The Secret Science of Joy & Happiness
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 800 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Science of Joy & Happiness. Edited and adapted from Your Right to Be Happy, by Frank & Marion Van Eps, published in 1922.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We must cultivate the attitude of joy and gladness — for his very state of mind is power, and it leads to effective operation and desired results. Nothing else will bring one to enjoy life, and everything in life, more than rejoicing as a persistent and cultivated attitude. It is the first step in mastering a situation. It is culture of the best kind.
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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. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.1 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Your Right to Be Happy by Frank and Marion Van Epps, published in 1922. |
| 1:45.0 | Joy and happiness are the birthright of every human being, and there is a sure way to realize it. |
| 2:01.6 | Our capacity for happiness, and our eagerness for it, are evidence of this fact. |
| 2:10.6 | Reason shows that the evident purpose of the Creator is that all of us should be happy and satisfied. But how? Where do |
| 2:22.4 | people miss their way? Why do they not find it? If there is any way of peace and happiness, |
| 2:31.2 | why has it not been found and followed all these ages? Surely it would seem that |
| 2:37.7 | all people would rush toward the way that releases them from their burdens, if such a way |
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