Daily Reflections for Living Strong

Trying is not doing. Only doing is doing.

Trying is a vague, loosely defined concept that doesn’t lead anywhere in particular. Doing is a precise set of actions leading toward a specific objective.

If you’re trying and not having any luck, there are two problems. You see yourself as merely trying, and you consider yourself under the influence of blind, random luck.

Give up your dependence on luck and depend instead on your own actions. Give up the idea that you’re trying, and replace it with the certainty of getting specific work done.

Trying gives you an excuse to fail, to quit. Give yourself instead the commitment to succeed, to prevail, to get the work done.

Climb out of the hazy, ineffective bewilderment of trying. Jump right into the clear, focused, exhilarating experience of doing all the great things you can do.

Whatever happens, you can use it as a way to grow stronger. Every day can end up making you stronger.

You can complain about it, or you can grow stronger through it. You can worry about it, or you can grow stronger instead.

Don’t let it make you frustrated, or resentful or dismayed. Let it motivate you to become stronger.

Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, feel what it feels like to respond with strength and clarity of positive purpose. Call upon the strength you have, and you will have more.

You are stronger than any circumstance, stronger than any thoughtless comment made by another, and stronger than any disappointment. You can adjust, adapt, and re-commit yourself again and again to moving forward.

You are already strong and capable and experienced. Use that strength to advance life’s goodness, and grow stronger and stronger with each passing day.

Imagine that problems are no longer a problem for you. Imagine that the frustrations no longer frustrate you.

Imagine that you are no longer limited by the limitations. Imagine that the obstacles no longer are able to hold you back.

Now consider this. Your life is the way it is not because of what comes your way, but because of how you respond to it all.

If you can truly imagine that the problems are no problem, that is the way it will be. If you can sincerely imagine that the obstacles cannot hold you back, they won’t.

Are you responding to difficulties by making them even worse? Or are you choosing to imagine yourself improvising, adapting, overcoming and beyond them?

The moment you imagine, it changes nothing except you. However, that is more than enough to completely change your world.

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Going through the dark valley can be difficult, frightening, painful. Yet once you manage to climb out, you’ll be stronger, more inspired, more creative, more energetic.

Challenge is tough, yet you are tougher. Keep going, and get through it.

You’ve benefitted in countless ways from past experience. Soon you’ll have even more of that valuable experience.

When things are too good for too long, you begin to take those good things for granted. A difficult challenge changes all that, making your resources, skills, connections more useful as a result of your renewed appreciation.

Keep going, and get through it. Every day of hardship builds more strength, opens more possibilities.

You are heading toward a place where you can do more than you’ve ever been able to do. Keep going, and you’ll be there soon.

If you catch yourself feeling sorry for yourself you’ve discovered a valuable opportunity. You can transform the negative energy of self-pity into positive energy to improve your situation.

When you’ve been disappointed by life, take a step back and look at the positive value in that disappointment. You have a powerful reason to become more determined than ever before.

Life has its ups and its downs. And you can choose to benefit from both.

Success is not a matter of having everything go your way. Success comes from choosing to find the value in whatever way things go.

Don’t waste your time and energy making judgments about whether you’re having a good day or a bad day. Decide to take whatever comes and make it into an empowered day.

Whatever form it takes, life is always supplying you with the raw material for fulfillment. Make good use of it all to move your life confidently and steadily in the direction of your dreams.

When it seems like everything is breaking down, the time is ripe for a real breakthrough. In turmoil there is great opportunity.

When the only choice is to find a new way forward, you’re in a great position to find that way. When you have nothing left to fall back on, you’ll figure out how to move ahead.

What seems impossible is impossible only from your current perspective. Just beyond impossible is the chance to jump up to a higher level.

Imagine what you could accomplish if you were ten times as effective as you are right now. When circumstances are compelling enough, you are completely capable of making such a leap.

What challenges you, improves you. Whatever challenges you to the extreme can push you into a breakthrough.

Are you ready to move beyond impossible? Make your reasons meaningful enough, so that you have no other choice but to move just beyond impossible.

Every great thing that has ever been achieved has been achieved one moment at a time. There is no other way.

The small, seemingly insignificant moments of each day are the building blocks of greatness and fulfillment. The more respect and sincere presence you give to each moment, the more rich and fulfilling your life will be.

The opportunities in life do not come someday, in some vague and distant future. They are here and they are now.

This hour, on this day, may feel like just a small slice of your life. It is, however, the most important part of your life because it is the part you are now living.

The joy you postpone until later is joy you’ll not ever have the pleasure of experiencing. Work you put off until another time is work that will never get done.

Life is always now, so always live it now. The full extent of life’s richness is now, so make that richness yours. Now.

If there is one thing we’ve come to understand over the last couple of weeks, it is this. The more confused and uncertain the world around us becomes, the more important it is to nurture a real and abiding peace within our hearts. When there is trouble around you, it is more important than ever to have peace within.

Peace is strength at rest. It is high energy without high tension. Those who are strong enough to live in peace and at peace, are the strongest indeed.

Today, and every day, is an opportunity to put the power of peace to work in your life. Though there may be disruption and confusion all around you, with a peaceful heart you can find the strength to make each and every moment more beautiful than the last.

Act from a perspective of genuine peacefulness, and you’ll act with strength, confidence and effectiveness. Hold peace firmly in your heart. Nurture it and let it flow from you, and it will give power to whatever you undertake.

Find your own genuine inner peace and with the strength of that peace you can truly change and enrich your world.

Don’t dwell endlessly on what’s wrong. Do something positive, and change your momentum.

When things are tough and life is unfair, the least effective strategy is to complain about it. The most effective strategy is to get to work.

You’re better than the problems. The way to prove that to yourself and to the world is with your actions.

You deserve to feel like you’re on top of the world, so give yourself what you deserve. Embrace the effort, persist through the challenges, and experience the satisfaction of making a real difference.

Treat every situation as an opportunity for positive and meaningful work. Seize the treasure in every moment by doing something useful with that moment.

Delight your senses and your sense of purpose by jumping into action. Work your way past the disappointments, the upsets and the frustrations and let your actions take you up to a whole new level of fulfillment.

Get up, get out and do whatever it takes to work past the disappointments.

Life is gloriously difficult. The universe is wonderfully complex.

Every new discovery opens the door for even more discoveries. Every challenge you work through enables you to move on to even greater and more fulfilling challenges.

Instead of fighting against the difficulty, celebrate it. Embrace the challenges and you’ll find profound value in them.

Instead of being frustrated and confused by the complexity, dive in and experience its richness. Though you’ll never understand it all completely, you can always understand just a little bit more.

Circumstances change from moment to moment, and life is continually renewed. Even though changes can often be painful, a life with no change at all would be unbearably empty.

With its many ups and downs and twists and turns, life is happening all around you. Remember how truly fortunate you are, take it all in, and make your own special greatness.