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

Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orsum Sway Martin, published in 1917.

Last time we talked about the importance of self-discovery.

The great problem is how to get at the force in the great within of ourselves, and then to put it to work to the best advantage.

For whether life shall be a success or a failure, depends upon the call we make on our resources, the extent to which we develop all our possibilities.

The other day I was trying to encourage a friend to start out on

their own, instead of settling down in a narrow groove to work for somebody else all their life.

I am afraid, they said, I haven't the courage to take chances. I've always worked for somebody else.

I never made a program for myself.

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