Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Gift of the Spirit by Prentice Mulford..Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is the aim of life? To get the most happiness out of it; to learn to live so that every coming day will be looked for in the assurance that it will be as full of pleasure as the day which we now live in; to banish even the recollection that time can hang heavily on our hands; to be thankful that we live; to rise superior to sickness or pain; to gain in power so that the spirit shall ever recuperate, reinvigorate, and rejuvenate the body, so long as we desire to use it; to make ourselves so full of happiness and use for others that our presence may ever be welcome to them.---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirational

Listen to episode 1024 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Our Duty to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, published in 1911.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world. ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 1023 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life Hacks: Turning Bad News Into Good. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life. We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look forward to receiving the fruits of our labors. When the particular thing we hope for does not materialize at the particular time we hope to get it, we get disappointed and disheartened, rebellious or frightened, and in a panic we turn away from our faith and grasp at doubt — as if doubt were a refuge when faith fails!---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.co

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from edited and adapted from Discovery of a Lost Trail by Charles B. Newcomb.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We exhaust our strength in our impatience at our work and the conditions that surround us. There is nothing that comes to us which we could not do easily if we adjusted our energies, but we waste our forces in our worries. It is our leverage that is at fault. When that is changed, we will find the heaviest weights are easily raised.The mechanism of our existence is simpler than we think. None of its cog-wheels are misplaced. If we will only permit them to work into each other where they belong, we will discover that there is no superfluous friction, and the adjustment of experience to need is truly marvelous.---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sp

Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success. Adapted from the book Success is For You by Dorothy Quigley.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try to see how the laws of nature work and be an optimist. Be a liberal, tolerant one. The jokester says, “A pessimist is one who has met an optimist.” That's a fine hint not to make your optimism too ill-advised, too belligerent. You will hear the unreflecting say, “The optimist is a fool. The pessimist understands life; gets below the surface of things; hears the ceaseless murmur of woe through all the immemorial years.” Sing back to them: “No, the optimist is the wise person. The pessimist is the fool.” ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcas

Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Pain & Sorrow. Edited & adapted from The Path to Prosperity by James Allen.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is there no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, and abiding peace a foolish dream?No, there is a way, and I speak it with gladness, by which evil can be slain forever; there is a process by which disease, poverty, or any adverse condition or circumstance can be overcome; there is a method by which a permanent prosperity can be secured, free from all fear of the return of adversity, and there is a practice by which unbroken and unending peace and bliss can be partaken of and realized.---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcas

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thinking is a spiritual activity, and consists of the reaction of the Individual against the Universal Mind. “I think, therefore I am,” when “I cease to think, I cease to exist.” Thinking is the only activity which spirit possesses. Spirit is creative. Thinking therefore is a creative process, but as the larger part of our thinking processes are subjective rather than objective, most of our creative work is carried on subjectively. But because this work is spiritual work, it is none the less real — for we know that all the great eternal forces of Nature are invisible rather than visible, spiritual rather than material, subjective rather than objective.---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livingho

Listen to episode 1021 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Spirituality and The Art of Living. Adapted from the book Method of New Thought by Abel Allen.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To know the art of living, we must know much of Nature. Until we catch its deeper meanings, until it kindles in us a sense of beauty, of order, of proportion and sublimity, the valuable ideals of life have evaded us. When we can recognize an intelligence behind the rose, possessing a spirit of sense and beauty; when we can discern the symmetry and proportion of the tree, the grandeur of the landscape, the splendor of the sunset, as the expression and handiwork of a divine intelligence, we recognize a kinship with the grass blade and flower and feel the touch of the universal soul.---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at —

Listen to episode 1020 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World as Looking Glass. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is full of looking-glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective (so that the image fails to do us justice), but, more or less, the thing reflected is the thing that is. The material world abounds in such mirrors....---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet 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 1019 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Success Habits of Money & Time. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The vast majority of people who have risen from obscurity to power, and from power to affluence, have done so by careful and systematic improvement of the spare moments of their lives. "Time is money," it is said. But this very inadequately expresses the truth. Time is infinitely more than money. Time is, when improved: education, knowledge, enjoyment, skill, talent, and character. The way you spend your spare hours shows the world what you are. ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donatio

