

No matter what burdens you face, or how much or how little you have, one thing is always true. You can instantly make your life better by working to make life better for others.

Lift yourself far above the dreary indifference that saps life out of your spirit. Make yourself useful, and enjoy the fulfilling life that you deserve to give, and to live.

— Ralph Marston

January 10

This is life

Give time and space to your curiosity, your taste for wonder. Let all of life amaze you and enchant you.

Allow this moment to be the way this moment is going to be. Accept its unique value and experience.

Stand in awe of all that is. Find great hope in all that is now possible.

Treasure the beauty of existence as it unfolds before your eyes. This is life, your life, right now, its depth, breadth, and substance incomparable.

Forge new, uplifting connections, with love. Give your most authentic gifts, with joy.

Another day, another moment of life comes into being. Let it be the best one yet.

— Ralph Marston

January 11

Positive spin

Being cynical doesn’t make you more sophisticated. It just makes you miserable.

Being positive doesn’t mean you’re ignoring or denying the problems. It means you’re choosing to move forward with hope rather than languish in despair.

Your attitude doesn’t have to be dictated by the way things are. You can choose your attitude based on where you intend to go next.

A more positive future begins with more positive thoughts. A more satisfying future begins with higher expectations.

You can think whatever you want to think, and feel however you wish to feel. Doesn’t it make sense to focus your thoughts on positive possibilities, to feel hopeful about your efforts?

Whatever is going on, give your attitude a positive spin. And you’ll give your results a major boost.

— Ralph Marston

January 12

Best of what is possible

What can you do, that you’ve forgotten you can do? What can you do, that you’ve never known you could do?

What would cease to be impossible if you could stop assuming it to be impossible? What would you achieve if you were convinced you could achieve it?

Reality is more than what has already been, or what is now, or what you’re sure of. The most exciting and valuable part of reality is what is possible.

Your possibilities are just as real as your memories, your doubts, and your assumptions. Which will you choose to believe, to express, to follow into the future?

Instead of focusing on the obstacles, you can decide to see the opportunities inside the obstacles. Instead of being dismayed at what has happened, be encouraged and excited about what is now possible.

Open yourself beyond your fears, beyond your doubts, beyond the excuses and assumptions. Open yourself to the best of what is possible, and make that your central reality.

— Ralph Marston

January 13

Fresh baked cookies

You remember more than you think you do. At the same time, you remember less than you thought you would.

What you remember is what matters to you. And the way you remember is not with logic, but with emotion.

The mind of anyone else works the same way. You make yourself memorable to others by making your words and behavior meaningful to them.

You can accomplish this in a good way or a bad way. Good is better, by a long shot.

How much and how well do you want yourself, your business, your ideas, your cause, to be thought of? It comes from you, making a difference in the way people feel.

Fresh baked cookies arriving at your front door will surprise and delight you. Be like that, and you’ll earn a positive place in the thoughts of others.

— Ralph Marston

January 14

Welcome this moment

Refresh your spirit, renew your energy, right here, right now. Where you are is the perfect place to deepen your connection to the best of life.

With anything that happens, or with nothing at all, you can elevate your thoughts, your awareness, your gratitude. Choose to live with a positive, empowered perspective, and it is so.

You control the way you perceive all that happens as this day unfolds. You decide, again and again, what to think, what to say, what to do with it all.

You choose which opportunities to follow, where to invest your energy and time. You decide how to express your purpose, and find new ways to support all that you love.

Remind yourself, what is now is more than enough. From wherever you are, you constantly transform your life into what you imagine.

Welcome this moment and with it, the best of what is possible. Now, let the richness within you come fully to life.

— Ralph Marston