Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Listen to episode 1036 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Life. Adapted from work by Elbert Hubbard that appears in The American Bible by Alice Hubbard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The secret, which I am about to tell you, is the most valuable and far-reaching of any known to human kind. It is the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is the open sesame to Paradi...

Listen to episode 1035 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming the Person You are Meant to Be. Adapted from the book Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. Give less time trying to change the opinions of others, and more time trying to improve your own life. Life become...

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Listen to episode 1034 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Successful Artists & Writers. Adapted from the book “Work” by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpts : The place of habit in life can hardly be overestimated. Habit works a groove for us into which we fall easily, and in which we move swiftly, so that the great bulk of our actions are done automatically, and the whol...

Listen to episode 1033 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Be Successful. The Power of Mental Demand, and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : COURAGE is the fundamental fact of success. It makes us strong in doing what we have resolved upon. Courage gives persistence, banishes weakness, displaces vacillation with steadiness of purpose, resolves doubt....

Listen to episode 1032 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Conquering Your Self-Doubt. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : Doctors say that the human frame is never called upon to suffer more pain than it can bear. If the pain grows beyond the limit of human endurance, we lapse into unconsciousness. The same is true of the mind. Nothing is ask...

Listen to episode 1031 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Purpose. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The woman and man who knows one thing, and can do it better than anybody else (even if it only be the art of raising turnips), receives the crown they merit. If they raise the best turnips by reason of concentrating a...

Listen to episode 1030 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Great Life is Beckoning You. Edited and adapted from Out Into Life by Douglas Horton. Inspirational Podcasts : At school you have studied sections of life — its literature, its science, its history, etc. — but now you must look at life as a whole. You must ask yourself the colossal question which marks the entrance into true adulthood:...

Listen to episode 1029 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Procrastination. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : "If I had the time!" That is the sorry cry coming from the lips of tens of thousands unhappy persons of all classes and ages. But the saddest feature of it all is, that they have the time and do not...

Listen to episode 1028 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Qualities of Genius | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman, published in 1909. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Helvetius, the famous French philosopher, says: "Genius is nothing but a continued attention," and Buffon tells us that "genius is only a protracted patience."...

Listen to episode 1027 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers. Edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The word "skeptic" is from the Greek. Its root meaning is "one who is looking for the truth," "who is thoughtful," "who considers," "an inquirer af...

Listen to episode 1026 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop Your Memory to Achieve Success. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : THE value of any person to themselves and to the world at large depends in great degree upon their memory — upon your ability to recall and to use at any desired moment the recollection of...

Listen to episode 1025 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Albert Einstein: Inspirational Wisdom and Quotes. Edited and adapted from the writings of Albert Einstein. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : “A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of op...

Listen to episode 1024 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Our Duty to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, published in 1911. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts me...

Listen to episode 1023 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life Hacks: Turning Bad News Into Good. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life. We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look forward to receiving the fruits o...

Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success. Adapted from the book Success is For You by Dorothy Quigley. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Try to see how the laws of nature work and be an optimist. Be a liberal, tolerant one. The jokester says, “A pessimist is one who has met an optimist.” That's a fine hint not to make your optimism to...

Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Pain & Sorrow. Edited & adapted from The Path to Prosperity by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Is there no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, and abiding peace a foolish dream? No, there is a way, and I...

Listen to episode 1020 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World as Looking Glass. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The world is full of looking-glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective (so that the image fails to do us justice), but, more or les...

Listen to episode 1019 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Success Habits of Money & Time. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The vast majority of people who have risen from obscurity to power, and from power to affluence, have done so by careful and systematic improvement of the spare moments of their lives. "Time is mone...

Listen to episode 1018 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 3 | Success Habits & Incentives. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When it comes to building good habits, don’t overlook the habit of success. Yes, there is such a thing. Make it a customary habit to surmount difficulties...

Listen to episode 1017 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 2 | MIT Lectures. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making, and keeping friends, the next resource that I want to see upon...

Listen to episode 1016 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt.. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We should also cultivate in ourselves a heightened taste for the pleasure which results from kindne...

Listen to episode 1015 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Science of Being Great. Edited and adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind. The hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. Whenever you fall into a mental state of hurry,...

Listen to episode 1014 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Qualities of Great Leaders | Leadership Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as a leader and the other are followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader...