Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 745 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Opening the Gate of Opportunity. Edited and adapted from The Cause of Failure and How to Overcome It by Thomas Z. Davis.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is a failure? It’s a spur to the one who receives it right, and it makes the spirit stir to go in once more and fight. If you never have failed, it’s an even guess you have never grabbed the highest rail.

What is a knock-down? A count of ten, which you may take for a rest. It will give you a chance to come up again and do your best.

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I would like to wish all of you a peaceful and joyful Christmas, one that rejuvenates you spiritually and mentally. To celebrate Christmas I am sharing an old episode (2017) of Our Sunday Talks, a series produced for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.

Christmas Podcast Excerpt: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”

For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the torch of truth held high in the hand of purpose.

Listen to episode 744 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to Living a Long & Worthwhile Life Edited and adapted from Dollars & Sense by William Crosbie Hunter.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Smooth sailing doesn't bring out the stuff one is made of. It takes shadows to make sunlight appreciated. It takes reverses to make success. It takes hard knocks to polish you. And one of the most important things to learn early is to learn to say no.

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Listen to episode 743 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Attitude Towards Others is Everything. Edited and adapted from Think (a Book for Today) by William Crosbie Hunter.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The wise individual is the one who gets fullness out of life — happiness, respect, contentment, freedom from worry; who is busy doing useful things — busy helping others, busy training their children, busy spreading sunshine and love and the close-together feeling in their home circle.

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Listen to episode 742 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Thinking for Success | Overcoming Negativity. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Positive people are optimists, but they are not foolish or blind in their optimism. They are above being petty or mean, or selfish or cruel; neither do they let hate or anger sway them or influence their life or business. They inspire confidence, compel attention, are leaders rather than followers, and literally exude an atmosphere of success.

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Listen to episode 741 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We are the Master of Ourselves and Fate. Adapted from the book Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The axiom, ''As you thinketh in your heart so you are,” is the most startling truth ever uttered about humankind. What an amazing statement it is — for it reveals that we are possessed of the power to create and rule ourselves and our environment by the choice and mastership of our thoughts!

The wonderful fascination of this saying lies in the all-embracing statement which it so directly makes. It covers every possible action we take, and clearly states that we are capable of exercising unlimited powers.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Listen to episode 740 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Be Bold & Decisive. It's Time to Make Your Mark. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The women and men who have left a mark upon their century have been the ones of great and prompt decision. An undecided person, a person who is ever balancing between two opinions, forever debating which of two courses they will pursue, proclaims by their indecision that they cannot control themselves, that they were meant to be possessed by others. They are not in the arena, but in the stands.

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Listen to episode 739 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons on Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every deed you perform, in order to be beautiful, in order to be a help to happiness, must be done "in its time"; that is, in the part of the busy day to which it properly belongs. Say to yourself, “Every day, at such and such specified times, I will do this and that — activities which exercise my body, feed my mind, nourish my soul, and complete the work that needs to be done.”

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Listen to episode 738 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Path of All Successful People. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To many, success is a place somewhere. But like a material heaven, it is hard to locate by direction. However, there is one thing for sure: it is neither a city nor a country. It may be a harbor (landlocked and free from storm), but never has a material ship ridden at anchor upon its waves. What then is this prize? Where is this much-sought-for place? How is one to know when the goal has been won? By what process of reason can one prove that he or she has made the grade and has climbed the hill?

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