Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 731 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of the Truly Happy Person. Edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.Happiness Podcast Excerpt: A search for happiness does not always bring it, because we look for it in the same spirit that we would look for a lost purse. We believe that happiness is found when we arrive at that place where we no longer have to seek for it. When we look for happiness, we do not have it. When we cease to look for it, we discover that it is ours. -----------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 730 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have a Successful Day, Every Day! Edited and adapted from Lessons in Living by Elizabeth Towne.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: The successful life is made up of a succession of successful days — every day being a little Marathon by itself. If we live a successful today, we make a wise preparation to live a successful tomorrow; and so on, day after day, year after year, through our whole lives.Only today is ours. Today we can make the right preparation, make the right and easy start, run the successful race with time, and close the day a victor. This day it is possible to do that. So, how shall we prepare for it? How shall we manage our energy and direct our efforts?-----------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon co

Listen to episode 729 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Creative Power of Waiting vs. Hurrying. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: People who do really great things never hurry. Nobody who writes a great book ever hurries. The great surgeon never hurries. The pilot of a great ship never hurries. The effective public speaker never hurries. Hurry never made a friend. It defeats the lover. Hurry never builds safely. Hurry blinds the eyes to beauty. It destroys accuracy in the hand. It ruins judgment. It slurs action. Hurry is what causes heart failures and nervous breakdowns. It overlooks the important things and sees only the trifles. -----------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

Listen to episode 727 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Key to Success in Life. Edited and Adapted from The Road to Success by Henry Harrison Brown.Many of you have probably asked yourself, “How can I be a success in life?” The answer is that we must win by that method by which humankind has ever won. And there is but one method. Study the life of any successful person, in any age, and along any chosen line of work. Seek one among your friends or acquaintances. What is the dominant mental quality that gave them success? Be they a gambler or poet, stock trader or entrepreneur, find the trait which gave them power. Find also among your friends those who have failed, and see what thoughts caused their failure...-----------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://redcir

Listen to episode 726 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Unleashing Your Soul Power. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The vast majority of people make the fatal mistake of judging life (their own and others) by environments, and of estimating their possibilities of success by their surroundings. This is a lamentable error and contrary to all true philosophies of life. Successful lives grow from within outward. Every person must be happy, rich, and successful in thought, purpose, and desire before they become so in the realities of their everyday life. -----------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-Ou

Listen to episode 725 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Just Being Happy: A Little Book of Happy Thoughts, compiled by Grover Edwin Osgood.Happiness Podcast Excerpt: THERE is a beautiful and an ugly way in which to say almost everything, and happiness depends upon which way we take. You can upset a person for the whole day by the harsh way in which you address them in the morning, or you may give them a beautiful start by the cheeriness of your greeting. So not only in words, but in all the little, common courtesies and duties of life, think of the beautiful way of doing them. — Delia L. Porter -----------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://redci

Listen to episode 724 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live Up to Your Potential. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cultivate the faculty of relying upon your own judgment. Stand alone. A person can't develop self-reliance and good judgment by waiting for someone else to take the responsibility. You must begin, must make the effort, even if you don’t do very well at first. Perfection is not a matter of days. It is the work of a lifetime. -----------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 723 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons from Carlos Castaneda. Edited and adapted from the works of Carlos Castaneda.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Before you embark on any path, ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a person finally realizes that they have taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill them. At that point very few people can stop to deliberate and leave the path." - Carlos Castaneda--------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 721 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Happiness by Arthur James Kappele.Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Above all, speak the truth about yourself. Try it, and you will find that other people are not nearly as shocked as you expected them to be. They likely will not be shocked at all; but they may be surprised at your candor, and inwardly wished that they could, or dared, do likewise. Looking at it from any angle, it is better to speak the truth. When you don't, you only try to deceive yourself, but you cannot fool yourself for long.--------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 719 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Deciding | Time to Choose. Edited and adapted from The First Step in Mastery by W. Frederic Keeler.Inspirational Podcast Transcript: The first step in mastery involves a re-education. You are to enter into a new realm of living. You are to think in new channels. You are to exercise a new mode of mental motion. You are to use the fourth dimension of thought. Be prepared for the new, and for the different. Be therefore a beginner, and have the power of newness and the freshness of a beginner.An open mind is a prerequisite to progress. You certainly must realize that you are now thinking about fifty per cent disadvantageously by old methods. You often do not get where you wish with your thinking. By the use of ordinary and partly outgrown thinking methods, you are not always actualizing power and vigor. You are not sufficiently vitalizing your thoughts....--------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallife

Listen to episode 718 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Fear | Self-Confidence Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Fear is the most devastating agency in life. It prevents initiative, paralyzes effort, promotes disease, hampers development and in a thousand ways mars the character. And yet, it is one of the most common defects in character. Most of us are subject to Fear in one form or another. We fear fate, we fear death, we fear disease, we fear poverty, we fear failure, we fear accident, we fear difficulties, we fear responsibility, and on and on. While writers on the subject agree that Fear often becomes a vice, few offer any practical suggestions for its eradication. The reader is generally advised to use their Reason, which is well enough as far as it goes, but the fact remains that the conclusions of Reason are frequently not sufficient to control action. --------Get the bes

Listen to episode 716 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Enjoying a Great Middle Life. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We must guard ourselves against that tendency to stop growing, or even stop wanting to grow, which is the cause of the failure of so many people’s careers. Many promising young women and men never fulfill their promises because they come to the middle of life and quit. Tastes become fixed, habits become inflexible, prejudice supplants thought, and the whole life turns into mechanical routine. --------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 714 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Personal Magnetism — Your Life Changing Power. Edited and adapted from Business Psychology by Christian D. Larson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone knows that personal magnetism is real. But often we think that only some people have it. We don’t realize that this power exists in all of us — and that we just need to learn how to make it stronger. The first principle to be fully established in the mind is this: your personal magnetism can be used upon yourself alone, and its function is to promote the best possible expression of all the active qualities in your own personality; or in other words, to heighten the effect of everything you may do.--------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet 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://redcir

Listen to episode 712 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Epictetus | Stoic Wisdom for Life. Edited and adapted from the works of Epictetus.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patron, Cesar Contreras. Cesar now has access to our full archive of over 600 podcasts, ad-free, plus the Our Sunday Talks series. To learn how you can become a patron for as little as $3 a month, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from the works of Epictetus, the Greek stoic philosopher who lived from 50 to 135 A.D."Other people's attitudes and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Let whatever appears to be the best, be to you an unbreakable law."--------Get the best of o

Listen to episode 711 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life T.L Haines & L.W. Yaggy.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The little things in life are not to be dismissed. Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those who dare lose a day, are dangerously profligate; those who dare misspend a day, are desperate. Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams. Nails and pegs are little things, but they hold parts of large buildings together. Zeros and ones are little things, but without them we would have no computers. A word, a look, a frown, all are little things, but powerful for good or evil. --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiri

Listen to episode 708 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Important Element of Success in Life. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no element so important to a successful business or a successful life as enthusiasm. Yet it is an element often not thoroughly understood, or very accurately measured. It is rarely given the degree of importance to which it is entitled. Indeed, it is often neglected altogether. -----------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 705 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life's Magic Formula & The Secrets of Success. Edited and adapted from Four Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people have philosophies of life, ideas on the subject of happiness, and dreams of success that are ludicrous and unfounded. I have met millionaires, successful business people, learned professors, gifted artists, and able preachers who have not the slightest notion of how to be happy.-----------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 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.Visit today's sponsor Shopify at Shopify.com/inspirational for a free fourteen-day trial, and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features.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.--------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifeles

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. --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSu

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. --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet 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