The Secret to Great Accomplishments
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Listen to episode 1087 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Great Accomplishments. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: LIFE has three seasons: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What you did yesterday overlaps into today, and what you do today is carried over into tomorrow. Which is the most important of the three? No single one of them, because any one by itself is incomplete.
If you did your duty yesterday, the work of today becomes easier to accomplish. If you attend to the work of today, tomorrow will be open to you and its duties will not be so difficult to perform. While each day has its place — yesterday, today, and tomorrow — inattention to any one of those days will materially affect the life and action of the remaining two.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:18.2 | Beginning Right, How to Succeed by Nathaniel C. Fowler, published in 1916. |
| 0:32.3 | Life has three seasons, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What you did yesterday overlaps into today, |
| 0:43.3 | and what you do today is carried over into tomorrow. Which is the most important of the three? |
| 0:51.3 | No single one of them, because anyone by itself is incomplete. |
| 0:58.0 | If you did your duty yesterday, the work of today becomes easier to accomplish. |
| 1:05.0 | If you attend the work of today, tomorrow will be open to you and its duties will not be so difficult to perform. |
| 1:15.4 | While each day has its place, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, in attention to any one of those |
| 1:23.1 | days will materially affect the life and action of the remaining two. |
| 1:28.3 | You cannot recover yesterday. |
| 1:31.3 | It has passed out of your life forever. |
| 1:35.3 | If it was a day of mistakes, they must be corrected today or tomorrow. |
| 1:41.3 | The importance of today is not vested wholly in today. It is in tomorrow as well. |
| 1:50.0 | Today is yours. Tomorrow may be. Unless you anticipate the morrow today, tomorrow you will not have |
| 2:00.4 | tomorrow well in hand. Individuals of great |
| 2:04.7 | accomplishment do not consider any one day as all important. They do today's work not wholly |
| 2:12.2 | because it is of today, but because it will affect tomorrow. |
| 2:20.5 | Regret yesterday, if you will. |
| 2:23.4 | Be sorry for your backsliding. |
| 2:25.8 | You may have lost today. |
| 2:29.7 | If you have, you must make it up today and tomorrow. |
| 2:43.0 | There is more in tomorrow for you than there is in today, for tomorrow extends indefinitely into your future, while today closes with the setting sun. Everything you do, be it much or little, marks a dot on the chart of your life and extends into the immeasurable |
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