Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 995 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Without self-reliance no one can succeed in the largest way. Self-reliance breeds courage, faith, determination, never-say-dieness. Self-reliance inspires a person to do the best that is in them. Without...

Listen to episode 994 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Keep Learning & Growing. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Ralph Albert Parlette. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Let me not hear you complain about growing old. We are not growing old; we are growing eternally young. All our life up to today has been merely preparation for today. This is the greatest, wisest, happiest...

Listen to episode 993 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Energy, Authenticity & Character | Mind Power. Adapted from The Positive Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Before anything can be accomplished we must have power. It takes power to work, to do business, to enjoy, to think, to live. Mental energy backs all action. If we lack it, we cannot expect...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the Ancient Mexican Code of Moral Precepts Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The individual who offends their Divine spark will die miserable, and it will be their own fault. Honor and salute the aged. Console the poor and afflicted by thy...

Listen to episode 992 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Adults | Life Coach Lessons. Edited and adapted from Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : A life is divine when duty is a joy. The best work we ever do is the work we get pleasure from doing. And the work we are likeliest to enjoy most is the work we are best fitted to do wit...

Listen to episode 991 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Your Life Count | Motivational Speeches. Edited and adapted from “Ambition and Success” by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Everywhere we see men and women doing the lower, the commoner things, seemingly satisfied to do them all their lives, when they have the ability to do the higher. Many people do not start out...

Listen to episode 990 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming a Creative Writer | Learning to See Again. Adapted from Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The genius keeps, for all their days, the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in its expanding world. Many of US keep this wide-eyed interest well into adolescence; but very few...

Listen to episode 989 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating the Best Attitude of Mind. Adapted from Thinking for Results by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Every moment therefore should be filled with contentment and perfect satisfaction. And every moment should also be filled with a strong desire for still greater achievements. In such a mental state (where contentmen...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the work of Neville Goddard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Prayer is an art and requires practice. The first requirement is a controlled imagination. Ostentation and vain repetitions are foreign to prayer. Its exercise requires tranquil...

Listen to episode 988 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have Success at Any Age. Edited and adapted from “Self-Control: It’s Kingship & Majesty” by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : If we honestly seek to live our best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of our living, and no trifle in our lives can be too insignificant to reflect this pri...

Listen to episode 987 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The little things in life are not to be dismissed. Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those who dare lose a day, are dangerously profligate; those who dare...

Listen to episode 986 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Started with a Purpose Driven Life. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Individuals may be divided in many ways, but there is no clearer cut division than between those who have a purpose and those who are without one. It is the character of the purpose that at las...

Listen to episode 985 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Make Your Life Extraordinary. Adapted from Concentration: The Road To Success by Henry Harrison Brown. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Remember to always mind your own business. Any argument or antagonism, is minding another person’s business. All persons have an equal right as you to think and act as prompted from within. In...

Listen to episode 985 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Cultivating the Power of Imagination. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON, published in 1913. Inspirational Podcast Transcript :The imagination requires more than mere perception. The things perceived must be remembered. A thing that we have forgotten — lost out of the conscious mind — cannot be used as m...

Listen to episode 984 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering Anxiety, and Worry. Adapted from the book Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The monster of worry dogs us from the cradle to the grave. There is no occasion so sacred but it is there. Unbidden it comes to the wedding and the funeral alike. It is at every reception, every banquet; it occu...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, published in 1908. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : What the mystics know as "the Law of Paradox" is an aspect of the Principle of Polarity. Mystical writings are filled with references to Paradox...

Listen to episode 983 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Gaining the Youthful Edge (At Any Age). Edited and Adapted from Turn Back the Years by Harry J. Gardener. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Spontaneity is one of the prime points in being youthful. The minute you settle permanently into the same easy chair to watch the same TV show, wearing the same pajamas and pair of slippers, the same lam...

Listen to episode 982 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get a Real Education (Individuality). Edited & adapted from Every Man His Own University by Russell H. Conwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : A distinct university walks about under each person’s hat. The only men and women who achieve success in the other universities of the world, and in the larger university of life, are th...

Listen to episode 981 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Grief, Sorrow & Pain | Finding Faith. Edited and adapted from Comfort by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : THE world is full of men and women who are carrying burdens of work or care or sorrow, and the burden often seems too heavy for them to bear. The sorest part of the trouble is that it appears meaningless, with...

Listen to episode 980 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spiritual Power of Words. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : One of the principal mediums through which mind acts upon mind, is that of words, spoken or written. Words are the representatives of ideas; the outward manifestation of thought; the symbols of our hidden spiritual po...

Listen to episode 979 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Prosperity Mindset. Edited and adapted from a lecture that was delivered by Harriet Hale Rix, at the Hotel Brighton, Washington, D. C., in 1914. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : I would like to make a statement here at the very beginning and have you plant this statement, this idea, in your heart as you would a seed: to grow. My...

Listen to episode 978 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Breaking from What Holds You Down. Adapted Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is a fight, a worthwhile battle, but mainly with the elements in one's own self. An understanding of self (with all its moods, possibilities and powers), is the first step towards self-achievement. But more...

Listen to episode 976 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living Life No Regrets. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our f...

Listen to episode 975 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Your Day Started Right. Edited and adapted from Byways of Blessedness by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is full of beginnings. They are presented every day and every hour to every person. Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life. --...

Listen to episode 974 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of the Generous Nature. Edited and adapted from Our Sunday Talks by James J. Owen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : One source of almost unlimited trouble in this world is in not knowing when we are well off. Our happiness depends too much on what we suppose others may think of us, and too little on what we really think of ourselv...