Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Be well on your way If you re uncertain, your action will make you much

more certain. If you re not sure how, your action will enable you to quickly learn. When you re feeling discouraged, action will focus your mind in a more positive, p roductive and creative direction. In circumstances that seem overwhelming, actio n gives you a welcome sense of control. Take action, and you ll quickly go from where you are to a perspective that s highly positive and effective. Take action, and even the most intimidating challenges become more manageable. It s good to think through what you will do, but don t overdo it. At some point all that thinking becomes counterproductive. No, the circumstances are not perfect, but then they will never be. Go ahead and take action, from where you are, with what you have. It is not the condition of the place you start, but rather the journey itself, t hat gets you where you want to be. Go ahead now, take action, and soon you ll be w ell on your way. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1Hy1alFSi ------------------------------------------------------Friday, April 1, 2011 Feel the possibilities Feel the energy of life as it fills your awareness. Feel the ever-expanding univ erse of possibilities that stretches out in every direction. Feel the possibilities, for they are your possibilities. Because you do feel the m, you are in the amazingly fortunate position of being able to bring them to li fe. Choose to focus on an objective, and you will indeed focus the unique power of y our awareness on that objective. Decide to take action, and just as soon as the decision is made you can be taking action. You can perceive, you can evaluate, you can prioritize, you can plan and strateg ize and get the results you intend. And now is when you can make full use of you r powerful capabilities. Feel your purpose, feel your vision, and act on the possibilities that will shar e the goodness of that unique vision with all of life. Understand that every sin gle moment is a spectacular opportunity. What is most meaningfully possible for you is ready for you to make it real. Fee l the beautiful, life-enriching possibilities as they come to life through you. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1IHjW9leS

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 All is not lost

It may very well feel like you ve been knocked off track. But perhaps, instead, yo u have found a better way. It may seem like a setback. But perhaps it is instead an opportunity for you to fashion a more effective approach. You may feel like you ve wasted an enormous amount of time on something that didn t work out. Yet in that time you ve created much value that somehow, in some way, yo u can still put to good use. It s not any fun when things don t turn out the way you planned. Yet many times, it may actually be for the best. Step back from your disappointment and re-connect with your passion. Know that t here is a positive and effective way forward. All is not lost, because you still have the ability and the desire to make thing s right. Grab your fresh new opportunity to move forward, and run with it. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1IgHr4ydl

The Daily Motivator - www.GreatDay.com Thursday, April 7, 2011 Meet with resistance It is the resistance of the air that enables an airplane to fly. It is the resis tance of the mountain path that provides a foothold upon which to climb. The resistance you encounter is not there to stop you. On the contrary, that res istance gives you something solid and palpable through which to move. The faster you go, the more resistance you ll encounter. So it is by learning to a llow and to effectively handle the resistance that you make great progress. There is nothing unfair about having to put forth effort in order to make your w ay forward. It is that very effort that enables you to go in the direction you w ish to go. Expect to encounter resistance, and welcome it each time you do. It is a confirm ation of the strength you already have, as well as an opportunity to grow even s tronger. Go ahead and plan in advance to meet with resistance, so when the meeting happen s it can proceed on your own terms. It is by encountering resistance that you ar rive at success. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1Ioiw4GjZ

The Daily Motivator - www.GreatDay.com Friday, April 8, 2011 Stay determined

Even while life throws you frustration and disappointment, you can quietly and s teadily achieve. Even when you cannot make a lot of progress, you can make a lit tle progress. That small progress adds up, day after day. Soon it becomes much more valuable t han anything you could accomplish in a single effort. Sure, some things can be accomplished in a burst of determined effort. However, the most valuable achievements take time, with one small, yet effective action a fter another. Determination is a powerful force that can compel you in an intimately meaningfu l way to take action. And determination becomes much more powerful when you re abl e to spread it over long periods of time. The longer you can maintain your determination, the higher the level of achievem ent you ll be able to reach. It s great to be determined, and even more powerful whe n you can stay determined. Keep your determination alive and growing by reminding yourself again and again of why it s important to you. Keep your actions coming by continuing to fuel them with the power of positive determination. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1IuVU8HIr -------------------------------------------------Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The problems If there s a problem holding you back, take steps to solve it. If it s not in your p ower to solve it, figure out a way to transcend it. If you cannot transcend the problem, make the choice to accept it and live with it. Then get busy filling your world with so much joy and richness that whatever the problem is, it won t really matter. Problems are nothing to be afraid of. In fact, they can lead you to great and va luable opportunities. Problems are not reasons to postpone your life. In fact, those people who encoun ter the most problems are the people who are living most fully and richly. Pay attention to the problems and find ways to turn their energy in a positive d irection. By all means, don t hide from life just because you re afraid of coming ac ross a few problems. Let the problems come, and let the problems go. Whatever the problems may be, en gage yourself purposefully and enthusiastically with the best life has to offer. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1JJ0UHkjM ---------------------------------------------------------The Daily Motivator - www.GreatDay.com Wednesday, April 13, 2011

