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Speakers:Stephen FryMel RobbinsElliot HulseJocko WillinkDwayne JohnsonNoah Galloway

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Start listening to affirmations every day, it goes straight to your subconscious mind. You will see how quickly it changes your life.

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"Your track record of surviving bad days is 100%. You have survived every hater, every eviction, and firing. Now you need to protect yourself from negativity, block all the negative thoughts by starting your day with gratitude. Gratitude erases negativity."

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Don’t allow your feelings to be mere reactions. Make them more intentional.

Remind yourself that you can feel the way you choose to feel. Let your feelings flow from the inside out.

Engage in the externalities of life without being overwhelmed by them. Rather than having your feelings tainted by outside events, empower your positive feelings to improve those events.

When you maintain intentional control of your feelings you won’t have to fear those feelings. Seek to guide your feelings so they enhance your experience of life.

You can understand and empathize with the feelings of others without being dominated by them. You’re able to fully perceive the sentiment of each moment and still be in control of the way you feel.

Don’t let your feelings come from how you’re expected, influenced, or induced to feel. Feel the way you choose, for the reasons you choose, and proceed accordingly.

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Over time, harmful and pointless habits can creep into the way you live your life. When you’re able to recognize and replace them, those habits represent major opportunities for improvement.

Make room for more good and useful activities by letting go of the useless, negative pursuits. Identify a waste of your time that you could easily do without and challenge yourself to replace it.

Zero in on a replacement you can look forward to and get enthusiastic about. Offer yourself a genuine and desirable reward for making better use of your time, energy, and resources.

Improve your results by improving your choices. Add richness to your life by being positive and proactive about what you do with your days.

You have an excellent, innate understanding of what serves you best and what doesn’t. So apply that understanding, let it guide your choices and inspire your actions.

Trade in tired, fruitless habits for energizing, enriching ones. Carefully curate your activities and optimize the value they bring to life.

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You can’t say yes to everything. Yet you can always say yes to something.

You wouldn’t want to cram your calendar so full that you’re in a perpetual state of haste and anxiety. But neither do you want to string empty hours upon more empty hours and days.

It can be all too easy to hide away from life, and to cite good reasons for doing so. But just because it’s the easiest choice doesn’t make it your best choice.

You deserve the meaningful experiences that only you can allow and enable yourself to have. Make it a point to give yourself a nourishing supply of those experiences.

Even if it’s uncomfortable, inconvenient, a little awkward and slightly intimidating, say yes on a regular basis. Give yourself the chance to continue seeing life from the perspective of new experience.

Many times you’re smart to say no, but don’t let that become your sole response. Give yourself the gift and the richness of saying yes to something.

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You’ve circled around the sun once more, along with everyone else. Consider what you’ve learned, experienced, discovered, abandoned.

Now brings a new chance to make good use of all you’ve been through. Everything that’s accrued to your unique existence, you can re-focus toward meaningful purpose.

Give yourself some time to feel how you feel, to care about what you care about. Remind yourself of all that makes life actually and potentially good.

On this waypoint in your journey, you have the power of choice over your thoughts, actions, perspectives, and priorities. That power has brought, and will continue to bring, value, beauty, richness and fulfillment to your world.

This is a day to acknowledge what you and the good people surrounding you have accomplished, as flawed as it might be. This is a day you can be inspired to do even better as the hours and weeks and years roll steadily ahead.

Sincerely appreciate where you’ve come from and realistically imagine where you can go. Begin today to make this new journey around the sun your best one yet.

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You can find value in every direction, in every place and time. Let yourself be inspired by the value, and in that state of inspiration, expand it.

Perhaps what you once dismissed, you can consider now with thoughts more nuanced and a spirit more generous. Maybe what you’ve always ignored, you could offer a few moments of attention.

Life is often what you expect, but not always. Refresh your soul by being pleasantly surprised.

In some forgotten corner there’s a little bit of treasure for you to enjoy. Buried in what you thought you already knew is a discovery so wonderful it can take your breath away.

Possibilities hide in the limitations. Challenges give birth to opportunities.

Open yourself a little wider and let in some more of life’s value. Where you’ve neglected to look you might uncover exactly what you need to see.

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Now is your opportunity to do what must be done. Make good and profitable use of that opportunity.

The opportunity decreases every moment it is not utilized. Eventually it is gone for good.

Before that happens, do something worthwhile with the opportunity for action. Transform the best of what can be into the reality of what is.

You have the means and the ability right now to solve a problem, to attain a goal. You can improve or sustain life in a specific, meaningful way.

Don’t just sit there, don’t just let the moment pass. Get up and get something good done.

Every opportunity for action is destined to become either an achievement or a regret. Avoid the regret and claim the value by putting forth whatever effort is called for in the moment.

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It’s easy to be ambitious for a few minutes, and maybe even get some impressive work done in that time. What’s more challenging, and what will produce results that approach true greatness, is sustained ambition.

If you can muster a little ambition for a little while, then you know you’re capable of it. That means you’re also capable of a steady and sustained ambition over longer periods.

Just like momentary ambition, sustained ambition is driven by purpose, by the desire to achieve that purpose. To keep the ambition strong and influential, find a way to keep the purpose near the top of your awareness.

When you’re clear about why, and when the why is meaningful enough, there’s no need for any further convincing. That reason why will keep you going, and you’ll continue doing whatever it takes, even when it becomes tedious, complicated, and frustrating.

Great achievements come from great efforts, from great sacrifices over long periods of time. Make sure you have a good enough reason to do all that, and you’ll achieve the excellence of which you’re capable.

Imagine where your own sustained and clearly purposed ambition can lead. Bring forth the reason why, keep it always in front of you, and get your most outstanding work done.

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Pretty much nothing unfolds in exactly the way you imagine it. You can speculate, re-consider, plan, and anticipate, yet once you start to take action, everything changes.

Action transforms thoughts into reality. Although thought and action each have value, they are decidedly distinct creatures and cannot be substituted one for the other.

Give thought to your actions, then give action to your thoughts. Use the results you get to improve and to better focus your subsequent thoughts and actions.

In the initial stage of any endeavor, be prepared to, at best, stumble forward. On the next iteration you’ll do better, and even better after that.

If you fail to win the gold medal on your first outing, or you’re twenty-fifth, you’re normal. If you let that discourage you and stop you from making the effort, you’re foolish.

Because over time, with persistence, humility, an innovative spirit, and more persistence, you make real progress. Think, do, learn, then think, do, learn, and your tenacity with doing so will bring whatever you seek within reach.

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New experience gives added value to old experience, and vice versa. Treasure them both in their own ways.

What you learn is always built on what you know. That’s good to consider especially when the new turns out to directly contradict the old.

