March 16

Get going now

The sooner you start, the more power you'll have to make a difference. Stop putting it off, stop worrying, waiting, making excuses, and avoiding, and just get going.

Immerse yourself quickly and fully in the effort. Cultivate a strong sense of purpose, right from the start.

You are here today to make good things happen. The sooner you get started, the better this day will be.

How many times have you proved to yourself that delaying the effort only makes it more difficult? How many times have you been stung by regret for not starting sooner?

This is your opportunity to learn from experience and avoid future regrets. This is your chance to go ahead and get it done.

Strength, confidence, effectiveness and satisfaction are ready for you to experience, right now. Get going, get the work done, and they will all be yours in great abundance.

Ralph Marston

March 17

Limiting assumptions

You are living your life based on a whole lot of assumptions you've made about yourself. Many of those assumptions may be holding you back.

If you think you can't get any work done after two in the afternoon, that's precisely how each day will unfold. But there's nothing preventing you from getting work done after two, other than your assumption.

If you assume you're no good at math, or public speaking, or being on time, you're absolutely right. Your assumptions about yourself are self-fulfilling.

Fortunately, you can change those assumptions. You can think differently about what you can and cannot do.

Your assumptions about yourself are choices you have made. If any of those choices are hindering you in any way, you can make new ones.

Your assumptions drive your thoughts and actions at the deepest level, without you even realizing. So step back, take an objective look, change the assumptions that are limiting you, and you can literally change your life.

Ralph Marston

March 18

Choice to act

Conditions, advantages, situations, resources, skills, timing and knowledge are all important factors in what you do. But they're not nearly as important as your choice to act.

The conditions may be perfect or they may be awful. In either case, and in all cases in between, you can get good stuff done.

A sailing ship can reach its destination whether that destination is upwind or downwind. The main difference is that the upwind journey provides sailors with more experience.

No matter how this day started or how it has been going, you can make progress now. Whether good things are falling into your lap or your situation has fallen into disarray, you can move forward.

What matters is your choice to get it done. Make the choice to act, and persist in following through.

The wind will shift, the sky will clear and then darken, people will criticize you and then praise you, support you and then oppose you. Through it all, continue making the choice to act, and you'll make good progress no matter what.

Ralph Marston

March 19

One great thing after another

If you let yourself get pulled in too many directions at once, you'll never make much progress in any of those directions. In order to say yes to real achievement, you must be willing to say no to other things.

There is much you can do, yet you cannot do everything. As compelling as the entire universe of possibilities may be, you must narrow your focus if you're to fulfill any of them.

Though your love has no limit, you are limited by the number of hours in each day. Though your love may encompass all that is, to express that love you must be more specific.

Just because you give your focus and attention to something in particular, does not mean you're ungrateful for all else. On the contrary, it means you're making effective use of your life to create value for all of life.

Saying no can be positive. Because it frees you to focus on something that makes a real difference.

Give yourself to a purpose that feels right to you, and don't let other possibilities pull you away. Instead of vainly trying to do it all at once, choose to succeed at doing one great thing after another.

Ralph Marston

March 20

Shimmering sea of abundance

In this moment, there is nothing to worry about. All is as it is, and worry will not change it in the slightest.

In this moment, hope is bright, alive, filling every corner of existence. Now, you can let go of what troubles you and allow the best of what inspires you.

Now, there is no outside influence that can prevent you from giving your best to life. Go ahead and live, love, create, feel, explore, and be fully present in the shimmering sea of abundance and possibility that is now.

There is beauty, here in front of you, that has never been before and will never be again. Enjoy its unique gift, just because you can.

You are more powerful than you have ever realized. Use that power for good, and feel it grow.

All is possible, so choose what is right. And live it with a passion that delights the whole world.

— Ralph Marston

March 21

Pleasure of a positive attitude

Be exceptionally good to yourself today. Give yourself the pleasure and the power of a positive attitude.

Cast off impulses to grumble, to be cynical, to complain. Embrace each opportunity to see, to live and to expand life's goodness.

Instead of feeling inconvenienced by some little something, feel privileged to be living your life. Rather than getting frustrated over matters that don't really matter, find delight in your determination to make life better.

It's just as realistic to be positive about life as it is to be negative. And it's a whole lot more productive.

Just because you encounter a problem doesn't mean you have to fill yourself with negativity. Instead, shine a light on the positive possibilities of the situation and work to make them happen.

A positive attitude feels good, and empowers you at the same time. You can choose it right now, and always, so do.

Ralph Marston

March 22

Unsure

If you're not sure what to do, go ahead and do something anyway. Action clarifies your purpose and illuminates your intentions.

If you're unsure how to go about it, make an initial effort anyway, right away. Even if the first step doesn't get you anywhere, it will give you valuable experience and perspective.

The secret to success is that no one really knows the secret. You learn to achieve as you go along, so get going, get the learning and achievement in motion.

If you already know how the story ends there's no point in reading it, or writing it. If you already know how the achievement will unfold, you owe it to yourself to seek a more ambitious achievement.

Unsure what to do with this day, with the month ahead, or the rest of your life? The way to be sure is to invest in life, right now, with action.

Free yourself from uncertainty with action. Get involved, get yourself clear about what, why and how, and make it happen.

