The Power of Deciding | Time to Choose
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 719 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Deciding | Time to Choose. Edited and adapted from The First Step in Mastery by W. Frederic Keeler.
Inspirational Podcast Transcript: The first step in mastery involves a re-education. You are to enter into a new realm of living. You are to think in new channels. You are to exercise a new mode of mental motion. You are to use the fourth dimension of thought. Be prepared for the new, and for the different. Be therefore a beginner, and have the power of newness and the freshness of a beginner.
An open mind is a prerequisite to progress. You certainly must realize that you are now thinking about fifty per cent disadvantageously by old methods. You often do not get where you wish with your thinking. By the use of ordinary and partly outgrown thinking methods, you are not always actualizing power and vigor. You are not sufficiently vitalizing your thoughts....
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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. |
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| 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. |
| 1:35.4 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The First Step in Mastery by W. Frederick Keeler, published in 1921. |
| 1:50.1 | The first step in mastery involves a re-education. |
| 1:55.1 | You are to enter into a new realm of living. |
| 1:58.5 | You are to think in new channels. |
| 2:03.6 | You are to exercise a new mode of mental motion. You are to use the fourth dimension of thought. Be prepared for the new and for the |
| 2:11.6 | different. Be therefore a beginner and have the power of newness and the freshness of a beginner. |
| 2:20.6 | An open mind is a prerequisite to progress. |
| 2:25.0 | You certainly must realize that you are now thinking about 50% disadvantageously by old methods. |
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