SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Stop waiting, dreaming and hoping for someday. Start living and working today to achieve the best of your dreams and to fulfill the highest of your hopes. Whatever you put off until someday, never happens. Someday is forever out there, just around the corner, but never here and now. All that you have, and all the great and creative things you’re able to do, are here and now. So jump right in and enjoy making life happen, here and now. Waiting for someday is a lame excuse and a convenient way to hide from your own best possibilities. Choose today to stop hiding and to start really living. No matter how ambitious your goal may be, there is something you can do about it right now. There is no need, and there is no point, in putting your fulfillment off until some non-existent someday. Today is what you have, and it’s filled with energy, with possibility, with life and awareness and with your powerful presence. Embrace this day with all its richness, and use its moments to live true to you...

If you don’t have time to get it all done, get some of it done. If you’re not able to do it perfectly, do it the best you can.  It’s great to visualize an ideal world. Always keep in mind, though, that you must live in the real world as it is.  Conditions are never going to be perfect, so stop waiting endlessly for them to be. The fact is, you can arrange for conditions to be good enough, and then go forward with what you have.  Aim for perfection, but don’t let that stop you from working with reality. Live according to your highest vision, and also with practical, common sense.  Climb to the top of the mountain and get a clear view of the big picture. Then commit yourself to taking care of all the little details, filling that big picture with living richness.  See life as the best it can be, and live life as it comes to you. That will keep you always moving in a positive, fulfilling direction. 

You might not reach your goal today. Yet you can reach a significant part of the way toward it.  You may not make as much progress today as you intend. Yet you will make some valuable progress.  Don’t you dare be discouraged by what you were not able to do. Instead, be inspired by what you have been able to get done, and by what you’re now in a position to achieve.  Even though you’re not able to reach all the way right now, reach. Go ahead, do what you can, now when you have the opportunity.  Get started, continue, make some progress, then do it again and again. Small efforts add up to big results when you repeat them often enough.  Reach forward, work forward and move forward. You’ve made some meaningful progress, and now is your chance to make even more. 

Put passion into what you do, whatever it is. Your passion confers great power, and engages your best abilities, and you can put it into anything. There’s no need to search for, or wait for, or wonder about what will give you passion. Go ahead and give your passion to the moment you’re in. What provides you with passion is your choice to live it. What gives you passion is your decision to allow it to flow into your thoughts, words and actions. Live your life not as a bystander. Live in this world, on this day, at this place as an active participant. Discover how empowering it feels to give authentic passion to the smallest of details. Experience for yourself how great it is to care without holding back. Put passion in this day, in this task, and in this circumstance. Be rewarded with exceptional effectiveness and meaningful achievement.

Expect this day to be a richer, more fulfilling day than yesterday. Expect better, and your life will rise to meet those expectations.  Expect the most favorable outcome and you’ll discover ways to bring it about. Expect a positive experience and you’ll find the goodness in every situation.  The way you act is informed and influenced by what you expect. Choose to expect better and you’ll do better.  Expect to understand, to resonate and to forge deep connections with those around you, and you will. Expect to create value out of whatever you have to work with, and that value flows forth.  Expect to make a meaningful positive difference today. Expect peace, love, healing and goodness, and your efforts and energy will focus to bring them about.  Do yourself and your world a big favor, and expect better. Expect better, and find joy in the journey of making it so. 

You’re never too old, too knowledgeable or too experienced to learn something new. It can be positively energizing to learn a new skill or to improve significantly on an existing one. One big hindrance to new learning is the assumption that you already know enough. In a world where knowledge is increasing at an unimaginable and accelerating pace, that’s an assumption that can get you in trouble. Be truly thankful for what you know. Then make even better use of that knowledge by building on it. Your mind benefits from challenging mental exercise just as your body benefits from rigorous physical activity. Keep your mind in great shape by opening it up to new and invigorating challenges. Make your valuable life experience even more valuable by adding new skills and knowledge to it. With each new thing you learn come great new opportunities. Open your mind to new learning. And enrich every area of your life.

You have what you need. Now go make something of it.  You have an abundance of possibilities. Now get busy fulfilling the best of them.  You have resources, abilities, interests, skills and passions. Now do something meaningful and enjoyable with them.  Don’t waste your time and energy wishing for more. Invest yourself in creating new richness in your own unique way.  Instead of obsessing over what you don’t have, imagine what you can create. Instead of getting hung up on the challenges, get excited about the possibilities.  You are connected to all of life’s abundance. Now do the work to create and to follow the path of your own special greatness.

