thoughts for today

Thanks, Agnes! These are wonderful notes, which came just in time...

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Don't worry
Don't worry about how long it will take, or what others will think of you, or how difficult it will be. Just get busy and do it. Instead of wasting your time and energy on worry, use that time and energy for action. Instead of visualizing what you don't want, create what you do want. Of course there will be challenges, painful mistakes, embarrassing moments and difficult efforts. But instead of worrying about them and making them worse, just go ahead, work your way through them and get them over with.

Worry fills you with doubt, and doubt eats away at your dreams. Choose instead to take action, with so much relentless determination and intensity that there's no room for worry. Even though there will always be problems, you are truly capable of greatness. Imagine yourself fulfilling that greatness, starting right now from where you are with what you have. Then jump enthusiastically into the journey. Forget the worries, and bring your best possibilities to life.

- Ralph Marston

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Into action
When you don't feel like doing what you know you must, that's the best time to go ahead and do it anyway. That's when you can break through your old habit patterns to a new level of focus, performance and achievement. That first step will require you to go against your natural tendency to put it off until later and to stay comfortably where you are. So how do you get beyond that? Use your power of visualization to do two things. First, use your
thoughts to make it even more uncomfortable, even more painful for you
not to take action. Next, visualize in great detail all the positive and desirable rewards
you'll create by going ahead and getting it done. In your mind, make it so compelling to take action that you cannot avoid doing so. Many times in the past, you've successfully avoided action by telling yourself why you can't or why you won't. Now, choose to use that same
power to tell yourself why you can and why you will. You control the awesome power of your thoughts. And with your thoughts you can successfully visualize yourself into action every time.

- Ralph Marston