In such a case, understand the old in a new light but resist the temptation to denigrate it. After all, it’s what got you where you are.

What you now know will someday be superseded, but that doesn’t mean it’s ever useless. Life moves forward when you go with what you have, and with respect from whence you’ve come.

At some point soon you’ll have to choose between the latest thing and the most life-affirming, enduring thing. Live your moments and deepen your perspective so you can make that choice wisely.

You have a past and you have a future. Keep them on friendly terms with each other, and they will both be good to you now.

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Regardless of what you believe or what you don’t, this day is special. It is Christmas.

Out of the darkness, light shines forth. In the coldest season, as has never failed for centuries, warmth ensues.

Some will sing, others will feast, many will gather, a few will avoid, but no one can ignore that this day is different. It makes you wonder, and that’s the point.

Wonder is something children do well, especially today. And today is a day you can permit yourself to see, to understand, that they’re on to something.

Different people profess different perspectives, yet some truths today feel universal and undeniable. We long to connect, to give, to care, to believe, to wonder.

Today is Christmas and one way or another you feel its joy, even if you can’t explain why. Today is Christmas, and there’s a reason

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Make today an expression of life. Craft that expression in exquisite detail, honest, authentic, original.

Put your hopes, your doubts, your passions into it. Generously offer your expression of life solely for the sake of doing so.

Life survives and thrives to the degree it is genuinely expressed. Do, experience, grow, share, and perpetuate the beauty of existence.

Ride the energy of your innate creativity into new and challenging territory. Then rise to the challenge and bring into being a flavor of experience that’s never been known before.

Let your voice be heard. Transform the substance of your inner spirit into outer realities.

Today is when you can make the conceptual and the possible into the actual. Joyfully express the life you’re so fortunate to live.

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Much of what you do comes from the influence and examples of others. Ask yourself, who are those others?

Who are the people whose desires, habits, values and perspectives you respect and seek to emulate? Even more significantly, how well have those people done in living lives of quality and fulfillment?

When so much of the information you consume comes from anonymous sources, do you even have a good grasp on all the people you’re imitating? It’s all too easy to be inspired by glittery images pouring out from people whose lives you know nothing about.

What appears compelling on the surface often has little depth. When seeking someone to follow, to look up to and admire, to guide your actions, it’s in your best interest to know that person as deeply as possible.

That takes time and effort, thought and commitment. Many other people have many great perspectives, but there also exist a whole lot of false promises.

From time to time it’s good to consider, who do you imitate and why? Pay particular attention to the why, and find your way to those who can influence you in the most positive and fulfilling manner.

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Know not only with your mind and your senses. Know by doing, know by living, know by being.

Know with the whole of your existence. Know through the integration of your experience with your spirit.

Some things in life are far too important to be mediated through the pages of a book or the pixels on a screen. Fully know the richness and the wonder by being an integral part of it all.

Don’t settle for being two or three degrees removed from the essential values of life. Dive deeply into the experience of each moment so as to directly know the miracle of being.

Know love, beauty, and fulfillment by allowing them to manifest through your focus, commitment, and persistence. Know truth by putting it into action from moment to moment.

Go beyond thoughts, feelings, sensations, and representations, as valuable as they can be. Come to know the reality of your existence, of all existence, by doing, by living, by being.

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You don’t know it all, you won’t know it all, you can’t know it all. Free yourself to think more clearly by accepting that you haven’t thought of everything.

Certainly your knowledge and reasoning bring great value to your world. Yet that value can be destroyed by arrogance.

You know what you know, and that’s great. Yet there’s always more to know, factors you haven’t considered.

And therein exists great opportunity for discovery, improvement, and deeper levels of understanding. Whatever you already know is your starting point, and the possibilities for seeking truth have no limit.

From where you’ve never been, from those you’ve never agreed with, you can learn. Offer yourself sufficient confidence and curiosity to expand your levels of enlightenment and effectiveness.

Be thrilled by the prospect of encountering someone who has knowledge different than yours, who sees the world from an alternate perspective. Because very soon, so will you.

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Value arises from effort, not from desire alone. Desire helps you understand what has meaning, but it is neither the source of meaning nor the fulfillment of value.

Desires have great power and also much variety. Like every other powerful force, any particular desire can be highly beneficial or can lead to disastrous results.

The desires that push you to bring real, lasting value to life are the ones that align with your long-term goals. While every desire involves feeling good in some way, it’s essential to identify which desires will lead to a sense of goodness that endures.

Before you put energy into chasing a desire, put some time and thought into refining that desire. Seek to understand the desire behind the desire, and the even deeper desire behind that.

Do you really desire a bag of potato chips? Or is that actually a superficial indication of a deeper desire for more nutritious nourishment?

Every day you are motivated by your desires. So it pays to invest yourself in understanding where they come from, and where they’re likely to take you.

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Focus on the opportunities. Persevere through the difficulties.

Remind yourself that those difficulties and opportunities are often two aspects of the same reality. Offer yourself the wisdom to consider differing perspectives on the same situation.

As you do so, take good care of yourself. Nurture and engage your potential to bring good out of whatever happens.

Your circumstances are never perfect in every way. Neither are they ever without hope.

From a tiny spark of hope take a tiny step. Feel the power of doing so, of the difference it makes, then take another step, a little more ambitious.

Even when the pains are more evident, the opportunities are still there. Continue to choose hope and to reliably act on it, for that’s what will bring you to a more positive place.

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You are right now situated at the center of your own unique universe of possibilities. Those possibilities can assemble to oppress you into oblivion or lift you to unimaginable heights, depending largely on how and to what purpose you interact with them.

You perceive only a few of the most adjacent possibilities, and can imagine a little of what extends out beyond them. But you simply cannot fully conceive of all that’s possible across time, space, function, and thought.

What you can do, and indeed cannot avoid, is to seed those possibilities with purpose, with meaning. To yield desirable results you must move through that infinitely complex universe of possibilities with truth and sincerity of purpose.

When it comes to your most immediate options, you can sometimes succeed in deceiving yourself and others. But one possibility quickly leads to another and then another, far beyond what you could ever anticipate, and the deception inevitably breaks down.

Your universe of possibilities is so complex and dynamic, and extends so far beyond your comprehension, you cannot hope to manipulate it. Yet with an honest and beneficial purpose, what you can do is traverse that immense field of possibilities into a life of greatness and fulfillment.

Love, beauty, truth, and purpose all exist for good reason. They constantly enable you to push life’s possibilities in the best direction.

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There’s no time to waste, so what do you do? You hurry, and while all that hurrying can create much activity, it often produces poor results.

Rarely is it a good tactic to put yourself into such a rush. In the effort to hurry because time is short, you can easily end up wasting even more time.

Consider a couple of things. First, if you really don’t have time to focus and do a good job right now, could you wait until later, when there’s more time?

