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

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

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All lowercase.

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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lillium Whiting, published in 1894.

Success in life is too largely attributed to special gifts or exceptional good fortune,

or of some combination of the two, rather than to simple duty and the obligation of all aspiring people. That is to say, it should be held as the normal and not the abnormal

condition. To achieve success is not merely the gratification of personal ambition, not merely a selfish endeavor.

It is a moral duty and a very high responsibility.

It is a personal obligation.

Success is good, and to regard it as more or less synonymous with selfishness is to degrade it from anything like its real significance.

No one has success until they have abounding life, which consists of energy, enthusiasm and gladness.

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