The Strength & Poise to Handle Any Situation
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 823 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Strength & Poise to Handle Any Situation. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person is the pilot on their ship down the River of Time. You must steer carefully and be at the wheel constantly. Indecision, impatience, cowardice means loss of control, and then you are on the rocks. Perfect balance, careful judgment, and an understanding of values gives one poise and enables the voyage to be made without mishap. Training for poise is one of the great businesses of life.
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| 0:45.8 | Today's reading was edited in and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby, published in 1917. |
| 1:03.6 | Balance is necessary in all things. |
| 1:08.2 | Nature demands and preserves an equilibrium. Get out of balance and you are in danger of a fall. |
| 1:17.2 | A well-ordered and successful life consists of being able to preserve your poise and keep it in tune |
| 1:25.3 | in harmony with nature. Confusion is caused by a loss of mental balance, |
| 1:33.3 | and failure comes to a life that is not well poised. It is amusing to see so much energy wasted upon |
| 1:43.1 | things over which we have no control, like complaining |
| 1:47.9 | about the weather. |
| 1:50.0 | This is the hottest day ever, is hurled at you again and again on a summer morning by some |
| 1:57.8 | fuming, fussy neurotic, when a glance at the thermometer would convince anyone that the temperature is pretty normal. |
| 2:07.9 | I am dead tired, utterly worn out, work to death, is said repeatedly, day after day, by people who are perfectly normal in every way except for a lack of poise. |
| 2:25.2 | Haste, extravagant statements, fussing and fuming, does nothing but burn up your gasoline. |
| 2:34.0 | You stand still all the time, but your engine is running at top speed. |
| 2:41.0 | An engine needs a governor. Without it, the engine's value is nil. |
| 2:47.0 | Instead of serving us, it destroys. The same is true of life, lack of poise, lack of perfect control of our emotions, |
| 2:59.6 | lack of order and equanimity, and life becomes chaos. |
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