Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 754 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Keeping Fit in Mind & Body | Greatness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Always ask yourself, “What is there in this thing I am going to do which will add to my lifework, increase my power, keep me in superb condition to do the best thing possible to me?”

There is nothing which pays greater dividends than self-investment; keeping yourself up to standard by buttressing your health in every possible way and using the utmost care and exactitude in regimen, in work habits, and in life habits.

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to episode 753 of the Inspirational Living podcast: There is Nothing Impossible in Life. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When it comes to human accomplishment, the power of will is the greatest power in the world. In fact, no person can determine the limits of any individual mind; neither can they foretell the limits of human endeavor. The accomplishments of today would appear as positive impossibilities to those who lived ages ago. A safe maxim for the future thus might be: "There is nothing that is impossible."

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to episode 752 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Temple of Your Mind. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest accomplishments of the finest character is the ability to order the mind and to exclude from it all the enemy thoughts — thoughts that bring friction and discord into the life, thoughts that depress, that stunt, that darken. No mind can do good work when clouded with unhappy or vicious thoughts. The mental sky must be clear or there can be no enthusiasm; no brightness, clearness, or efficiency in our mental work.

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. 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 over 700 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.

Today's episode was edited and adapted from Making the Most of Life by J. R. Miller, published in 1891.

Listen to episode 751 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Character is Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The process of character-formation involves the action and inter-action of many forces. The totality of a life, at any moment, is the product mainly of little things: trifling choices, insignificant exercises of will, unimportant acts often repeated, things seemingly of minor account — but these are the thousand tiny sculptors that are carving away continuously at the rough block of life, giving it shape and features.

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to episode 750 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Achieve Happiness and Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Success by Lord Beaverbrook.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success — that is the royal road we all want to tread, for it gives us the opportunity to exercise our abilities and activities to the full.  Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will. You cannot make genius, but you can improve upon it or destroy it, and most people possess the assets which can be turned into success. But those who possess these precious gifts will have to gather and expand them.

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to episode 749 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Believe in Yourself | Living Confidently. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The dictionary defines self-confidence as having confidence in one's unaided powers, judgment, ability, etc. In other words, it is the belief that you can produce results. When you insist that you can succeed, and are determined that you will succeed, there is nothing in the world that can stop you.

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to episode 748 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Saying Goodbye to Anger and Hate. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you repress an expression of irritability, anger, or hatred, it is there in your brain, just the same; and, in one form or another, you are in bondage to it. Sometimes it will express itself in little meannesses. Sometimes it will affect your body and make you ill. Often it will keep you from being entirely well. But of one thing we can be sure — it will make you the instrument of something harmful, in one way or another.

---------

Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.com

Get our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.

Listen to episode 747 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspiration for A Richer, More Beautiful Life is Yours. Edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson.

Please note the free meditation offer mentioned at the beginning of the podcast has now expired.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are thousands of richly endowed minds in the world that accomplish nothing to speak of; and the reason is they live in the confusion of doubt, uncertainty, and fear. Many of these minds would become giants in the world, if all their powers were spurred to action by the invincible spirit of faith. In fact, there is not a single mind, whether naturally endowed or not, that would not come forth into a larger, richer life if inspired by the wonder-working power of faith.

Listen to episode 746 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Every Life is a Vibration | Start Fine Tuning Yours. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every life is a vibration, and the quality of our lives is determined by the quality and the rate of our vibrations. Harmonious vibrations mean health, happiness, efficiency, success. Discordant vibrations mean strangulation, discord, thwarted ambition, a wrecked career.

-----------

Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION

Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron