Guiding Your Ambition Toward Success
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 916 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Driving Your Ambition to Success. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ambition is desire, the desire for self-expression along the line of least resistance. Desire is a thing to be cultivated. Feed it with your imagination. But do not desire to have things. Greed and envy, and a host of other uglinesses, owe their birth to the desire to have. Desire to BE, and the things will come of themselves.
To be a great success, a master in your chosen business or profession....
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 1:36.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Claire Tree Major, published in 1916. |
| 1:51.0 | Several years ago while traveling through Canada, |
| 1:59.0 | I received an invitation to attend a reception at which a very |
| 2:04.4 | noted author was to speak. I accepted the invitation with great pleasure, since I had read all |
| 2:12.2 | the author's works and was glad of the opportunity to meet him. I admired his books mainly for their vigorous spirit, their suggestion of the rugged, open-air |
| 2:24.3 | life of mountain, lake, and forest. |
| 2:28.3 | I expected to find the author a man of vivid, compelling magnetism, reflecting in himself the virility of those |
| 2:37.3 | products of his imagination. To my astonishment, I found a man devoid of magnetism, who read his |
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