Listen to episode 993 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Energy, Authenticity & Character | Mind Power. Adapted from The Positive Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Before anything can be accomplished we must have power. It takes power to work, to do business, to enjoy, to think, to live. Mental energy backs all action. If we lack it, we cannot expect to accomplish much until we have developed the elements that supply force. Even in good health, energy is sometimes deficient, leaving one tame, inert, constitutionally tired, and averse to activity an ..read more

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 the Ancient Mexican Code of Moral Precepts Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who offends their Divine spark will die miserable, and it will be their own fault. Honor and salute the aged. Console the poor and afflicted by thy words and thy good works. Revere, love, and serve thy father and mother; listen to them; for the child who does not so conduct themselves will regret it. --------------------- Get our popular 3 books o ..read more

Listen to episode 992 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Adults | Life Coach Lessons. Edited and adapted from Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A life is divine when duty is a joy. The best work we ever do is the work we get pleasure from doing. And the work we are likeliest to enjoy most is the work we are best fitted to do with our talent. There is nothing in the world except marriage that we should be slower to take upon ourselves than our life-work; therefore, think much, read much, inquire much before you assume any life ..read more

Listen to episode 991 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Your Life Count | Motivational Speeches. Edited and adapted from “Ambition and Success” by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everywhere we see men and women doing the lower, the commoner things, seemingly satisfied to do them all their lives, when they have the ability to do the higher. Many people do not start out with ambition enough to spur them to do big things. They make a large career practically impossible at the very outset, because they expect so little of themselves. They have a narrow, stingy view of l ..read more

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 the work of Neville Goddard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When the walls are being rebuilt, it is easy to imagine that the foundations are being destroyed. Old creeds pass away, but truth remains. If they were true in their day, they but give place to the larger truth of the new day. We need to distinguish between the turmoil attendant to the process of building and the beauty of the new temple that arises. --------------------- Get ..read more

Listen to episode 990 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming a Creative Writer | Learning to See Again. Adapted from Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The genius keeps, for all their days, the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in its expanding world. Many of US keep this wide-eyed interest well into adolescence; but very few mature men and women are fortunate enough to preserve it in their routine lives.  Most of us are only intermittently aware, even in youth, and the occasions on which adults see and feel and hear ..read more

Listen to episode 989 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating the Best Attitude of Mind. Adapted from Thinking for Results by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every moment therefore should be filled with contentment and perfect satisfaction. And every moment should also be filled with a strong desire for still greater achievements. In such a mental state (where contentment and aspiration are combined), we shall find life to be a continual feast, each course being more delicious than the last. We shall also find such a life to be the path to perpetual growth and continu ..read more

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 the work of Neville Goddard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Prayer is an art and requires practice. The first requirement is a controlled imagination. Ostentation and vain repetitions are foreign to prayer. Its exercise requires tranquility and peace of mind. The ceremonies that are customarily used in prayer are mere superstitions and have been invented to give prayer an air of solemnity. Those who do practice the art of prayer are o ..read more

Listen to episode 988 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have Success at Any Age. Edited and adapted from “Self-Control: It’s Kingship & Majesty” by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we honestly seek to live our best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of our living, and no trifle in our lives can be too insignificant to reflect this principle of living. The sun illuminates a fallen leaf by the roadside as impartially as a towering mountain peak in the Alps. Every drop of water in the ocean is an epitome of the chemistry of the whole ..read more

Listen to episode 987 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The little things in life are not to be dismissed. Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those who dare lose a day, are dangerously profligate; those who dare misspend a day, are desperate. Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams. Nails and pegs are little things, but they hold parts of large buildings together. Zeros and ones are l ..read more