Failure is Always the First Step | Motivational Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 899 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Failure is Always the First Step. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that most business owners fail. Even if this were true, it doesn't mean that they fail absolutely. It simply means that they failed to make a success of the business in which they started, and are now trying something else. A person should never consider themselves a failure so long as there is an opportunity or life to make one.
When failing in any profession, the worst thing you can say is....
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| 0:45.8 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox, published in 1905. |
| 1:00.2 | Okay. by George H. Knox, published in 1905. It's been said that most business owners fail. |
| 1:04.5 | Even if this were true, it doesn't mean that they fail absolutely. |
| 1:10.4 | It simply means that they failed to make a success |
| 1:13.3 | of the business in which they started and are now trying something else. A person should never |
| 1:20.3 | consider themselves a failure, so long as there is an opportunity or a life to make one. |
| 1:34.3 | When failing in any profession, the worst thing you can say is that you are not cut out for it. |
| 1:37.7 | That is a cowardly makeshift excuse. |
| 1:43.2 | Anyone who tells you to expect failure until you find your calling, |
| 1:46.8 | the work that was intended for you, the work you were born for, is giving you horrible advice. It is nothing less than a calamity for a person |
| 1:54.9 | to believe they are not cut out for the work they are doing. Why? Because it puts you in the wrong mental attitude. |
| 2:03.6 | It gives you a decidedly erroneous idea of things. You think you are not cut out for the work, |
| 2:10.6 | and so putter along for years without getting your head high enough to see the sun, all the time waiting for Providence to bring |
| 2:19.8 | you the job you were cut out for. Sometimes a person even finds fault with Providence, if it |
| 2:27.2 | doesn't serve up that job they were born to do. But I don't believe Providence has anything |
| 2:33.6 | special for such a person to do. And if there is a job |
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