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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Life Power and How to Use It by Elizabeth Tam, published in 1906.

Merely repeating affirmations like, I am successful, we'll do little to help you.

We must think the things we desire, and we must put

our shoulder to the wheel. However, the person who is full of a sense of failure and defeat

is likely to put their shoulder to the wrong side of the wheel. They are so discouraged, preoccupied and worried,

that they think it doesn't matter much where they put their shoulder. The thing won't

budge anyway. So they go stupidly along pressing their shoulder against the same mold spot, the wrong spot.

But let that person make up their mind that there is a way to budge that wheel,

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