Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from New Thought, Common Sense, and what

life means to me, by Ella Wheeler

Wilcox, published in 1908.

Do you ever stop and ask yourself for what you are living?

Is it for a success in some undertaking?

Then what are you doing to produce success?

No matter how hard you may be working, unless you are finding pleasure and pride in your work, and doing it with cheerfulness, you are not moving forward toward real success.

One month of such application of your powers will achieve more for you than a year of grumbling,

dogged work, done with unwillingness and dislike of the

task. Whatever you are doing, reason yourself into a love of your labor until you can leave

it for something more agreeable. One excellent way to reason along these lines is to see that

every day given to an unpleasant task is bringing it nearer to its completion, when you then can abandon it.

And even if it seems to you that such an end can never be attained, that the work you have in hand is endless. Remember that thought is the greatest miracle

worker, and that thought is energy, and that by continual determination, coupled with continual

aspiration and effort, you can bring any change you desire into your life.

But no good results can be achieved by angry, purposeless rebellion or sullen discontent,

or work done with hatred and disgust, however well done.

Are you living for happiness?

Well then, what are you doing to produce happiness? Are you

dressing beyond your means, taking more days off than you can afford, buying more things than

you need or can use? Are you eating and drinking solely for the pleasure of the palate,

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