Second, is that urgent next activity you’re rushing off to actually urgent, actually important? Or is it something that could be delayed, maybe even canceled altogether?

If you regularly find yourself pressed for time, there’s an excellent chance you can benefit from a re-evaluation of your priorities and procedures. Rather than assuming that rushing is inevitable, challenge yourself to make your time more intentional and focused.

Instead of convincing yourself you’re making progress by rushing around, look for a better way. Give respect and value to your time, and it will return great value to you.

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What a sad and empty life is pleasure, pleasure, pleasure, but with no joy. What a torment to be consumed with possessions, possessions, possessions, but no substance.

How hollow is an existence of ease, convenience, gratification, but no fulfillment. Days are full of spectacles, dramas, thrills, but no meaning.

Experiences unfold with speed, activity, sensation, but no understanding. There’s great power, leverage, and potential, but no purpose.

It doesn’t require genius to avoid such existential emptiness. What it does take are effort, commitment, responsibility, gratitude, discipline and humility.

The meaning you experience is the meaning you’re willing to give. Fulfillment grows out of value created, not from anything that’s merely consumed.

The quick and easy shallowness can be supremely enticing, but can never be sustaining. At every juncture, choose instead the enduring richness of investing yourself in improving life for all who share it with you.

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It’s a waste of your effort to try and second guess what people want you to be like. Just be you, just be true.

Some people will not respond positively to the way you are. That’s a good thing to find out early so you can move on from them.

Fortunately, there are plenty of people who will value your authenticity. You’ll discover who they are by being who you truly are.

Do seek to listen, to understand, to respond in a generous manner. Do be open to changing your perceptions, opinions, and behaviors when that’s what you sincerely believe is called for.

But avoid putting forth a fraudulent facade. Because that’s not going to do anybody any good.

Point all your energy in a genuine direction. You can do a lot of good for a lot of people, and for yourself, by being you.

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What matters is what you can do. In any situation, in any time, with any person, with any kind of drama that’s going on, with any kind of challenge that faces you, the thing to ask is this. What can you do about it? With any kind of limitations you run up against, with any kind of environment you find yourself in, with any type of people you’re working with, what matters is what you can do. That’s what you focus on to be successful.

Because the fact is, you absolutely can make a meaningful difference. You can make good things happen. You can prevent bad things from happening. You can take one idea, combine it with another idea, add in some resources, and create something of great value. You can create new, useful products, services, experiences, ideas, joys. You can be the creative source of all kinds of things that add to the richness of life. You can do that. You!

You’re built to do that. From a long line of successful ancestors you have inherited the skills for making good things happen, for adding goodness to life. And you can do so in meaningful and purposeful ways. The question you must ask yourself, when you get up in the morning, when you walk into a room full of people, when you get a telephone call about some crisis, when there are bills to pay and not enough money to pay them, when somebody close to you has become ill, the question to ask yourself is this. What can I do?

What can you do to improve the situation? It’s not always an easy question to answer. In fact, it should not be an easy question to answer. In the difficulty of that answer is the power of your response. So don’t look for easy answers to what you can do. Look for effective answers. Look for powerful, meaningful answers. They are there. You can come up with them.

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You can’t do it all at once. But you can do it.

You’re not going to master a new language, run a marathon, or build a thriving business the day after you decide to do so. Yet you’re able to accomplish all those things, and more, with small steps.

You can put time on your side. You can use the hours, weeks, and years to make steady progress.

That progress usually doesn’t occur in a straight line, or as quickly as you’d like. But it will come over time, and over time is better than never.

The way to fill your life with achievement is to fill your moments with the efforts that build achievement. Several of those moments are immediately ahead of you right now.

At this point it makes no difference whether you’re starting early or starting late. What’s important is to start now, and continue.

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Living a productive, successful day can be a lot of trouble. Go to the trouble.

Getting yourself in a good place physically, financially, spiritually, requires a good bit of trouble. It’s well worth the trouble.

Value does not appear in your life simply because you think of it and desire it. You have to work it into existence.

Do you ever feel like you don’t want to go to the trouble to do something? That’s a good sign that you’ll benefit greatly from going ahead with the effort anyway.

What seems like trouble before you do it can quickly turn into enthusiastic action once you get started. After you get the work done, you’ll wonder why you ever hesitated in the first place.

Make it your business to go to the trouble. And make a great life for yourself and others.

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Treasure the good you have known, and still know. Let it inspire you to make more of its kind, in its image.

See if you can recognize what’s good in the eyes and ways of people around you. Remind yourself also of all that’s good about you.

Refuse to use goodness as a weapon, as a way to blame, cudgel, shame, or embarrass. Practice goodness instead as an offering, a connection, a humble invitation to elevate the experience of life.

The good in you is real and needs no exaggeration, contrivance, or hidden agenda. Just let it be in you, from you, and with you in words and deeds.

The world has no shortage of difficulties and iniquity. Even so, life can be good, and goodness abounds when you appreciate it, and let it.

See the good that is true, that is possible. Have the confidence and love to continue bringing the good to life.

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Treasure the good you have known, and still know. Let it inspire you to make more of its kind, in its image.

See if you can recognize what’s good in the eyes and ways of people around you. Remind yourself also of all that’s good about you.

Refuse to use goodness as a weapon, as a way to blame, cudgel, shame, or embarrass. Practice goodness instead as an offering, a connection, a humble invitation to elevate the experience of life.

The good in you is real and needs no exaggeration, contrivance, or hidden agenda. Just let it be in you, from you, and with you in words and deeds.

The world has no shortage of difficulties and iniquity. Even so, life can be good, and goodness abounds when you appreciate it, and let it.

See the good that is true, that is possible. Have the confidence and love to continue bringing the good to life.

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Perhaps today is not your best day. And it’s likely you’re not in an ideal situation.

Nonetheless, you can visualize what you would do if you were in fact experiencing your best day. And you can, to the best of your ability, work on doing it.

You can imagine how you would move forward if indeed you were in an ideal situation. And you can incorporate elements of that response into the existing situation.

External circumstances certainly have their impact. Yet your internal drive, purpose, motivation, and concept of yourself also have important roles to play.

The best within you is always present, always possible, even in the worst of situations. And it is precisely at those times that the best version of yourself can come forward to push life in a more positive direction.

No matter where you go, no matter what you encounter, you carry with you the desire and ability to make a difference. When that ability is called for, when it’s needed most, reach inside, call it up, and put it to good use.

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Your life has great value. To know that value, to experience it, you must put it to use.

You have brilliant thoughts, powerful abilities, useful skills. Put them into action, and live up to the immense potential that is within you.

You’re able to recognize opportunities for making a difference. Seize those opportunities, act on them, faithful to your highest values and best intentions.

