Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

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

Listen to episode 583 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Mindset to Win Life’s Battles. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush.Motivation Podcast Excerpt: Not many people believe in witches and goblins anymore, but plenty of us have, through fear, worry, and shyness, conjured up numerous devils to beset our road, to rob us of our happiness, and sink us into the rut of despair. Borrowed troubles, magnified worries, these are the modern devils which camp on nearly everyone’s trail, and block many a successful highway. What is there to fear? Nothing but fear. But thousands of us are haunted day and night by that particular devil of the imagination. Devils of worries, fear, and disappointment are barriers which only the mind can overcome. Devils, like our troubles, are mostly in our minds. If we mix up a witches’ brew of fear and worry, we shall sip a bitter cup of unhappiness indeed. Loss may become such a devil, it could drive us to suicide today, as it has done to thousands in the

Listen to episode 582 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Overcome Your Fears. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, as special thank you to our new monthly patrons, Judith Ogedegbe, Jeri Neathery, and Andy Graham. Learn how you can become a patron for as little as $3 a month, to receive ad-free podcasts, full transcripts, and more, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How to Lick Fear by David V. Bush, published in 1924.The common saying that you are making a mountain out of a molehill, contains more truth than poetry. When your imagination takes wings, and fancy runs wild, you can picture and anticipate more trouble in five minutes than you could actually bring upon yourself in a lifetime. Imagination can do almost anything: It can give us the right mental attitude for success, health, and happiness; but uncontrolled, it can build structures of dou

Listen to episode 580 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspirational Thoughts for Every-day Life. Edited and adapted from the work of Maltbie Davenport Babcock.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest patron Jackie Cochran. Jackie now has access to ad-free podcasts, full transcripts, and our entire archive of over 550 podcasts. You can too, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron.Opportunities do not come with their value stamped upon them. Every one of them must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days. In it a single hour comes, quite like other hours. But in that day, and in that hour, the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether recognized or disguised.---------------Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness, indolence, or selfishness, a good intention

Listen to episode 578 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quality that Makes or Breaks You. Edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The subject of my talk today isn’t the training of your intellectual faculties or the acquisition of knowledge. I would rather impress upon you that the strongest, most disciplined mind cannot of itself bring you honor or happiness, cannot make you a good and useful citizen, or entitle you to the respect of others. The great topic upon which I plan to speak is character — for the greatest women and men, whose names are honored and revered by all humankind, were not great because they were mighty in intellect, but because they were grand in soul. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 574 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Become an Artist in Your Work & Life. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person whose life is intelligently ordered is always preparing themselves for the highest demands of their work. They are not only doing their work with adequate skill from day to day, but always fitting themselves in advance for more exacting and difficult tasks.If you are to become an artist in your work, your specific preparation for particular occasions and tasks must be part of a general preparation for ALL possible occasions and tasks — because it is not only impossible to foresee opportunities, but often impossible to recognize their importance.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 573 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Climbing the Ladder of Purpose and Success. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.Success Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patron, Sandra Hopper. To learn how you can become our patron and get access to ad free episodes, full transcripts, and more, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.Purpose gives a new impulse, a new impetus, a new interpretation to living. Purpose is the backbone of a life of courage. It shows that the highest justification for living is love, in some form. It may be for a cause, a country, an ideal, a family, or an individual. Purpose at its best means our mastery over conditions, our mastery over self, our dedication to something higher than self, fighting for the right and fighting it to the end. We

Listen to episode 571 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: True Optimism for a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.Visit today's sponsor Headspace, the easy-to-use meditation app whose benefits are backed by 25 published studies and over 600K five star reviews. Go to Headspace.com/happiness for a free 1 month trial.Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Optimism is the sunshine of the soul in action. It is sturdy confidence that right must triumph, united to tireless courage to make it triumph. Optimism is the finest weapon in the armory of the individual. It unifies all the undaunted virtues of your strength into a force and inspiration. It means fighting for, or with, the battalions of right, love, justice, and truth — with a determination to win. True optimism is something more than a continuous performance of hope. It is the joy of living — made an actual fact. It means seeking the best, living the best, doing the best. It means focusing all that is highest in o

Listen to episode 569 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Hold on to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Happiness does not consist of what we have but what we are — not in our possessions but in our attitude towards them. It is the serenity of the soul in the presence of a joy. It is not absolute, requiring certain fixed conditions. It is relative. What would be a fast for one might prove a royal feast for another.Happiness does not always require success, prosperity, or attainment. It is often the joy of hopeful struggle, the consecration of a purpose, and energy used to some good end. Real happiness ever has its root in unselfishness — its blossom in love of some kind. We make or mar our own happiness and that of others to a larger degree than we are willing to admit. It is easier to pose as a victim of conditions than to prove ourselves a victor.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donatio

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Listen to episode 568 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Crown of Individuality | Living Your Best Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The supreme courage of life is the courage of the soul. It is living, day by day, sincerely, steadfastly, serenely — despite all opinions, all obstacles, all opposition. It means the wine of inspiration that comes from the crushed grapes of our sorrows. This courage makes the simplest life great. It makes the greatest life sublime. It means the royal dignity of fine individual living.Every man and woman reigns a king or queen over the kingdom of self. They wear the crown of individuality that no hands but their own can ever remove. You should not only reign but rule. Your individuality is your true self, your best self, your highest self, your self victorious.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &a

Listen to episode 566 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Valuable Secret of Life. Edited an adapted from the work of Elbert Hubbard, collected in the book The American Bible by Alice Hubbard.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The secret, which I am about to tell you, is the most valuable and far-reaching of any known to human kind. It is the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is the open sesame to Paradise, here and now. A secret is something known only to a few. But often the best way to retain a secret is to let others help you to keep it. Just as the only way to retain love is to give it away — art and religion the same.This secret, which I am about to impart, will cause no thrill, save in the hearts of those who already know it. And all I can do for you, anyway, is to tell you the things you know, but which possibly you do not know you know until I tell you.So, here, then, is the secret.....Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising I

Listen to episode 565 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Mastering Your Moods | The Art of Arts. Edited and adapted from Every Man a King by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When things get hard for you, when everything seems to go against you, when you are thwarted on every side, when the sky is dark and you can see no light, that is just the time to exhibit your mettle, to show of what stuff you are made. If there is anything in you, adversity will bring it out. What you do in spite of circumstances, rather than because of them, is the measure of your success ability. When you get up in the morning feeling blue and discouraged because disagreeable things confront you, make up your mind firmly that, come what may, you will make that particular day a "red-letter" day in your life. Then, instead of a probable failure and the loss of a day, you will at least accomplish infinitely more than you would have done if you had given way to your depressing mood. Support this podcast at — htt

Listen to episode 562 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building the Habits to Set You Free. Edited and adapted from King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance by James Allen.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Habit is repetition. We repeat the same thoughts, the same actions, the same experiences over and over again until they are incorporated within our being, until they are built into our character as part of ourselves. Faculty is fixed habit. Evolution is mental accumulation. Humanity, today, is the result of millions of repetitious thoughts and acts. We are not ready-made. We become, and are still becoming. Our character is predetermined by our own choice. The thought, the act, which we choose — that, by habit, we become.Thus each person is an accumulation of thoughts and deeds. The characteristics which you manifest instinctively and without effort are lines of thought and action that become, by long repetition, automatic — for it is the nature of habit to become unconscious, to repeat itself without any appar