Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 954 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Fate is in Your Hands. Adapted from the book Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There come times in person's life when they move heaven and earth (figuratively speaking); pray until they can pray no more; sacrifice, perhaps, their money, their health, their prospects, and do everything...

Listen to episode 953 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed & Get What You Want. Edited and adapted from “How to Develop Your Will Power” by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Humanity is the supreme creation. All life, all power, is available to you. The first essential, then, is to realize that you are an invisible, immaterial being, with the innate power to harn...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from a lecture delivered by Neville Goddard in the 1950s. Podcast Excerpt : Your own wonderful human imagination is the actual creative power of God within you. It is your savior. If you were thirsty, water would be your savior. If you needed a...

Listen to episode 952 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons in Gratitude. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Truth” by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Gratitude is being thankful, and then turning that feeling into action. It is the instinctive radiation of justice — giving new life and energy to the individual from whom it emanates. It is the he...

Listen to episode 951 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Forgiveness. Edited & adapted from “The Ideal Made Real” by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The person who finds it easier to forgive than to condemn is on the verge of superior wisdom and higher spiritual power. They have entered the path to real greatness and may rapidly rise on the scale by ap...

Listen to episode 950 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Great Power of Honest Labor. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines and L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Don't live in hope with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves, and put their shoulders to the wheel. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and...

Listen to episode 949 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being Happy & Successful in Any Career. Edited and adapted from How to Get On by Bernard Feeney. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is but one prize worth all the energy of a human soul; and that is a prize which does not depend on the world's favor, and which death cannot snatch from us. The ideal life to which we ought to aspi...

Listen to episode 948 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Nothing Happens By Chance. Edited and adapted from The Kybalion. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The Principle of Cause and Effect embodies the truth that Law pervades the Universe; that nothing happens by Chance; that Chance is merely a term indicating a cause that exists but not readily recognized or perceived; that phenomena is continuo...

Listen to episode 946 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Courtesy. Edited and adapted from How to be Happy Though Civil by E.J. Hardy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : How seldom does one see the well-rounded man, the well-rounded woman, what the ancient Greeks called the harmonious one — that is, someone developed equally in all parts of their nature. In our modern age, one of the a...

Listen to episode 945 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Health, Wealth & Love. Edited and adapted from The Key to Health, Wealth & Love by Julia Seton. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : At some time or another in our lives, we all come to a place where two or more paths open up for us, and we stand at the cross-roads undecided which way to go. There is no friend near to whom we...

Listen to episode 944 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Feel Younger Again. Edited and adapted from Turn Back the Years by Harry J. Gardener. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : If most human beings only knew it, the actual price of youth is the lowest of any "bargain" in all the markets of the world. The purchase price is merely self- analysis and self-change. Why then, one asks, is...

Listen to episode 943 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Karma & The Ultimate Goal of Life. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekenanda. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Ultimately, we find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of character. Good and evil have an equal share, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. In studying the gr...

Listen to episode 942 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being the Best at Anything. Edited and adapted from Up and Doing by C. P. McDonald. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Try enthusiasm on your job . It is the greatest of all pre-requisites of Success. It leads to better things — to the coveted, attainable prizes we strive for. It is enthusiasm that makes us win — achieve — advance — become do...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from a baccalaureate address delivered by John Williamson Nevin in 1853. Listen to the full series by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts/ Podcast Excerpt : Why am I here? Where am I going? What’s the point of it al...

Listen to episode 941 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Key to the Life Worthwhile. Edited and adapted from “The Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is not built to any fixed plan. One ideal will not suffice for all lives. Individuals cannot follow the same guide, because all persons differ and the orbits of their respective lives cannot be the same. Ea...

Listen to episode 940 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Deep & Well. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It is a great art to be able to shut the gates of the mind on retiring to bed, to control oneself, to put oneself in tune with the Infinite, in sympathy with those about you, and in harmony with the world;...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson. Listen to the full series by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts/ Podcast Excerpt : We are searching for pathways to a beautiful life. But often we don’t know where...

Listen to episode 939 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is a Mission - What is Yours?. Edited & adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree on this: that every exist...

Listen to episode 938 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Truth (The Simple Truth About Life). Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan. Podcast Excerpt : Truth is the rock foundation of every great character. It is loyalty to what is right, as we see it. It is the courageous living of our lives in harmony with our ideals. It is always — power. Truth ever d...

Listen to episode 937 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Follow these Rules and Wealth is Guaranteed. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : No one has success until they have an abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness. It is to spring up to meet the day with a thrill at being alive....

Listen to episode 936 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop a Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Review the life of any great individual. You will find that their success was the result, not only of careful study and of perseverance, but, more than all, of the subtle influence of personal...

Listen to episode 935 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Mind Controls Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Your destiny is being created hourly by you. And that something that determines what you are to create at any particular period in time is the sum total of your ideals. Your future is not preordained by some e...

Listen to episode 934 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Better & Larger Life. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : "Living will teach you how to live better than any preacher or book," says Goethe. But what is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a little, here and there; to laugh and pl...

Listen to episode 933 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Character that Powers Success in Life. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It has been said that "Nothing Succeeds Like Success." But what is Success? If we consult the dictionaries, they will give us the etymology of this much used word, and in general terms...

Listen to episode 932 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Choose Your Vocation in Life. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt :To feel the flush of success is to do what you most want to do, and what you can best do. Unless you can do well what you want to do, the fullness of result is impossible. Conversely, un...