Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

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

Announcement: Today is the last day of our book sale! Get 30% off our heirloom hardcover books, featuring the best essays read on the Inspirational Living podcast. Go to: https://www.blurb.com/user/livinghour Then use the coupon code: BESTBOOK-----------Listen to episode 597 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Turn in the Road that Changes Everything. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When walking along a mountain trail there is sometimes a sudden sharp turn where, by seeming magic, the narrow path is transformed into the entrance of a vast panorama of Nature. We are stunned as we involuntarily stop short, rest and surrender to its majesty. The view exalts us, glorifies us, inspires us. We have a new high restful ground of contemplation. We have a new test of values, a new base of interpretation, a new relation to life....Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.

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

Listen to episode 594 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Self-Respect for a Joyful Life. Edited and adapted from You Can, But Will You? By Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: At the very outset of your professional life, you can make no better resolution than that, whatever happens, you will stand well with yourself, that you will never forfeit your self-respect, never besmirch your honor by perverting your divine nature to do mean, low, dishonorable things. If you firmly resolve that you will always have the good opinion of at least one person in the world (yourself), no one, no conditions or circumstances, can cheat you out of an honorable career, an honorable life.---------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

I would like to share with you today the 2nd variation of our popular Affirmations Sleep Meditation. Previously I shared with you the Ocean Sounds version. This 2nd version features our life changing affirmations spoken over a continuous stream of gently falling rain and rolling thunder. This recording will relax your mind to encourage a deep, restful sleep, and help create instructive dreams to solve problems, inspire new actions, and build a positive mindset.The 50 affirmations included in this Sleep Meditation were carefully selected and edited by David Alan, host of the Inspirational Living podcast and founder of The Living Hour. To learn about our MAJESTY meditation, which can help transform your personal and professional life in 30 days, please visit https://livinghour.org/majesty.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 593 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Avoiding Detours on Your Road to Success. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nobody who drives a car enjoys seeing the sign “Detour” — for it means the long and hard way. For some reason, the straight, smooth road has been closed, and we are asked to go out of our way and endure the consequences.The person who lives an overly emotional life is constantly making detours, going the hard, difficult, “round about” way. The people who end the day with the expression, “I am so weary,” are generally emotional people. They do no great work but allow their energy to leak away in needless emotions.--------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 592 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Letting Go | Live NOW. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Worry is the bugaboo of life! You have not yet lived unless you have learned to neutralize the acid thoughts of fear and anxiety. Sooner or later, mental unrest manifests itself physically, mentally, and financially. The old saying, “When about to let go, hold on,” should be revised to say, “When about to hold on—let go.”One of the best ways of testing a person's physical and mental condition is to ascertain their ability to relax. When we tighten up mentally, we see an immediate effect on the body. High blood pressure, indigestion, headaches, the hardening of the arteries, and a score of other ailments are often a direct result of the desire to “hold on” instead of “letting go.”-------Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting: https://inspirationallifelessons.comGet our podcast with full transcripts and wi

Listen to episode 591 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of the Subconscious Mind. Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The conscious mind has the important duty of being the thinker for the other departments of our mind. It acts as the adviser and master suggestor for our sub-conscious mind, and the sub-conscious ALWAYS receives these suggestions from our conscious mind, whether we know it or not, and it has a follow-up-system of working them into realization that many people are blind to. In other words, we may get a “rotten patch of hard luck” today and wonder why, but THE ORDER was placed through our Conscious Mind, maybe years ago.The conscious mind is the leader. It takes the leadership and initiative in all forms of development. When the conscious mind gives its order to the sub-conscious, that order is taken up and acted upon by the sub-conscious department of our mind, while we sleep, possibly, but it is taken up and acted upon A L

Listen to episode 589 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Use Your Time & Money | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, a Guide to Personal Efficiency, by Gustavus S. Kimball.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A wise philosopher once said, “Time is the stuff that life is made of.” Many people waste a great deal of time on trivialities, instead of putting their work where it will matter. When Drexillius was asked by a friend how he managed to accomplish so much, he replied: “The year has 365 days, or 8,760 hours. In so many hours great things can be done. The slow tortoise made a long journey by losing no time.”------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 588 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Ambition to Achieve Great Things. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, a Guide to Personal Efficiency, by Gustavus S. Kimball.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many of the circumstances of our lives we cannot change, but it IS up to us how we respond to them. Let it be understood at the start, that the patient conquest of difficulties in business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success we seek, but necessary to that preparation of mind requisite for the enjoyment of our success, and for retaining it when gained.It is the rule of Providence that the process of earning success shall be the preparation for its conversion and enjoyment. So, day after day, work on — and in that process, gain strength and symmetry, nerve and knowledge. No better advice was ever given to a young person than that conveyed in Emerson's maxim, "Hitch your wagon to a star."------Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditat

Listen to episode 586 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Being a Leader in Every Day Life. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There are some things in life that one needs to forget. And if we could forget, forgiving would be easy. To be able to forget slights and wrongs inflicted by others is a greater asset than to have a good memory. So, forget and forgive, and obliterate forever all the rankling animosities of the past. It will give you health and happiness, and purify your soul. What good does it do to brood over a thing that can't be helped. If you have done wrong, right the wrong if possible, and then forget it. Outgrow it. Let the brain cells of unpleasant memories wither and die. Remove the thistle, and plant the flower. Lose sight of the wrong. Cling to the good. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 585 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Have the Talent to Do Great Things. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The tadpole becomes a frog or toad — something of more importance than a tadpole. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly. But the brightest child may live a hundred years, and never become a genuine woman or man — a true individual. In becoming your true self there is more to do than finding enough to eat and a place to sleep. The animals do that. There are kind words to speak, loads to lift, and people to cheer, help, and save. There are intellectual problems to be solved, spiritual heights to be scaled, a passion for service and a love of humanity to be cultivated. Every day, every year, can bring a higher state of existence, a more marvelous transformation. No person can estimate the influence or possibilities of a human life. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: ht

Listen to episode 584 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of the Mind & How to Use It. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The mind is the key to power and the source of all power — the open door to fame and immortality. The mind is also the greatest factor in the development of personality. It is the one power, and the only power, that dominates and controls you. It is the one indestructible agency that survives time. It cannot be weighed or measured. It outreaches a million worlds. It is as limitless as the universe and as boundless as eternity. In a mere instant, we can turn the mind back to the beginning of human history. Circumscribed by neither time nor space, its dwelling place is eternity, and in a single moment of flight, it can reach the most distant star, and then on and on and on. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https