Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 718 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Fear | Self-Confidence Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Fear is the most devastating agency in life. It prevents initiative, paralyzes effort, promotes disease, hampers development and in a thousand ways mars the character. And yet, it is one of the most common defects in character. Most of us are subject to Fear in one form or another. We fear fate, we fear death, we fear disease, we fear poverty, we fear failure, we fear accident, we fear difficulties, we fear responsibility, and on and on.

While writers on the subject agree that Fear often becomes a vice, few offer any practical suggestions for its eradication. The reader is generally advised to use their Reason, which is well enough as far as it goes, but the fact remains that the conclusions of Reason are frequently not sufficient to control action.

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Listen to episode 717 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness, Anger & Discord. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the main reasons people do not live their best lives is that they spend most of their time defending the wrong right. The moment any remark is made, bearing on something which they may not believe in, or agree with, they take exception to it and start an argument. Because of this, they are sacrificing days that should be days of happiness and vitality, depleting their energy and reducing their life-giving atmosphere. They are protecting the wrong right.

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Listen to episode 716 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Enjoying a Great Middle Life. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We must guard ourselves against that tendency to stop growing, or even stop wanting to grow, which is the cause of the failure of so many people’s careers. Many promising young women and men never fulfill their promises because they come to the middle of life and quit. Tastes become fixed, habits become inflexible, prejudice supplants thought, and the whole life turns into mechanical routine.

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Listen to episode 715 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Breaking Routines Begins True Living. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We come, all too easily, to take ourselves and our circumstances for granted. We talk about our ‘‘disposition’” as if it were a fixed and unchangeable thing. If we are pessimistic, nervous, critical, indolent, or bad-tempered, we accept the fact as someone might accept bow-legs or a big nose. The time comes when we are thus in danger of ceasing to grow, because we have settled into certain habits; certain enjoyments, views of life, and limitations of endeavor.

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Listen to episode 714 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Personal Magnetism — Your Life Changing Power. Edited and adapted from Business Psychology by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone knows that personal magnetism is real. But often we think that only some people have it. We don’t realize that this power exists in all of us — and that we just need to learn how to make it stronger.

The first principle to be fully established in the mind is this: your personal magnetism can be used upon yourself alone, and its function is to promote the best possible expression of all the active qualities in your own personality; or in other words, to heighten the effect of everything you may do.

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Listen to episode 713 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Onward! The Best of Life is Yet to Be! Edited and adapted from Life’s Byways and Waysides by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: We should forget our past attainments — for nothing is so fatal to all progress, as a feeling of satisfaction with one's achievements. When a person sits down and says, "I am contented now; I have reached my goal. I am as good as I expect to be in this world. I never aspire to anything better than this work I have just finished," from that moment they cease to grow. They will strive no more, and make no new achievement.

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Listen to episode 712 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Epictetus | Stoic Wisdom for Life. Edited and adapted from the works of Epictetus.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patron, Cesar Contreras. Cesar now has access to our full archive of over 600 podcasts, ad-free, plus the Our Sunday Talks series. To learn how you can become a patron for as little as $3 a month, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from the works of Epictetus, the Greek stoic philosopher who lived from 50 to 135 A.D.

"Other people's attitudes and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Let whatever appears to be the best, be to you an unbreakable law."

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Listen to episode 711 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life 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 misspend a day, are desperate.

Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams. Nails and pegs are little things, but they hold parts of large buildings together. Zeros and ones are little things, but without them we would have no computers. A word, a look, a frown, all are little things, but powerful for good or evil.

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Listen to episode 710 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Advice on Living | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Thoughts on Life by Sarah Ball Kitchen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everything has been better said than I can say it. But our manner of saying something may touch some heart to which it has never appealed before. Therefore I offer you the following advice.

1. The force that has placed you here upon earth has meant your life to be of some purpose. See to it that it be not in vain. Find a purpose for your life; some noble aim; some useful goal towards which you are always striving.

2. To those who realize the responsibility of living, it is indeed a solemn thing to have been entrusted with the great gift of life. We only live once. Therefore, ask yourself, “What am I doing with my life?” And don’t forget to keep asking yourself that question, month by month, year by year.

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Listen to episode 709 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Charm & Mystery of Life | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is an involved drama. It is a composition of forces. It is a combination of incidents. There are more semi-colons than full-stops. The judgment should be reserved for integers and not fractions. The process is not the result. The one who jumps to conclusions skips contentment and happiness.

Even though we often fail to recognize it, everything in life has some meaning, emphasis, and relation. Even failures and mistakes enter into the eternal harmony.

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