Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 750 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Achieve Happiness and Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Success by Lord Beaverbrook.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success — that is the royal road we all want to tread, for it gives us the opportunity to exercise our abilities and activities to the full.  Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will. You cannot make genius, but you can improve upon it or destroy it, and most people possess the assets which can be turned into success. But those who possess these precious gifts will have to gather and expand them. ---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcirc

Listen to episode 749 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Believe in Yourself | Living Confidently. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The dictionary defines self-confidence as having confidence in one's unaided powers, judgment, ability, etc. In other words, it is the belief that you can produce results. When you insist that you can succeed, and are determined that you will succeed, there is nothing in the world that can stop you. ---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 748 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Saying Goodbye to Anger and Hate. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you repress an expression of irritability, anger, or hatred, it is there in your brain, just the same; and, in one form or another, you are in bondage to it. Sometimes it will express itself in little meannesses. Sometimes it will affect your body and make you ill. Often it will keep you from being entirely well. But of one thing we can be sure — it will make you the instrument of something harmful, in one way or another. ---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 747 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspiration for A Richer, More Beautiful Life is Yours. Edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson.Please note the free meditation offer mentioned at the beginning of the podcast has now expired.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are thousands of richly endowed minds in the world that accomplish nothing to speak of; and the reason is they live in the confusion of doubt, uncertainty, and fear. Many of these minds would become giants in the world, if all their powers were spurred to action by the invincible spirit of faith. In fact, there is not a single mind, whether naturally endowed or not, that would not come forth into a larger, richer life if inspired by the wonder-working power of faith.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 746 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Every Life is a Vibration | Start Fine Tuning Yours. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every life is a vibration, and the quality of our lives is determined by the quality and the rate of our vibrations. Harmonious vibrations mean health, happiness, efficiency, success. Discordant vibrations mean strangulation, discord, thwarted ambition, a wrecked career. -----------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 745 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Opening the Gate of Opportunity. Edited and adapted from The Cause of Failure and How to Overcome It by Thomas Z. Davis.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is a failure? It’s a spur to the one who receives it right, and it makes the spirit stir to go in once more and fight. If you never have failed, it’s an even guess you have never grabbed the highest rail.What is a knock-down? A count of ten, which you may take for a rest. It will give you a chance to come up again and do your best. -----------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I would like to wish all of you a peaceful and joyful Christmas, one that rejuvenates you spiritually and mentally. To celebrate Christmas I am sharing an old episode (2017) of Our Sunday Talks, a series produced for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.Christmas Podcast Excerpt: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the tor

Listen to episode 744 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to Living a Long & Worthwhile Life Edited and adapted from Dollars & Sense by William Crosbie Hunter.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Smooth sailing doesn't bring out the stuff one is made of. It takes shadows to make sunlight appreciated. It takes reverses to make success. It takes hard knocks to polish you. And one of the most important things to learn early is to learn to say no. ---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 743 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Attitude Towards Others is Everything. Edited and adapted from Think (a Book for Today) by William Crosbie Hunter.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The wise individual is the one who gets fullness out of life — happiness, respect, contentment, freedom from worry; who is busy doing useful things — busy helping others, busy training their children, busy spreading sunshine and love and the close-together feeling in their home circle.---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 742 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Thinking for Success | Overcoming Negativity. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Positive people are optimists, but they are not foolish or blind in their optimism. They are above being petty or mean, or selfish or cruel; neither do they let hate or anger sway them or influence their life or business. They inspire confidence, compel attention, are leaders rather than followers, and literally exude an atmosphere of success.---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 741 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We are the Master of Ourselves and Fate. Adapted from the book Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The axiom, ''As you thinketh in your heart so you are,” is the most startling truth ever uttered about humankind. What an amazing statement it is — for it reveals that we are possessed of the power to create and rule ourselves and our environment by the choice and mastership of our thoughts! The wonderful fascination of this saying lies in the all-embracing statement which it so directly makes. It covers every possible action we take, and clearly states that we are capable of exercising unlimited powers. ---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donati

