Today is when your life is happening. Now is when life’s opportunities are yours.
Within you is a dream, a longing, a purpose, a desire to experience life’s richness in your own unique way. Surrounding you is a universe filled with energy and abundance, and possibilities.
Now is when you have the opportunity to connect your most treasured dreams with that abundance, and to bring them to life. Focused, purposeful, inspired action is how you can most effectively do so.
On this day, in this moment, the possibilities are more than just intellectual curiosities. Right now, the possibilities are real.
Today you can choose, you can take action, you can make a difference and you can make real, satisfying, lasting progress. Today you have the priceless opportunity to live your life as you envision it.
The best life you can imagine is today within your grasp. So go beyond mere imagining, and live each moment in the direction of the very best you know life can be.
The difficulties can get you down, but only if you let them. The setbacks can make you discouraged, but only if you allow them to do so.
You always have another choice. You can choose to focus on the good places you intend to go to, instead of on the painful places you’ve had to go through.
Sure, life is tough and the journey is difficult. Yet at the same time life can be exquisitely beautiful and immensely rewarding.
It doesn’t really accomplish anything to complain about, or to dwell on, life’s unfairness. What will make a positive difference is to put your energy and enthusiasm into following a meaningful purpose.
Decide that you will put the difficulties to work for you. Let them inspire you and make you more and more determined.
Each time you experience a setback, use it as an opportunity to remind you of the good and desirable places you intend to go. Then step confidently forward, leave that negative incident behind, and move ahead with more energy and passion than ever before.
—Ralph Marston
Know that you can, and you can. Decide that you will, and you will.
The most essential ingredient in your success is you. Your authentic intention and solid commitment will bring into your life whatever you choose.
Just because achievement is not easy or instantaneous, doesn’t mean it’s impossible or out of your reach. Know that you can, go make it happen, and what you truly desire you will most certainly achieve.
The problems and challenges give you the opportunity to prove you really want the achievement. Your effectiveness in reaching it comes directly from the authentic passion you have for doing so.
In every moment, you make a choice, and those choices add up to the life you experience. You can choose to follow your purpose, and to achieve what you know deep inside you can, or you can choose to avoid your greatest possibilities.
In this moment, and the next and the next, choose to go forward to a life that grows ever richer and more fulfilling. You know you can, so get going, keep going, and bring your dreams magnificently to life.
A little extra effort can buy you a lot of additional options. Instead of always being hindered by what you must do, put yourself in full control of what you can achieve.
A little more self-discipline and initiative can give you a lot more power over your own destiny. By embracing full responsibility for your own actions, you make those actions much more beneficial and effective.
Avoiding that responsibility, and seeking to take the easy way out, will quickly add to your difficulties. Being less than you can be, and doing less than you know you can do, will cause far more pain than any external challenge ever could.
There’s a reason why you have a burning desire to matter, to make a real difference in the world. It’s an essential part of who you are, of your deepest purpose, to get good and valuable things done.
So use the opportunity of this moment, and of every moment, to live and work and love and enjoy at your highest level. Let your unique value flow forth without holding back.
Live each day with the courage of your own special, beautiful possibilities. Always give your best, for it is your most profound and fulfilling desire to do so.
You don’t have to be famous to be important. You don’t have to be a celebrity to be successful.
You don’t have to live in opulent luxury to be rich. You don’t have to be irresponsible to be free.
You don’t have to be outrageous to be creative. You don’t have to be abusive to be impressive.
You can be quietly humble and still be amazingly effective. You can be kind and considerate and still have great influence.
Just because people don’t fall at your feet and worship you, doesn’t mean you are a failure. Quiet success is just as sweet as loud, flamboyant success, and usually much more real.
Success is what you choose for it to be, not what everyone else says it must be. Live your life in each moment in a way that truly fulfills you and brings value to your world, for that is the greatest success.
—Ralph Marston
It is by making a difference that you make a life. It is by giving of your authentic self that you gain access to life’s great richness.
When things are going well, you have many opportunities to make a difference. When difficult problems arise, you have even more opportunities to move the world positively forward.