Be sincerely useful, and create meaningful value. You’ll never run out of opportunities to make a difference.  The fulfillment you seek will not come from what you possess. It will come from what you contribute.  Life is beautiful and you can make it more so. The opportunity is everywhere.  The more challenging things become, the more of a difference you can make. Remind yourself how great it feels to genuinely be of service, and then do it again and again.  The more you give, the richer your life becomes. The more value you create, the more hopeful and fulfilling all of life becomes.  Seek to be useful, and you’ll find plenty of ways. Choose to make a positive difference, and experience life at its highest, most satisfying level. 

Taking action is not as difficult as you imagine it to be. Get up now and get it done.  The comfort and ease of doing nothing are highly overrated, especially in the long run. Life is here, life is miraculously yours, so live it.  Live life fully by taking an active role in it. Feel your purpose, feel your desire, feel your dreams and follow them with all you have.  Make a commitment, voice your opinion, use your skills and put real, active substance into this day. Step forward, put forth the effort, follow through and contribute your own brand of richness to this beautiful world.  The possibilities are all around you. Great new value is begging to be created, and you’re in the fortunate position of being able to answer the call.  Remind yourself how effective you can be and then put that effectiveness to good use. Get up, get going and give your best to this great day which offers you a great opportunity to succeed in life and have success.

This day exists so that you can do something meaningful with it. This world exists so that you can marvel at its astounding beauty.  Your thoughts, passions, skills, interests and abilities are yours so that you can make use of them. The miracle of life is yours so that you can experience it fully.  The possibilities are here because you will find so much fulfillment in bringing them to life. The challenges are here because you can lift all of life by working through them.  There is hope because you are able to feel it. There is love because you are able to give it.  Realize how vital it is for you to appreciate how precious and full of promise it all is. Resolve again to live life’s great and limitless promise one unique moment at a time.  Feel the richness of life as it exists right now. Step forward, with a joy that goes beyond understanding, and fulfill the promise.  Don't waste times with things that don't benefit you or people with no vision and are a...

Though it is not your fault, make it your responsibility. Though it is not your job, make it your responsibility to achieve your goals and provide the best. Responsibility is yours for the taking. When you do choose to take it, what you get are expanded options, greater opportunities and more positive possibilities. Responsibility makes good things possible. Responsibility enables you to make a difference take a chance. Responsibility is not easy, not convenient, and often not very comfortable. Yet if you are to make something positive and meaningful out of the situation, responsibility is absolutely necessary. It may not seem fair to have to take responsibility for circumstances you didn’t create. However, by doing so you gain the control that enables you to move forward. As in wealth creation and opportunity here and now. Responsibility is there for you to take. Take responsibility and with it, create something great.

The way to care is not to find fault with others for failing to care. The way to truly, effectively care is to show, with your actions and your life, how you care.  The way to communicate a truth is not to insist on it, but to demonstrate it, to live it. The way to convince is not to argue, but to understand.  Being of assistance to others does not mean making them indebted to you. Give, not to boost your ego or influence, but to express the beauty of being alive. To truly enjoy life, let go of any limitations you have placed on joy. Instead of setting up elaborate situations and expecting joy to come from them, simply choose to give joy to any situation. Rather than striving to deny or hide from or fight against the truth, embrace it. Accept what is true, and put the power of truth on your side. Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won’t always be easy, you’ll live well.

What you have right now, right here, is opportunity. Whatever you’re doing, whatever commitments, plans and challenges you may have on this day, you also have an abundance of opportunity. With your actions you can add richness to your own life and the lives of others. With the way you choose to live this day, you can make it a day that makes a real, positive difference. You can learn, grow, build, create, teach, assist, connect, laugh, love and enjoy. In every moment, in every situation, with every person you encounter, there is the opportunity to create new goodness. Remember that there are good and valuable opportunities available to you. Choose to align yourself with those positive opportunities rather than any negative assumptions. The opportunity of now has great potential for value. Today, you are positioned to bring that value to life in unique, meaningful and enriching ways. Choose to look out on this day and see the opportunity with which it is filled. Now, while it is here, l...