Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Potential for improvement

There’s a continuing opportunity present in your life. On any day, in every situation, you have great potential for improvement.

That doesn’t mean there’s anything particularly wrong with you or the way you live right now. It does mean you can always increase your effectiveness and fine-tune your focus on bringing new goodness into being.

How do you identify that potential and the specific ways to fulfill it? Look at the world around you, and notice the problems you see.

The reason you’re able to notice an external problem is because the problem has some degree of resonance within you. So ask yourself, what actions, habits, and priorities can you adopt in your own life as a positive response to that problem?

In so doing, you have the power to improve not only your own situation but also the lives of those around you. You are putting into practice the well-known admonition to be the change you wish to see in the world.

In a time when so many are so intent on telling others what they should do, the most powerful, accessible way to improve the world still is to improve yourself. Devote time and energy to fulfilling your own great potential, and you raise life itself to a more positive place, time after time.

— Ralph Marston

Driving purpose       Effort after effort

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