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The Daily Motivator message for
Monday, February 16, 2026

Create your own future

There’s no need to wait or hope for life to go your way. Get your own thoughts and actions going your way and the other things in life are sure to follow along.

Rather than depending on factors outside your control, take a positive, active role in creating your own future. Instead of worrying about what might or might not happen, work to make what does happen the best you can imagine.

Your choices exert a major influence on the way your life unfolds. Before you become a victim of circumstance, look for how you can utilize each circumstance for meaningful, positive purposes.

Though you can’t control much of what happens in the world around you, you are able to choose how you respond to it all. Make the choice, again and again, to make the best of the situations you encounter.

Take what comes, whatever it may be, with gratitude and positive expectations. Do what you must to make something good out of it.

Follow the way forward that is always there. You can contribute something useful, valuable and positive, so do it, and get life going your way.