Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 572 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcoming Sorrow to Live Happy Again. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To fight life's battles we must keep close to the firing-line. Pain, sorrow, anxiety, or trouble must be fought at close range. They cannot be evaded, ignored, nor deserted. We must vanquish them or they will vanquish us. We must look them squarely in the face and fight them to a finish. Retreat means simply deferring the battle until we are weaker, not stronger. It is running away from self — running away from life. It is as foolish as trying to dodge the atmosphere.

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Listen to episode 571 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: True Optimism for a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

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Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Optimism is the sunshine of the soul in action. It is sturdy confidence that right must triumph, united to tireless courage to make it triumph. Optimism is the finest weapon in the armory of the individual. It unifies all the undaunted virtues of your strength into a force and inspiration. It means fighting for, or with, the battalions of right, love, justice, and truth — with a determination to win.

True optimism is something more than a continuous performance of hope. It is the joy of living — made an actual fact. It means seeking the best, living the best, doing the best. It means focusing all that is highest in our character to meet conditions.

Listen to episode 570 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Fine Art of Living at Your Best. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Forgetting is one of the fine arts of living at your best. It is not that phase of non-remembering, where a name or a date or a fact has not strength enough to keep itself from sinking deep into memory’s sea of oblivion.

Fine forgetting means character asserting itself — not mind losing itself. It is the red pencil of wisdom — cutting out unnecessary words from the text of our living. It is individual kingship determining what thoughts it will permit to reside in its kingdom. It is the exclusion act of the soul — ejecting the unworthy and undesirable.

A great editor once said that the true secret of editing is to know what to put into the waste-basket. Forgetting is the soul’s way of discarding negative thoughts, depressing memories, mean ambitions, false standards, and low ideals.

Listen to episode 569 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Hold on to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Happiness does not consist of what we have but what we are — not in our possessions but in our attitude towards them. It is the serenity of the soul in the presence of a joy. It is not absolute, requiring certain fixed conditions. It is relative. What would be a fast for one might prove a royal feast for another.

Happiness does not always require success, prosperity, or attainment. It is often the joy of hopeful struggle, the consecration of a purpose, and energy used to some good end. Real happiness ever has its root in unselfishness — its blossom in love of some kind. We make or mar our own happiness and that of others to a larger degree than we are willing to admit. It is easier to pose as a victim of conditions than to prove ourselves a victor.

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Listen to episode 568 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Crown of Individuality | Living Your Best Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The supreme courage of life is the courage of the soul. It is living, day by day, sincerely, steadfastly, serenely — despite all opinions, all obstacles, all opposition. It means the wine of inspiration that comes from the crushed grapes of our sorrows. This courage makes the simplest life great. It makes the greatest life sublime. It means the royal dignity of fine individual living.

Every man and woman reigns a king or queen over the kingdom of self. They wear the crown of individuality that no hands but their own can ever remove. You should not only reign but rule. Your individuality is your true self, your best self, your highest self, your self victorious.

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: What is true spirituality? Many people have asked this, and just as many have answered it. I do not pretend to know more about this all important topic than others, but it seems to me that there should be a different answer given than the one we ordinarily hear....

Listen to episode 567 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making Room for Happiness in Your Life. Edited and adapted from The Adventure Beautiful by Lilian Whiting.

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Happiness Podcast Excerpt: The Flower of life is a gift, without money and without price. The supreme gift of the gods can neither be discussed nor deserved. Believe in Happiness; expect it; make room for it in your life. Happiness is so entirely a matter of the spirit that it indeed must be included among the eternal verities of life.

Possessions and gratifications have little to do with that which is the real joy of life — that order of happiness that is ecstasy and where "every touch should thrill". Happiness is really an intense spiritual force, one that acts upon conditions with the force of magic.

Listen to episode 566 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Valuable Secret of Life. Edited an adapted from the work of Elbert Hubbard, collected in the book The American Bible by Alice Hubbard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The secret, which I am about to tell you, is the most valuable and far-reaching of any known to human kind. It is the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is the open sesame to Paradise, here and now. A secret is something known only to a few. But often the best way to retain a secret is to let others help you to keep it. Just as the only way to retain love is to give it away — art and religion the same.

This secret, which I am about to impart, will cause no thrill, save in the hearts of those who already know it. And all I can do for you, anyway, is to tell you the things you know, but which possibly you do not know you know until I tell you.

So, here, then, is the secret.....

Listen to episode 565 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Mastering Your Moods | The Art of Arts. Edited and adapted from Every Man a King by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When things get hard for you, when everything seems to go against you, when you are thwarted on every side, when the sky is dark and you can see no light, that is just the time to exhibit your mettle, to show of what stuff you are made. If there is anything in you, adversity will bring it out. What you do in spite of circumstances, rather than because of them, is the measure of your success ability.

When you get up in the morning feeling blue and discouraged because disagreeable things confront you, make up your mind firmly that, come what may, you will make that particular day a "red-letter" day in your life. Then, instead of a probable failure and the loss of a day, you will at least accomplish infinitely more than you would have done if you had given way to your depressing mood.