Life is made better in the active and authentic living of it. There is much good you can do, and it’s always in your best interest to do it.

Say yes to the opportunities that arrive with each new moment. Take an active role, always thankful for being able to do so.

Give your unconditional best to life, every chance you have. The more you give, the better life gets.

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Your standards are already high. Raise them higher.

You have accomplished much. Utilize what you’ve accomplished in the service of greater accomplishments.

Every creation comes from other creation and facilitates more creation. Whatever comes of this, something in turn comes of that.

Your work is not finished. The joy that arises from being able to create has much more room to run.

Even with its inevitable setbacks, yesterday brought some measure of progress. Today offers the chance to expand on that progress.

You’ve done what you can. Now you’re able to look forward to the incomparable fulfillment of doing even more.

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Your mind is too precious, your thoughts and values too hard won, to let them be stolen by trivialities. Yet that danger lurks every time you settle for mere pleasure or convenience when serious contemplation and effort are called for.

Take care that you not lay to waste everything your discipline and focus have earned. It’s tragically easy to do when you select the easiest options in lieu of the best ones.

Fortunately, your diligence can keep your indolence at bay. With humility you’re able to avoid the gravitational pull of arrogance.

You have the tools with which to fill each day with positive purpose, with meaning, solid substance, achievement and value. Those tools are yours when you choose the challenge of truth over the convenience of lies.

You can quickly learn again to love the rarefied air of authenticity. You can allow yourself to experience and express the truth that has always existed at your deepest level of perception.

Insist on living as who you are, not who it’s easiest to pretend to be. Live the purpose that is always a challenge to articulate yet ultimately impossible to deny.

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Enjoy the day. Enjoy your life.

Bask in the sunshine when it appears. Revel in awe at the drama of storms that occasionally pass through.

Walk through the seasons with steady intention. Find wonder as you wander across the truth of existence.

You’re sure to encounter trouble and pain, but they don’t have to stop you. Use your strength to keep going, for there’s always beauty ahead.

Something new, someone fascinating, is waiting to be seen, appreciated, treasured. Delight in the discoveries you’re able to make, the genuine good you’re able to do.

Whatever the day holds, decide to enjoy it. Experience again and again how beneficial and fulfilling such a choice can be.

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How often do you stop to count your blessings? In your daily struggle for more, how often do you feel joyful and thankful for the many, many things you already have?

In your ambitious quest to better your life, be careful that you don’t overlook the wealth that you already have. Wealth? Yes, wealth that is very real and very accessible to you.

Did you know that you already have abundant wealth? Perhaps you don’t feel like it if you’ve just paid the bills. Yet each and every one of us has an abundance that is almost beyond comprehension. The secret is to tap into that abundance and use it to do whatever we want to do.

And the process starts with counting your blessings. Taking stock of the things you have, the things you know, the people in your life, your spirituality, your skills, your opinions, your special perspective on life, your family, your hobbies, your sense of humor, your appreciation for beauty, your caring for others, your concern for those less fortunate, your ability to see opportunity. The list of possibilities is endless, and these things all have value beyond anything you can imagine.

I challenge you to take a good hard look at yourself and to count your blessings. Think of as many of them as you can. Think of the beauty and richness of your life. These things don’t require money or power or position. They all spring from your attitude, the way you react to situations, the way you value others, the way you value life itself.

Right now, within yourself, you have the ability to do anything you want with your life. You have complete control of your behavior, your actions from minute to minute. Look deep inside yourself and tap into the wealth that lies hidden within you. It is there if only you will look, and the best way to find it is with an attitude of thanksgiving and joy.

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Set aside enough time, but not too much. Challenge yourself to get the job done in the time you’ve given yourself to do it.

If you rush through while filled with anxiety about the time it’s taking, you won’t produce your best work. Yet when you have way more than the necessary time, you’re more likely to lose focus and to let self doubt creep in.

Up to a point, the more time you spend on a task, the more value and quality you create. However, you will eventually reach a point of diminishing return, and after that point you’re just wasting time or worse.

Decide on a reasonable amount of time and allow yourself that amount. Also, commit yourself to what you’ll do afterward, to the next activity, so you won’t have the option of lingering.

You can get the work done effectively and in a timely manner if you’ll simply make that your intention. Then you’ll have it finished, and be able to move on to whatever is next.

Respect yourself and your skill enough to give yourself the right amount of time that will challenge you without rushing you. Then rise to the challenge and use that time to get your good work done.

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Here is your opportunity for a day of richness and fulfillment. Seize the opportunity by giving the best of yourself.

Look beyond the empty, contrived spectacles that do nothing other than waste your precious time. Seek instead to engage your body, mind, and spirit in pursuits that genuinely challenge, enlighten, and inspire you.

Pass right on by what is free and effortless and demands nothing from you. You’ll find zero fulfillment or satisfaction there.

Get yourself into situations where you can contribute consequential value. Spend your moments in the service of life, making a positive difference for yourself and others.

Grow stronger by making use of your strengths. Expand your skills by putting them to the test.

Refuse to be trapped by worn out assumptions, false dramas, and hollow transactions. You deserve the incomparable fulfillment of giving all you can to change life for the better.

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For yourself, for others, be there, be present. Of all the things you can offer, your presence is likely to matter the most.

Whether it’s peaceful or hectic, desirable or not, be truthful about where you are. Express that truth with your attention, your acceptance, your presence.

If you’re not sure what to say or do, just be you, authentic. Let the moment exist and let yourself be fully in it, as it comes, as it is.

You dream, you plan, you remember, you speculate and wonder. Yet all those things are faint shadows cast by your mind on the reality of where you are, of now.

Treasure what has been, love what could be, while you live what is. With your presence, transcend time, space, thought, feeling, and bring it all into the miracle of your existence in this moment.

Every thought is possible, and no thought is necessary. Give and experience the beauty of your presence.

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Many treasures and experiences you must earn before you attain. Inspiration is the other way around.

When something inspires you, in the moment of inspiration you become obligated to then earn that inspiration. You do so with inspired action.

As powerful as inspiration is, it can also be debilitating if you seek to linger indefinitely in awe. Stop congratulating yourself on having the good fortune of being inspired, and step forth to do something useful with that inspiration.

Inspiration fills you with energy in a unique and compelling way. So rather than allowing that energy to be drained away and wasted, connect the inspiration you feel to a purpose you know.

Doing so enables you to be inspired in a meaningful direction and to take specific actions. You can layer action on top of inspiration and inspiration on top of action, again and again.

Inspiration puts you in a state of high energy. With a clear and positive purpose, transform that energy into lasting goodness.

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Let life sink in

Have the courage and wisdom to spend time alone, thinking. Give yourself the chance to let life sink in, to make sense of what you learn and experience.