Today will present you with plenty of meaningful opportunities to make a positive difference. Each of these opportunities is also an opportunity to greatly enrich your life.
If it is self-esteem you seek, here is a way to guarantee it. Observe yourself as you work through the challenges and act to create real value in your world.
All of life longs to hear your unique voice. Be yourself, and do it with passion, effectiveness, creativity and love.
Make the choices that will make a real difference. What you give is what determines how well you truly live.
—Ralph Marston
Some people think they can demand your attention just by being outrageous. Give your attention instead to those who offer real substance.
If you allow yourself to be offended, you’re allowing someone else to dictate your thoughts and feelings. Instead of being offended, you can choose to be amused or inspired, or to simply let it go.
Give your time the respect it deserves. Use it for what truly matters, not just to feed someone else’s ego, or your own.
Focus on the best possibilities, not merely on the loudest spectacles. Give your attention to life’s true beauty.
You’re surrounded by a universe that is endlessly fascinating and overflowing with valuable substance. You can live each moment of every day with meaningful, authentic richness.
There’s no need to settle for a flimsy, superficial imitation of what matters. You deserve the real thing, so live it each and every day.
—Ralph Marston
Your most treasured dreams are far too valuable to be hidden away. Instead, put them into action so that they become real and vibrant contributions to your world.
Every moment will be filled with some activity or another. So fill as many of those moments as you can today with positive action.
You’re always moving in some direction or another. So move steadily in the direction of those things you value and treasure most.
It can be all too easy to get caught up in the empty distractions that continually come your way. But do you really want to waste your time and energy on them when there is so much more you can be doing?
Pick the most positive, valuable, magnificent thing you can imagine and put it into action. Let it fill your thoughts and fill your moments.
When each action, no matter what it may be, is taken as a step toward what you treasure most, the power of joy and purpose will fill your efforts. Put your dreams into action, and put your own special value into life.
—Ralph Marston
This is a great day to be alive. This is a great day to be you.
You can delight in the beauty of every little thing. You can experience the wonderful satisfaction of knowing you’re making a positive difference.
You can dream, and then enjoy working your way toward the fulfillment of that dream. You can learn and create, and love and share, and experience life’s richness in your own unique way.
This is an outstanding moment, because it is a culmination of all you’ve ever experienced. The paths you’ve chosen have led you right here, and now you can do something new and meaningful with it all.
The fears and shortcomings of your past no longer have to hold you back. The genuine love that’s within you has more longing and ability to be expressed than ever before.
Look around you with thankful, loving eyes, and feel what a truly great day it is to be alive. The very best of life is here now for you, so live it to the fullest on this uniquely valuable day.
—Ralph Marston
Life is filled with frustration, pain, inconvenience, disappointment and all sorts of other troubles. And in every frustration, in every inconvenience, in every difficulty is an opportunity to make life better.
You don’t have to accept anything less than a life of excellence. Because you can make a difference, and you can continually make improvements.
Instead of complaining about whatever may be bothering you, simply acknowledge it and then get busy doing something to improve the situation. Instead of settling for anything less than the best you can imagine, keep making improvements until your reality is in line with your highest vision.
There’s nothing positive to be gained by worrying about what might go wrong. Put your energy into arranging for things to go the way you intend.
Of course you cannot control every influence upon your life. However, you can prepare and position yourself to intelligently, purposefully and positively respond to whatever comes your way.
If your life is not living up to your very highest expectations, there are countless ways to make improvements. Choose to act, choose to improve, and bring your own special excellence to life.
—Ralph Marston
You have a wonderful, beautiful, valuable gift with which you can literally transform your life. That gift is this day you’re now living.
This very day is overflowing with rich and meaningful possibilities. The value of this day is here and now, right in front of you.
Life’s great abundance is here on this day for you to put to good use. Today you can choose, you can learn, you can act, and you can make real progress.
Today has limitless potential. Yet for that potential to be transformed into value, you must make use of the opportunity of today while it is here.
Today is much too valuable to waste. Its magnificent possibilities are already here, so step quickly forward and make the most of them.
Today is a priceless gift that’s yours to live right now. Joyously fill it with your own unique flavor of life and achievement.
—Ralph Marston
