Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 699 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Important Thing to Understand. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A passport is a permit — one that allows us to enter places from which we might otherwise be barred. In our daily life, it opens the gates to success and desired social contacts. The journey of life requires certain passports, and a certain amount of luggage. The expert traveler has learned to provide themselves with the necessary passports and baggage. They carry necessary tools, but no useless equipment. They foresee their actual needs, and, should an unexpected emergency arise, they are prepared to purchase their requirements, when and where they are needed.

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Listen to episode 698 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Navigating a Successful Journey of Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a journey, which all of us make but once. There is no round-trip ticket. This journey (according to present-day reckoning) lasts about 75 years on average. Some people are able to extend the journey a little longer; others end it in much less time. It is not the number of years, but the values we get out of the years, that count the most. Whether to live at a slow pace over a long period of time, or whether to burn up energy at a lively pace (and have it over within a short period of time) is a question each individual can decide themselves.

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Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. In response to listeners who have asked for longer readings, I am putting together new audiobook and “best of” collections, featuring books and authors that have appeared on this podcast. These collections will also include readings from our archive, which are no longer publicly available.

The first collection is today’s audiobook, which includes 9 readings from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas (1917). I have blended the readings together, and remastered them with alternating background musical tracks, which should hopefully make for a more pleasant listening experience. The entire reading runs for over 90 minutes. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.

Included in this Personal Power Audiobook

Reading 1: Developing Your Personal Power

Reading 2: Climbing the Ladder of Success

Reading 3: Optimism & The Keys to Happiness

Reading 4: Overcoming Fear of Failure

Reading 5: Taking Stock of Yourself & Future

Reading 6: How to Create Good Luck

Reading 7: The Key that Unlocks the Heart

Reading 8: The Greatness of Little Things

Reading 9: Making the Most of Yourself

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Listen to episode 697 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Common Causes of Failure | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try and fail. The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed. I have had the privilege of analyzing several thousand men and women, 98% of whom were classed as "failures." My research and analysis showed that there were 27 major reasons for failure. Today I would like to provide you with a description of these causes for failure. As you listen to my list, check yourself by it, point by point, for the purpose of discovering how many of these causes-of-failure stand between you and success.

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Listen to episode 696 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 in your chosen calling, or remain a follower.

It is no disgrace to be a follower. On the other hand, it is no credit to remain a follower. Most great leaders began as a follower. They then became great leaders because they were INTELLIGENT followers. With few exceptions, the person who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader. And the person who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the one who develops into leadership most rapidly.

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Listen to episode 695 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Gateway to Power. Edited and adapted from A New Heaven and a New Earth by Charles Brodie Patterson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Meditation is the gateway to power. Through this gateway we enter into consciousness of a new life. The highest form of meditation is a conscious oneness with the source of all life. It is not a state of mental activity, but rather a cessation of thought, and an entering into a new world of feeling.

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Listen to episode 694 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Imagination + An Idea. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Guy Ellis. Learn how you can become our patron, and get ad-free podcasts, full transcripts, and more, for as little as $3 a month, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein all plans are created. The impulse, the desire, is given shape, form, and action through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.

Through the aid of our imaginative faculty, human kind has discovered (and harnessed) more of Nature's forces during the past 100 years than during the entire history of the human race prior to that.

Our only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of our imagination. We have not yet reached the apex of development of our imaginative faculty. We are still on the long climb upwards.

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Listen to episode 693 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Build Yourself a Beautiful Character. Edited and Adapted from A Life of Character by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The building of character is the most important business of life. It matters little what works you may leave in the world; your real success, is measured by what you have formed along the years in your own being.

It is a great thing for us to have a lofty thought of life, and ever to seek to reach it. Said Michelangelo: "Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives for it, strives for something that is godlike." The seeking itself, makes us nobler, holier, purer, stronger. We grow ever toward that for which we long.

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Listen to episode 692 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Talents & Life. Edited and Adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every individual has been created with one or more talents; that is, natural gifts, which, if put to use and properly directed, will enable them to produce results. It is thus your duty to discover what natural gifts or talents you possess, and to begin to map out definite plans for an active and progressive life which leads towards success.

When this discovery has been made, the next step is to determine the best methods to pursue, so that you can improve in the specific lines in which you are most gifted and interested. When you are convinced in which field of endeavor you are best suited, then you have discovered your talents, which, in turn, will lead you to discovering your calling in life.

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