Daily Motivator - January
 

January 1

Journey around the sun

You’ve circled around the sun once more, along with everyone else. Consider what you’ve learned, experienced, discovered, abandoned.

Now brings a new chance to make good use of all you’ve been through. Everything that’s accrued to your unique existence, you can re-focus toward meaningful purpose.

Give yourself some time to feel how you feel, to care about what you care about. Remind yourself of all that makes life actually and potentially good.

On this waypoint in your journey, you have the power of choice over your thoughts, actions, perspectives, and priorities. That power has brought, and will continue to bring, value, beauty, richness and fulfillment to your world.

This is a day to acknowledge what you and the good people surrounding you have accomplished, as flawed as it might be. This is a day you can be inspired to do even better as the hours and weeks and years roll steadily ahead.

Sincerely appreciate where you’ve come from and realistically imagine where you can go. Begin today to make this new journey around the sun your best one yet.

— Ralph Marston

Happy New Month and happy New Year
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January 2

Say yes to something

You can’t say yes to everything. Yet you can always say yes to something.

You wouldn’t want to cram your calendar so full that you’re in a perpetual state of haste and anxiety. But neither do you want to string empty hours upon more empty hours and days.

It can be all too easy to hide away from life, and to cite good reasons for doing so. But just because it’s the easiest choice doesn’t make it your best choice.

You deserve the meaningful experiences that only you can allow and enable yourself to have. Make it a point to give yourself a nourishing supply of those experiences.

Even if it’s uncomfortable, inconvenient, a little awkward and slightly intimidating, say yes on a regular basis. Give yourself the chance to continue seeing life from the perspective of new experience.

Many times you’re smart to say no, but don’t let that become your sole response. Give yourself the gift and the richness of saying yes to something.

— Ralph Marston

January 3

Curate your activities

Over time, harmful and pointless habits can creep into the way you live your life. When you’re able to recognize and replace them, those habits represent major opportunities for improvement.

Make room for more good and useful activities by letting go of the useless, negative pursuits. Identify a waste of your time that you could easily do without and challenge yourself to replace it.

Zero in on a replacement you can look forward to and get enthusiastic about. Offer yourself a genuine and desirable reward for making better use of your time, energy, and resources.

Improve your results by improving your choices. Add richness to your life by being positive and proactive about what you do with your days.

You have an excellent, innate understanding of what serves you best and what doesn’t. So apply that understanding, let it guide your choices and inspire your actions.

Trade in tired, fruitless habits for energizing, enriching ones. Carefully curate your activities and optimize the value they bring to life.

— Ralph Marston

January 4

Intentional feelings

Don’t allow your feelings to be mere reactions. Make them more intentional.

Remind yourself that you can feel the way you choose to feel. Let your feelings flow from the inside out.

Engage in the externalities of life without being overwhelmed by them. Rather than having your feelings tainted by outside events, empower your positive feelings to improve those events.

When you maintain intentional control of your feelings you won’t have to fear those feelings. Seek to guide your feelings so they enhance your experience of life.

You can understand and empathize with the feelings of others without being dominated by them. You’re able to fully perceive the sentiment of each moment and still be in control of the way you feel.

Don’t let your feelings come from how you’re expected, influenced, or induced to feel. Feel the way you choose, for the reasons you choose, and proceed accordingly.

— Ralph Marston

Awesome read today. Feeling are not a fact,
But it's a fact that we feel.

January 5

Investment of this day

Today you’ll invest time, energy, thought, and effort. You’ll use skills, experience, wisdom and insight to do so.

Are you clear about your priorities for that significant investment? Will the benefits to your world and your life be worth the cost?

You have an opportunity today that will never again be quite the same. Give it the respect and consideration that it deserves, that you deserve.

This is a good time to raise your expectations a little higher. Now is your chance to make sure your focus is directed toward the things that mean the most.

Your investment of this day can bring great new value to life. Your unique combination of knowledge, resources, and motivations has the power to make an enduring positive difference.

Pause for a moment and refresh your appreciation for who you are, for what you can do, and for why it matters. Then step forward, confident and purposeful, with your smart and effective investment of this day.

— Ralph Marston

January 6

Whatever is to be done

In doing, you find fulfillment. And it’s not necessarily in doing what you envision, prior to doing it, that you will love.

Sure, it’s possible to find ways to do the work you love. What’s more plausible and accessible, though, is allowing yourself to love the work you’re doing.

If you consider a particular task to be beneath you, you’re inflicting punishment on yourself. Worse, you’re denying to yourself the satisfaction of knowing you’re making a difference.

Every person wants to matter, and indeed every person is able to matter in meaningful ways in every moment. Yet if you severely limit the pathways to that meaning you cut yourself off from most of it.

Doing laundry, taking out the garbage, organizing your closet may not seem like world-impacting achievements, yet they are honest, honorable, and necessary. Even the most mundane efforts contribute to the quality of life, and such efforts are always available to be taken up immediately and done.

There’s no shortage of opportunities to make a difference, to experience fulfillment, to love the work. Get the ball rolling, doing whatever is to be done, and keep right on going.

— Ralph Marston

January 7

You know you can

You know you can do better. Make use of that knowledge.

It’s not an indictment of the way you’ve lived up until now. It’s an acknowledgement of your best possibilities.

