Action Makes It So
Make it be
Don’t allow the troubles to get the best of you. Instead, allow those troubles to make the best of you.
Don’t tire yourself out fighting against the challenges. Instead, find new energy by embracing those challenges and working through them to create real value.
Always remind yourself that discouragement is nothing more than a response you’ve chosen. When you find that you’ve chosen to let it be, you can just as surely choose to let it go.
In the place of discouragement, you can put determination. It is your life’s energy, and you can point it in whatever direction you choose.
Your most powerful response is not based only on what has already happened. Your most powerful response also takes into account what you wish to make happen next.
Look forward, and envision in great detail the future you desire. Then gather all your energy, and step forward to make it be.
Make the richness even richer
Look around you right now, and celebrate the existence and experience of all you see. In every corner of every situation is much for which to be thankful.
The unique and priceless miracle that is your life gains more value and substance with every moment. Now is your opportunity to live that value in new and creative ways.
In each challenge is the power to make a meaningful difference. With every interaction comes the chance to affirm life’s goodness in your own special way.
Feel the love that lives within you. It is yours to live and to give, no matter what.
Look around you, and let everything you see remind you of how truly fortunate you are. Feel the real power you have to make meaningful and loving use of that good fortune.
You are here right now to do great and wonderful things. With a thankful heart, make the richness even richer by your joyous living of it.
Reason to keep going
Just because life has let you down doesn’t mean that you must let yourself down. Pick yourself up, quickly take a positive step, and know that you’re closer to reaching your goal than you’ve ever been before.
You’ve been through some of the hard part and already experienced some of the difficulty you must go through. So keep going, and make that experience count.
Change your approach if that’s what is called for. Learn from where you’ve been, adapt and adjust your efforts to be even more effective.
Every day, every encounter, and every outcome is a new opportunity to move yourself forward. Keep yourself focused on the goal you’ve chosen, and keep yourself moving in the best way you know how.
The disappointments are just as much a part of the process as the victories. Be truly thankful for it all, and in your gratitude you’ll find a way to put it all to positive use.
Whatever has happened is a perfect reason to keep going. Keep going, and create the life you have chosen to live.
What is easy
Easy is overrated. Though easy is nice and convenient, it is not essential.
Many good, valuable and worthwhile things are not easy. Unfortunately, perfectly acceptable options are too often overlooked simply because they are not easy.
Life is not always easy. And yet life is very much worth living, and very much worth the trouble and effort it often requires.
If you only seek the easiest way, you’ll miss out on the best way. If you avoid what is not easy, you’ll deny yourself great richness.
When you expect everything to be easy, you’ll have to lower your other expectations. Many of life’s greatest treasures are so valuable precisely because they are so difficult to attain.
Go to the trouble, make the effort, and take on the difficult challenges. For out there beyond the comfort of what is easy, you can create and experience the magnificence of what is great.
Choose your dreams
Any choice you make is a turn your life takes in one direction or another. Getting where you want to go is a matter of making each and every choice with that in mind.
Letting go of a negative, destructive habit happens by making one positive, empowering choice at a time. Creating a desired achievement comes about in the same way, one intentional, effective choice at a time.
Every choice matters, and every choice either changes or reaffirms a particular direction. That is what gives you great control over the way your life unfolds.
If it is opportunity you seek, stop looking for it and start paying more attention to the choices you make. Every one of them is a real, practical and influential opportunity for you to move toward your most desired outcomes.
In every minute, in any situation, you can continue bringing your most treasured dreams to life through the choices you make. As time moves forward, great and meaningful value arises from choices intentionally made in a consistent direction.
In matters large, small, and in between, there are always choices to be made. Make the choice, each chance you get, to choose your dreams.
Be better
If your life could use some positive momentum, make some. Make the choice and take the action that will bring some real, new, positive value to this day.
You don’t have to wait for things to get better. Because you can take it upon yourself to be better.
It doesn’t matter what else might be going on. There is more than enough goodness within you to make a real difference when you give some of that goodness to the world around you.
Just one authentically positive action can change the whole dynamic of your day. Think of how much more effective you’ll be with some positive momentum on your side, then get busy and do something to put it there.
You are never at the mercy of random circumstance. You can transform any circumstance, any situation, any event by virtue of how you choose to see it and to live it.
Take this day and live it in the best way you can imagine. Establish some powerful, positive momentum and let it carry you in the direction of your greatest dreams.
Power to live
You are much more powerful, creative and effective than you give yourself credit for being. You are worthy of the best in life because you are able to give your very best to each day.
Start that fortunate process in motion. Open yourself to the positive possibilities of this day and work to bring the best of them to reality.
Whatever good, valuable and meaningful things you can imagine, you can create. Though it requires effort and commitment, you are absolutely capable of making it happen.
Remind yourself that this moment is not merely happening to you. It is happening through you.
You can make it happen in a way that brings great richness to your world and fulfillment to your life. You can choose to be a positive force by directing your potent energy into those things that truly matter.
Right now, you have great power to do great things. Step forward in truth, sincerity, and authenticity, and put that power to use.
— Ralph Marston