If someone handed you twenty million dollars in cash, would you simply set it aside and rush ahead to the next encounter? No, you would take the time to deposit the funds into your bank account.

The wealth of data you receive each day requires the same sort of diligence. You must integrate its value into the structure of your life and your purpose.

That takes thought, and time, and focus, and care. Absent such diligence, all the stimulation and information in the world is useless to you.

Of course you don’t want to spend all your time just contemplating. Seek to find an optimum balance between thinking about life and putting your thoughts into living practice.

Engage, observe, and act in the real world. Then on a regular basis, give focused thought to all you’ve learned and experienced, so as to make the best of it going forward.

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Take a walk in the sunshine. Have a long talk with a treasured friend.

Play silly games with your children. Sit quietly and watch stars fill the sky.

Feel the cool breeze on your face. Enjoy a good meal with those you love.

Your time is precious. Spend as much of it as you can on what fulfills your deepest sense of living.

Many activities masquerade as urgent that really don’t matter. Whenever you notice time is passing, let it be a reminder to focus on what you truly care about.

You have the great fortune of being able to experience today. With your thoughts, your priorities, your actions, live all the richness available to you.

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Your instincts are not perfect. Yet they do have value, and deserve your attention.

When you know, even though you’re not sure how or why you know, trust that you do indeed know. Not all truth can be distilled into facts and logic.

If you can verify what your instincts are telling you, great. But even when you can’t verify them, respect the truth they’re sure to contain.

Challenge your instincts honestly, and as thoroughly as you can. But don’t let other people with their own agendas cause you to doubt what you know in your gut to be true.

You know more than you’re aware of knowing. Just as your thoughts and sensory perceptions inform you, so do your feelings.

Wisdom resides in the full spectrum of your awareness. Make good and confident use of it all.

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Many times you tell yourself what you must do, and then leave it at that. But what if you were to actually follow through on your own good advice?

There are reasons why you’re telling yourself these things. You’re well positioned to know what’s best for you and what isn’t.

So don’t be satisfied with just knowing what must be done. Give yourself the benefit of actually doing it.

Sure, it’s easier to merely scold yourself and make promises to yourself. Yet you have what it takes to make good on those promises.

You deserve the full benefit of your own perceptions. You deserve to act on those perceptions.

What have you been telling yourself you ought to do? Today is your opportunity to make it happen.

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If you live in a negative world, it is your decision to make it positive...

If you laugh the world will laugh with you, if you cry, only you will get your face wet.

If one day SADNESS invites you, tell it that you already have a commitment to JOY and that you will be faithful to it all your life.

He who takes risks loses nothing and he who DOES NOT risk does not win!

In your life you decide, I only suggest that you run after your dreams.

You can live perfectly without those who can live without you!

Don't waste your time with the wrong people anymore. You still have time!

After each setback, "a wipe and a new smile", that's how it works.

Every day when you get your body out of bed, don't forget to also raise your enthusiasm and your faith.

Life is a long journey in which we are teacher and student. Sometimes you have to teach, every day you have to learn.

He prays to God, but continues paddling towards the shore.

Someone will come into your life who doesn't walk away, who doesn't give up, who doesn't get fed up. Someone who wants to stay just because it's you and that will be enough.

Be glad if something doesn't come back to you...it has set you free.

The success of life is not in always winning, but in never giving up.

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People need to be motivated, have goals and achievements since we respond positively to them, even if they are small and routine. That is why it is necessary to cultivate our personal motivation to feel good and positive.

Let's set small goals that we can achieve. Having short and medium-term motivations, having a balance between challenging and achievable, we should never set goals that are impossible to achieve. Small tasks like:

– Read a book a month, or read 20 minutes a day.

– Do a physical exercise routine two or three times a week or go for a walk 30 minutes a day.

– Leave your cell phone forgotten on a table after 7 p.m. or do not look at social networks at night so as not to disturb your sleeping pattern.

– Sign up for a course that you have always wanted, even if it is online

– Watch that series that you have never been encouraged to watch and that has been recommended to you

– Be informed of the news, through a single medium, be careful with overinformation that generates a lot of anxiety

Setting short-term goals will help us generate feelings of self-efficacy that will allow us to consider greater motivations, providing greater resistance in the face of adversity.

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Now is when you experience life. So experience it now with all you have, in depth, in every dimension.

No moment is really ordinary. Because every moment is a unique experience in a unique environment with unique thoughts, feelings, people, and circumstances.

Treasure the opportunity to see, to know, to taste, to feel, to connect, to act. Realize how much you can do with now, and move forward to fulfill its possibilities.

Right now you can care, you can love, you can remember, you can dream and plan and share. It’s a rare and valuable chance you have, ready for you to accept and put to use.

Say what you must say, feel what you can feel, do what is good and right to do. Affirm the moment and all it encompasses, because what it encompasses is the beauty of life.

Rise to the enormity and possibility of all that’s in front of you right now. Affirm this moment, and live it well.

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When the possibilities are unlimited, when you can do anything, too often you do nothing. You become so overwhelmed with all the choices that it seems impossible to choose.

When some particular option is free and easy to access, it’s also easy to take for granted, no matter how valuable it may be. You can easily do it anytime, which means you can always do it later, and so you never end up doing it.

Limitations are difficult to live with, yet they do serve a positive purpose. They provide structure, and can force you to focus on what’s valuable, meaningful, and achievable.

If you have a one-week vacation planned, you’re likely to maximize the experience of every day. Contrast that to having six months off from work, when there’s a good chance you’ll be aimless and unfocused on many of those days.

Diamonds are expensive because they’re extremely difficult to find and to extract. In the same way, the options that are more difficult to exercise are the ones most likely to bring great value.

Rather than wishing for a life without limitations, find value in the structure and focus that limitations provide. By understanding and appreciating what you can’t do, you gain more meaningful rewards from what you can do.

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You can’t make more time in the day, the week, the year. What you can do is make your time more productive and fulfilling.

That happens when you take greater ownership of your time. It happens when you take greater responsibility for what you do with the time available to you.

Start by making a commitment to getting each day’s necessary tasks completed as early and effectively as possible. Doing so frees the remaining time in each day for you to spend as you choose.

When you have earned the luxury of that choice, choose wisely. Remind yourself how much value it’s possible to create in each moment, set your standards high, and work to meet those standards.

Invest your time in the people, the values, the dreams, ideas, and possibilities you care about most. Use the present time to create meaningful goodness that endures far into the future.

Time passes quickly, yet you can inject plenty of great life into each bit of time along the way. Take ownership of your time, take responsibility for its use, and live the full potential of every day.

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Don’t seek to appear foolish. But don’t be afraid of it either.

