KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS REAL

Keep Your Thoughts Real

If you let your mind wander too much, it can wander into some very dark places. Your thoughts can get so far away from reality that your life is impaired.

Yes, keep your mind open, let it run full throttle. But keep it on the pavement of reality.

You can literally think anything you choose to think, and those thoughts build upon one another. There is great power in your thinking, so use that power wisely.

One effective way to keep your thoughts focused where you want them to be focused is to write them down. That forces you to think about your thoughts rather than letting them build into obsessions.

Another useful tactic is to seek the feedback of others. If you have trouble explaining what you’re thinking, perhaps those thoughts are getting outside the bounds of reality.

Your thoughts have great power and influence over your life. Let them soar to the highest heights while also keeping them real.

— Ralph Marston

STOP WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO RESCUE YOU

Do not stop now!! Continue to work on yourself and your dream. Do not look for others to hold your heart, take your hand or have your back. You are responsible for your own life and for creating your own path. Commit to move out of your own way. Stop procrastinating or waiting for someone to rescue you.

Be clear about who you can count on and who you must count out. Make adjustments and surround yourself with positive energy, people and thoughts. Great things take time, effort and sacrifice!! Keep looking up and moving forward with the end in mind. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!!

LES BROWN

START WITH JOY

Start With Joy

It’s great to have joyful memories. Yet as good as those memories may be, you don’t have to lock away your joy in the past.

Sometimes the memories are not so joyful. Yet that doesn’t prevent you from choosing joy on this day, on any day.

Joy does not require any specific condition. In fact, joy is what creates fondly remembered circumstances.

If you seek a joyful situation, start with joy. Keep giving and feeling joy, and the situation will unfold accordingly.

Stop trying to manufacture joy by arranging external conditions. Just let your joy flow out from the inside.

Start with joy, and live with joy. Add joy to each day, no matter what.

— Ralph Marston

YOU RECONCILE ALL BEINGS IN THE WORLD

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

A LITTLE EFFORT

A Little Effort

In the next half hour, with a little effort, you can have one less problem than you had before. With a little effort, you can quickly gain some positive momentum.

With a little effort, and a little more, you can build great value, one step at a time. With a little effort, you’ll be getting yourself hooked on the satisfying feeling of making a difference.

Instead of wasting time with worries and complaints, invest that time in effective effort. Instead of getting caught up in shallow, worthless distractions, get yourself captivated by the good things you can do.

Time is passing and you cannot hold it back. What you can do is make it count.
What you can do is fill this day with rich experiences and meaningful achievements. What it takes, is a little effort.

Go ahead and energize your life by making a little effort. You’ll always be thankful, every time you do.

— Ralph Marston