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Small actions done consistently can yield big results. In less than one minute, you can read the message below for a positive tone for your entire day. The day to improve yourself, help others and be happy is TODAY. In this defining moment, you can make that choice. Set the example by being the example.
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Details
It's extremely valuable when you're able to see the big picture, having risen far above the mundane details. Yet it is just as important to know and understand the nature of those details.
And for that, there is nothing that can replace actual hands-on experience. Most endeavors benefit from a competent manager, and managers become competent through intimate familiarity with what they're managing.
How can you direct someone to tend your garden if you're not regularly digging in the dirt yourself? How can you develop a successful customer service strategy if you're not regularly dealing with customer issues yourself?
If you consider yourself to be above the details, then those details will very likely bring you down at some point. Certainly delegate when you can, but be sure you know what you're delegating.
Modern life is complex, and no one can be expected to understand all of the intricate complexities. Yet by the same token, it is essential to grasp the fundamental details upon which your world depends.
Be willing to get your hands dirty with the details of life. And you'll be well equipped to make the big picture even brighter.
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Remarkable
The triumphs will be sweet and the regrets will sting. Take it all in, whatever it may be, and move on steadily ahead.
Whatever experience life may bring your way, find in it something to value. Take that value and make the most of it as you apply it in a positive, purposeful direction.
Concern yourself not with what is wrong, but with how you can make it better. Take pleasure not in what you have, but in what it can enable you to do.
Let go of the envy, the anger and despair. Hold on to the love, the joy and the hope.
In each ending, find the new beginning that is surely there. In each setback find the will to go forward, and use each success to create value that goes far beyond yourself.
Appreciate every moment, whatever that moment may bring. And from those moments will come a remarkable life.
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Real
There is no need to wish or to beg for anything more than you already have. Just open yourself up to the reality of abundance that is yours to live.
Do you really expect that you can experience true value without giving and living value yourself? Such thinking creates a solid, impenetrable wall between you and the abundance that can be yours.
Do you ignore the most sincere yearnings of your heart for the sake of getting ahead? Such a strategy will only keep you painfully behind.
The abundance of your life is real and it has no limit. So why would you ever invest your faith and your hope in those things that rust and crumble and decay?
Go instead with what is real, with what is lasting, with what can never be taken away. Pay heed to the blessed part of you that knows and appreciates such things.
Go with what is real. And all you could ever need or want is yours to live.
Marilyn L. Ali
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