What you do, do with joy If you re going to be doing something, do it with joy. Even if it s not normally a j oyful activity, you can add your own unique joy to it. You can always choose to be positive and enthusiastic about life. No person, cir cumstance, or sequence of events can keep you down. If you constantly fight against what you re doing, you ll make yourself miserable an d you ll destroy your effectiveness. That s certainly not an outcome you would willi ngly choose. So choose instead to put your own unique joy into whatever you re doing. Make the experience a positive one just because you can. Yes, there are plenty of problems and tragedies and no, life is not always pleas ant. That s precisely why it s so powerful and important for you to add as much joy as possible to life. In every activity and in every tiny corner of your world, put a little extra joy . You ll quickly find it makes a big, big difference. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1JOQlZutB ---------------------------------------------------------Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Much to do What makes you weary is not what you have done. What makes you feel weary is the thought that there is so much more you have to do. What if you were to look at it in a different way, though? What if, instead of l etting your commitments and responsibilities make you feel weary, you could choo se for them to make you feel empowered? Remind yourself that every action you must take enables you to make your mark on the world. Each of those commitments and responsibilities represents an opportu nity for you to make a difference. Consider how empty and meaningless life would be if there were no one counting o n you to get things done. Precisely because there is much you must do, there are many powerful ways you can have a positive influence on your world. Instead of resenting or disparaging what you must do, find a way to connect it t o what you most passionately value. Instead of falling into a feeling of wearine ss, choose to feel the immensity of your opportunity with eager enthusiasm. There is much you have to do, and that s great. For within it all is a life that s r ich in meaning, fulfillment and joy. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1JyBzAVvV ---------------------------------------------------------The Daily Motivator - www.GreatDay.com Thursday, April 21, 2011 Much to work with

Today, you re more experienced and more knowledgeable than you ve ever been. And tha t makes you more capable of achievement than ever before. If you ve attempted something in the past and been disappointed, today you can mak e another stronger, more experienced and more informed attempt. Today you could very well make a breakthrough. Living the moments of your life certainly takes its toll. And yet, in living thr ough those many days and hours you continually add value and substance to the wh ole of your experience. Now is when you can tap into that value. Now is when you can achieve in a way th at s more meaningful and effective than anything you ve previously known. The joys, the pains, the challenges, the triumphs, the disappointments and the m oments of unspeakable beauty all add to the richness of your being. The opportun ity you now have is to express that richness in new and fulfilling ways. Whatever life may have given you, it has given you much to work with. See the va lue, make thankful and meaningful use of it, and live the richness that continue s to grow within you. Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz1K9W5SXUj ---------------------------------------------------------Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Critical link You are the critical link between what is possible and what is real. With your a ctions, you can bring to life the best of what can be. The possibilities are so valuable precisely because of what you can do with them . So by all means, do with them what you know you can do. For it is in choosing your own unique possibilities and making them real, that y ou experience true fulfillment. Get up, get going, and enjoy that fulfillment in great abundance. ----------------------------------------------------------

The Daily Motivator - www.GreatDay.com Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Do the hard work Don t avoid the hard work. That s where the greatest value is created. Don t be afraid of the difficult, complicated, challenging tasks. Once you get pas t the fear, you re already past the most difficult aspect. Relish the opportunity to do the hard work. For it is an opportunity to experien ce yourself being fully alive and effective. Find real enjoyment and satisfaction in doing the difficult work. Get yourself h ooked on how good it feels to make a meaningful positive difference. It s often assumed that hard work is best avoided. Yet when you avoid hard work, y ou cheat yourself out of the joy of accomplishment.

Seek out the hard work and you ll find it s not bad at all. Do the hard work, and tr ansform each day, each moment and each effort into great value. ---------------------------------------------------------Thursday, May 5, 2011 Series of miracles Today is nothing less than a miracle. Your life is even more of a miracle. Feeling the warm sun on your face seems like such a simple thing. And yet that s imple little experience is made possible by unimaginably complex and profound fa ctors, all coming together in a single moment. And then, when one amazing moment is finished, another has just begun. Even the most seemingly ordinary life is a series of magnificent miracles, each one follo wing quickly after the one before. It is all too easy to take it all for granted. And just the fact that you can ta ke it for granted is itself an amazing thing. You can never fully appreciate all that goes into the wonder in which you re immer sed. And because of that, there is no limit to how much you can treasure it all. Even when you are continually thankful, there is always more for which to be tha nkful. Even when you know you have it good, you don t ever fully know how good you have it. Celebrate the miracles that come in every moment within the overall miracle that is your life. And as each moment falls away, there is another one for you to ce lebrate. ---------------------------------------------------------Though it may seem sometimes your feelings simply come over you, that s not the wa y it happens. Whatever you feel is what you have, by habit or by intention, chos en to feel. So instead of feeling hopeless, decide to feel empowered. Instead of feeling ang ry or bitter, frustrated or fearful, choose to feel determined and effective. ---------------------------------------------------------Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Get it started If you wait until the fear is gone, the opportunity will have already passed. If you wait until you re sure you ll get it perfect, you ll never get it started. The time to act is when you have the intention. The time to act is as soon as yo u feel the urge to make a difference. If you hesitate, you ll begin to talk yourself out of it. When you give in to doub t, doubt will seize the momentum. Let the fear inform you and prepare you, but do not assume that it must stop you . Realize that whatever you doubt you can do is precisely what you must find a w ay to do.

