Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1068 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Personality and Your Speaking Voice: How to Develop Them by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You may impress people through your physical poise; your refined voice and charm; the jewels of wisdom you have culled from life; but the real test of your power of personality lies in your command of the art of conversation....

Listen to episode 1067 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Uplift Instead of Criticize. Adapted from the book: “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When we realize that to attain even a partial control over our own thoughts is a wonderful achievement (while complete self-mastery borders on the miraculous), the absurdity of trying to regulate...

Listen to episode 1066 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Science of Being Great. Adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, you can develop your own mental faculties. Each one of us has an inherent power by which we may grow in whatsoever d...

Listen to episode 1065 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Work. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. It was from a great person that I learned this principle, and their own life was a practical demonstration of...

Listen to episode 1064 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Self-Pity. Adapted from Health Through Will Power by Dr. James J. Walsh. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Aristotle declared that tragedy purges life, that is, that only through the lens of death and misfortune can one see life free from the dross of the sordid and merely material to which it is attached. His meaning was th...

Listen to episode 1063 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Mistakes in Life. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Realizing mistakes is good; acting on them is better. When a captain finds his vessel is out of the right channel, carried by negligence, by adverse winds, or by blundering through a fog from the true course, he wa...

Listen to episode 1062 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts on Love. Edited and adapted from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When love beckons to you, follow it — though its ways are hard and steep. And when its wings enfold you, yield to it — though its hidden sword may wound you. And when love speaks to you, believe in it — though its voice may...

Listen to episode 1061 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Integrity & Self-Respect | Building Your Personal Brand. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Self-respect is one of the basic ingredients that go to make success. If we lose respect for ourselves, we will sooner or later lose the respect of others. Self-respect is not pr...

Listen to episode 1060 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Be of Good Cheer. Edited and adapted from The Blessing of Cheerfulness by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Everyone carries an atmosphere about them. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in. Or it ma...

Listen to episode 1059 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You are Part of the Great Chain of Life. Adapted Edited and adapted from The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Each individual, busied with their own affairs and blinded by their own interests, is likely to take themselves for granted and forget that they are a part of a great, unbroken proc...

Listen to episode 1058 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Gospel of Good Living | Agnostic Spirituality. Adapted from “What Must We Do to Be Saved” by Robert G. Ingersoll. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt :I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness; the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care o...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. 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 podca...

Listen to episode 1057 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World is Calling You | Uplifting Podcasts. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The monument of success is but a collection of little successes, a gathering together of small things well done. If you stand in the majesty, and dignity, and glory of your personality, with...

Listen to episode 1056 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The True Meaning & Power of Freedom. Edited and adapted from Where Dwells the Soul Serene by Stanton Davis Kirkham. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : To explore the unknown regions of the mind, to seek that shining land where dwells the Soul, serene — here is a work worthy of the true explorer's mettle. Let us explore this world of...

Listen to episode 1055 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Edited and adapted from A Gentle Heart by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Cheerfulness is a prime secret of health. It keeps one well. It keeps one young. It is one of the secrets of youth. The philosopher Swedenborg once said that in heaven the oldest angels are the youngest. All life ther...

Listen to episode 1054 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for a Beautiful Life. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Beautiful lives have blossomed in the darkest places, just as pure white lilies full of fragrance do on the slimy, stagnant waters. No possession is so productive of real influence as a highly cu...

Listen to episode 1053 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Public Speaking | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from the book Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It does not matter whether you want to be a public speaker or not. A person should have such complete control of themselves, should be so self-reliant and self-poised, that...

Listen to episode 1052 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Master Mind | Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of wealth—in any form. PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient power to translate them into ACTION. Today I will describe the method by...

Listen to episode 1051 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is the Great School. Edited & adapted from “The School of Life” by Henry van Dyke. Uplifting Podcast Excerpt : Life itself is the great school. Facts are teachers. Experiences are lessons. Friends are guides. Work is a master. Love is an interpreter. Teaching itself is a method of learning. Joy carries a divining rod and discover...

Listen to episode 1041 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Your Self-Confidence. Edited from adapted from “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Have confidence in yourself. Believe in your ability to do big things. Only by having faith in yourself, can you compel others to have faith in you. Think big thoughts and back them up with big deeds...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Levels of Living by Henry Frederick Cope. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. 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 fu...

Listen to episode 1040 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Concentration and Meditation. Edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Swami Paramananda. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : WE all possess the faculty of concentration, but with the majority it is instinctive and automatic, not conscious. Even among the animals, we see how a lion or tiger will gather their strength by a momen...

Listen to episode 1039 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Wisdom to Meditate Upon. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : You want to know you can get the most out of life? How you can keep from having that sense of dissatisfaction when going to bed at night? How you can have, instead, that feeling of contentment, that the...

Listen to episode 1038 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Inspirational Wisdom of Aristotle. Edited and adapted from a classic book of essays by Stephen Paget. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : This much I remember of Aristotle, that he calls Wonder the beginning of the love of Wisdom. To have a right judgment of our surroundings, we must wonder at them, and be surprised that they and we are m...

Listen to episode 1037 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success & The True Test of Character. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The great test of individual character is not struggle, but attainment; not failure, but success; not adversity, but prosperity. When Nature wants to put you through the third degree, she places near you th...