SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Life on any given day can be a lot of trouble. And life is well worth any trouble, any challenge that it imposes.  The process of getting things done is messy and inconvenient. The resulting positive difference you make is well worth the inconvenience.  Every good thing in life has a price. But if the price is the only thing you focus on, you miss seeing life’s great value.  For when you are willing to pay the price, what you get is a reward even greater than the price you’ve paid. What you get, what you experience, what you live and create, is well worth all you put into it.  If you avoid the challenges and hide from the difficult tasks, you lose out on the great value that you yourself can create. Choose instead to embrace the price, to willingly pay it, and you’ll find that choice to be well worth it.  Embedded in each challenge, in each difficulty, in every price, is a great reward. Step up, do what you must, and experience for yourself that the richness com...

You are making progress. Now, make some more.  You are experienced, capable and effective. Now, put your abilities again to good and meaningful use.  You are very knowledgeable. Now, build on what you know and learn some more.  There have been some beautiful and fulfilling moments in your life. Take the opportunity today to create some new ones.  You know how great true joy feels. Let more joy now flow out into the world from your life, your words, your feelings and actions.  You are alive in a universe filled with possibilities. Now, fulfill the awesome promise of all that is with the best that can be. 

There may not be many reasons to be positive today, but you don’t need a reason to be positive. Being positive is a strategy, not a reaction.  The most powerful time to be positive is precisely when things around you are not so positive. In such a case, your approach can dramatically change the situation for the better. Don’t wait for a reason to be positive. Choose to be positive about your circumstances, about the possibilities, and about what you can do. Deal effectively with the challenges as they arrive while also looking beyond them. Visualize the positive outcome you have chosen, and let that vision push you forward. Life changes greatly from day to day, and things will not always be the way they are right now. With a positive perspective, you now have the opportunity to make the future better than the present. Instead of looking for reasons to be positive, look for ways to express your positive vision. Work to make your life resonate with that vision, and enjoy all the valu...

Be honest about who you are. It’s tiring to pretend you’re someone you’re not. Be honest about what you desire. It’s a waste of time and energy to strive for what you don’t even want. Be honest with yourself and with others about the challenges and the possibilities. You can absolutely achieve great things, and the way to do that is by being realistic about what must be done. Be honest in what you say and in what you do. Put the irrefutable power of truth on your side. Deception may seem easy and convenient in the moment, yet it is invariably destructive in the long run. Being honest requires strength, discipline and integrity, and those will all serve you well. Be honest for your own sake, for the sake of others, and for the sake of truth itself. Be honest, and give a continuing, solid boost to your best possibilities.

Very often, the things you think will make you feel good in the moment will leave you feeling very bad in the long run. Yet you can choose to feel good by doing what’s truly good and right for you, for those around you, and for your world. Don’t settle for just feeling good because of something you’re doing or something you have or someone you’re with. Don’t make your good feelings conditioned on what you’re watching, eating, drinking or experiencing.  Make the choice to feel great no matter what. Allow unencumbered good feelings to come from you rather than limiting your good feelings to only certain circumstances.  Imagine the freedom of not being held hostage to your desire for good feelings. Imagine feeling good because of your choice, and not being emotionally dependent on things that are beyond your control. Life can feel great if you let it. Let it, by letting go of what you think you need and allowing the authentic goodness of who you are.  Feel good because it is...

Stop waiting, dreaming and hoping for someday. Start living and working today to achieve the best of your dreams and to fulfill the highest of your hopes. Whatever you put off until someday, never happens. Someday is forever out there, just around the corner, but never here and now. All that you have, and all the great and creative things you’re able to do, are here and now. So jump right in and enjoy making life happen, here and now. Waiting for someday is a lame excuse and a convenient way to hide from your own best possibilities. Choose today to stop hiding and to start really living. No matter how ambitious your goal may be, there is something you can do about it right now. There is no need, and there is no point, in putting your fulfillment off until some non-existent someday. Today is what you have, and it’s filled with energy, with possibility, with life and awareness and with your powerful presence. Embrace this day with all its richness, and use its moments to live true to you...

If you don’t have time to get it all done, get some of it done. If you’re not able to do it perfectly, do it the best you can.  It’s great to visualize an ideal world. Always keep in mind, though, that you must live in the real world as it is.  Conditions are never going to be perfect, so stop waiting endlessly for them to be. The fact is, you can arrange for conditions to be good enough, and then go forward with what you have.  Aim for perfection, but don’t let that stop you from working with reality. Live according to your highest vision, and also with practical, common sense.  Climb to the top of the mountain and get a clear view of the big picture. Then commit yourself to taking care of all the little details, filling that big picture with living richness.  See life as the best it can be, and live life as it comes to you. That will keep you always moving in a positive, fulfilling direction.