SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

If your efforts are not bringing results, don’t make yourself into a victim, complaining about how unfair life is. Change your efforts, making them more focused and effective. If something is not working for you, don’t make a lot of excuses or look for someone to blame. Instead, look for how you can change your strategy. Yes, conditions have changed and they will continue to change even faster than before. Rather than seeing that as an excuse, see it as an opportunity. Doing something new is not a sure thing, but if you refuse to change, it is a sure thing that you’ll get yourself stuck in the past. If whatever has worked in the past no longer works, that can be disturbing and uncomfortable. Can you find a way to see discomfort as your friend, to push on through, and to transform a disappointing change into a positive opportunity? Life is not fair, and the world does not stand still, waiting for you to catch up. Yet even in such a challenging environment, you have what it ta...

Today is an opportunity to care. Today is an opportunity to care about what you do, about who you are becoming, about how you treat others, and about all of life. Though it is easy to be apathetic, it is terribly difficult to live with apathy. Be thankful that you don’t have to, and renew your commitment to care. Care, not to impress anyone with how enlightened or compassionate you are. Care, with thoughtfulness, with patience, with love, because it feels so right. Express your gratitude not with empty flamboyance, but with purposeful living. Even when all the world seems careless, especially when the world seems careless, your opportunity to care is more valuable than ever. Jump with passion into this day and give it some good, measured, meaningful caring. Add a little understanding, a decent amount of humility, and you have a formula for real enrichment. Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.

Make today a day of substance. Let go of your concerns about the superficial things that really don’t matter, and devote your energy to the things that do. Life is a grand experience and there is so much more to it than just keeping up appearances. Even the small, unimpressive moments can be profoundly rich if you’ll just allow them to be. Remind yourself how fortunate you are to be living this day. See how silly it is to worry and fret over the things you don’t have when you do have so much. Grab hold of the opportunity that is now. You can make good things happen, and you already know how great that will make you feel. Look around at the world and smile a great, big, satisfied and joyful smile. Realize, at a deeper level than ever before, how great and limitless your possibilities are. Use this day for real, substantive progress, the kind you care about so much. Be amazed at the abundance, and be delighted at what you do with it.

Enjoy your life. On this day, in this place, whatever concerns, challenges, opportunities and situations you’re faced with, enjoy yourself. Enjoy the little, seemingly insignificant things. Enjoy the big, life-altering things. Enjoy the drama and the peace, the solitude and the fellowship, the activity and the relaxation. Enjoy the work and the play. Enjoy being you. Enjoy not having to impress anyone, just being able to live your life in harmony with your values. You work better, play better, sleep better, eat better and experience better relationships when you allow yourself to enjoy. You’re more interesting, more interested, more loving and giving and creative. It’s really not that difficult to make the choice to enjoy your life. Enjoy your life in an authentic way, and make it a whole lot more enjoyable.