Do whatever, in your best judgment, the moment calls for. Have the courage to speak the truth, to be enthusiastic, to ask what might seem like stupid questions.

If you appear foolish because of the misguided judgments of others, let that be their problem, not yours. You’re perfectly able to prevent yourself from acting foolishly, yet you have little control over what others think of you.

Don’t let someone else’s possible impression stop you from doing what is good, what is right, what is necessary. Give reasonable thought and consideration to your words and actions, then confidently go ahead with them.

What’s truly foolish is to pass up the opportunity of living your best in every moment. No matter what others think, that’s a useful reality to keep in mind.

If you happen to appear foolish, so be it. Let it go, even laugh about it, and move on ahead with living a great life.

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What do you do when you’re serious about getting the job done? You get in the flow.

Take one step, then another and another. Early on, many of your steps won’t be in an ideal direction, yet even those missteps serve to get you going.

Very quickly you’ll get your footing and the quality of your efforts will improve. You’re in the flow, well-positioned to ride that flow all the way to the results you desire.

Momentum can actually make it feel easier to keep going than to stop. Get in the flow and get momentum working in your favor.

If you’re not sure exactly where to start, what to say, how to act, that’s completely understandable, so here’s what you do. You find a way, any way at all, to get in the flow.

Once you’re in the flow, you’ll adjust, you’ll adapt, you’ll figure it out and be motivated to continue. Get in the flow, and discover how much great work you can do.

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The party has now begun. It’s your time to join the fun.

The sun just came up on a new day. Plenty of good things are possible, many of them are starting to happen.

It’s somewhat useful to speculate about what might be, or might have been. What’s much more valuable is to jump right in and get involved, right now.

When you participate you’re sure to encounter awkward moments, inconvenience, frustration. Go ahead, participate anyway, with all you have, being exactly and honestly who you are.

Get involved, commit yourself, live like you mean it. Make it your intention to make something rich and rewarding with the time in front of you.

The biggest regrets are for opportunities missed. Don’t miss this one that’s here for you now.

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Adventure energizes your mind, your spirit, even your body. That increased energy spills over into every corner of your life.

Adventure motivates you to improve your existing skills and develop new ones. It heightens your awareness, deepens your gratitude and sense of purpose.

Today does not have to be just another day. You have the choice, you have the power, to make it into an adventure.

What’s necessary for adventure? First on the list is some sort of challenge, and chances are you have immediate access to plenty of worthwhile challenges.

Then there’s open-mindedness, curiosity, a desire to explore, take risks, and learn, plus a clear purpose. Those are all factors you’re perfectly capable of providing on any given day, whatever your situation may be.

So right here, right now, you can make anything you do into a genuine adventure. Answer the call, and add the many benefits of adventure to your life today.

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Negativity is a burden you impose on yourself and others. How long do you wish to continue carrying it?

Certainly troublesome, even tragic situations exist in your own vicinity and in the wider world. But you accomplish nothing of value by making them worse with your own negativity.

Negativity is a fight against what is, a fight that’s lost as soon as it begins. Instead of being ensnared by such futility, you can simply accept what is, and let the negativity fall away.

Doing so frees you to resonate with a positive vision of what can be. That’s a much better direction to point your considerable energy, skills, thoughts, words and actions.

It’s not a naive denial of the problems, but rather an affirmation of your choice to move forward with positive purpose. It’s a choice to face reality without hesitation and to give your best in dealing with it.

Let go of the useless and burdensome negativity. You’ve got a meaningful life to live and great work to do.

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Use your curiosity to gather knowledge and experiences. Employ your focus to weave together, expand upon, and make purposeful sense of what curiosity brings to your awareness.

Setting curiosity aside for a while to achieve better focus does not mean you’re renouncing your curiosity. You’re actually using focus to make good use of what your curiosity has presented to you.

A similar dynamic is at work when you let go of your focus in order to indulge your curiosity. You’re not permanently abandoning focus, but instead you’re finding new and compelling subjects to focus upon.

Focus and curiosity benefit when you appreciate the contributions of both. The ideal strategy is to keep them in balance.

Keep that in mind when you’re tempted to break away from what you’re focused on and run toward some new discovery. Resist the temptation, knowing that your curiosity will still be there after the work is completed, when you can pursue it free of any guilt.

Get your focus and your curiosity working in cooperation, with respect and consideration for each other. That is always a powerful combination.

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Use your curiosity to gather knowledge and experiences. Employ your focus to weave together, expand upon, and make purposeful sense of what curiosity brings to your awareness.

Setting curiosity aside for a while to achieve better focus does not mean you’re renouncing your curiosity. You’re actually using focus to make good use of what your curiosity has presented to you.

A similar dynamic is at work when you let go of your focus in order to indulge your curiosity. You’re not permanently abandoning focus, but instead you’re finding new and compelling subjects to focus upon.

Focus and curiosity benefit when you appreciate the contributions of both. The ideal strategy is to keep them in balance.

Keep that in mind when you’re tempted to break away from what you’re focused on and run toward some new discovery. Resist the temptation, knowing that your curiosity will still be there after the work is completed, when you can pursue it free of any guilt.

Get your focus and your curiosity working in cooperation, with respect and consideration for each other. That is always a powerful combination.

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Value life’s possibilities enough to dream. Value your dreams enough to act on them.

Value each moment such that you make good use of it. Value every circumstance such that you uncover the opportunities within it.

Value your thoughts, desires, passions and fears so as to learn what they have to teach. Value the expressions of those who disagree with you for exactly the same reason.

Value the challenges for the strength they can engender in you. Value the questions that have no answers, for the journeys of imagination they inspire.

Value what has been known and understood since before anyone can remember. Value the massive treasure that’s yet to be discovered, and seek to find fresh new glimmers of it every day.

There’s much to value, much to know, much to live, love, experience and share. Now is when.

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Enjoy beauty anywhere you can experience it. Take inspiration wherever you encounter it.

Embrace meaningful challenge when you come across it. Give love as you have the opportunity to offer it.

The moments always coming your way are ripe with potential. Keep your regrets to a bare minimum by seeing and fulfilling as much of that potential as you can.

When you have the chance to satisfy your curiosity, do so. Ask questions, seek answers, admit what you don’t know, and set about to learn it.

Appreciate the unique value of each person who comes into your life. Rather than wishing for people to be or to act exactly how you want, rejoice in the distinctive treasure of the way they actually are.

The magnificent potential of life exists for you, right here, right now. Live it as it comes, and live it well.

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What you’re genuinely and deeply thankful for, you’ll figure out how to create more of. That’s effectiveness.

If you’re faced with a difficult situation, being thankful is a response not immediately obvious, maybe never considered at all. Yet when you do practice gratitude it can illuminate a path forward and inspire you to persist on that path.

