A little bit different

You are always achieving something, one thing or another. You are always getting results of some kind.   Getting the results you most passionately and authentically desire is not a matter of making more effort. It is, rather, a matter of making different efforts and consistently keeping those efforts focused.

 
Focus is a choice you make in every waking moment. You are always focused on one thing or another.

 
The way to maintain your focus long enough to get the results you seek, is by reminding yourself why. Be clear about why you want those results, and find a way to keep those reasons close at hand.

 
The success you seek is not particularly difficult. It's just a little bit different than what you're doing now.

 
Be clear about why, keep your thoughts and efforts focused, and your life will proceed in the direction of your dreams.

 
-- Ralph Marston

All things are possible, just believe!: Worry

All things are possible, just believe!: Worry: "Worry is a mis-use of the imagination. Worry is assuming responsibility that God never intended you to have. Worry never robs tomorrow of it..."

Worry

Worry is a mis-use of the imagination.
Worry is assuming responsibility that God never intended you to have.
Worry never robs tomorrow of it's sorrow.
Worry only saps today of it strength. 

Why worry when you can pray trust Jesus he knows the way.

All for the best

Whatever has happened, accept that it is for the best. Feel the freedom of not having to fight against the past.   Sure, you could place judgments on past events and wish they had happened differently. And all that judging and wishing would do nothing except waste your time and energy.
 
Simply accept that what has already happened is indeed for the best. Then get busy making it so.
 
Choose to fully appreciate what you have right now to work with, no matter how it may have arrived. Know that there is real value in your present circumstance, and you'll find that value and be able to build on it.
 
Often, an outstanding opportunity will make its first appearance in the form of a heartbreaking disappointment. By accepting that the disappointment is for the best, you gain entrance to the full power of the opportunity.
 
All that has happened is for the best. With it you can fashion your own unique greatness.
 
-- Ralph Marston

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Do better

What makes disappointment so disappointing is that you know you can do better. So instead of sinking too far into the disappointment, get up, get going, and do better.   The very feeling you have that life can be better is proof positive that it can be. What you're feeling is your most positive vision of how life can be, calling to you.  
Answer that calling, quickly and decisively. Make something good and positive and valuable out of the setbacks that have disappointed you so.
 
Use your experience to get better, to do better, to become more effective, to become more determined and committed. Feel the certainty that you can do better, and let it energize and animate your actions.
 
Even when you've done great, the great thing is, you can do better. Always there is the opportunity to do better.
 
Do all that you know you can do to take that opportunity. And with each experience, with each passing moment, you do indeed make life better.

-- Ralph Marston

DIFFICULT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE

Difficult is not the same as impossible. Indeed, the very fact that something is difficult confirms that it is possible.     Whatever is difficult to achieve, can be achieved. Whatever is difficult to reach, can be reached with effort, with time, with commitment and persistence.
 
Difficulty does not stand in the way of achievement. Difficulty in fact provides a path to that achievement.
 
In addition, difficulty gives real value to achievement. Those goals that are the most difficult and time-consuming to reach are also the most desirable and rewarding to reach.
 
Giving up because the task is too difficult is like quitting a job because you're being paid too much. When you're on to something that's difficult and demanding, you're on to something with great potential.
 
Be willing to embrace what is difficult. And you'll open your life to the best of what is possible.

-- Ralph Marston