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

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Lessons in Living by Elizabeth Town, published in 1919.

If you were going to run a marathon race, would you prepare for it by sleeping until the last minute, then tumbling out of bed in a hurry, throwing

on any old thing that came handy, and starting off at the highest possible speed, if you did,

you would certainly fall by the wayside before you had reached the halfway mark.

And yet to the average person every day is a little marathon race with time,

and many of us begin it in just that half-hazard sort of hustle.

If we don't hustle, we drag and complain,

or we snap at every brush with those who are running the same little

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