Being a Leader in Every Day Life | Leadership Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 586 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Being a Leader in Every Day Life. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There are some things in life that one needs to forget. And if we could forget, forgiving would be easy. To be able to forget slights and wrongs inflicted by others is a greater asset than to have a good memory. So, forget and forgive, and obliterate forever all the rankling animosities of the past. It will give you health and happiness, and purify your soul.
What good does it do to brood over a thing that can't be helped. If you have done wrong, right the wrong if possible, and then forget it. Outgrow it. Let the brain cells of unpleasant memories wither and die. Remove the thistle, and plant the flower. Lose sight of the wrong. Cling to the good.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. To get access to have free podcasts, |
| 0:18.0 | and our entire archive of over 550 podcasts, please visit |
| 0:24.4 | living hour.org slash patron. |
| 0:28.4 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox, published in 1912. |
| 0:38.3 | If there were only an oil that could take the squeak and grumble out of every person on earth. |
| 0:48.3 | Isn't it too bad that? When life is so short, most people are out of sorts about half the time at best, |
| 0:58.0 | it is contrary to human nature to say you should. As a rule, a person gets about as good |
| 1:05.7 | results trying to compel a buffalo as a woman or man. |
| 1:18.0 | You've got to, and I'll see that you do, are deadly enemies to personality. |
| 1:23.7 | You perhaps have been annoyed by someone trying to make you do something. |
| 1:31.0 | But you have not been annoyed or injured half so much as the person who tried to make you. |
| 1:33.0 | The lesson to guide you is this. |
| 1:36.4 | Lead more and drive less. |
| 1:39.4 | Persuade more and threaten less. |
| 1:42.3 | Use the oil of gladness, good cheer, frankness, and common sense. |
| 1:48.9 | Cut out suspicion. |
| 1:51.0 | We all like people who are nice and agreeable, but how often do we forget that? |
| 1:58.3 | It takes some effort on our part. |
| 2:01.4 | We are not willing to take the trouble to control our moody dispositions. |
| 2:08.6 | Politeness is one of the things that make the world fit to live in. |
| 2:13.3 | The courteous person who is considerate of our wants and feelings may have some faults |
| 2:19.0 | of even a grievous nature, but we like them just the same. |
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