Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Need a free online life coach? Look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Inspiring readings from James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Hellen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, and more. With over 25 million downloads, we have been one of the most popular self-development podcasts since 2016. Listen to our inspirational podcasts every Tuesday and Thursday, and browse hundreds of uplifting podcasts in our archive. Buy our best-selling trilogy of books based on the readings heard on the podcast at: https://livinghour.org/books Or visit Amazon.com

  1. The Power of Laughter & Cheerfulness

    12h ago

    The Power of Laughter & Cheerfulness

    Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Joyous people are not only the happiest, but the longest lived, the most useful and the most successful. A sense of humor, the love of fun in human nature, is a normal, natural lubricant which oils life's machinery, makes it run smoothly, and relieves that grinding of the bearings which prematurely wears away so many lives.  The 19th century women’s activist Lydia Maria Child used to say: "I think cheerfulness in every possible way. I hang prisms in my window to fill the room with rainbows." This is the right kind of philosophy, the great medicine of the mind, the best tonic for the body. The habit of looking on the sunny side, the laughter-side or ludicrous side of things, is a fortune in itself. I would rather be a millionaire of cheerfulness and sunshine than of dollars.  ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    10 min
  2. How to Stay Calm and Reduce Stress

    5d ago

    How to Stay Calm and Reduce Stress

    Listen to episode 1129 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Calm, Cool & Collected. Adapted from a lecture by Dr. George Lincoln Walton. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we are to change our mental attitudes, we should begin by modifying them by suggestion. In attacking faulty mental habits, suggestion is the most potent agent at our command. There is nothing new or pseudo-scientific about the practical employment of self-suggestion toward achieving poise and equanimity. Lao Tzu urged his followers to guard their vitality by entering into harmony with their environment. And Cicero claimed that to learn to live without tumult is the best training for the fulfillment of a wish. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    13 min
  3. We Must Strive to Do Great Things

    Jun 9

    We Must Strive to Do Great Things

    Listen to episode 1128 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Must Strive to do Great Deeds. Edited and adapted from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the men and women who are actually in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who err; who come short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. These are the brave souls who actually strive to DO the deeds; who know great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    17 min
  4. The True Nature of Reality | Our Sunday Talks

    Jun 7

    The True Nature of Reality | Our Sunday Talks

    Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is well sometimes to meditate deeply and seriously on the truth of the transitory nature of the things. By meditation we will come to perceive how all compounded things must pass away — how even while they remain they are already in the process of passing away. Such meditation will soften the heart, deepen the understanding, and render one more fully conscious of the sacred nature of life ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    9 min
  5. The Life-Changing Power of Habit

    Jun 4

    The Life-Changing Power of Habit

    Listen to episode 1127 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Life-Changing Power of Habit. Adapted from book The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Habit is our "best friend or worst enemy." We are "walking bundles of habits." Habit is a "cable which we cannot break." Such are the popular expressions linked with habitual behavior. In other words, let me know your habits of life, and you have revealed your moral standards and conduct. Let me discover your intellectual habits, and I understand your type of mind and methods of thought. In short, our lives are largely a daily round of activities dictated by our habits in this line or that.  ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    16 min
  6. Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea

    Jun 2

    Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea

    Listen to episode 1126 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea. Edited and adapted from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about humanity and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    14 min
  7. The Divine Spark Within You | Our Sunday Talks

    Jun 1

    The Divine Spark Within You | Our Sunday Talks

    Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1920. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each one of us possesses, if we but knew it, unlimited Power. This Power is of the Spirit, therefore, it is unconquerable. It is not the power of the ordinary life, or finite will, or human mind. It transcends these, because, being spiritual, it is of a higher order than either physical or even mental. This Power lies dormant, and is hidden within us until we are sufficiently evolved and unfolded to be entrusted with its use.  ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    9 min
  8. The Essentials of Success | Inspirational Podcasts

    May 28

    The Essentials of Success | Inspirational Podcasts

    Listen to episode 1124 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Words as a Powerful Force. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be remedied by building a stronger fire under your desires. Great fortunes (be they figurative or literal) gravitate to those whose minds have been prepared to "attract" them, just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. There simply is no substitute for persistence. It cannot be supplanted by any other quality. Remember this, and it will hearten you, in the beginning, when the going may seem difficult and slow. Those who have cultivated the Habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure. No matter how many times they are defeated, they finally arrive toward the top of the ladder. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Need a free online life coach? Look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Inspiring readings from James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Hellen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, and more. With over 25 million downloads, we have been one of the most popular self-development podcasts since 2016. Listen to our inspirational podcasts every Tuesday and Thursday, and browse hundreds of uplifting podcasts in our archive. Buy our best-selling trilogy of books based on the readings heard on the podcast at: https://livinghour.org/books Or visit Amazon.com

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