You know you can do better, so consider precisely what that would look like. Then with great enthusiasm let those thoughts inspire you into positive action.

You have a wealth of experience about what enhances life and what diminishes it. Resolve to put that valuable experience to more intentional and consistent use.

As time moves forward you have the choice to move with it in a positive direction. While each day quickly recedes into the past you can bring forth value and goodness that endure.

You’ve created much that’s good, and now you have the opportunity to do even better. See the great worth of that opportunity, and embrace it with all you have.

— Ralph Marston

January 8

Emerge from your comfort

Make yourself comfortable and enjoy it for a while. Then get yourself away from the comfort.

Reward yourself with comfortable, expected experiences. Then get out into life, into the unknown, into the uncomfortable, and earn even more rewards.

It’s powerful to know you can come back to a comfortable, secure, predictable place. But as soon as the comfort starts to become complacency, you’ve had more than enough.

In a state of comfort you have potential opportunities for improvement. If you’re moving along at a pace that’s comfortable, for example, you have the chance to pick up the pace and lengthen your stride for a few miles.

When you find yourself getting too comfortable, let that prompt you to consider the possibilities for your next adventure, your next advancement. When you’re confident that you know what to expect, you’re able to aim that confidence in new and unexpected directions.

Life is a continuing process of renewal, and effective renewal necessarily involves some challenge. Choose to regularly emerge from your comfort, to face new challenges, and reap the many benefits of doing so.

— Ralph Marston

January 9

Slowly wade in

If you can’t bring yourself to make the full effort, perhaps you can make a half effort, or a quarter. What if you simply start going through the motions?

At least that’s something. At least it puts your focus in a productive place.

Maybe once you’re sufficiently focused on the effort, you can begin to actually get good work done. It can’t hurt to move in that direction.

As you spend more time going through the motions, you will develop some momentum. Eventually that momentum can transform the superficial motions into meaningful progress.

It’s possible that just going through the motions will end up being a useless exercise. Perhaps, but the alternative, which is doing nothing, is guaranteed to be useless.

The water is too cold to jump right in. Yet there’s a good chance you can slowly wade in, and soon you’ll be swimming along nicely.

— Ralph Marston

January 10

Potential richness

It just takes one instant to cross the finish line. Yet you go through every step of the race to get to that instant.

In reaching any goal, you have to put forth many individual efforts that don’t yield immediate results. Only when every previous step is done and you complete the final step does the achievement become yours.

Those steps along the way can feel unrewarded, and that might be discouraging. So it’s important to keep yourself reminded of the progress you’re making, even when you have little in the moment to show for it.

Although your destination is far away in the distance, you’re advancing toward it right here and now. Though you’re not yet close enough to see it, you are working your way in the right direction.

The longer you persist the more value you’re able to create. As you invest your time and effort you’re making the eventual result more meaningful.

As you complete each step along the way, envision the potential richness it is adding to your life. Be inspired to keep going all the way to where that potential richness becomes fully realized.

— Ralph Marston

January 11

No matter what

You start with the best of intentions. Then all too often, life gets in the way.

Intention occurs in the idealized and protected space of your mind. Action, on the other hand, must take place in the messy, complicated, and difficult realm of reality.

As such, transforming intention into action takes effort, flexibility, persistence, and more. Intention is necessary for action, but not sufficient.

From the moment you put forth your best intentions, be realistic about what is required to bring them about. Be prepared to invest yourself in the real-world manifestation of those intentions.

When you find that you’ve failed to act on your intentions, don’t just chalk it up to life getting in the way. Instead, become curious, take responsibility, understand why you failed to act and what you can do differently to create a more active, positive result.

Formulate intentions to which you can fully commit yourself, knowing you’re certain to face challenges. Then you’ll be ready to act on those good intentions, no matter what.

— Ralph Marston

January 12

Live with richness

Today comes to you with multiple opportunities for richness. To see those opportunities, look around with an open heart and an open mind.

There are people in your life whom you see all the time but you’ve barely even met. Get to know a few of them better, and you’re likely to find yourself with some interesting and enriching new friends.

There are places you hurry right on past every day without even noticing. Make it a point to stop and explore some of them, and find treasures you never even knew existed.

Ask yourself, what things interest you that you’ve never fully explored? Make the effort to discover and fulfill your passions, and give yourself the opportunity to add new dimensions to life.

Living richly has very little to do with how much money you have. It has everything to do with how deeply and sincerely you appreciate the unique potential that is your life.

You never have to let the little things get you down when you have so many real and meaningful things to lift you up. Make the choice today, and every day, to live with richness, because you can.

— Ralph Marston

January 13

Truth endures

Often the truth is difficult. But when the truth is difficult, all the other options are even more difficult.

If there are no easy answers, you must go with the best answer. And the best answer is the truthful one.

You can face the truth by your own choice, on your own terms. Or you can evade and pretend and deny, and eventually the truth will hunt you down anyway.

Either way, the truth persists. No one has to support or maintain truth for it to remain true.

Even with the most difficult truth, your best option is to keep yourself on its side. Though that can involve pain and sacrifice, truth is ultimately worth the cost.

Truth matters, and truth endures. It’s always good to keep that in mind.

— Ralph Marston