Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 642 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 2) | New Year’s Motivation. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : Last time we talked about the importance of self-discovery. The great problem is how to get at the force in the great within of ourselves, and then to put it to work to the best...

Listen to episode 641 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 1) | New Year’s Motivation. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : There is a legend that when God was equipping man and woman for their life-journey of exploration, the attendant angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete sati...

Listen to episode 640 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Feast of St. Friend | Christmas Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Friendship & Happiness by Arnold Bennett. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Children divide their adult acquaintances into two categories—those who sympathize with them in this bizarre and trying adventure called life; and those who don't. The second category is th...

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! This special Christmas Eve episode was edited and adapted from the famous Christmas editorial written by Francis Pharcellus Church, published in The New York Sun in 1897. Podcast Transcript : Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. My daddy told me to write and ask you. Please tell me the truth, is there a...

Listen to episode 635 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Affirmations Can Do & Can’t Do. Edited and adapted from The Life Power and How to Use it by Elizabeth Towne. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Merely repeating affirmations like "I Am Successful" will do little to help you. We must think the things we desire, and we must put our shoulder to the wheel. However, the person who...

Listen to episode 630 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Attractive Power of Enthusiasm. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson. Visit my new website, promoting the area where I have a home in Thailand: Sakon Nakhon . Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : You often have heard the word "Enthusiasm" used. You have used it often yourself. But have you ever th...

Listen to episode 629 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatest Opportunity Open for All. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The value of an individual life is not measured by the quantity of possessions, but by the quality of existence. The value of life comes not from having much, but from being much. And happiness is invar...

Listen to episode 628 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Abundance and the Secret Power of Gratitude. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The grateful mind is constantly looking for the best — thus holding its attention upon the best and daily growing into the likeness of the best. The grateful mind expects only good things, and wil...

Listen to episode 627 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Right Kind of Determination for Success in Life. Prosperity Through Thought Force by Bruce MacLelland. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Some people think they are determined when they are really only bullheaded. Determination is a quality that shouldn’t be confused with stubbornness — that fierce dominating desire to ride roughshod over...

Listen to episode 626 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Thought Power & The Law of Attraction. Prosperity Through Thought Force by Bruce MacLelland. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : You have the right to enjoy life, to follow the occupation you choose, to do as you please, so long as you injure no one, either in thought or action. This is your natural condition, and nothing but the action of...

Listen to episode 625 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the Doors of Opportunity Fly Open. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is an indefinable power in fine manners which unconsciously, irresistibly, and instantaneously wins admiration. Give a person courtesy and accomplishments, an...

Listen to episode 624 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Were Made to Be an Original. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Don’t be a copy. The dreamers are the builders. The woman and man with an idea has ever changed the face of the world. Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon....

Listen to episode 623 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Make Today a Red Letter Day in Your Life. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When someone asked the great sculptor Herbert Ward the name of his best work, his masterpiece, the artist replied, “My next one”. The only way to make life a master...

Listen to episode 622 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building a Foundation for Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The foundation of all success, and of all happiness, lies in robust health. Health means confidence and assurance. It means hope and courage. It means faith in one...

Listen to episode 621 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Fulfilling Your Needs for a Better Life. Spunk: How to Look Fear by David V. Bush. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The more needs you have, the more should be your accomplishments in the future. Needs are Nature’s way of pushing you up, up, and up. What are your needs? The more your needs, the more Nature grants you the dynamic urge and in...

Listen to episode 620 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Developing the Prosperity Habit. Spunk: How to Look Fear by David V. Bush. Motivational Podcast Transcript : We get what we sow. If we sow corn, we get it. If we sow wheat, wheat is what we harvest. If we sow briar patches, briar patches are what will spring up. We get the thing we expect to get; therefore, you must create, maintain, and h...

Listen to episode 619 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Life & This Amazing World of Ours. Edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The Seven Wonders of the World are by no means the most wonderful things in the world. The wonders of life are abundant among familiar, every-day matters. Perhaps the most amazing, baffling, mysterious thing in...

Listen to episode 618 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Becoming Rich and Full of Life. Edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Have you lost your money? Has your business failed? Is poverty staring you in the face? Are you up against the wall, unsure of which way to turn? Do you sit and brood? Is despair your companion? Go on! Move forward! T...

Listen to episode 617 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Becoming Rich and Full of Life. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : Give us riches! Rich hearts to love mightily; rich brains to think boldly; rich hands to work skillfully; rich bodies to live healthily; riches of culture to keep us out of the bogs of barbarism; riches of m...

Listen to episode 616 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Manifesting Your Inner World to the Outer. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : To change your fate, begin with yourself. If the environment in which you live is beneath your ideal, nothing can be gained by leaving that environment until the way is opened naturally to better th...

Listen to episode 615 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living Consciously for Greater Possibilities Ahead. Edited and adapted from Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today I would like to share with you one of our earliest episodes, back in 2017. It’s been edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Wald...

Listen to episode 614 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Creating Your Ideal Surroundings. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : If the surroundings in which you live are not what you wish them to be, know that you can change them. You can make those surroundings ideal. You can make those surroundings better and better at every step i...

Listen to episode 613 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Visualization & Building a Powerful Personal Atmosphere. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : All things have an individual atmosphere. Our atmosphere is created by our actions — by our material existence. We create it by our life, thoughts, and deeds. The hateful person...

Listen to episode 612 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Live and Grow Young. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Ralph Waldo Emerson said that we do not count a person’s years until they have nothing else to count. So keep on moving, keep on achieving, and give the world something else to count. From time immemorial humanity has...

Listen to episode 606 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Are a Mental Magnet | The Law of Attraction. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : What we think most about is constantly weaving itself into the fabric of our career. It is becoming a part of ourselves, increasing the power of our mental magnet to attract those things...