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

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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Spunk, How to Lick Fear, by David V. Bush, published in 1924.

The more needs you have, the more should be your accomplishments in the future.

Needs our nature's way of pushing you up, up and up. The flower pushes itself

through the soil because it needs the sunshine. Get out into the forest and see how tall trees

gradually push themselves upward. Sometimes we find great trunks inclined toward a lighter space, and sometimes we notice more limbs on the sunnier side of a tree than on the other.

Such anomalies are invariably due to the tree's quest for light. It strives for all the light it needs, and in the effort grows more on one

side than on the other. What are your needs? The more your needs, the more nature grants you

the dynamic urgent inward push to seek that which you want. If your needs are great, then you know that your fulfillment in the future will be great,

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