Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

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All lowercase.

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Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from the kingship of self-control by William George Jordan, published in 1899.

Every person has two creators, their God and themselves.

Our first creator furnishes us with the raw material of our lives, and the laws in conformity

with which we can make that life what we will.

The second Creator, ourselves, has marvelous powers we rarely realize.

It is what we make of ourselves that counts. When someone fails in life,

they often will say, I am as God made me. But when they succeed, they proudly proclaim themselves

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