Choose to transform each excuse for holding back into permission to step forward . Remind yourself that you can handle the uncertainty and the challenges, and ca n in fact thrive on them. As soon as you decide to get it done, go ahead right then and get it started. Ma ke the commitment, and you ll create the achievement. ---------------------------------------------------------Monday, June 6, 2011 Are you? Are you killing time, or are you bringing it to life? What you do with this mome nt matters much, because this moment is the most valuable thing you now have to work with. Are you being a burden, or are you being useful? There s something valuable and un ique that you can contribute, and your outlook will brighten as soon as you do. Are you making excuses, or are you exploring the opportunities? With a positive, focused and purposeful approach, you can transform the challenges into meaningf ul rewards. If what you re getting from life is not living up to your expectations, ask yourse lf this. What can you make more positive and meaningful about what you re putting into your life? Each moment you live is your chance to have a real and powerful influence on the way your life unfolds. Every decision, every priority, every thought and action makes a difference. Are you living your life at the highest and most fulfilling level you can imagin e? Go ahead, imagine, and do what it takes to make it so. ---------------------------------------------------------Friday, June 17, 2011 Be appreciative Life brings you great and wonderful gifts each day. Be aware, be appreciative, a nd be willing to make the best use of every one. Often, the most valuable of life s gifts don t look very appealing when you first en counter them. They appear as demanding problems and complicated challenges. Be appreciative anyway, and soon you ll begin to see the positive value that s hidde n in those difficulties. Be appreciative, and you ll discover ways to make meaning ful use of that value. What you have may not seem like much, yet within what you already have is your c onnection to all you could ever desire. Truly appreciate what you already have, what you already know, what you already can do, and you ll activate that connectio n to limitless abundance. Be appreciative of the truth, even when it is painful. Be appreciative of each m oment, of each circumstance, of each encounter, for everything can add richness to your life when you allow it. Be appreciative of whatever may come. And you ll see your own unique way to make i t great.

---------------------------------------------------------Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Decisively to life Every achievement is an idea that has been acted upon. Every success story is a story about doing what must be done to make the success happen. A single idea can end up being worth millions of dollars. Yet for that to happen , it cannot remain merely an idea. Sustained and focused action is the way wishes and intentions are transformed in to results and achievements. It s great to have a clever, creative idea, but only when you actually do something about it. It s powerful and effective to know what to do, but only when you actually do it. Dreams come true not just because they re nice and desirable, but because they re wo rked on. Don t keep your greatest possibilities locked away in your thoughts. Bring those p ossibilities to life with your actions. When you have a great idea, or a beautiful intention, give it the love, respect and expression it deserves. Act on it, now and for as long as it takes, and brin g it decisively to life. ---------------------------------------------------------Thursday, July 14, 2011 Opportunity of disappointment Sometimes a disappointment can be the best thing that could happen to you. It s di fficult when things don t work out as you expected, and yet it can also be a sourc e of new opportunity. A cold, hard dose of reality, in the form of a disappointment, will sting at fir st. And then what happens is, you get stronger. Disappointment will bring you face to face with some of your most pivotal weakne sses. That provides you with the awareness and the opportunity to grow stronger in ways that really count. The experience of ineffectiveness will often help you see new ways in which you can be more effective. When you re clear about what doesn t work, you are closer to understanding what does work. There is positive value in every experience. That is especially true when it com es to disappointment. Look at the disappointment as your chance to come back even stronger. Then pick yourself up and do precisely that. ---------------------------------------------------------Friday, July 15, 2011 Gifts you give yourself

Are you burdened by your consequences, or is your life blessed by the consequenc es you create? That depends entirely on the choices you make. It may seem at times that the consequences are there to punish you. Actually, th ey re there as a manifestation of your thoughts, your actions and your attitude. You cannot change the consequences that surely flow from specific actions. Howev er, you can indeed change the actions you choose to take, and by doing so you ca n decide which consequences you create. Consequences are gifts you give to yourself, created by the choices you make. If you don t like the consequences you ve been getting, that s a clear and valuable mess age you re sending yourself. Positive, authentic, meaningful thoughts and actions bring desirable consequence s. As reliably as day follows night, the way you live creates the life you exper ience. Take control of your consequences by putting positive intention into your choice s. Make use of the power you have, and you can go wherever you choose. ---------------------------------------------------------The Daily Motivator - www.GreatDay.com Monday, August 1, 2011 Achievement within Meaningful success is a matter of expressing on the outside some of the unique a nd abundant value that s on the inside. Every great achievement begins as a vision , guided by purpose, and ends as a real, tangible fact. Whatever you truly desire, you already have within you. Fulfilling that desire i s a process of bringing it to life in the world around you. In each true desire is the energy for its fulfillment. Your job is to put that e nergy to focused and effective use. Take the vision, the ideal, the value that s inside and show the rest of the world how it looks and what it can do. Nurture the inner vision that only you can see into outer value that everyone can find useful and beautiful. ----------------------------------------------------------