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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.
Something Better
Consider for a moment all the valuable achievements which have come about because someone wasn't satisfied with the way things were. Throughout history, great leaps forward have been made by people who were seeking something better. Time after time, something wasn't working as well as it could have, there were problems, shortcomings, issues that needed addressing, and someone addressed them. Someone saw what was wrong, envisioned something better, and then made it happen.
What we think of as progress is really a continuing positive response to dissatisfaction and frustration with the way things are. When things are not perfect, there is always a way to make them better.
Any time you experience frustration or dissatisfaction, see it as a clear signal to take a positive step toward something better. Your frustration is telling you there's a better way, and challenging you to make it real.
Life is filled with frustrations and because of them, it can continue getting better. When you feel strongly that there has to be a better way, there is. And you have the opportunity to find it.
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A Couple of Steps
Take a few steps away from the chatter and confusion to a place where you can see more clearly. Take a few steps away and give yourself a new and empowering perspective.
You'll see that much of what concerns you, need not concern you. You'll see that the problems are more than overwhelmed by all the opportunities and positive possibilities.
You'll see that many of the things which hold you back do so only with your consent. You'll see how easy it can be to let them go and to let yourself move forward.
Take a few steps away, to a place where you can focus on what is truly important. It's a place where your purpose really matters, where your efforts truly and easily make a positive difference.
Life is beautiful, and filled with an unending stream of wonderful possibilities. Take a few steps away from the noise and confusion, and you'll see the best of those possibilities come clearly into focus.
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You Can't Lose
When there are risks and challenges in every direction, where do you get the courage to move forward? That courage depends largely on the things you value most in your life.
When you place the most value on fleeting, shallow superficial things, you're constantly at risk of losing it all. Those things can quickly disappear. Money and material possessions are indeed very useful, and can bring a certain richness to life. Yet if you allow the value of your life to be defined by them, you're building on shaky ground.
On the other hand, if you value most those things you cannot lose, you'll have the courage necessary to assume the risks and to take on the difficult challenges. Your faith, your sincere love for others, your integrity, your purpose, your desire to make a difference, all have the power to survive whatever difficulties you may face.
Whatever happens, there are some things that can never be taken from you, some things you cannot lose. When those things matter most to you, it can give you the confidence to attempt just about anything.
Marilyn L. Ali
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