Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 624 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Were Made to Be an Original. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Don’t be a copy. The dreamers are the builders. The woman and man with an idea has ever changed the face of the world. Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than weapons of war.---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get 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 623 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Make Today a Red Letter Day in Your Life. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When someone asked the great sculptor Herbert Ward the name of his best work, his masterpiece, the artist replied, “My next one”. The only way to make life a masterpiece is to make every day the best; to make each one an advance upon the previous day. The great masters who made their reputations by their wonderful mosaics and stained glass were extremely careful in the selection of the individual bits of marble or of glass which went into the particular thing they were making. Every piece had to be perfect, and no labor was too great to make it so. ---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https

Listen to episode 622 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building a Foundation for Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The foundation of all success, and of all happiness, lies in robust health. Health means confidence and assurance. It means hope and courage. It means faith in one’s self and faith in others. Health means virility, forcefulness, masterfulness. It means larger opportunity and greater possibilities. Health means initiative, efficiency, success and happiness. In short, everything we live for is so dependent upon good health that it becomes our first duty to keep ourselves in strong physical condition. ---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdv

Listen to episode 621 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Fulfilling Your Needs for a Better Life. Spunk: How to Look Fear by David V. Bush.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The more needs you have, the more should be your accomplishments in the future. Needs are Nature’s way of pushing you up, up, and up. What are your needs? The more your needs, the more Nature grants you the dynamic urge and inward push to seek that which you want. If your needs are great, then you know that your fulfillment in the future will be great, provided you keep the right attitude of mind. Believe you will achieve, that you’re going to get there, that you can and will! --------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/pr

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. ---

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. --------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/in

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. --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visitin

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. --------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

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

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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsA

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. ---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get 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://redcircl

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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & O

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. ---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronSupport this podc

Listen to episode 606 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Are a Mental Magnet | The Law of Attraction. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What we think most about is constantly weaving itself into the fabric of our career. It is becoming a part of ourselves, increasing the power of our mental magnet to attract those things we most ardently desire.When the architect looks at the plan of their building, they do not see merely the plan. That only suggests the building. It is the invisible building, the creation of their mind that they see. What they take in from the plan with the eyes is not the reality at all. They see in all its details the building of their mental vision. If they did not see it in this way, it would never become a reality. If they could see only the mechanical plans, they would not be an architect at all.---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get our po

Listen to episode 605 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Inspirational Power of Friendship and Nature. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The full realization of what Friendship means to life should grip you. It should inspire you with an intense desire to live in such a manner that those who have proved their genuineness will admit you into its noble realm. Once there, no one can predict the measure of your success. You may rise to the very heights of life. True Friendship has opened the way upward for the most humble and sincere, and by its added force they rose to greatness. Upon the pages of history there are many examples which reveal this mighty truth. The person who fully appreciates the power of Friendship, and who through right living establishes it between themselves and the upright and strong, moves forward with that irresistible current which carries on to success. -------Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visit

Listen to episode 604 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Key to Personal Growth and Self-Development. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers.Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patronInspirational Podcast Excerpt: To succeed in life and find happiness, it is of vital importance to comprehend and realize the element of Resistance. This element is always present, a part of the Divine plan, and no living thing can escape it. Its purpose is evolution. And in opposition to this element of Resistance stands Assertiveness. By the action of the two we have a result: either Failure or Success, according to the degree and nature of our Assertiveness. An individual who governs themselves by the laws of progress, Assertively meets Resistance with Wisdom and Strength, and by this very contact promotes the growth of their Personality — the unfoldment of their Power, Evolution, and Success. --------Get the best of our podcast in book form by

Listen to episode 603 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Can What You Will to Be | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine.Inspirational Podcast Excerpts: There is nothing more true in connection with human life than that we grow into the likeness of those things we contemplate. Literally and scientifically true is that old saying, "as you thinketh in your heart, so you be." The "be" part is your character. Your character is the sum total of your habits. Your habits have been formed by your conscious acts. But every conscious act is, as I have said, preceded by a thought. And so we have thought on the one hand, and character, life, and destiny on the other. It is simply the thought of the present moment, and the next moment, and then the next, and so on through all time. We can in this way attain to whatever ideals we desire. ---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty

Listen to episode 602 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The True Secret of Happiness, Power and Greatness. What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How can you make life yield its fullest and best? How can you know the true secret of power? How can you attain to a true and lasting greatness? How can you fill your whole of life with a happiness and peace, a joy and satisfaction, that is ever rich and abiding, that ever increases and never diminishes, that imparts to it a sparkle that never loses its luster, that ever fascinates and never wearies?No questions, perhaps, in this form or that, have been asked more often than these. Millions in the past have asked them. Millions are asking them today. They will be asked by millions more yet unborn. Is there an answer, a true and safe one, for these many millions? Are you interested in the answer?---------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty.Get our podcast wi

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Listen to episode 595 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Connecting to the Life Changing Power Within You. Edited and adapted from You Can, But Will You? By Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Emerson says that we are weak when we look for help outside of ourselves; that it is only as we throw ourselves unhesitatingly on our thoughts that we instantly right ourselves, stand erect and work miracles. In other words, you will never do the biggest thing possible to you while you rely on outside help, upon others to boost you, to give you capital, or to start your business. It is only when, figuratively speaking, you throw everything else overboard and dive right into the great within of yourself that you find the spring of success, the achievement force, the power which does things in a big way.---------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 th