Overcoming Your Mistakes in Life | Uplifting Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Listen to episode 1063 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Mistakes in Life. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Realizing mistakes is good; acting on them is better. When a captain finds his vessel is out of the right channel, carried by negligence, by adverse winds, or by blundering through a fog from the true course, he wastes no time in bemoaning his mistake, but at the first sunburst takes new bearings, changes his course, steers bravely towards his harbor with renewed courage to make up the time he has lost.
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| 1:22.6 | Inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:40.4 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan, published in 1910. |
| 1:55.4 | Some people like to wander in the cemetery of their past errors, to re-read the old epitaphs and spend |
| 2:03.2 | hours in mourning over the grave of a wrong. This new mistake does not antidote the old one. |
| 2:11.0 | The remorse that paralyzes hope, corrods purpose, and deadens energy is not moral health, it is an indigestion of the soul that cannot |
| 2:21.4 | assimilate an act. It is a selfish cowardly surrender to the dominance of the past. It is lost motion |
| 2:31.0 | in morals. It does no good to the individual, to the injured, to others, or to the world. |
| 2:39.0 | If the past be unworthy, live it down. If it be worthy, live up to it and surpass it. |
| 2:48.4 | Omnipotence cannot change the past, so should we try our duty is to compel that past to vitalize our future with new courage and purpose |
| 2:59.4 | making it a larger greater future than would have been possible without the past that has so grieved us. If we can get real fine dividends from our mistakes, |
| 3:11.7 | they prove themselves not losses, but wise investments. |
| 3:17.3 | They seem like old shares of stock, |
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