Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute

their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually

the business behind the business, the one which makes selling and buying simple.

For millions of retail businesses, that business is Shopify.

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shoppers into buyers. With Shopify, you can sell wherever

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in between. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Magic Spoon and Mattel use.

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slash inspirational.

All lowercase.

Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today.

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

Today's talk was edited and adapted from

Be Good to Yourself by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1910.

There are thousands of people in every field of life, whose careers are most disappointing,

simply because they do not keep themselves in a physical and mental condition to do their

best thing, the highest thing possible to them.

I know people of middle age whose enthusiasm has long since petered out.

Their work has become drudgery because they have not the energy enough to

make it interesting. Their lack of physical vigor makes life a grind instead of a joy.

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