Be thankful for this, for now, for the world as it is and for all the possibilities encompassed herein. Be thankful, and empower yourself to create the most favorable outcomes.

Gratitude is not just a matter of being nice or polite or optimistic. Real, unequivocal gratitude has the power to bring value and goodness to life, even in the most challenging circumstances.

Be thankful, and bring your best options out into the open where you can seize them and act on them. Be thankful, and give the great benefit of your gratefulness to all of life.

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You need goals, and when you are depressed you may feel like you don’t have any. Act like you do, and hang on to something. Start with small goals and build up. For example, getting out of bed and eating healthy can be a goal.

Face small problems you know are there. Don’t let them become bigger problems. An unpaid bill that you fear looking at will only increase if you don’t take care of it. Don’t let depression make your problems bigger and contribute to more depression.

Believe in yourself. Treat yourself how you treat a person you really love. You need to be kind to yourself and believe in all the potential within you. You are necessary to more than you think, what you do matters, so respect yourself.

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Boldly go in the direction of your dreams.

Stand tall and show the world what you are made of. When the world beats you down, find a reason to get back up again. Never give up on the success.

Try, try, try and try again. Feed your mind ideas of success, not failure.

Remember, the only way you can fail is if you give up. Every time you fail, you come one step closer to success.

You are not scared; you are courageous. You are not weak; you are powerful. You are not ordinary; you are remarkable.

Do not back down, do not give up.

When you look back on your life, don't have regrets. Believe in yourself, belief in your future, you will find your way.

A fire burning inside you is mighty; it is waiting to burn bright. You are meant to do great things.

Following your dreams can be both terrifying and exciting.

Courage is facing fear. Fear of failure holds most people back. You are not most people.

Persist and persuade others about your plans, as they are real. Nobody can do this but you. Nobody will get in the way of our dreams.

Most people master the obvious; you create something that wasn't there before. It's bold, it's beautiful, and it's you.

Give it your best, and your dreams will come to life. Success is yours.

Go for your dreams; it is your turn.

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An immediate reaction is not always the best reaction. When you think too fast you tend to ignore many of the best possibilities.

Sometimes you have no choice other than to think fast and act fast. Yet when you do have a choice, think longer, perhaps a little slower and more deliberately.

Give yourself the opportunity to take a multitude of factors into consideration. The more you understand, the more perspectives and information you consider, the better your thinking aligns with reality.

If you jump too quickly to a conclusion, you could be jumping right past many important truths. Being able to honestly justify your conclusion matters too, and that can take some time.

When the situation allows, invest the time. Think through how your response affects not only you, and not only in the moment, but how it impacts everyone else, and in the long run.

In a fast-moving world it’s tempting to take shortcuts, to think fast. Yet when there’s much at stake it’s well worth your while to think slow, and to get it right.

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Think clear, purposeful thoughts, and grow in strength. Take effective, persistent actions and grow in strength.

Strength is built over time. That makes every stretch of time an opportunity for increasing your strength.

Through your encounters with others, you can build strength. In dealing with problems, you become stronger.

The stronger you become, on the inside and outwardly, the more valuable options you have. Strength enables you to give genuine goodness in great measure to life.

Physically, mentally, financially, socially, spiritually, and in every domain of life, strength empowers. Look each day for steps you can follow to gain strength, and take those opportunities.

No matter where you start, you can always grow in strength. Continue to increase your strength, and with that strength keep adding new value to all of life.

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What response will improve the situation? That’s the one to choose.

It’s not enough to claim you care. Merely appearing to make things better is insufficient at best, and perhaps even counterproductive.

Figure out what will bring positive, enduring results. Focus on that course of action.

Hold yourself and your actions to a high standard. Refuse to settle for anything less than effectiveness that provides a clear benefit.

Every circumstance comes with opportunity for improvement. Go through the details until you can find and seize upon a realistic, workable opportunity.

Then put your skills, knowledge, and persistence to work. Make it through the day, the task, the challenge by making things better.

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The most profound joy is in giving joy. The most inescapable pain is to cause pain.

Your actions affect your own life in the manner and to the cumulative degree they affect others. That can be a beautiful experience or a terrible, unbearable one, depending on the nature of those actions.

Offer to the world whatever you seek to obtain. Amplify the goodness accessible to you by sharing it far beyond you.

Be mindful of the very real and enduring connection between you and all of life. Wherever else your behavior is directed, it is surely directed also at you.

Make wise and beneficial use of the connectedness that is always present in life. Act as if anything that flows out from you flows back in even greater measure, for that is certainly the case.

Send out love, courage, joy, meaning. It all comes back to you.

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Give all your awareness to the purity of your existence. Step away from the repetitive chatter of thoughts, of sensations.

For a little while, just be. Enable time itself to loosen completely its hold on you.

Experience the wonder of feeling anything and everything, and nothing. Connect with the aspect of now that has no beginning and no end.

Give your spirit plenty of space to be completely renewed and refreshed. Demand nothing of your mind and let it show you how beautiful everything can be.

Breathe in the pure and uncorrupted air of possibility. Let it freely, naturally connect with all you love.

See with certainty the goodness that always glows brightly. Carry a spark of that goodness wherever you go.

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This is not the end of your story
This is not the final chapter of your life.

I know it may be hard right now
But if you just hang in there
Stick it out
Stay with me for a little while…
You will find, that this tough moment will pass, and, if you are committed to USING this pain, 
using it to build your character, 
finding a greater MEANING for the pain, 
you will find that, in time, 
you can turn your life around, and help others going through the same struggles.

It’s estimated almost half the population suffers from depression at some stage throughout their life.

Rather than join the cue, it’s important we it’s learn why we get down, and then how we can change it, because believe it or not, we create our own negative feelings and we can also ensure that we turn our lives around and be a positive change for others.

The reason anyone gets depressed always comes down to the CONSISTENT thoughts we think, and the CONSISTENT beliefs we hold.

Let me say that again.

The reason anyone gets depressed always comes down to the CONSISTENT thoughts we think, and the CONSISTENT beliefs we hold.

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You’re allowed to change your mind. It can actually be a refreshing thing to do, not to mention helpful, productive, and insightful.

It won’t kill you to admit to yourself or others that you were mistaken. Perhaps it could even make the situation a whole lot better.

Sure, it’s a blow to your pride when you acknowledge being wrong, particularly if you’ve been adamant about your position. But is your pride really more important than the truth?

Sincere, honest people admire open-mindedness, and for good reason. Being truly open minded involves an eagerness to change your mind when that’s what the facts call for.

It’s an act of freedom, an act of integrity. It serves to better align you with truth and reality.

When circumstances make it necessary and appropriate, change your mind. Improve your perspective and improve your world.

