Choose good thoughts

Choose good thoughts
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If you’re frustrated, worried, or annoyed, it’s because you’ve decided to be. And the moment you remind yourself of it, you can decide differently.

You have ample reasons to think negative thoughts. You also have the ability to replace those thoughts with more empowering ones.

It’s valuable to notice and acknowledge life’s difficulties, to be realistic about them. That enables you to make meaningful improvements and helps you avoid trouble.

But there’s negligible value in obsessing over negative factors you can’t do anything about. Instead, point your powerful thoughts in a direction where they can do some good.

All through the day, every day, you can decide exactly which thoughts will fill your mind. Select the ones that lead you toward achievement, fulfillment, kindness, and understanding.

Think of positive purpose, confidence, excellence, patience, beauty, and determination. Choose good thoughts, and follow where they lead.

— Ralph Marston

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Exceptional life

Exceptional life
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Wander, wonder, discover, admire. Celebrate, attempt, persevere, achieve.

Give, understand, listen, consider, reconsider. Do all that makes you real, all that brings you closer to truth.

Dance freely, breathe deeply, explore with curiosity and respect. Begin each day with hope, and keep that hope alive as every moment passes.

Lose yourself in the experience of beauty. Find yourself in sustained purposeful effort.

Carry out your grown-up responsibilities while expressing the limitless energy of the child that’s always lived inside you. Be rich in ways only you can be.

Today is an irreplaceable day of your exceptional life. Live it with all the care, joy, and amazement it deserves.

— Ralph Marston

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Problems and opportunities

Every ending is followed by a new beginning. With every disappointment comes a fresh opportunity for success.

In every mistake you get a valuable lesson to be learned. Every setback places you in a new position from which to move forward.

Along with every frustration comes the energy to move to a higher level of achievement. Every challenge compels you to develop a new strategy for taking action.

With every time of darkness comes the chance to make a difference by shining your own special light. With every sadness comes a deeper appreciation for the joys that life can hold.

Every difficulty can push you upward to a new level of strength. Every loss provides an increased determination to win.

Though life has many pitfalls and problems, there can be a positive side to nearly every one of them. Choose to see and live that positive reality, and no problem will be a problem for long.

— Ralph Marston

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Value of challenge

Value of challenge
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Attempt what you’ve never before attempted. Challenge yourself, even if for nothing more than the value of the challenge itself.

That value is open ended. Your possibilities for new discovery have no limit.

There’s much you’re unaware of, that you don’t even know you’re unaware of. Diving into new challenges will push you in getting up to speed in some of those areas.

Expand your knowledge, your skills, your competence by choosing challenges that interest you, that entice you. You’re sure to encounter beneficial ways to make use of the capabilities you gain.

You know from past experiences how profoundly you can boost your confidence by working through a difficult challenge. Choose to add more such experiences.

Nurture yourself with a new challenge. It’s a great use of your time that can pay dividends far into the future.

— Ralph Marston

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