Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 638 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most of us have our ideal of what we ought to be, what we want to be, and what (in the main) we are really trying to be. But from time to time, in a thoughtless mood, or under the stress of an unexpected temptation, we do things contrary to our general purpose and usual tenor of our lives. Then comes remorse, the renewal of a right resolve and effort, and so, when better deeds are done, the recovery of our self-respect....

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Listen to episode 637 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Enthusiasm in Everything | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not won with flags at half-mast — they are run up to the very top and waved as far toward the heavens as possible.

If we lack enthusiasm, we are almost as certain to fail of achieving an end. A listless, lackadaisical spirit may get on all right, so long as the path of life is all on a level or down grade, but when it comes to hill-climbing, and the real experiences of life that develop character, we are likely to give up the contest and surrender the prize.

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Listen to episode 636 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Happiness & Success that Lasts. Edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lilian Whiting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life is too largely attributed to special gifts or exceptional good fortune, or of some combination of the two, rather than to simple duty and the obligation of all aspiring people. That is to say, it should be held as the normal and not the abnormal condition.

No one has success until they have abounding life, which consists of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is springing to meet the day with the thrill of being alive. It is going forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is, indeed, that which you are; and not that which you do or which you have.

Listen to episode 635 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Affirmations Can Do & Can’t Do. Edited and adapted from The Life Power and How to Use it by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Merely repeating affirmations like "I Am Successful" will do little to help you. We must think the things we desire, and we must put our shoulder to the wheel. However, the person who is full of a sense of failure and defeat is likely to put their shoulder to the wrong side of the wheel. They are so discouraged, preoccupied, and worried that they think it doesn't matter much where they put their shoulder; the thing won't budge anyway. So they go along pressing their shoulder against the same old spot — the wrong spot. But let that person make up their mind that there is a way to budge that wheel, and they will find it; and they will see things move.

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Listen to episode 634 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Fear | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Quit looking at things and being afraid. Look to your ideals and desires, and remember the great source from which they spring: the infinite supply of the Creator. Keep dwelling mentally on God’s infinite supply; keep using that supply according to your ideals. Fears will drop away from you, and Power, Wisdom, and Love will flow into you and through you.

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Podcast Excerpt: There is one spirit, one power, one force in the universe. But its different manifestations or channels of operation are countless. It moves the breeze, the ocean, the avalanche, and the earth in its orbit. It moves the seed to grow, the plant to blossom, the flower to color itself with inimitable hues. It colors the bird's plumage and gives power to its wing. Its highest known expression is in humanity, because in us this force is most concentrated.

Listen to episode 633 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Laws of Success | Maximizing Opportunities. Edited and adapted from As Others (Ithers) See Us by John Thomas Huddle.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Some people seem to be preordained to be lucky and successful, regardless of what they do, and others preordained to be failures, no matter how hard they try. This is all wrong. There is no such thing as luck. The law of every kingdom of the universe is "as we sow, so shall we reap." If a person is successful it is not because of blind chance, but the result of applying (whether consciously or unconsciously) the right means to the end in view. And if a person fails, it is not because the goddess of fortune is angry with them, but the result of the wrong means to an end.

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Listen to episode 632 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living. Edited and adapted from As Ithers (Others) See Us by John Thomas Huddle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today I would like to introduce you to a distinguished stranger, and that stranger is yourself. Knowledge as well as charity should begin at home. And it’s supremely important that we should occasionally step within and renew our acquaintance with ourselves. Above all others, we ought to know the one with whom we eat, work, and study — in whose companionship we are continually. For we have more to do with that person than with anybody else; we are responsible for their words and actions; they are the one person on earth committed especially to our care, and surely we ought to know them.

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Listen to episode 631 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Were Made to Be a Conqueror. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Stephanie Scuorzo. To become our monthly patron and gain access to our entire podcast archive, plus additional rewards, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1910.

It is a rare thing to find a person who is really masterful in their personality, masterful in what they undertake; who approaches their task with the assurance of a conqueror; who is able to grapple vigorously with their life problems; who always keeps themselves in condition to do their best and biggest thing easily, without strain; who seizes with the grip of a master the precious opportunities which come to them.

Listen to episode 630 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Attractive Power of Enthusiasm. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You often have heard the word "Enthusiasm" used. You have used it often yourself. But have you ever thought about what the word really means — from what source it originated — what is its essential spirit? Few people have. The word "Enthusiasm" is derived from the Greek term meaning "to be inspired; to be possessed by the gods," the term having originally been used to describe the mindset of an inspired person who seems under the influence of a greater power.

A person filled with Enthusiasm indeed seems to be inspired by some power or being higher than themselves. They tap into a source of power of which they are not ordinarily conscious. And the result is that they become like a great magnet, radiating attractive force in all directions and influencing those within their field of influence — for Enthusiasm is contagious, and when really experienced by the individual, it renders them a source of power and center of mental influence.