Overcoming Poverty Begins with Your Mindset
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Listen to episode 811 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Poverty Begins with Your Mindset. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We cannot travel toward prosperity until our mental attitude faces prosperity. As long as we look toward despair, we shall never arrive at the harbor of delight. The individual who persists in holding their mental attitude toward poverty, or who is always thinking of their hard luck and failures, cannot possibly go in the opposite direction, where the goal of prosperity lies.
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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 |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.5 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Peace Power Implenty by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1909. |
| 1:51.9 | The worst thing about poverty is the poverty thought. |
| 1:57.4 | It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal to progress in life. |
| 2:05.6 | Holding the poverty thought keeps us in poverty-stricken and poverty-producing conditions. |
| 2:13.6 | Poverty is an abnormal condition. It does not fit any human being's constitution. |
| 2:21.3 | It contradicts the promise and the prophecy of the divine within us. |
| 2:28.3 | The Creator never intended that we should be a pauper or a slave. |
| 2:33.3 | There is not a single thing in the wonderful human |
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