The Ambition to Achieve Great Things | Inspiring Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 588 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Ambition to Achieve Great Things. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, a Guide to Personal Efficiency, by Gustavus S. Kimball.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many of the circumstances of our lives we cannot change, but it IS up to us how we respond to them. Let it be understood at the start, that the patient conquest of difficulties in business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success we seek, but necessary to that preparation of mind requisite for the enjoyment of our success, and for retaining it when gained.
It is the rule of Providence that the process of earning success shall be the preparation for its conversion and enjoyment. So, day after day, work on — and in that process, gain strength and symmetry, nerve and knowledge. No better advice was ever given to a young person than that conveyed in Emerson's maxim, "Hitch your wagon to a star."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | If you enjoy our podcast, please help us spread the word by sharing your favorite episode on Facebook, |
| 0:23.2 | Twitter, or LinkedIn. |
| 0:24.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:26.1 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, A Guide to Personal |
| 0:33.8 | Efficiency by Gustavus S. Kimball, published in 1918. |
| 0:43.5 | Yohan Zimmerman famously said, |
| 0:46.5 | If you were to ask me what is the real hereditary sin of human nature, |
| 0:52.7 | do you imagine I would answer pride, or ambition, or egotism, |
| 0:58.0 | perhaps? No, I would say indolence. The one who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. |
| 1:07.0 | Zimmerman was right. Laisiness and lack of ambition are the main defects in many a person's career. |
| 1:16.5 | Lazy individual never succeeds, simply because it is utterly impossible for laziness to accomplish anything. |
| 1:26.4 | Those who fail lack that bulldog pluck and determination to win at any cost. |
| 1:33.3 | The world will conquer or yield to us as we make it. It may be our master or our servant as we choose. |
| 1:43.3 | The doors it opens to us, whether we recognize it or not, will be the doors at which we have |
| 1:52.0 | knocked, such as friendship, usefulness, and high endeavor, or to feed and bitterness. |
| 2:00.0 | Many of the circumstances of our lives we cannot change. endeavor, or to feed and bitterness. |
| 2:09.3 | Many of the circumstances of our lives we cannot change, but it is up to us how we respond to them. Let it be understood at the start that the patient conquest of difficulties in business |
| 2:17.1 | and enterprise is not only essential |
| 2:20.8 | in securing the success we seek, but necessary to that preparation of mind, requisite for |
| 2:28.9 | the enjoyment of our success and for retaining it when gained. It is the rule of Providence, that the process of earning success |
| 2:40.0 | shall be the preparation for its conversion and enjoyment. |
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