Positive beginning

Would you spend your hard-earned money buying things you
didn’t want or need? Of course not.

So why would you spend any of your precious and powerful
thoughts on things you don’t want? It makes much more sense
to focus your thoughts on the positive, desirable things you
would like to create and expand upon.

The thoughts with which you choose to fill your mind have a
direct influence on the people, things, and events that
surround your life. Every moment, with each thought, you
have the opportunity to point your life in a specific
direction.

The way you think about life plays a major role in the way
your life unfolds. Again and again, choose those thoughts
that resonate with a life that’s rich, joyous and fulfilled.

You think thousands of thoughts each day. Use the
opportunity of each thought to push you toward the precise
life you wish to create for yourself.

Everything in your world begins with a thought. So use your
thoughts to give everything a powerful, positive beginning.

Ralph Marston

New Prosperity

Wake up, open your eyes and look around you. Opportunity is everywhere.

There is plenty of work to be done. And there are all sorts of effective, fulfilling ways to do it.

The world is alive with all kinds of challenges. Pick a particularly difficult and meaningful one, creatively work your way through it, and bring new prosperity to yourself and others.

Jump into the real-life adventure that sparkles beneath the rising sun each morning. A new day filled with richness is ready to be lived.

Fortune favors those who choose to see it coming. Prosperity belongs to those who work to bring it to life.

Report for duty in the service of your highest vision. This is when life gets good.

Ralph Marston

Understand!!

Seek not only to know, but also to understand. In a world that is awash in information, true understanding remains a rare and precious treasure.

The knowledge and information you collect is indeed valuable. The understanding you refine from that knowledge can be priceless.

Information tells you what has happened. Understanding enables you to know what will come as a result.

Understanding gives you a clear picture of opportunities that others cannot even glimpse. The effort you put into understanding brings great value to your life and your world.

Listen, learn, question, experience, think and understand. Do the work that turns ordinary facts into wisdom.

Have the courage and discipline to think for yourself. And out of the raw information will come real understanding.

— Ralph Marston

Tell Yourself

What are you telling yourself that’s holding you back? What
are you telling yourself that’s preventing you from being
happy?

What are you telling yourself that gives you permission to
be less than your very best? What are you telling yourself
that gives you an excuse for not taking action.

Every moment of every day you’re interpreting the world for
yourself, telling yourself what it means and what to do
about it. Each time you tell yourself something, you have an
opportunity to make a lasting impact on your life.

So tell yourself yes. Remind yourself why you have chosen to
step forward and give yourself permission to do so.

Tell yourself that you can choose a life of joy and
fulfillment right now. Tell yourself that you’re fully
capable of whatever you decide to achieve.

Take the opportunity to tell yourself, again and again, how
truly outstanding your life can be. And then thank yourself
for the great advice as you enthusiastically bring it to
life.

Ralph Marston

Active Role

There is a very small gap that can separate you from the
fulfillment of your dreams. Fortunately, that
gap is entirely of your own making and you have what it
takes to get across it.

Life’s abundance swirls around you in every moment, and it
seems close enough to touch. The possibilities just keep on
coming, day after day, filled with the promise of
fulfillment.

Yet to live that abundance, and to make the best of those
possibilities real, you must take an active role. Life can
be anything you make of it, yet you must be the one who
makes it happen.

The way to bridge the gap, and to bring your dreams to life,
is to act on them. Take positive, productive, effective
action every opportunity you get, day after day and year
after year.

Take an active role in your own life. Shape it
and build it and enjoy the process of fine-tuning every
aspect of it so that you’re living precisely the life that’s
right for you.

Take full responsibility for all that you experience. And
what you experience will be truly meaningful.

Ralph Marston

Your Choice !!!

You can resent the amount of work you have to do. Or you can
get busy and use it as an opportunity to create great value.

You can see each setback as a fatal blow to the achievement
of your dream. Or you can learn from all the ups and the
downs and make the achievement of your dream all the more
valuable as a result of each challenge.

You can pounce upon each bit of bad news and extrapolate it
to portend the end of the world. Or you can celebrate the
fact that bad news is news only because it is so relatively
rare.

You can sit and wait and complain and convince yourself that
things will never get better. Or you can enthusiastically
jump forward and make life the best it can be.

Whatever the situation, whoever is involved, you always have
a choice. Choose each time to express the authentic beauty
of your being, and live in a world where life is so very
good.

Ralph Marston

Feel the way you choose

Whatever you feel on the inside, you will experience on the outside. Life reflects back to you the way you most sincerely and persistently are.

When you’re having a joyful day it’s because you’ve decided to do so. The world you see is directly related to the world you intend to see.

From nothing, in an instant, you can create joy. Where there was none before, you can express love.

Do you realize the power in your ability to feel the way you choose to feel? With that power you can change the world.

You’re extraordinarily skilled at changing your feelings, and you’ve had much experience at doing so.

Feel the beauty of this moment, and watch as that feeling manifests in the world around you.

This is your moment to live more fully than you’ve ever lived. Feel the possibilities, and bring them to life.

Ralph Marston

Do Something About It

Are you frustrated and burned out? What are you going to do
about it?

