Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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The Great Secret of Life | Inspirational Podcasts Aug 21, 2025

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Listen to episode 1036 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Life. Adapted from work by Elbert Hubbard that appears in 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.......

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Becoming the Person You are Meant to Be Aug 19, 2025

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Listen to episode 1035 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming the Person You are Meant to Be. Adapted from the book Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. Give less time trying to change the opinions of others, and more time trying to improve your own life. Life becomes the way it is lived; and we may live the way we want to live when we learn to think what we want to think.

Create your own thought and you become what you want to become because your thought creates you. We all know that we are as we think. Then we must think only such thoughts as tend to make us what we wish to be. The secret of right thinking is found in always keeping the mind's eye fixed upon the greater and the better in all things.

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The Most Divine Element of Life Aug 17, 2025

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Podcast Excerpt: The concept of a process of development carries with it the idea, not of a finished but of an unfinished world. It interprets history not as a record of people and events separate from the stage upon which they appear, but as the story of the influence of an unfinished world upon an undeveloped people, and of the marvelous unfolding through which the hidden powers and qualities of the material, and the worker, are brought into play. Work becomes, therefore, not only a continuation of the divine activity in the world, but a process entwined with the very constitution of that world.

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The Secret of Successful Artists & Writers Aug 14, 2025

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Listen to episode 1034 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Successful Artists & Writers. Adapted from the book “Work” by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpts: The place of habit in life can hardly be overestimated. Habit works a groove for us into which we fall easily, and in which we move swiftly, so that the great bulk of our actions are done automatically, and the whole trend of our life is established. Habit cuts a pathway from the brain through the nerve-centers, until after a time a thing is done almost mechanically.

We do not stop to think how we will walk when we want to go anywhere. We have laboriously acquired the art of walking, till it is done without any conscious attention. This law extends its sway over every region of life. We have gone on doing acts and making judgments along a certain line till it could be foretold what we will do on any.

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The Courage to Be Successful | Success Podcasts Aug 12, 2025

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Listen to episode 1033 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Be Successful. The Power of Mental Demand, and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: COURAGE is the fundamental fact of success. It makes us strong in doing what we have resolved upon. Courage gives persistence, banishes weakness, displaces vacillation with steadiness of purpose, resolves doubt. It makes hesitancy and irresolution impossible. It sends us armed with confidence on our road to success.

Confidence and the expectation of success draw to us all the qualities and mental forces which contribute to success. Courage, therefore, is the vital element of success. A lack of courage creates mental difficulties; it constructs obstacles and barriers; it makes that seem impossible which, with the exercise of courage, will be entirely possible.

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Conquering Your Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts Aug 07, 2025

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Listen to episode 1032 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Conquering Your Self-Doubt. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Doctors say that the human frame is never called upon to suffer more pain than it can bear. If the pain grows beyond the limit of human endurance, we lapse into unconsciousness. The same is true of the mind. Nothing is asked of us in this world that we are not capable of giving.

As the mind will feed upon doubt, so it will feed upon hope. When doubt comes into the mind, throw it out. Do not admit any consideration other than that it has no business there. Say, “I can do this — I will do it,” and you will succeed. But so long as you admit the slightest possibility of failure, just so long will there be an influence in your mind that is preventing you from putting all your energies into your task.

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The Power of Purpose - Orison Swett Marden Aug 05, 2025

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Listen to episode 1031 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Purpose. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The woman and man who knows one thing, and can do it better than anybody else (even if it only be the art of raising turnips), receives the crown they merit. If they raise the best turnips by reason of concentrating all their energy to that end, they are a benefactor to the race and are recognized as such.

If a salamander be cut in two, the front part will run forward and the other backward. Such is the progress of those who divide their purpose. Success is jealous of scattered energies. No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of their mind and yet make their life a failure.

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A Great Life is Calling You | Inspiring Podcasts Jul 31, 2025

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Listen to episode 1030 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Great Life is Beckoning You. Edited and adapted from Out Into Life by Douglas Horton.

Inspirational Podcasts: At school you have studied sections of life — its literature, its science, its history, etc. — but now you must look at life as a whole. You must ask yourself the colossal question which marks the entrance into true adulthood: ‘‘How can I live a really great life?”

This life toward which you look — what an amazing, splendid sight it is! Its thousand motions, lights, and colors fascinate the dullest eye. It is full of loves, hates, and prides; crime, guilt, and cunning; arresting heroism, beauty, and temptations — all the virtues and all the vices.

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Say Goodbye to Procrastination | Inspirational Podcasts Jul 29, 2025

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Listen to episode 1029 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Procrastination. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "If I had the time!" That is the sorry cry coming from the lips of tens of thousands unhappy persons of all classes and ages. But the saddest feature of it all is, that they have the time and do not know it. Or, if they do know it, they still go on trying to deceive themselves and others by repeating the same old, threadbare excuse the world has always offered as the reason why it has not made the progress it should have.

Now, stop for a moment, and honestly think it over. Haven't you the time? Isn't it the desire to make the most of your opportunities that is lacking? How much time did you waste yesterday? How much time are you going to waste today?

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The Qualities of Genius | Success Podcasts Jul 24, 2025

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Listen to episode 1028 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Qualities of Genius | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman, published in 1909.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Helvetius, the famous French philosopher, says: "Genius is nothing but a continued attention," and Buffon tells us that "genius is only a protracted patience." William Turner, the great landscape painter, when asked how he had achieved his great success, replied: "I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they do not succeed because they do not learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty."

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