Success & How to Win at Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Listen to episode 783 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Successful People Think, Grow, and Win. Edited and adapted from Success & How to Win at Life by B.F. Austin.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How is Success Won? One great secret of success is found in Concentration. This consists in centering our thoughts upon a single object and holding this object in the mind's eye persistently. The thoughts, purposes, will power, effort and resources of every life should be united in some single great object. A life unified, united, concentrated, dominated by one great purpose, becomes mighty, while a life with a thousand diverging purposes must necessarily be weak.
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| 0:45.5 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:48.7 | Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904. |
| 1:01.1 | People are always looking for ways to become successful, but before entering upon the practical |
| 1:09.0 | question, how to win success, it would be well for us to form |
| 1:13.8 | definite and correct views of what constitutes a successful life. |
| 1:19.7 | It is quite evident that a life may be successful from one standpoint and a failure from another. |
| 1:28.0 | A person may be a financial success and yet have failed in school. |
| 1:33.5 | A scientist or teacher may achieve professional success and yet fail in business. |
| 1:40.8 | As a rule, however, ability in any one line proves ability for other lines of activity, if |
| 1:48.1 | equal effort and determination be exerted, and success in any line of endeavor is more |
| 1:54.5 | or less a qualification for success in other fields of activity. There are three things people generally associate with |
| 2:04.6 | a successful life. They are achievement, power, and triumph. The life of great achievement |
| 2:13.0 | is thought to be a successful life, one that includes the doing of great deeds. |
| 2:20.6 | Thus the life that manifests great power and force, the life that results in strong and beautiful |
| 2:27.3 | character that directs and shapes the lives of others, we say is a successful life. |
| 2:35.0 | A life is successful that triumphs over difficulties through the possession of certain virtues. |
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