Listen to an episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The question of life is not, “How much time have we?” — for in each day, each of us has exactly the same amount: we have "all there is." The question is, “What shall we do with it?” Shall we let this priceless gift slip away from us in haphazard deeds, or shall we adopt some plan of saving, and of systematic doing, in our lives? What shall this plan be? How shall we determine what things are worth giving time to? Let us think about this question. ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bran

Listen to episode 1018 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 3 | Success Habits & Incentives. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When it comes to building good habits, don’t overlook the habit of success. Yes, there is such a thing. Make it a customary habit to surmount difficulties, even in little things. Perhaps the winning, in itself, will not be worth the effort, but in the strengthening of the habit, its value is immeasurable. The world has a place for the women and men who finish that which they undertake. I wish that I could burn that point into your minds so that it would always be before you. ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSuppor

Listen to episode 1017 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 2 | MIT Lectures. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making, and keeping friends, the next resource that I want to see upon the asset side of your personal balance sheet is ability in the art of cooperation. This is a characteristic in which the technically trained person is often found to be lamentably weak. But I think that the weakness may be readily explained and improved upon.---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/do

Listen to an episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We only have one life to live! We all want to do our best with it. We all want to make the most of it. How can we best get hold of it? How can we accomplish the most with the energies and powers at our command? What is worthwhile? We all ask ourselves this question. It is especially common upon graduating from university. But our first years out of college are apt to be anxious, unsatisfactory, disappointing. Time slips away in further preparation, in experiment, in useless or misdirected efforts. The world does not prove to be the same that it seemed to be in the quiet college surroundings. Duty is not so clear as then, nor work so well-defined. Life is harder to handle than we thought. ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ad

Listen to episode 1016 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt.. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We should also cultivate in ourselves a heightened taste for the pleasure which results from kindness. Someone has said, “The more you put into life, the more you get out of it,” and we may paraphrase this by saying, “The more you invest in kindness, the more you will gain in friends.” ---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & O

Listen to episode 1015 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Science of Being Great. Edited and adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind. The hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. Whenever you fall into a mental state of hurry, you may know that you have lost the right viewpoint; you are beginning to look upon the world, or some part of it, as going wrong. At such times, consider the fact that nothing is going wrong; nothing can be wrong. Be poised, be calm, be cheerful....---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdv

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a great school — we but tiny children, learning our little lessons, performing our little tasks, playing our little games, enjoying our little pleasures, suffering our little pains, disappointments, trials and sorrows.I feel that we are in but the kindergarten stage of existence, learning the first lessons of Life — fitting ourselves for the grander, broader, fuller life in store for us. And I feel that this little kindergarten experience will.....---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.

Listen to episode 1014 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Qualities of Great Leaders | Leadership Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as a leader and the other are followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chosen calling, or remain a follower. The difference in compensation is vast. The follower cannot reasonably expect the compensation to which a leader is entitled, although many followers make the mistake of expecting such pay. -----------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/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/do

Listen to episode 1013 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Unlock the Heart | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our own mind is for our own use. We cannot exert any of its power without affecting ourselves. Feelings of anger affect us physically. Indeed, they hurt us, and do not harm the object of our displeasure. There are what may be termed positive and negative forces of mind. Active sympathy is a positive quality. Indifference is negative. When we exercise a benevolent feeling of mind it has some practical use, and this is clearly understood in the case of sympathy. -----------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/patronOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ins

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was edited an adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson, published in 1902.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is plenty of sunshine in life, if you only look for it. And there is plenty of shadow in life, if you only look for it. But in the things that seem all shadow to others, you will find the sunshine if you but train yourself to always look for it.It is true that what may seem bright sunshine to you, others will find nothing but shade — for they are afflicted with a mental cataract that shuts out all the rays of the sunshine of life. But when you learn to love the sunshine and look forward to seeing it always, you seem to draw it to you....---------------------Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://l