SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Life constantly moves, so move with it. Life is constantly changing, so learn to find beauty and fulfillment in the changes. If you try and hold on to the way things were, you will miss the new magnificence of the way things are becoming. If you deny and hide from the changes, the best possibilities will pass you by. Embrace the dawn, then the midday, then the evening and then the night. Embrace the spring, then the summer, then the fall and then the winter. You cannot hold on to a single moment. Yet you can choose to live each moment with grace and joy, with purpose and richness. Today can be a significant improvement over yesterday if you will fully embrace it and let it be. Welcome life’s ever-changing nature, and you’ll find ways for each change to lift you higher. As life moves, move forward with joy, authenticity and ceaseless wonder at the new opportunities in every moment. Though you cannot hold on to this day, what you can always keep is the love with which you live it.

The way out of doubt is to do. The way to get beyond discouragement is with action. Thoughts have a powerful influence on the way you feel and the way you are. Yet deeds have an even more powerful influence. When you’re doing something positive, effective and meaningful, it’s difficult to be negative. When you’re actively making a difference in life, there’s no energy left for discouragement or despair. When you want to get your spirits up, get yourself up and get going. Your actions can change life for the better, and that will most certainly change you for the better. Think of how truly amazing it is that you can make things happen. Then go beyond thinking, and start doing it. Don’t just wish or dream or complain or worry. Step decisively away from the negative, limiting thoughts with positive, purposeful action.

You cannot escape the necessity of balance in your life. Anything taken to an extreme will soon cease to have the desired positive effect. If you relax all the time, relaxation will become nothing but a tedious burden. If you work all the time, with no break for fun and relaxation, your work loses much of its effectiveness. Be ambitious, be diligent, and work with commitment, but don’t make that work the only thing you do. Have fun, enjoy life, and take it easy, but don’t make leisure your full-time pursuit. Make it your goal to make sure there is balance in your life. If you don’t, eventually balance will be forced upon you in ways that won’t be to your liking. It’s only natural to seek more and more of a good thing, yet that can be counterproductive, whatever the good thing may be. Instead, consider adding more good things, new and different good things, to balance your life. Balance in your life can make every part of it richer and more satisfying. Keep things in balance, and make t...

A powerful first step in getting anything done is to assume you can do it. When you start by assuming you can do it, you don’t have to fight your doubts all the way there. Even if you don’t know how to take the first step, assume that there’s a way. Assume you can do it, and you’ll find that way. You are extremely good at solving difficult problems because you’ve done it all your life. You are very good at making things happen when you have a good enough reason to do so. So make sure your objective is what you really, truly desire, and make the assumption that you can indeed reach it. With a meaningful purpose and a positive perspective, you’re already well on your way. Instead of complaining that it’s too difficult or complicated or unfair, just get busy. Work under the powerful assumption that it’s possible for you, and it will be. Dare to dream and dare to believe without a doubt that you can reach your dreams. Assume you can, and eventually, with effort and commitment, you will.

If every one of your wishes were instantly granted, you’d probably regret most of them. Fortunately, it takes more than wishing to make it so. The wishes that come true are the wishes you really, truly want to come true. That’s because you must commit to them and work to bring them about. Just imagine how disordered and superficial life would be if you were granted every little thing you wished for. Nothing would really have any value to you, because you would not have the opportunity to build that value with your time and effort. The work you do to achieve what you desire is what makes that achievement meaningful. That work gives you the chance to put your own unique value into the achievement, and that’s what you truly desire. So, by all means, wish for the very best for yourself, your community, your family and your world. Then get busy bringing those positive wishes to life. Because you deserve much more than merely a wish that comes true. You deserve to be the person who makes it ...

Things will not always go the way you had hoped they would. Do your best anyway, give your best, live your best and be your best. People will not always act the way you think they should. Give them your love, respect and understanding anyway, for it is the best choice going forward. The past and the present are not always to your liking. Even so, especially so, the future is always yours to create. The people and conditions around you will not always be supportive, but you don’t have to let them drag you down. You can choose to move forward, no matter what others may or may not choose. Life might just give you a big, valuable break, but don’t count on it. Make it your business to give yourself an endless series of positive breaks, and anything else you get will be a bonus. Though things may not always go your way, life can always be good and fulfilling. Because you can always choose, with your thoughts, your attitude and your actions, to make it that way.

If your mind is always jumping ahead to what might be next, you miss the opportunity to fully live what is now. Be patient, be thankful, and let life come at its own pace. Stop looking so much at the clock, and focus more on your purpose. Tomorrow can wait while you make today great. If you hurry, concerned that you don’t have enough time, you’ll waste much of the time you do have. Take the necessary time and give sufficient attention to each task, so as to get maximum value from it. Live each moment with deliberate, peaceful purpose, not with hurried, worried anxiety. In your eagerness to get ahead don’t leave the opportunity of this day behind. Be ambitious while also being patient about it. Then you can truly enjoy the fruits of your ambition. Take a deep, relaxing breath and feel the great value of the moment you’re already in. Fully live that value, here and now, and make it always yours.