The Keys to a Noble & Successful Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Listen to episode 850 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to a Noble and Successful Life. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above by Gustavus S. Kimball.
Inspirational Podcast Transcript: Remember that it is OPPORTUNITY that makes you and your fortune, provided you have learned how to take advantage of the opportunity.
Opportunity comes sooner or later to everyone, but rare is the person who is ready to seize it. It is not luck or natural brilliancy which puts one individual so far ahead in places of trust and honor. You will find they achieved their success by educated and well-directed energy.
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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. |
| 1:35.1 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, |
| 1:40.9 | a guide to personal efficiency by Gustavus S. Kimball, published in 1918. |
| 1:47.0 | Courage is the spirit to begin, and the determination to pursue what has been begun, to do that which |
| 2:04.5 | is right at all hazards and at any cost. The greater part of the courage that is needed in the |
| 2:11.0 | world, however, is not of the heroic kind. Courage may be displayed in everyday life, as well as on heroic fields of action. |
| 2:23.5 | Our common need is for the courage to be honest, the courage to resist temptation, the courage to |
| 2:32.4 | speak the truth, the courage to be what we really are, and not to pretend to be what we are not, |
| 2:41.2 | the courage to live honestly within our means, and not dishonestly upon the means of others. |
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