Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 620 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Developing the Prosperity Habit. Spunk: How to Look Fear by David V. Bush.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: We get what we sow. If we sow corn, we get it. If we sow wheat, wheat is what we harvest. If we sow briar patches, briar patches are what will spring up. We get the thing we expect to get; therefore, you must create, maintain, and hold the prosperity habit of thinking. So many people expect to have prosperity and then go to work with a face downcast, a spirit that is broken, and a mental attitude of defeat!

Instead of blaming our circumstances, our conditions, our environment and fate because we are not successful, let us throw the searchlight into our own souls and see what our mental attitude is. Do you really believe in prosperity? Are you looking for it? Do you expect it to come? Are you confident it is yours? If you are, then one of these days you will garner a big harvest of the things you expect to get — prosperity, abundance, success.

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Listen to episode 619 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Life & This Amazing World of Ours. Edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Seven Wonders of the World are by no means the most wonderful things in the world. The wonders of life are abundant among familiar, every-day matters. Perhaps the most amazing, baffling, mysterious thing in all the universe is a seed. Look at an apple-tree. All of its trunk, the law of its branches, its leaves and their veins, its delicate blossoms and its red fruit, were contained in a little, brown, hard seed. Open the seed and you see nothing but a whitish filling; yet that substance has powers as strange as the human mind. It has a plan that includes wood, flowers, and apples.

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Listen to episode 618 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Becoming Rich and Full of Life. Edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Have you lost your money? Has your business failed? Is poverty staring you in the face? Are you up against the wall, unsure of which way to turn? Do you sit and brood? Is despair your companion?

Go on! Move forward! Tomorrow lies before you. Who knows what is there? Perhaps the land of Success is just beyond the horizon and tomorrow’s sun will reveal it, palm-fringed and glistening. So what if you have lost your position, if you have lost your love. So what if disgrace has fallen upon you, disease has attacked you, friends have deserted you, or some other calamity shadows you.

Go on! Life is not a fixed point. Life is a stream, ever flowing. It is a moving picture continually unfolding. It is a strange tale. There will yet be another chapter after this. Let us see what is.

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Listen to episode 617 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Becoming Rich and Full of Life. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Give us riches! Rich hearts to love mightily; rich brains to think boldly; rich hands to work skillfully; rich bodies to live healthily; riches of culture to keep us out of the bogs of barbarism; riches of music, of sculpture, of architecture; riches of spirit to grasp the majesty of moral laws, and riches of money to secure our personal independence. The great individual is the one who is full life, and full of ideas.

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Listen to episode 616 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Manifesting Your Inner World to the Outer. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To change your fate, begin with yourself. If the environment in which you live is beneath your ideal, nothing can be gained by leaving that environment until the way is opened naturally to better things. If you simply get up and leave, you will gravitate into something elsewhere that will be just as uncongenial as those conditions you left behind.

First, find the reason why you are living in your present adverse environments, then proceed to remove that cause. There may be many reasons, but in most cases the principal reason is a lack of ability or power to apply the ability you possess. In such a case, you must remove inability by becoming more proficient, and as soon as you are competent to render better service, you will readily find a better place. This will mean larger remuneration, and you will thus be able to secure more desirable surroundings.

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Listen to episode 615 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living Consciously for Greater Possibilities Ahead. Edited and adapted from Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today I would like to share with you one of our earliest episodes, back in 2017. It’s been edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This reading is one of the 200+ archival episodes that are no longer publicly available. But all of these episodes are available to our patrons at Patreon, plus our weekly series Our Sunday Talks and full transcripts. Learn how you can support us, and get these benefits in return, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.

Beware when the universe lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no one knows where it is safe, or when it will end.

Listen to episode 614 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Creating Your Ideal Surroundings. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If the surroundings in which you live are not what you wish them to be, know that you can change them. You can make those surroundings ideal. You can make those surroundings better and better at every step in your advancement, thus making real higher and higher ideals in your life. This is a positive truth and should be impressed so deeply upon your mind that no former belief on the subject can cause you to doubt your possession of this power for a moment.

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Listen to episode 613 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Visualization & Building a Powerful Personal Atmosphere. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: All things have an individual atmosphere. Our atmosphere is created by our actions — by our material existence. We create it by our life, thoughts, and deeds. The hateful person has a disagreeable atmosphere; the kindly, loving person, a pleasing atmosphere. People feel these individual atmospheres just as they feel the shade of the trees or an approaching storm.

The atmosphere of many public women and men is felt by thousands, sometimes millions. Some have lived such grand and noble lives that their atmosphere seems almost visible. There are people who reflect such hope, joy, and sunshine in their atmosphere that they make a rainy day seem pleasant.

Listen to episode 612 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Live and Grow Young. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson said that we do not count a person’s years until they have nothing else to count. So keep on moving, keep on achieving, and give the world something else to count.

From time immemorial humanity has sought the elixir of life. Quests have been made in all lands for the fountain of youth. It has been the dream of every age to extend our earthly existence. But out of centuries of disappointment has come the realization that the prolongation of life can never come from without. It can only be the product of the within. It is the thinking and living of life that will banish years and give you health.

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Listen to episode 611 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcoming Anxiety, Worry, and Fear. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Quit fearing things that may never happen, just as you would quit any bad practice which has caused you suffering. Fill your mind with courage, hope, and confidence. Do not wait until fear thoughts become entrenched in your mind and your imagination. Do not dwell upon them. Apply the antidote instantly, and the enemies will flee.

There is no fear so great, or entrenched so deeply in the mind, that it cannot be neutralized or entirely eradicated by its opposite. You must drive out fear by putting a new idea into the mind. Fear, in any of its expressions, like worry or anxiety, cannot live an instant in your mind in the presence of the opposite thought: the image of courage, fearlessness, confidence, hope, self-assurance, self-reliance.

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