Ralph Marston

March 23

Difficult work

What is difficult work for you is also good for you. Find more of it, do more of it, and make yourself stronger.

What is demanding is also rewarding. Meet the demands and enjoy the rewards.

What initially makes you uncomfortable eventually gives you more confidence. To enter your achievement zone, you must step outside your comfort zone.

If you're not regularly encountering challenges, raise your expectations. In each challenge is the opportunity to create new value.

Satisfaction comes from finding a way to do what you didn't know you could do. Trust in your ability to improve your ability, and enjoy the satisfaction.

The difficult work is the work that makes the biggest difference. Seek out difficult work, embrace it, and add real value to your world by getting it done.

Ralph Marston

March 24

Your choice to feel

You don't have to feel like doing the work to do the work. You just have to start, and keep going.
Your feelings are powerful and useful, desirable, inspiring, and informative. But they don't have to control you.
You don't have to use your feelings as an excuse. There are a whole lot of much better things you can do with them.
Free yourself from the notion that your feelings are imposing themselves on you and on your activities. Take responsibility for choosing the feelings that empower you rather than falling prey to whatever feeling might come along.
Your actions do not have to be controlled by your feelings. On the contrary, you can take actions that will bring about precisely the good feelings you want to feel.
If you don't feel like doing what you know you must do, go ahead and do it anyway. Soon, not only will you feel like it, you'll feel great for having it done.

Ralph Marston

Hope all is well. I love the daily motivator and Ralph has great stuff to say and that I can relate too. Though it seems everyday I read it later and later. I appreciate you posting it everyday and it's been a great way to start my day and keep me grateful through the day.
Thank you

Thank you! I have had to go to a different site to get it and they post it later in the day than the original site.

March 25

Leave your doubts behind

Don't let doubt kill your efforts. Don't let doubt dilute your creativity.

Look squarely at your doubts and tell them they are wrong. Muster the strength to bring those vague, elusive doubts all the way to the surface where you can destroy them.

Each doubt is a thought you own, and you can decide what to do with it. Decide to get rid of those doubts, one after another.

You deserve more than to be held back by your own doubtful, negative thoughts. Your best work deserves to be done and you deserve the satisfaction of doing it.

There are very real obstacles that stand between where you are and where you want to be. Don't let your own doubts add to those obstacles.

Instead, let go of the doubts and free yourself to work through all the challenges at your greatest level of performance. Leave your doubts behind, and let yourself achieve all the great things you're destined to achieve.

Ralph Marston

March 26

Life as it comes

Today is a great opportunity to put things off until later. But that's one opportunity you don't want to take advantage of.

Instead, you can ignore the opportunity to put things off and grab some of the other, much more valuable opportunities. You can use the time you have today, while you have it, so you'll have no regrets when it is gone.

You have plenty of time to do great, fulfilling things if you'll simply use it as it comes. There's no sense in putting anything off until later, because you won't have any more time later than you will right now.

There is great value in every moment, including this one. But once the moment is gone, the opportunity to add its value to your life is also gone.

So seize that opportunity while it's still here. Put everything you have into fully living life as it comes.

To get the most out of life, give all you can every chance you get. Now is when you have that chance.

Ralph Marston

March 27

Be of good cheer

Be of good cheer today, no matter what life hands you. Be of good cheer, because it’s a whole lot more effective than the alternative.

The situation may be challenging, but you don’t have to let it ruin your enjoyment of the moment. Life may have given you disappointment, but you don’t have to perpetuate that disappointment.

The best thing you can do when things go wrong is to think and speak and act as if things will get better. And when you do, more likely than not, things will get better.

A negative situation is not made better by a negative attitude. What will actually do some good is to turn the situation on its head by being positive about it.

Be of good cheer, and see what a difference it can make. Be of good cheer, and add something positive to every place you go.

Be of good cheer, not because you don’t know any better, but because you do. Be of good cheer, and be the difference that turns things around in a positive way.

— Ralph Marston

March 28

The promise that is you

Fulfill the promise that is you on this day. Live up to your remarkable potential.

What's been done in the past is done. Today you can do much more.

Whether you're satisfied with yesterday or disappointed about it, your strategy for today is the same. Create some great new value.

Nothing feels better than knowing you're giving your best. Now is your opportunity to feel it.

Live today so you'll be thankful tomorrow, and every day afterward, for what you've done. Live today so you'll be inspired tomorrow to do even more.

You can change the world today in a way no one else can match. Step forward, with passion for the possibilities, and live the unique promise that is you.

Ralph Marston

March 29

The miracle that is all that is

Life is magical, and the magic springs forth from the way you live it. This day is magical, and your job is to make it so.

Do not long for the way things were when things were good. The goodness you recall lives within you still, and is begging you to express it in new ways today.

Do not wish for your fondest dreams and highest values to be realized. Bring them to life in all you do.

If you strive to separate problems from opportunities, desirable from undesirable, you end up with nothing but striving. Embrace life as it is, allowing your love to amplify its richness.

Let the illusion of separation melt away. When you have a thought, the whole world thinks that thought, and what you feel, life itself feels.

Open yourself to the miracle that is all that is. You have great things to do with it now.

Ralph Marston