How to Keep Young, Energetic, and Growing!
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 845 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Keep Young, Energetic & Growing. Edited and adapted from The Road to Seventy Years Young, or The Unhabitual Way by Emily Mulkin Bishop.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that our years, rightly lived, should bring a multiplication, not a relinquishment, of interests. Even that which is very familiar contains something new for us if our senses are not dimmed.
The musical scale has only eight fundamental notes. Yet every piece of music illustrates a new use of the old — from new combinations arise new harmonies. Surely, this world (and its wonders and mysteries) are sufficient to hold our interest for a lifetime....
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
| 0:06.0 | businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute |
| 0:12.2 | their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually |
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| 0:40.3 | your customers are a scrolling or strolling, on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere |
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| 1:00.3 | slash inspirational. |
| 1:03.4 | All lowercase. |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.1 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Road to 70 Years Young, or the Unhabitual Way, by Emily Moulken Bishop, published in 1909. |
| 1:58.8 | A kind of mental laziness, which, for lack of a better term, may be called an inertia of the will, |
| 2:07.8 | is perhaps the chief cause of old age. |
| 2:12.3 | It is easy to dawdle mentally, for no action of will is required when the wheels of thought aimlessly |
| 2:21.7 | revolve in accustomed grooves. Such come-as-you-please thoughts are practically automatic, the undirected |
| 2:31.5 | response to some stimulus. Directed thinking to some definite end, |
| 2:38.0 | which is the only kind of thinking that makes for the retention of mental vigor, |
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