Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

If you missed my Success Mindset webinar with Blisspot on June 15th, you can watch a recorded replay at: LivingHour.org/webinar Due to temporary laryngitis brought on by Covid 19, today's episode is the rebroadcast of a reading from 2016. I should be able to resume new readings next week. Listen to episode 691 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Ideal Made Real | Transformational Mindset....

I have temporarily lost my voice due to Covid-19, so today's podcast is the rebroadcast of an early reading from 2016. Listen to episode 690 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts About Life. Edited and Adapted from the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Some people say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “No, sorrow is the greater.” B...

Listen to episode 688 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering Discouragement & Anger. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Wilmot Henry Wheeler. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I’d like to start today with a special announcement. Tomorrow (Wednesday the 15 th ) I am going to be conducting a Success Mindset Masterclass with Blisspo...

Listen to episode 687 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Habits for a Successful Life. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Frank Everit Mitchell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There are at least three kinds of people in the world: 1) those who do not know how to succeed, and do not think it worth their trouble to learn; 2) those who know how but fail because they do not li...

Listen to episode 686 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Reaching Your Utopia | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Frank Everit Mitchell. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : True success is not the result of luck, guess, or chance. It is the ripened fruit of persistent industry wedded to intelligent conception. And the reason why so few of those who try succeed is...

Listen to episode 685 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make a Decision Today | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is one habit which you should cultivate, not only for its usefulness in general, but especially for its value in developing true decision of character. That is, the habit...

Listen to episode 684 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for the Courageous Life. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : The world owes much to its women and men and of courage. I do not mean physical courage, but the courage that displays itself in silent effort and endeavor — that dares to endure all,...

Listen to episode 682 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Art of Self-Control. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerp t: A strong temper is not necessarily a bad temper. But the stronger the temper, the greater the need for self-discipline and self- control. It is not our faults that ruin us, so much as...

Listen to episode 681 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Hard Times Into Blessings. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Transcript : You may go to school all your life and yet be a dunce. Your head may be a library stuffed with book knowledge, yet you may not know enough to hoe a hill of beans. You may lack that...

Listen to episode 679 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Path of Cheerfulness | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The influence that a cheerful person has on others is almost limitless. You probably have known people within whose company you felt uplifted, amiable and hopeful, equal t...

Listen to episode 667 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Putting Your Fears Behind You. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The person who knows how to face their fear has the best chance of being happy, for fear ruins happiness. Thus it’s important to teach our children how to conquer fear. We cannot rid our children of fears by teachi...

Listen to episode 665b of the Inspirational Living podcast: Maintaining Lifelong Health & Youthfulness. Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Remember that health is a normal condition in your life, and nature does everything she can to keep you in this normal condition, and to restore you to it when you depart from the norm. All is un...

Listen to episode 665 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Way to Happiness | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The failure of many people to make a success of life is due to their blindness to the fact that living is an art, to be learned like any other art, adding skill to natural endowment until...

Listen to episode 662 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Change Your Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Motivational Podcast Transcript : There are two kinds of food: the kind that gives the body strength and beauty, and the kind that simply enables it to eke out a mere existence. And so there are two kinds of reading matter: the k...

Listen to episode 658 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Being Cheerful Will Change Your Life. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a tremendous amount of satisfaction and pleasure to be got out of the hardest journey through life. The secret of finding it is to make Cheerfulness a c...

Listen to episode 657 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Choosing Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt :All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticements. Roa...

Listen to episode 656 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is no cure for the unhappiness of regret, or the sorrow of bereavement, that is so effective as a well-defined purpose. Misery cannot live with resolution. As soon as we “make up our minds,” relief comes. A...

Listen to episode 654 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Happy & Get Things Done. Adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : “I HAVE no time,” that is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something; it is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth. Is it a good excuse?...

Listen to episode 653 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : It is a superb faith (greater than any obstacle) that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human ende...

Listen to episode 652 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Self-Faith & Confidence. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Self-Help Podcast Excerpt : Faith is an optimist because it sees the way out. Doubt is a pessimist because it cannot see the way ahead, and it’s afraid because it can’t cope with the uncertain. Faith opens the door of abil...

Listen to episode 651 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Your Life in Tune | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is an orchestra, and your mind is the instrument. No matter how you use your mind, in whatever vocation you choose, you cannot afford to start your concert without getting it in tun...

Listen to episode 646 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. If you want to relieve stress & anxiety, sleep better, or improve your focus, visit today's sponsor Headspace. Go to https://headspace.com/happiness to get 1 month free access to their entire library of meditations. In...

Listen to episode 645 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We all come into life bringing with us a heritage of fears, many of which we outgrow, while others hold us in life-long bondage. It is always ignorance that is the mother of fear, and thus every...

Listen to episode 644 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The problem with most of us is that we don’t have confidence in our own selves, in our own ability and powers. We belittle ourselves and constantly underrate our abilities. If we are give...

Listen to episode 643 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The task set before every individual is this: "Work out your own salvation," physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually. The assurance of ultimate victory is found in the trut...