Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle to Success in Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 794 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle to Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ideas, thoughts, like everything else, attract what is akin to them. The thoughts which dominate the mind will tend to drive out their opposites. Optimism will drive out pessimism. Cheerfulness will drive out despondency; hope, discouragement. Fill the mind with the sunshine of love, and all hatred and jealousy will flee. These black shadows cannot live in love's sunshine.
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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 |
| 1:38.2 | Self-Investment by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1911. |
| 1:49.0 | We can make our minds art galleries of beauty or chambers of horror. |
| 1:57.0 | We can furnish them with anything we please. |
| 2:02.2 | We think in mental images. |
| 2:05.6 | They always precede the physical realities. |
| 2:10.3 | Our mental pictures are copied into life, etched upon our character. |
| 2:17.3 | Our whole physical economy is constantly translating these images, |
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