SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

You are not too old or too tired or too broke or too disadvantaged. You are uniquely qualified to add substance to life. Don’t get caught up in making judgments about what is fair or unfair or easy or difficult. Just get on with the satisfying and fulfilling business of making a real positive difference in the world. You’ve done it many times before and you know you can do it many more times again. You know how great it makes you feel to know you truly matter. So get busy, get some good stuff done, and feel that great feeling again and again. Forget about the silly excuses and focus on the significant difference you can make. There are lots of great people in this world. Yet there is no one who can do a better job of being you than you. Life is great, and you are essential to that greatness. Do your part, in your own special way, and feel how truly great it is.

Don’t wait any longer. Live your very best life today. Don’t hold your happiness hostage waiting for some imagined perfect circumstance to come along. Choose to be happy, joyful and truly thankful for the moment you’re in. You deserve a life that is magnificent. And you deserve to let yourself live it right now. Don’t put off until someday the richness that you can live on this very day. Remind yourself what a fantastic opportunity you have, and go with it. You can add unique beauty to life, so do it now. You can live in harmony with your highest vision, so do it now. This very day, this very place is where you have the good fortune of being. Live it fully, with love, with commitment, with joy and grace, and live it now.

The way to be highly motivated is not to go out and look for things to motivate you. The way to be highly motivated is to let everything motivate you. Be motivated by the defeats as well as the victories. Be motivated by the challenges and difficulties just as much as you’re motivated by the positive possibilities. When you hear encouraging news, be motivated. When someone gives you discouraging news, be just as motivated. Your level of motivation does not depend on what happens. It depends on the way you choose to respond. Choose to respond with a sense of positive and meaningful motivation. No matter what happens or fails to happen, let it motivate you to reach higher and to create new value. You cannot know everything that will fill this day, yet you can choose right now what to do with it. Let it all motivate you to make the efforts that will make it all even better.

Even when it seems that life is not good to you, be good to life. Even when there is no reason to be positive, live with a positive outlook. The best things in life do not come from reacting to what has already happened. The best things in life come from choosing to make new and positive and valuable things happen. Decide not to be a slave to the way others live their lives. Instead of following the crowd, follow your own highest vision. Choose not to be limited by your history or your circumstances. Choose instead to find the positive possibilities in this day, and to act on them. There are all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons to be disappointed with life, but there is never any necessity to be. You can always choose to be positive, enthusiastic, empowered and effective. Live each moment from a perspective of positive, loving purpose. Your life is, right now, your great opportunity, so harvest its outstanding richness in every moment.

Let go of the need to desire what the world says you should desire. Let yourself truly enjoy being who you are and living richly in the moment you’re in. Worldly fame and fortune are mere artifacts of the things that really matter. Choose to love what you sincerely love, without the unnecessary pressure of having to impress anyone. You don’t need permission, or certain specific circumstances, to be beautiful. You already are uniquely beautiful and worthy of a magnificent life. Go ahead and live that life now, right where you are, with what you have, doing whatever you’re doing. Instead of placing arbitrary judgments on your situation, give your own profound love and meaning to it. There is no limit to the joy you can create and the fulfillment you can experience on this very day. Everywhere you’ll discover beauty to be found and opportunities for living with true richness. Stop fretting about what everyone else might do or say or think. Give your energy to all that you sincerely love, ...

Peace is not arrived at by merely doing nothing. On the contrary, peace is attained by doing substantive and significant things, and doing them without conflict. That means living with purpose, with love, compassion, forgiveness and genuine tolerance. It means putting your very best into the effort while at the same time detaching your sense of self worth from the result. Your life, your work and your whole world are all filled with conflicting interests. Yet that doesn’t mean you must handle them by fighting. In fact, diverse and conflicting interests can absolutely be resolved in much more positive ways, and it happens every day. That is one of life’s great challenges, and working through the challenge produces great value. Seek not merely to do significant things. Seek to achieve what you achieve with a peaceful heart, for that is true and sustainable achievement. Be fully engaged in life while also being completely at peace with who you are. It is indeed a powerful and fulfilling c...

Getting uptight won’t get anything done. Relax, enjoy the moment, and you’ll get more positive value out of it. The work may be difficult, complicated and challenging, but that doesn’t mean you must fight against it. Be genuinely thankful for the opportunity to make a difference, and the difference you make will be a beautiful one. Being resentful about what you must do will only make it more burdensome. You can choose instead to be enthusiastic, and you’ll immediately feel a great weight lifted off your shoulders. There is so much to value, appreciate and enjoy about life. It really makes no sense to fight against it. Take a deep, relaxing breath and remind yourself how good you have it. Choose to use your considerable energy to live your best possibilities. Embrace your precious, unique and wonderful life. And live it with the peaceful, positive power that is always yours to choose.