Taking Control of Your Destiny | Success Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 813 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from Realization by Elkanah M. Gibson.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cheerful, positive thoughts invigorate both the mind and body. They are a better tonic than any medicine. Good, pure thoughts strengthen the will, increase courage, give vitality to the brain, health to the body, and love to the heart.
There are two roads open to every person. One leads to health, strength, beauty, long life, honor, and happiness; the other to sickness, sorrow, gloom, disease, and death. The allurements and temptations are many, and it requires courage and will-power to resist them....
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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. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.1 | If you enjoy today's podcast, help us spread the word by sharing it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. |
| 1:48.3 | Thank you. Today's reading was edited and adapted from Realization by Elkanah M. Gibson, published in 1918. |
| 1:58.7 | There are three forces, or influences, which largely control and shape the life and destiny of every person. |
| 2:09.0 | The first is inherited traits and tendencies, the condition that is naturally imposed upon all of us by our parents and ancestors. |
| 2:19.7 | The second is environment, and the third is habit. |
| 2:25.1 | We come into this world burden with the imperfections of many generations. |
| 2:31.4 | The responsibilities of parentage are very great, and seldom well understood or appreciated. |
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