Be you
You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.
Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.
Be gentle with yourself. Accept who you are, where you have been, and what you have to work with, for in this moment you can make positive use of it all.
Reach in and touch the purpose that makes you feel most alive. The world around you is filled with places where that purpose can do great things.
It is never too late to offer your unique and genuine gifts to life. Now is the time to do great things, even in the smallest of ways.
Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself.
-- Ralph Marston
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Value in the doing
Value in the doing
Behind every fortune is someone who has labored long into the night to make it real. Behind every important discovery is a person who often grew weary searching for it.
Behind the magnificent work of art is an artist who spent hour after hour, month after month toiling at tasks that were tedious and seemingly endless. Behind the beautiful, soaring music is a composer who carefully arranged each note, each pause, each crescendo into place.
Take heart. Your effort cannot help but pay off.
The fact is, your effort is the payoff. The fortune, the discovery, the work of art, and the music, as grand as they are, serve as mere tokens of the achievement.
The real achievement is in the achieving, and the real value is in the doing. Sincere, focused effort makes your life rich, even as you do it.
Make the effort and the reward is guaranteed. For the biggest reward is in the doing.
-- Ralph Marston
Behind every fortune is someone who has labored long into the night to make it real. Behind every important discovery is a person who often grew weary searching for it.
Behind the magnificent work of art is an artist who spent hour after hour, month after month toiling at tasks that were tedious and seemingly endless. Behind the beautiful, soaring music is a composer who carefully arranged each note, each pause, each crescendo into place.
Take heart. Your effort cannot help but pay off.
The fact is, your effort is the payoff. The fortune, the discovery, the work of art, and the music, as grand as they are, serve as mere tokens of the achievement.
The real achievement is in the achieving, and the real value is in the doing. Sincere, focused effort makes your life rich, even as you do it.
Make the effort and the reward is guaranteed. For the biggest reward is in the doing.
-- Ralph Marston
Friday, July 18, 2008
Where there is a purpose
Friday, July 18, 2008
Where there is a purpose
When there is a reason, there is a way. Where there is a purpose, there is a path.
You are capable of reaching higher and higher levels of achievement. The reason you have not yet reached some of them is because you have not yet had a compelling enough reason to do so.
When thinking of what you can do, stop thinking only in terms of what you have done. Think in terms of what you desire, what you can imagine, and what you can dream.
Think in terms of your purpose. Connect your awareness to whatever drives you, and it will drive you far indeed.
Purpose will find a way around the most stubborn obstacles. Purpose will bring the most meaningful and valuable possibilities into reality.
Follow the purpose that is truly you. And effectiveness, enthusiasm, achievement,
joy and fulfillment will all flow into your life.
-- Ralph Marston
Where there is a purpose
When there is a reason, there is a way. Where there is a purpose, there is a path.
You are capable of reaching higher and higher levels of achievement. The reason you have not yet reached some of them is because you have not yet had a compelling enough reason to do so.
When thinking of what you can do, stop thinking only in terms of what you have done. Think in terms of what you desire, what you can imagine, and what you can dream.
Think in terms of your purpose. Connect your awareness to whatever drives you, and it will drive you far indeed.
Purpose will find a way around the most stubborn obstacles. Purpose will bring the most meaningful and valuable possibilities into reality.
Follow the purpose that is truly you. And effectiveness, enthusiasm, achievement,
joy and fulfillment will all flow into your life.
-- Ralph Marston
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Place in between places
I'm at a place in between places. Ideas of where I'll emerge are sketchy, but it will be a place of my own design and a place of momentum until my next metamorphisis. The time illnesss brought has afforded me the chance to take inventory of what serves me and what does not, and to appreciate the gift of simple luxuries. I am impressed most by self-discoveries and self truths of what is beautiful to me. I tarry no longer ...
At present, I am tickled by:
Naked truth
Bold flavors
Subtle shades
Fresh ideas
Playing pretend
Creation and genuine appreciation
My power today lies in gratification. The fruits of my labor already exist in my values. My garden of purpose is perennial and forever in need of tending but I am surrounded by the results I have intended to create. I am empowered by the splendor that is my life and my asset is personal validation. And so it is and so shall it be!
At present, I am tickled by:
Naked truth
Bold flavors
Subtle shades
Fresh ideas
Playing pretend
Creation and genuine appreciation
My power today lies in gratification. The fruits of my labor already exist in my values. My garden of purpose is perennial and forever in need of tending but I am surrounded by the results I have intended to create. I am empowered by the splendor that is my life and my asset is personal validation. And so it is and so shall it be!
Friday, July 4, 2008
Always do your best
I found this incredibly timely to my life at this time, especially since I've been sick for what seems like forever, and have been frustrated that my life is wasting away until I recoup.
Agreement 4:
Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
~By Don Miguel Ruiz
Agreement 4:
Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
~By Don Miguel Ruiz
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