Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1102 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Building a Successful Business. Adapted from The Power of Mental Demand, and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The difference between those who achieve mediocre success and those who rise high above it is in this mental resolution, this development of a purpose, this pushing of a business....

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911. 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 1101 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success & Spending Money Wisely. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Nearly all the virtues play about the use of money: honesty, justice, generosity, charity, frugality, forethought, self-sacrifice. The poor person is called to certain great and strenuous virtues, bu...

Listen to episode 1100 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spiritual Lessons of Nature. Edited and adapted from Thoughts are Things by Prentice Mulford. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : You are fortunate if you love trees, especially the wild ones growing where the Great Creative Force has placed them, independent of human care. For all things we call "wild" or "natural" are ne...

Listen to episode 1099 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Letting Divine Love Into Your Life. Adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It is said that Michelangelo saw in every rough block of stone a thing of beauty awaiting the master-hand to bring it into reality. Likewise, within each one of us there reposes the Divine Image awaiting the master-hand of Fai...

Listen to episode 1098 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding the Art of Persuasion. Edited and adapted from the Psychology of Persuasion by William Macpherson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The starting-point of all persuasion, of ourselves or others, is a belief or wish. Holding a certain belief (or desiring that a certain course of action shall be pursued) we set out to justify ou...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911. 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...

Listen to episode 1097 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding Success & How to Achieve It. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Concentration” by William Walker Atkinson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There are elements of genius in every man and woman that if awakened and trained will enable them to do something worthwhile. There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain...

Listen to episode 1096 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Successful at Selling Anything. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We each have in ourselves the potential elements of genius. Our business is to find out how to set them free and get them into effective operation. Remember that a one-talent person working at their highest effi...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice, published in 1942. 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...

Listen to episode 1095 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life of Self-Confidence. Edited and adapted from “You Can. But Will You?” by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Do you know that you will never accomplish anything great unless you not only hold the conviction that victory is your birthright, but also show evidence of it in your face, in your manner and bearing?...

Listen to episode 1094 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Lovers | Valentine’s Day Podcasts. Adapted from the book “Hints for Lovers” by Arnold Haultain. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : THE beginning, the middle, and the end of love — is a sigh. All things point to the infinite; and love more than all things else.  Complex as is the character of love, there are two things which l...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Levels of Living (Essays on Everyday Ideals) by Henry Frederick Cope, 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 ben...

Listen to episode 1093 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Timeless Wisdom of William Blake. Adapted from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake. Podcast Transcript : As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius (which to Angels look like torment and insanity), I collected some of their Proverbs: thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, m...

Listen to episode 1092 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Being a Great Leader. Edited & adapted from “Getting On” by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The leaders of the world (be it in business, science, or the arts) have ever been precedent breakers. Timid people, no matter how able, never make leaders. Fearlessness and originality are characteristic of all l...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes published in 1919. 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 h...

Listen to episode 1091 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character Building & The Law of Reciprocity. Edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We have the power within ourselves to feel, to think, and to act — and it is the use or misuse of this power that makes for character or the lack of it. The ideal person is the individual...

Listen to episode 1090 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stay Young & Full of Life? Edited and adapted from “The Road to Seventy Years Young or The Unhabitual Way” by Emily Bishop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The man or woman, who daily lives up to the habit of the unhabitual, will never become dull, uninteresting, prejudiced — nor as old, in any sense, as they otherwise might be...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman, published in 1919. 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 1089 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Your Inward Life. Adapted from the book “Courage” by Charles Wagner. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We cannot be reminded too often of the necessity of the inward life. Two of the conditions of its development are meditation and solitude. When the noise of the world is stilled, and the dust of the human conflict is diss...

Listen to episode 1088 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why Choosing the Right Friends Matters. Adapted from the book Friendship by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is nothing so important as the choice of friendship; for it both reflects character and affects it. We are known by the company we keep. It is an in- fallible test; for our thoughts, and desires, and ambitions, and...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stillwell, published in 1921.. 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 1087 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Great Accomplishments. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : LIFE has three seasons: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What you did yesterday overlaps into today, and what you do today is carried over into tomorrow. Which is the most important of the three? No sin...

Listen to episode 1086 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Way to True Happiness. Edited and Adapted from Marriage: a Lifelong Honeymoon by Bernarr Macfadden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life, from birth to death, represents an almost continuous struggle for happiness. When the new-born babe first becomes conscious of their surroundings, appropriate food and warmth are about all that are...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922. 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 g...