Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1119 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Prepare the Mind for Sleep. Edited and Adapted from the book The Victorious Attitude by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Would you not think yourself fortunate to have an assistant of great ability who was available free of charge, day and night, and so susceptible to instructions that even your slightest mental...

Listen to episode 1118 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Thoughts Build Your Destiny. Edited & adapted from the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The world is your kaleidoscope. The varying color combinations are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. You are literally what you think, your character being the complete sum of...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from How to Be Happy by Grace Gold, published in 1893. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to htt...

Listen to episode 1117 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being Alive. Edited & adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Stop wondering why you were born into this world. Stop looking for faults and flaws. Rise up today with joy and say, “I am going to be alive!" In every thousand people who are living on this earth,...

Listen to episode 1116 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Majesty of Calmness. Adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self- controlled. Calmness is singlen...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Making the Most of Life by J. R. Miller, published in 1891. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by go...

Listen to episode 1115 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Intelligent Union of Body and Mind. Edited & adapted from the book How to Get What You Want by Dr. Orison Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Modern science has proved that intelligence is not confined to the brain cells, but that we think as a whole, that all cell life takes part in the thinking process. Scientists tell us th...

Listen to episode 1114 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Hints on Common Politeness. Edited & adapted from a book by the same title by D.C. Colesworthy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We have fallen on singular times. Who has any true regard for the rights of their neighbor? Where can a really polite person be found? If we do not actually spit in the faces of our friends, we are, every day...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to...

Listen to episode 1113 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Despite Our Handicaps. Adapted from the book “A Cheerful Philosophy for Thoughtful Invalids” by William Horatio Clarke. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Remember that our journey through life is much like that of a journey across the Atlantic. While we are on the ship, we place our lives in the care of the captain, in the expect...

Listen to episode 1112 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Seeing Life as an Artist. Adapted from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Art is creative. The artist is a co-worker with the Divine. To our hands is committed the portion of the world which the universe has left unfinished — the immediate environment of humankind. We cannot live in the fields and wo...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from New Thought Common Sense by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1908. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons recei...

Listen to episode 1111 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in Your Business Startup. Edited and adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It does not matter whether you are selling the products of your own hands and imagination, or those of others, or whether you are selling knowledge and expertise, your business must eventually be an ex...

Listen to episode 1110 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Please & Fascinate Others. Edited and adapted from The Man Who Pleases and The Woman Who Fascinates by John Albert Cone. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The woman and man who pleases and fascinates is never mean or small in their disputes, never insinuate evil which they dare not say out loud. They have too much good sense to b...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons rec...

Listen to episode 1109 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Listening & Remembering. Adapted from “Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It” by William Walker Atkinson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Before the memory can be stored with sight impressions — before the mind can recollect or remember such impressions — the eye must be used under the direction of our attention. We thi...

Listen to episode 1108 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Anxiety & Regrets. Edited and adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Every bit of pain that has happened to you has brought its experience to you — you are better, wiser and broader for it. Look at it in that way, and you will cease to mourn and wail and wring yo...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller, published in 1896. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by...

Listen to episode 1107 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Greatness? | Success Podcasts. Adapted from “A Philosophy of Success” by Henry Wise Wood. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : What is greatness? This may seem both commonplace and easily answered, but I assure you that it is neither. I speak from the standpoint of admiration of those who make a practical success of their lives: who ad...

Listen to episode 1106 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Nature of Friendship & the Spiritual Life. Adapted from the book Friendship by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is bigger than any relationship, and covers more ground. The circles of life may intersect, and part of each be common to the other, but there will be an area on both sides exclusive to each. And even if...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller, published in 1896. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by...

Listen to episode 1105 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Need for Education Reform. Adapted from the essay “What’s the Matter with Education?” by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Sometime in the years of the future, we shall look back on the education system of the 20th and early 21st century with the same feeling of revulsion as we now regard the superstitions of the...

Listen to episode 1104 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Love is the Great Educator. Adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Love is the great educator, the great unfolder of youth. As the sun is the only thing that will bring out the exquisite beauty of fruits and flowers, so love is the only thing that will develop the sweetness and the beauty of the ch...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz, published in 1923. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive b...

Listen to episode 1103 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering Your Energy for Success. Edited & adapted from a book of the same title by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Energy is one of the primary forces: without it nothing can be accomplished. It is the basic element in all forms of action. The entire universe is a manifestation of tireless energy. Energy is, indeed, lif...