Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 888 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living. Edited and adapted from As Ithers (Others) See Us by John Thomas Huddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : As a general rule, we are as ignorant of our power as a horse tied to a post is of its strength. Under the influence of passion or fear, the horse snaps the rein like a thread. In its newly- a...

Listen to episode 887 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Multiple Your Mental Power. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : No life is really happy until it is helpful, is really successful, until it is radiant with joy and gladness, the gladness of good cheer, of goodwill toward everybody, of the spirit of camaraderie toward al...

Listen to episode 886 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Discouragement | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Many people throw away their chance in life because of discouragement. But, I hear some of you asking, “Okay, so how can we keep from being discouraged? When the way is hard, when the burde...

Listen to episode 885 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live Up to Your Full Potential. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It is a rare thing to find a person who is really masterful in their personality, masterful in what they undertake; who approaches their task with the assurance of a conqueror; who is able to grapple vi...

Listen to episode 884 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Master Your Fate. Edited and adapted from Mastery of Fate by Christian D. Larson. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : What you are, and what you do, determines in what conditions, circumstances, and environments you shall be placed. And since you can change yourself and your actions, you can determine what your fate is to be. To change y...

Listen to episode 883 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Begin to Make Your Life Interesting | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When you become conscious of your talents, and have begun to develop them, you begin to discover the pleasure of using them. To the person who is mentally active, everything in life is int...

Listen to episode 882 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Understanding What Success Really Is. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : In this age of big things, we are inclined to regard success as synonymous only with the higher walks of life, with great achievements. Success (in the minds of some people) is something which is only given for the fo...

Listen to episode 881 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Success Never Comes Without This. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Every woman and man in this world is created differently. No two are alike. Therefore, the nature, the thoughts, the character, and the capacity of one person is utterly unlike that of another. What one person can underst...

Listen to episode 880 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Best Ways to Stay Happy. Edited and adapted from Keep Happy by Eustace Miles. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It is so easy to say to others, or to ourselves, “Keep happy”. But how do we keep happy? Here are a few of many helps. People will sometimes ask, "What about trying circumstances? How can we keep happy in them, whether they...

Listen to episode 879 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Fear | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Fear makes you feel paralyzed. Ignore it. Rise up and ACT, and you will see how little power your fears really have. Fear is but a paltry stage-trick hypnotist. You cannot be hypnotized if you refuse to look...

Listen to episode 879 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Work, Play & Keeping a Youthful Spirit. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Your life must be organized. The very planets in the heavens demonstrate this law, and thereby prove that the universe could not be sustained if it were not for the potent principle of Order. In the Di...

Listen to episode 878 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Achieving the Right Kind of Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The person who would be successful in the battle of life, must be prepared to be tested and tried in every possible way. The one who survives them all is built up in character in almost every...

Listen to episode 877 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quality that Makes or Breaks You. Edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Trust me, my friends; there is one person whose honest good opinion is worth more to your peace of mind than all the world. That person is yourself. So, while you are striving honorably to win and to r...

Listen to episode 876 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the Days of Our Life Great. Edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The years of a tree's life can be counted by the rings in its woody trunk. And, by looking at how these annual growths differ in thickness, we can tell or guess what years were friendly or backward, warm...

Listen to episode 875 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Be the Best and Receive the Best. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The first essential is to create a cheerful world in the imagination. Picture in your mind the brightest states of existence that you can think of, and impress joy upon your mind at all times. Feel jo...

Listen to episode 874 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Attract the Good Things of Life. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When things are not to your liking, like them as they are. In other words, while you are working for greater things, make friends with the lesser things, and they will help you to reach your goal. The...

Listen to episode 873 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Amazing Power of Your Sub-Conscious Mind. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : A good way of starting the use of the sub-conscious mind is to hold the problem in your mind just as you are going to sleep. There must not be any attempt made to solve the problem or worry...

Listen to episode 872 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Use Your Inner Power. Edited and adapted from Find and Use Your Inner Power by Emmet Fox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The moment you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, you should reject it instantly. Immediately switch your attention to something positive, something rejuvenating. Do not stop to say “good- bye” to the er...

Listen to episode 871 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Sure Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Blessed is the woman and man who really knows what they want, and who bravely sets themselves on a course to get it. You will be surprised to discover (when you consider the matter) that there are many good...

Listen to episode 870 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Your Fears. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The worst waste of energy in human life is caused by that fatal habit of anticipating evil, of fearing what the future has in store for us. And under no circumstances can the fear or worry be justified by the...

Listen to episode 869 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make the Most Your Opportunities. Edited and adapted from As Others (Ithers) See Us by John Thomas Huddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Some people seem to be preordained to be lucky and successful, regardless of what they do, and others preordained to be failures, no matter how hard they try. This is all wrong. There is no such...

Listen to episode 868 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Secret of the Great Life | Spiritual Podcasts. Edited and adapted from In the Light of the Spirit by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We are not here to drift with the stream or to fold our arms passively and say that we will let the best come to pass. The truth is, that if there be anything we want, we must work fo...

Listen to episode 867 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Winning the Challenge of Life. Edited and adapted from The Challenge of Life by Charles Forrest Moore. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When I look back over the years of my eventful, if yet unprofitable, life, I believe that not a single day nor hour of it has been lived in strict accordance with my original intent. I have not only been su...

Listen to episode 866 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Your Life is Yet to Be! Edited and adapted from Life’s Byways and Waysides by J.R. Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The best of life is yet to be! And the way to reach the better things is by forgetting the things that are behind us, and to always reach forward to the things which are ahead. Of course, there is a proper...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Heart of New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1902. Podcast Excerpt : NEVER say that you wish your situation were different! Never wish you had some other person's life, troubles, or worries. Accept your own as a working basis, the life that is best for you. Then go ahead and change whatever displeases you....