Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Your Unconscious Influence on Others Apr 27, 2025

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting, published in 1934.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What do you suppose those people got out of contact with you? Do you know? Of course you don't. You think that they forget you. Well, they don't. They are just like you. They wake up in the night and think. Their hearts go down or their spirits rise because of something you did or said or looked, just as your courage ebbs or flows because of something they gave you.

A word, an act, a glance, an attitude, a sigh, a laugh, a sob, a mean trick, an act of self-sacrifice (one of yours) was stamped upon their hearts and souls. Something you did, something you said, something you were, now makes them set their teeth and clench their hands, or shrug and laugh, or cower and shrink, or give and give. Do you not think so? Well, then, you are much more important than you know.

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The Mystical Circle of Life | Success Podcasts Apr 24, 2025

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Listen to episode 1002 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Circles of Life & Success. Edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Old age should not creep upon a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to besettled: but only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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The Secret of Happiness | Inspirational Podcasts Apr 22, 2025

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Listen to episode 1001 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Happiness. Adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life holds for everyone some different meaning. Out of its great storehouse of treasures, every person endeavors to secure that which, for them, means happiness.

Many people early give up the struggle to acquire more than they find necessary for a mere existence, and never penetrate far into the mysterious labyrinths of this wonderful storehouse. Others waste their energies in accumulating a variety of tawdry trappings, which in no way represent happiness, but whose glittering spectacle blinds them to the less glaring things of real worth.

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Essay on Self-Reliance - 1000th Episode w/ Free eBooks Giveaway Apr 17, 2025

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Listen to the 1000th episode of the Inspirational Living podcast: Essay on Self-Reliance – 1000^th Episode w/ Free eBook Giveaway. Edited and adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay on Self-Reliance.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The power that resides in you is new in nature, and no one but you knows what you can do, nor will you know until you have tried. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place that divine providence has found for you in the society of your contemporaries.

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You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration Apr 15, 2025

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Listen to episode 999 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration. Adapted from Thought Force in Business & Every Day Life by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the "blues." How so? Why, just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and concentrating on a brighter subject. Thousands of people have found this plan a specific remedy for the "blues," discouragement, worry, fear, and the rest.

Try it, and you will find that life will appear entirely different to you. Try it, and you will begin to feel the thrill of life again, and will thank God that you are alive, instead of cursing the day when you were born. You will do your work better; you will feel better; you will BE better. Is it not worth trying it out?

Take up the exercises I am about to share with you, and go over them until you can do anything whatsoever, without your thoughts wandering....

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Nobody Can Cheat You But Yourself Apr 13, 2025

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: People suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for you to be cheated by anyone but yourself, as it is for a thing to be and not be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss.

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Breaking Conformity to Live an Authentic Life Apr 10, 2025

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Listen to episode 998 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living an Authentic Life | Originality vs. Conformity. Edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Isn't it pitiful, how we so often conform: conform to style, to custom, to mode, to trend. And if we think about it, we come upon a curious anomaly. The world is actually crying out for originality (for something new under the sun) yet it slaps at it instantly when it raises its head. No person is so unpopular as the one who begins to be unlike the rest. However, no person receives such rewards as the one who persists in it!

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The Great Power of Perseverance Apr 08, 2025

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Listen to episode 997 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Perseverance. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Continual drops wear out the stone." So persevering labor gains our objectives. Perseverance is the virtue wanted — a lion-hearted purpose of victory. It is this that builds; constructs; accomplishes whatever is great, good, and valuable.

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Earning Your Wisdom & Happiness Apr 03, 2025

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Listen to episode 996 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Earning Your Wisdom and Happiness. Edited & adapted from a speech by David Starr Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest source of failure in life comes from this. It is easier to be almost right than to be right; to wish, than to gain. In default of gold, there is always something almost as good, and which glitters equally. In default of possession, illusion can be had, and more cheaply. It is possession only which costs. Illusion can be had on easy terms, though the final end of deception is failure and misery.

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Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living Apr 01, 2025

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Listen to episode 995 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Without self-reliance no one can succeed in the largest way. Self-reliance breeds courage, faith, determination, never-say-dieness. Self-reliance inspires a person to do the best that is in them. Without self-reliance, the difficulties that are common to forging ahead cannot be fought and overmatched.

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