SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Make this day about fulfilling your possibilities, not about satisfying your ego. Make this day about being your authentic best, not about appearing to be impressive. Free yourself from the burden of worrying about what others might think of you. Use all that liberated energy to make a real, substantive difference in the world. If you let your ego run your life, it will impose a great cost and leave you with nothing of real value. Raise your expectations higher, and go far beyond those burdensome superficial concerns. You are genuinely beautiful, worthy and have much to offer life. Let yourself be your authentic self, and let that beauty come forth. Do what you’re most passionate about doing. Let go of all the things you do to merely keep up appearances. There is immense value in the unique, authentic person you are. Today, and every day, generously share that value with all of life.

Stop looking, wishing and hoping for some other person or outside event to give you a break. Go ahead and give yourself a big break. The perfect opportunity is not the one that exists only in your fantasies. The perfect opportunity is the one you have right now. You have the opportunity, on this day, in this place, to do good and valuable things that will move your life forward. You can have the big break you desire by working to make it happen. If you wait for conditions to be perfect before taking action, all you’ll ever do is wait. Go ahead, with things just as they are, and do all you can. Accept the fact that it is indeed difficult to move your life and your world forward. When you stop fighting against the difficulties, and simply work your way through, they are not nearly so difficult. This is the time you have, and this is the time to act. Give yourself a great big positive break today, and feel the joy as your most treasured dreams begin to come to life.

When you feel like quitting, you’re actually closer than ever to getting the work done. Keep going, keep moving, keep working and finish the task. When it seems that you’ve run out of ideas, you’re actually opening yourself to new, more workable, more powerful ideas. Keep going, move on past the discouragement, and let those new ideas flow. Sure, you can think of plenty of reasons to stop short of the goal. Yet there are even better reasons to push yourself forward so the goal is reached. If the work has been difficult and challenging, that’s certainly no reason to stop. In fact, that means you’ve got a whole lot invested in what you’re doing, so keep going and reap the rewards of that investment. You already made the choice to get started, so choose right now to reaffirm your commitment. Keep up the good and valuable work, and get the results you desire. This is a great day to make real progress, so make the most of it. Keep going, keep pushing forward, and keep creating real, meaning...

Negative thoughts affect more than just your mind. Those thoughts create negative energy that flows destructively throughout your entire life. If you are extremely negative about one thing, that negativity seeps into everything. That’s why it is so important to transform the negative influences into positive thoughts and endeavors. There will always be people, events and circumstances that have the potential to get you down. However, you don’t have to let them keep you down for long. Much of what comes to you, and happens beyond you, is out of your control. Yet you always can precisely and dependably control what you do with it. The best thing to do with whatever happens is to find a positive, purposeful way to respond. If something threatens to get you down, choose to do something even more consequential that lifts your world up. Instead of letting the negativity drain you, create your own empowering positive energy. A positive response is always there, so find it and choose it every ...

Life is as it is in this moment, and it’s powerful to be able to accept that. Yet just because you accept what is, here and now, doesn’t mean you must be resigned to letting it stay that way. Yes, you can accept even those things you don’t agree with or approve of. It is your acceptance of reality that positions you to change and to improve upon that reality. Accept the moment, and find great value in it. Accept the situation, whatever it may be, and enable yourself to move positively forward from it. It can be tempting to simply avoid or deny the truth. Eventually, though, you must accept and deal with the truth, and the sooner you choose to do so, the better. Visualization can be a powerful tool, yet merely pretending that something is true does not make it so. Visualize the way you desire for life to be, and accept that you must work to make it so. Accept and embrace the reality of what is. Then take it and make it the best it can be.

When you find a way to be thankful for something, you find the value in it. When you find a way to be thankful, you find a way to benefit. That is especially true when you’re thankful for things that would not seem at first to be beneficial. The more you can be thankful for, the more real, meaningful value there will be in your life. Be thankful for the difficulties. Your gratitude will make them less difficult and much easier to bear. Be thankful for whatever you’ve just experienced. In that state of thankfulness you’ll find powerful lessons to be learned. Gratitude enables you to see anything in a whole new, empowering light. Be thankful, and you’ll understand how truly rich you already are, and how much more richness you can now create. Find a way to be thankful, and you’ll discover many new ways to move forward. Find a way to be thankful, and you’ll see that limitless abundance is yours to live.

Feel a little of life’s goodness and let that goodness be magnified throughout your being. Feel a little goodness and make a lot more. There is goodness everywhere. Open yourself to it, expect to experience it in every situation, and you will. There are times when it is clear and obvious how truly good life is. Yet even when it is not so obvious, that goodness is most certainly there. Remind yourself how good life can be, and bring that goodness wherever you are. Share the goodness, and suddenly there is much more. Instead of assuming that life must be disappointing, give life a chance to be good. Give goodness a place to be in your life, and it will be. On any given day, whatever the circumstance, life is as good as you allow it to be. Feel a little goodness, then feel a little more, and make life the best it can be.