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Feeling sad or anxious often or all the time

Not wanting to do activities that used to be fun

Feeling irritable‚ easily frustrated‚ or restless

Having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep

Waking up too early or sleeping too much

Eating more or less than usual or having no appetite

Experiencing aches, pains, headaches, or stomach problems that do not improve with treatment

Having trouble concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions

Feeling tired‚ even after sleeping well

Feeling guilty, worthless, or helpless

Thinking about suicide or hurting yourself

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Wishes, plans, and promises have a common deficiency. They all lack meaningful commitment.

Commitment begins when you take action. The most impressive words, the most detailed strategies have little meaning until they’re acted upon.

Are you not quite ready to begin? Begin anyway, initiate genuine commitment, and you’ll quickly be making progress and will forget about whether you were ready or not.

You can always learn and adjust as you go, but it doesn’t work the other way around. You never make progress if all you’re doing is learning, preparing, and revising your plans.

Give your intentions the action they deserve. Implement your plans, go where they lead, and you’ll invoke the power of commitment.

If you wish you could, if you think you can, begin it. Commit with action and make it happen.

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Meaning in life is not something you find by stumbling across it or searching for it or having it handed to you. The meaning in your life is the meaning you actively bring into it.

Life becomes filled with meaning as a result of time spent, activity you genuinely engage in, effort you put forth. Curiosity, struggle, connection, faith, joy, challenge, and achievement are but a few of the ways for giving meaning to life.

If you’re worried that not enough meaning will result from some particular choice, stop worrying and start doing. Meaning comes from being actively involved, not from analyzing and strategizing to capture it.

Sincerely care about the various aspects of what you’re doing and you cannot help but create meaning. Let go of the pretenses and let the meaning flow from your authentic actions.

You live a whole lot better when you have something to live for. That makes meaning more valuable than just about anything else.

Understand that every situation is an opportunity to make new meaning. The richness is yours to continue creating.

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Your patience is wearing thin. Yet you can make a fresh commitment, and continue practicing patience a little longer.

The work you’re involved in has become tedious. Re-energize by reminding yourself why you’re doing it, then get back to the effort and do a little more.

Sometimes that little bit more can make a lot of difference. When the situation calls for it, you can always do a little more.

The summit you’ve been heading toward is within your reach. Do what you must to get yourself all the way there.

You’ve done much and you can feel how far it’s taken you. Now is a great time to do a little more.

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The system, the situation, the odds are stacked against you and others like you. Can you visualize making note of all that and proceeding forward anyway?

You’re asking for help and not getting it. Have you thought about directing some of those requests to yourself?

There are plenty of ways the world could be more accommodating. But for a whole lot of complex reasons, it is the way it is right now.

You can blame and complain and protest and even disengage from reality out of frustration and disgust. Or you could accept the moment for what it is and do your own work to make good things come of it.

Let go of the assumption that everything’s wrong and you’ll discover opportunities to set certain things right. Your firm intention to make the best of a situation puts you in position to do so.

There’s goodness you can create from the way things are. Where you focus and what you do make all the difference.

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Discouragement is a choice, not a foregone conclusion. Inspiration and encouragement are better, more empowering choices, and they’re just as readily available to you.

The realities of life are not affected by your attitude. But you are, and the way you see things affects how well you deal with them.

When circumstances are not in your favor, it’s more important than ever for your own outlook to be in your favor. Give yourself an advantage by being a persistently positive influence in your own life.

If you’ve had the good fortune to be encouraged by someone else, you know how helpful it can be. And even when there’s no one around to offer encouragement, you’re fully capable of encouraging yourself.

Think of the best that can happen, then tap into the energy of those thoughts. Harness that energy and take action in the direction of your desired results.

Encouraging yourself is not a magic bullet to solve all your problems, yet it’s a lot better than doubling down on discouragement. The fact is, your attitude can make a difference, so by all means use it to your advantage.

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Caring is costly. That’s why it’s so valuable, so desirable, so essential.

When you care you’re making yourself vulnerable. It’s a risk well worth taking.

As terrible as hatred is, there’s something even more empty and destructive. That is not caring at all.

For the sake of yourself and all those around you, stay as far away from indifference as you can. Make it your intent to always care about the life, the world, and most importantly, the people you encounter.

Caring will expose you to pain, yet it will reward you with meaning, purpose, and love. Caring is how you invest in life, and it’s an investment that pays endless dividends.

Think of all you care about, then extend and deepen that caring. You care, and it’s a magnificent way to be.

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Trying too hard is not much more effective than hardly trying. If you perceive any effort as trying, that has a way of sabotaging the effort.

Even when you're highly motivated, seeing yourself as trying blocks you from seeing yourself as succeeding. The word itself focuses you on struggling rather than achieving.

Let go of the thought that you're trying. See yourself instead as steadily making progress.

Feel how much better that is. Notice the immediate increase in your energy level and creativity, the elevation of your expectations.

Every action, every step, no matter how large or small, no matter how fast or slow, gets you closer to your goal. That's a whole lot more valuable than merely trying.

Once you have an intention, skip the trying. Go ahead, step right up, and with one positive action after another, get it done.

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Don’t just speculate about it. Do it and find out for sure.

Go beyond merely watching it on a screen. Experience the many dimensions of reality firsthand.

Stop putting off the fulfillment that is yours to create. Put time firmly on your side by doing something truly meaningful with it.

Somewhere there’s a river flowing out from a glacier that will inspire you with its beauty. There’s someone feeling lonely who will be uplifted by spending time with you.

You have so many options for the enrichment of life. Exercise some of them, and you’ll end up with even more.

Shake off the dust, venture a little bit away from what’s familiar, and do life. Discover all over again how good you are at being you.

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No one you know currently has any time other than now. Every person, everything that exists, is now.

So what are you going to do with it all, right now? How will you make the most of the abundance and the possibilities that whirl around you, right now?

You’ve been in similar situations before, all your life as a matter of fact. You’ve gained new richness from every moment you’ve been through and you’re in the process of doing so again, right now.

You can’t be sure what changes will happen later, yet you’re able to see how the world currently is. Now you can make good use of that clarity.

Skills are now, opportunities are now, and here you are, able to transform intention into reality. The possibilities are too consequential to ignore.

Now is ready for what can be done with it. The next move is up to you.

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Every day may not be perfect, but each day holds the potential for fulfillment and enrichment. Redirect your energy toward creating that fulfillment and uncovering the richness in your life. Focus on the opportunities that are always present, even in the face of disappointment.

While disappointment is real, so is your ability to choose your response. Embrace the beauty of your uniqueness and your capacity to adapt. Keep choosing the path that leads to fulfillment, regardless of the accolades, difficulties, discomforts, or delights that come your way. There's more good to be done, and your best choice is to embrace it and make the world a better place.

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