Thursday, May 28, 2026

A little initiative

Do one thing exceptionally well and experience how good it feels. That provides powerful motivation to do more.

You’ll boost your energy, improve your outlook, and generate enthusiasm that didn’t exist before. Then you can build on that enthusiasm and make it even stronger.

It’s great when you receive encouragement from others. Yet you cannot always depend on that.

What you can do, anytime you choose, is provide encouragement to yourself. And you can do so in a way that is powerful, genuine, and impossible to ignore.

There’s nothing more affirmative than watching your own actions and habits as you create solid, valuable results. Doing one small good thing can lead to another and another, bigger and bigger, if you’ll simply set the process in motion.

Take a little initiative, create a little momentum. Then hold on to it as it grows, and don’t let go.

— Ralph Marston

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