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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

How To Start Living a Life of Joy | Happiness Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.0805 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 851 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Start Living a Joyful Life Today. Adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Whatever comes, or whatever you meet, or whatever you are called upon to do, proceed with peace and joy. Be glad that you have the opportunity to prove your own power, and thus elevate yourself thereby. Be supremely happy to know that you may change many things for the better through this attitude, and thus bless the lives of many.

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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

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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.

1:35.4

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson, published in 1909.

1:47.0

We meet something at almost every turn that we think ought to be different.

1:56.0

If we have high ideals, we may not feel satisfied to permit those conditions to remain as they are.

2:03.6

We may even complain or antagonize.

2:07.6

On the other hand, if our ideals be low, we may feel wholly indifferent,

2:13.6

but then we find that those things go from bad to worse.

2:18.7

What we seek is our present comfort on the one hand, and the betterment of everything about

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