Becoming the Person You are Meant to Be

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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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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1:37.7	Today's reading has been edited and adapted from the book,
1:41.6	Your Forces and How to Use Them, by Christian D. Larson, published in 1909.
1:51.9	Life is growth, and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.
2:01.6	Give less time trying to change the opinions of others,
2:06.6	and more time trying to improve your own life.
2:09.6	Life becomes the way it is lived,
2:13.6	and we may live the way we want to live when we learn to think what we want to think.
2:20.3	Create your own thought and you become what you want to become, because your thought creates you.
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