Words of Wisdom Ralph Marston

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Ralph Marston

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Ralph Marston

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Ralph Marston

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston

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"Don’t fall in love with the blessings. Fall in love with the Blessor. Seek first the Kingdom and God will reward you!" - Joel Osteen

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Just admit your mistake and learn from it.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you, pursue all that you want.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can't dream it, you can make it so.

We can't become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

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A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love, in return, you will receive until peace and happiness.

I reduce who I can be as a wonderful creation of God when I limit myself to what others think I should be.

Meekness is not weakness..... Meekness is strength under control.

There are people whose lives are continous reactions to what others do to them. This puts you at the mercy of others. React to yourself.

If things around you don't change, change the things your around.

All truth is confrontational and you will never change for the better until you are confronted
With the truth.

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I was stressing about a huge accident I made today but I just got a call telling me not to worry about it and that made my day. God knows your heart and he just proved to me that he knows and sees all. Goodnight :)

Mistakes

When I make a mistake it's hard for me to forgive myself and that is my new issue that I'm tackling on a daily basis. I can admit to being wrong but I still find it hard to forgive myself. People can go on about their life but I still live with my mistakes. I'm going to post ways to get totally over a mistake.

Oprah's Lifeclass

Oprah's new show Lifeclass started today on OWN you can check it out nightly at 7 pm CST. I will be writing tons of post about it.

Steve Jobs

On yesterday the iconic, visionary and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away after years of battling cancer. I know who Mr. Jobs is but as I watched the tribute of CNN I discovered a lot about him and he had so amazing quotes to match his showy personality. Mr. Jobs changed the world and I've heard him being called the Thomas Edison of our time and I agree as a recent owner of an iPhone I can testify to the greatness of his mind. I will leave with some of his words, let them inspire you.

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
-Stanford University commencement speech, 2005

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Stanford University commencement speech, 2005

"That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains."
-BusinessWeek, 1998

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
-Stanford University commencement speech, 2005

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
-Stanford University commencement speech, 2005

On A Path

Yesterday I was telling my mom I need to start applying for a new job because it's time for me to move on and I know that I should. Apart of me wants to stay with my client but I learned from before I shouldn't somewhere because I am happy there, life isn't about being in the same place, it's about progressing. My mom response was "I'm telling you now, you have one of the easiest jobs you will find in the nursing industry." I sat there and thought about it and it's not about the job being easy it's about moving forward, I'm on a path to a different place and sometimes people don't understand that.

Dollar and A Dream

If someone gave you money to chase your dreams, what would you do?

Mine of course to write in anyway I can, be it leisure or dollar.

"I got a dollar and a dream" ~ J. Cole

Pushers

Who are your pushers in your life? Pushers are the people who push you to do better and they challenge you to be the best you can be.

Getting off the sideline

I've been trying to write this post all week, and while I am sitting here listening to 'Cole World',I started to think about how I've been a spectator in my own life. I always sit around and watched people and thing progress around and I ask myself, " What are you going to do now?" When I got laid off for my job, I noticed how dependent I was and being comfortable there collecting that check. I have a lot of energy in me that I wasn't utilizing and my light was burning out, day after day going through the motions. I've said before that I felt dead on the inside and it was painful for to say because when I say stuff out loud I had to deal will it. I went through a series of painful personal struggles and I going to CNA school was a way to start taking steps to getting into my own game of life. When I failed my test the first time apart of me wanted to give up and say forget but I decided to retest and I passed. I jumped for joy because for once I started something and saw it all the way through, this is just the beginning of everything. :)
Peace