How to Be a Continuous Success in Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 533 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Be Continually Successful in Life. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Only the work that calls for original, creative thought brings you into the limelight, and endows you with the responsibilities that lead you to the heights of your profession. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself the method of life and work which will best accord with your own tastes, temperament, and abilities.
All the great women and men of the world have been mentally free. They were not bound by standards. They made standards by which other people judge themselves. If Columbus or Isaac Newton had bound themselves by the standards of their contemporaries, would the world have been the better for their having lived? No. Because they were mentally free, and because they acted and spoke and worked according to their own thoughts, they succeeded in their missions, and we feel their influence today.
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| 1:00.8 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 1:03.9 | Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917. |
| 1:14.2 | If you were to ask half a dozen people to define success, you would gain from them an indication |
| 1:20.8 | of their mental caliber, an outlook on life. |
| 1:25.7 | There is something lacking in the person who measures success by the money standard. |
| 1:30.3 | True success is an ideal state. It is nothing more nor less than perfection, |
| 1:38.3 | and therefore we can ever be entirely successful. All that we can hope to attain is a partial success, and for that reason, |
| 1:48.9 | so long as you strive with all your strength after perfection, you can never be a failure, |
| 1:55.5 | however far you may fall short of your ideal. Success as we understand the term is the measure of our personal power, while money is the |
| 2:07.6 | standard by which the world judges our success. |
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