Is there something you really want to achieve? What are you
going to do about it?

Have you just become aware of an incredible opportunity?
What are you going to do about it?

What are you going to do today, right this moment? What
actions will you take to end your frustration, to achieve
your dream, to take advantage of opportunity?

Success and achievement depend not on how much you complain,
or on your ability to garner sympathy from others, but on
what you do. And right now is the time to start.

Go ahead and move beyond the frustration, begin to work
toward the dream, and make the most of your best
possibilities. Go ahead right now and do something positive
and effective about it.

Ralph Marston

Every Richness !!

What is the most positive, wonderful thing you can imagine for yourself, for your life, for the ones you love, for the world in which you live? As soon as you can imagine it,
you’re well on the way to making it a reality.

If it were impossible there would be no way you could even conceive of it. Live with the knowledge and the assurance that the best you can imagine is indeed available to you
and possible for you.

You are filled with valuable experience. The things you’ve done, learned, seen and lived through have left behind a unique, powerful substance of experience that is yours
alone.

It is yours to make use of, yours to build upon, and yours with which to
grow.

Though you cannot live in the past, you can draw from the value you created there. Invest today’s actions with the wealth of experience you’ve accumulated, and that investment will immediately begin to pay dividends.

Live your passion, do your dream, and feel wonderfully alive in each moment. This life is now yours, so experience in it every way you can imagine.

Ralph Marston

Living Quality

The distractions will always be there, but the opportunities
of this moment won’t. As compelling as those distractions
might be, let them fall behind you as you act on your best
possibilities right now.

The excuses for not taking action make a lot of sense, yet
there is no real value in even the most reasonable, sensible
excuse. Instead of being stopped by why you can’t, be
energized by why you must.

The quality of your life is up to you, at all times, in all
situations. You have the opportunity to creatively imagine
an outstanding life for yourself, and then to bring what you
imagine into the reality of your world.

The excuses and distractions and setbacks and frustrations
are all hopelessly insignificant when compared to your best
possibilities. Stay focused on the good and positive things
that mean the most to you, and you’ll transcend the small
bumps along the way with grace and ease.

The richness of your life has no limits. Choose today, and
always, to let that richness continue to unfold.

Ralph Marston

Interconnected

Taking positive action in one area of your life can lead to surprising improvements in many other areas of your life.

The life you experience is the sum of every thought, every word spoken, every gesture and every effort.

If you find it difficult to be positive about one particular area of your life, then be extraordinarily positive about other areas of your life.

All the parts of your life are interconnected in ways that it’s difficult to even imagine. The result is that there are always plenty of opportunities for taking positive steps.

For even when you feel completely blocked in one area, there are many other areas of your life in which you can quickly and easily make improvements. Success and achievement feel great in whatever venue they occur.

Feel genuinely positive, even if it’s just about one little thing. And the energy radiates through the entirety of your world.

Ralph Marston

Put Discouragement Behind You

Just as quickly and easily as you can become discouraged, you can let go of it. The only power that discouragement has, is the power you give it.

Though the challenges are great, you are greater. For you can act and learn and adapt, and act again with even more effectiveness.

If you feel yourself sinking into the false comfort of discouragement, choose instead to stand up. Boldly take a few steps forward, recall your deepest purposes and your most treasured dreams, and put that discouragement behind you.

Though there is always injustice in the world, there is always even more opportunity to make a positive difference. Though the challenges keep appearing, in each challenge is the chance to create new positive value.

You can decide how your life will be. And you have the power
to make it so.

This is your moment to pick your head up, put a smile on your face, and with a quickness and determination in your step, move forward. Look toward your best possibilities, for you are here now to achieve great things.

Ralph Marston

This New Momment

This new moment has already been filled with possibilities
for you. Now you have the challenging and delightful task of
filling it with life.

Look closely and see the extraordinary beauty in the most
ordinary of things. Lovingly pay attention to every
experience, and value the new lessons you learn.

Reach out to others and give them your best. Create joy out
of nothing and know that joy is always yours the moment you
choose to live it.

Recall just a fraction of your many blessings and realize
how truly wealthy you are. Know that from here, you can take
positive and purposeful steps in whatever direction you
choose.

This new moment is a golden opportunity that now surrounds
you. Love it, live it, and make it the wonderful moment it
was meant to be.

Ralph Marston

Celebrate The Consequences

Do you pay a price for your actions, or do you reap great
rewards from them? Do you fear the consequences of what you
do, or do you eagerly await them?

It all depends on the actions you take. The destination at
which you arrive is determined by the direction in which you
most consistently travel.

Instead of cursing the negative consequences, simply avoid
the actions that cause them. Instead of wistfully wishing in
vain for the things you seek, just take the actions that
will bring those things into your life.

Everything in your life is the result of one thing or
another. You can’t avoid consequences, yet you can determine
which ones you get.

Put yourself in a position to celebrate the consequences.
With positive purpose, focus, effort and persistence the
very best of life’s results can be yours.

Most of what happens to you happens because of you. Use your
actions to move solidly toward those consequences that
you’ll delight in celebrating.

Ralph Marston