You Can Be the Master of Your Fate

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 913 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Be the Master of Your Fate. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every weight carried lessens the chances of victory; every weight discarded increases the prospects of success. Yet how many people enter life's great arena loaded down with weights, careless if not utterly oblivious of the handicap under which they struggle for fame and fortune and the higher success of character.

Let me point out a few of the loads that many people are carrying in the great race of life, and see if any of them are a part of your unnecessary burden.....

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0:00.0	Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about
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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 Success in How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904.
1:52.3	An ancient proverb tells us to seize opportunity by the forelock as she is bald behind.
2:01.3	Those who do not grasp opportunity as she passes
2:04.9	have no chance of seizing her afterward.
2:09.9	There is something to be done, however,
2:12.2	before opportunity comes to us,
2:15.5	and that is to get ready for her coming.
2:18.3	The person who employs their time looking for a situation for which they are not fitted
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