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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Business Psychology by Christian D.Larsen, published in 1912.

Everyone knows that personal magnetism is real, but often we think that only some people have it.

We don't realize that this power exists in all of us,

and that we just need to learn how to make it stronger.

The first principle to be established in the mind is this.

Your personal magnetism can be used upon yourself alone, and its function is to promote the best

possible expression of all the active qualities in your own personality, or in other words,

to heighten the effect of everything you may do.

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