How to Navigate the Journey of Life | Uplifting Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 799 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Navigate the Journey of Life. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We can either recall pleasant memories and contemplate cheerful possibilities; or we can muse upon our sad experiences and prospects that are dark and threatening. The first is evidently the way of wisdom. Yet how many people there are who do the last, thus enduring a thousand times those disappointments and heartaches which it is bad enough to have borne once.
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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 |
| 0:18.0 | the business behind the business, the one which makes selling and buying simple. |
| 0:23.4 | For millions of retail businesses, that business is Shopify. |
| 0:29.6 | Nobody does selling better than Shopify, because no checkout system is better at converting |
| 0:35.8 | shoppers into buyers. With Shopify, you can sell wherever |
| 0:40.3 | your customers are a scrolling or strolling, on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere |
| 0:48.7 | in between. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Magic Spoon and Mattel use. |
| 0:55.6 | Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com |
| 1:00.3 | slash inspirational. |
| 1:03.4 | All lowercase. |
| 1:05.3 | Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today. |
| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and other essays by Joseph Frank Thompson, published in 1891. |
| 1:47.0 | There is an old Turkish proverb that says, |
| 1:57.0 | During the Pilgrimage, everything does not suit the taste of the pilgrim. |
| 2:03.4 | When making a long journey on foot, we enjoy many pleasures and endure many discomforts. |
| 2:11.3 | No two days and scarcely any two hours of the same day are precisely alike. |
| 2:18.3 | The scenery is sometimes varied and interesting, |
| 2:22.3 | while at other times it is uniform and tiresome. |
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