Listen to episode 740 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Be Bold & Decisive. It's Time to Make Your Mark. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The women and men who have left a mark upon their century have been the ones of great and prompt decision. An undecided person, a person who is ever balancing between two opinions, forever debating which of two courses they will pursue, proclaims by their indecision that they cannot control themselves, that they were meant to be possessed by others. They are not in the arena, but in the stands.---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 739 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons on Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.Visit today's sponsor at Shopify.com/inspirational for a free fourteen-day trial, and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every deed you perform, in order to be beautiful, in order to be a help to happiness, must be done "in its time"; that is, in the part of the busy day to which it properly belongs. Say to yourself, “Every day, at such and such specified times, I will do this and that — activities which exercise my body, feed my mind, nourish my soul, and complete the work that needs to be done.”---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations

Listen to episode 738 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Path of All Successful People. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To many, success is a place somewhere. But like a material heaven, it is hard to locate by direction. However, there is one thing for sure: it is neither a city nor a country. It may be a harbor (landlocked and free from storm), but never has a material ship ridden at anchor upon its waves. What then is this prize? Where is this much-sought-for place? How is one to know when the goal has been won? By what process of reason can one prove that he or she has made the grade and has climbed the hill?---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brand

Listen to episode 737 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Living in Abundance. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who gives much of themselves will be abundantly enriched because they place in life a large measure of themselves to be filled. The one who gives things may lose all that is given. But the one who gives of themselves (the best that is in themselves) loses nothing. Instead they gain a larger and a richer self. To have an abundance of life is to have the power to help yourself and to re-create your own world according to your highest desires. The gift of life is therefore the highest gift. It is also the largest gift because it includes all gifts. ---------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspir

I would like to wish all of our listeners in the United States a joyful Thanksgiving holiday. I thought today was the perfect time to remind you that you were made for happiness, not only happiness for yourself but for spreading happiness to others. And that is something for which we all can be surely grateful.Listen to episode 736 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Were Made to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from The Joys of Living by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Real happiness is born of noble endeavor, a useful life. It is extracted a little here, a little there, from a kind word, a noble deed, a generous act. We get a little bit from every right thought, from every kind word or deed, and it cannot be found anywhere else.Happiness, it has been said, is a mosaic composed of little stones. Each taken singly is of little value; but when all are grouped together, combined and set, they form a pleasing and graceful whole — a costly jewel.---------Get the best of our podcast in book for

Listen to episode 735 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Succeed in Life. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thousands fail in life because they lack the grit to get right up and do the thing. It isn't always the brainiest people in the world who make the greatest successes. It's people who buckle down and do things; people who have will-power and initiative; people who are not afraid; who know, and know they know; people who will make themselves do the thing that needs to be done, regardless of how they feel about it; the women and men who make themselves do the thing, whether they like it or not, are the ones who have discovered the great secret. --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donation

Listen to episode 734 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Winning Personality. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The need for personality development is universal. Power comes not from what we know, but from what we can express, and nine-tenths of expression is through personality. To other people we are a mere personality. We are to them big or little, positive or negative, a success or a failure, just as we appeal to them through our personality. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. And we are no stronger than our weakest point of personality.--------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 733 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get the Most Out of Life. Edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The all-important question for everyone to ask of themselves if they have the slightest spark of intellectual ambition in them is, “How may I become a true individual?” Then another question will well up from the soul, namely: “What can I do to make life worth the living?” The answer will be: Look to the light, be true to your inner self, and have the faith of the poet who said: — “Better to strive and climb And never reach the goal, Than to drift along with time An aimless, worthless soul. Aye, better to climb and fall, Or sow, though the yield be small, Than to throw away, day after day, And never strive at all.” --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our entire 700+ podcast archive, with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patr

Listen to episode 732 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Happiness that Cures Anxiety & Fear. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: True happiness enjoys all things deeply, but serenely. And you can always know when you have had such happiness, because it makes your countenance radiant with a restful beauty. To gain real happiness, the first essential is to train yourself to think constantly of the great value of such happiness — especially with regard to its health producing power. Such thinking will tend to produce a subconscious desire for happiness, and what the subconscious begins to desire it also begins to create. -----------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donatio