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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Finding the Best Within Yourself | Motivation Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

4.0805 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 840 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Best Within Yourself. Edited and adapted from Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is nothing so valuable in this world as your own self-respect; and you cannot keep this if you go from one person to another trying to get help.You will be an infinitely stronger man or woman if you will just make up your mind that you are going to rely upon yourself, that you will put yourself in a position of independence.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

0:06.0

businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute

0:12.2

their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually

0:18.0

the business behind the business, the one which makes selling and buying simple.

0:23.4

For millions of retail businesses, that business is Shopify.

0:29.6

Nobody does selling better than Shopify, because no checkout system is better at converting

0:35.8

shoppers into buyers. With Shopify, you can sell wherever

0:40.3

your customers are a scrolling or strolling, on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere

0:48.7

in between. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Magic Spoon and Mattel use.

0:55.6

Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com

1:00.3

slash inspirational.

1:03.4

All lowercase.

1:05.3

Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today.

1:13.0

Shopify.com slash inspirational.

1:16.9

Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

1:35.2

Today's reading was edited and adapted from

1:38.3

Self-Investment by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1911.

1:55.5

The average person is capable of independence and self-reliance, yet comparatively few people ever

2:04.5

develop their ability to stand alone. It is so much easier to lean, to trail, to follow

2:13.5

somebody else, to let others do the thinking and the planning and the work.

2:20.3

One of the worst faults of the typical person is that, if they do not possess commanding

2:27.3

talents in some particular direction, they usually do not think it worthwhile to make the most of what they have.

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