Make a Decision Today | Success Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 685 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make a Decision Today | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is one habit which you should cultivate, not only for its usefulness in general, but especially for its value in developing true decision of character. That is, the habit of doing everything that should be done, precisely at the time when it ought to be done. Everything in human character goes to wreck under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding life and energy.
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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. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. |
| 1:35.2 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 1:38.3 | Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenportport Northrop, published in 1899. |
| 1:52.4 | No person is weaker than the one who is a weather vein. |
| 1:57.3 | They turn this way and that with every wind that blows. |
| 2:09.8 | They have no mind of their own, no fixed opinion, no firm resolution, no strong determination. |
| 2:21.9 | Yesterday they thought one thing. Today they think another. They are unstable and hence weak. They drift about as straw does in a storm. |
| 2:32.0 | They come to a conclusion. They do not know how to hold it. They are ready for another, and then ready for the next. |
| 2:37.0 | Easily influenced, swayed this way and that, people say of such a person, |
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