Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute

their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually

the business behind the business, the one which makes selling and buying simple.

For millions of retail businesses, that business is Shopify.

Nobody does selling better than Shopify, because no checkout system is better at converting

shoppers into buyers. With Shopify, you can sell wherever

your customers are a scrolling or strolling, on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere

in between. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Magic Spoon and Mattel use.

Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com

slash inspirational.

All lowercase.

Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today.

Shopify.com slash inspirational.

Thank you. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from

Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock, published in 1916.

The achievement of focusing the mind on one thing at a time, involves not only the energy in striving

to do that one thing, but also the ability to put aside other things to make a clear

channel for the desired end. The power to focus attention has been the inseparable adjunct to all achievements

in business, politics, art, literature, and science. Through this power, women and men, a very ordinary

ability, have risen from poverty to great

...