Start Elevating Your Ambitions | Success Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 831 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Start Elevating Your Ambitions. Edited and adapted from Ambition and Success by Orison Swett Marden.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is little hope for the person who feels satisfied with themselves, who does not know, “the noble discontent that stirs the acorn to become an oak.”
It is our ambition to improve something somewhere every day, to get a little further on and a little higher up than we were the day before — an insatiable passion for bettering things all along the line — that is the secret of human progress.
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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. |
| 1:35.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 1:38.3 | Ambition and Success by Ourson-Swept Martin, published in 1919. |
| 1:53.3 | One of the saddest things in life is to see people who started out with high hopes and proud |
| 1:59.9 | ambitions, settled down in mediocre positions, |
| 2:04.8 | half satisfied just merely to get a living, to plot along indifferently. |
| 2:11.4 | What tragedy there is in being content with mediocrity, |
| 2:17.2 | in getting into a state where one is indifferent to the |
| 2:21.1 | larger, better things of life. When you are satisfied with the life you are living, with the work |
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