SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Just because the job is challenging doesn’t give you an excuse to be less than your best. In fact, what it gives you is the opportunity to rise to the challenge. Great success is not achieved by just doing the easy stuff. Great success is the result of being willing to, and even enthusiastic about working through the challenges. Each challenge you encounter can either be a reason to quit or a pathway to achievement. Through your attitude and your actions, you decide which it will be. Difficult, complicated, challenging work is not a curse, but rather is a valuable blessing. It is your chance to learn, to grow, to become stronger and more capable, and to achieve. In every challenge is a way for you to make a meaningful positive difference in the world. Welcome the challenges, and you welcome the potential for new richness into your life. You are much more powerful and effective than you’ve ever experienced. The way to know that without a doubt, is to rise to the challenges.

Do what you wish to do, live the way you wish to live, and achieve what you choose to achieve. Yet do it all not in opposition to others, but in harmony with all that is happening. You don’t have to fight to get your way. It is far more powerful and effective to achieve your aims through love, understanding, and giving. Sure, there will always be discord in this world. Yet it does not ever have to come from you. Put your energy into positive achievement, not into spite or anger or jealousy. Use your moments to pull yourself forward, not to push others back. The best possible world you can live in is a world in which everyone prospers. Make it your business to support, encourage and enable such a world. Go peacefully with life’s flow, and make use of it to fashion your own unique fulfillment. Live your dreams with true authenticity so that others may live theirs.

You are an important, indispensable part of life on this day. Yet that is no reason to be arrogant. You have a vital job to do. Yet that doesn’t mean you must be stuffy and overly serious. You do things best when you do them joyfully. Lighten up, have fun, and spread true joy everywhere you go. Be mature and responsible, but don’t be dull and brooding about it. Be purposeful and determined, but don’t be uptight about it. Demonstrate your determination not with a rigid scowl on your face, but with joyous achievement. Life is an amazingly grand adventure, so allow yourself to experience and express delight in every moment. See yourself as happily dancing through the moments of this day, and nothing will be able to bring you down. Live lightly, live joyously, and live well.

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.