The Sure Cure For Unhappiness in Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 871 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Sure Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Blessed is the woman and man who really knows what they want, and who bravely sets themselves on a course to get it. You will be surprised to discover (when you consider the matter) that there are many good things in the world that you can very well do without. Every time you cross off something that you consider not essential to your happiness, your chance of happiness increases.
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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. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 1:35.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 1:38.3 | Character in Happiness by Alvin Edwin McGarry, published in 1924. |
| 1:45.0 | There is no cure for the unhappiness of regret, or the sorrow of bereavement that is so effective as a well-defined purpose. |
| 2:02.6 | Misery cannot live with resolution. |
| 2:06.6 | As soon as we make up our minds, relief comes. |
| 2:10.6 | A course of action is better for most cases of unhappiness |
| 2:15.6 | than a course of medicine. |
| 2:18.8 | People talk of divine discontent and of ambitions holy fire, but these things are neither |
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