Say Goodbye to Procrastination | Inspirational Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Listen to episode 1029 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Procrastination. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "If I had the time!" That is the sorry cry coming from the lips of tens of thousands unhappy persons of all classes and ages. But the saddest feature of it all is, that they have the time and do not know it. Or, if they do know it, they still go on trying to deceive themselves and others by repeating the same old, threadbare excuse the world has always offered as the reason why it has not made the progress it should have.

Now, stop for a moment, and honestly think it over. Haven't you the time? Isn't it the desire to make the most of your opportunities that is lacking? How much time did you waste yesterday? How much time are you going to waste today?

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1:11.3	Welcome to the inspirationalirational Living Podcast.
1:28.6	Today's reading was edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman, published in 1909.
1:55.3	Learn to do, but without overdoing. Too much striving for success is as bad as too little.
2:03.6	Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Do not cram books into your head until you crowd pleasant thinking out of it.
2:09.6	A moderately informed person, standing firmly on their two good legs,
2:15.6	is superior to the wise professor who was unable to leave their bed.
2:20.3	What have you profited if you gain the whole world and lose your own soul?
2:28.3	And what does it profit you if you become a multi-millionaire and lose your health of mind or body.
2:36.0	Success that costs more than it is worth is failure.
2:42.0	Make haste slowly. Be ambitious but not foolish.
2:48.0	Learn a few things and learn them well.
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