Taming Tribulation Podcast

Nov 19 2024 71 ep. 14 mins 2

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Life is hard for everyone. Excuses don't help. Maybe this podcast can.

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PROMPTNESS

Nov 19 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Be on Time. Because of the lateness of Marshal Grouchy of the French army at the battle of Waterloo, Blucher had time to whip his army on to the help of Wellington. Napoleon ordered rightly. Had not the man to whom he entrusted those orders blundered — hesitated — been Late — the whole history of Europe would have been changed from 1815. Be o

CONSCIENCE

Nov 19 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Be Square. The man of all men most miserable is the man with a worn, weary, weeping Conscience. Be Square. Conscience is the fellow who sits on the throne of your Soul and calls out the Danger Signal when your life craft sights Icebergs. Conscience is the pilot of a man’s Hope toward Success. Conscience is the Busy Signal sign that halts a man ju

CHANCES

Nov 15 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Grasp your Chances as they come. For it’s the approaching of the Goal — just ahead — the turning of the Chance into the Achievement, that stirs and spurs the striving man to the fought-out fact of the thing dreamed about, planned about — and done. Take advantage of the smallest chance. First see it. Then grasp it! Then bolt it to your very s

GRIT

Nov 14 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Grit is getting the Brain and Heart and Soul of a man fused for a concerted, white-hot attack on Failure. Grit is what grasps at the raw edge of Victory and chews it to the point of easy digestion. And Grit wins — it gets there! Grit started the action of the world — and has moved things ever since. Grit lost — all is lost. Grit is what keep

SMILE

Nov 13 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Smile! The face that Smiles is the face that everyone is looking for — and wants. Smile. For the Smiler is the Climber — and the Smiler is the Winner. Smile. If doubt and defeat drub you at times — Smile. If it rains when you think it ought to shine — Smile. Start Smiles.The Smiling Worker is the Smiling Doer. Smile. More things have been

I WILL

Nov 12 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) I will — make this day Worth While. I will drop the Past, remembering it only as a valuable path through which I have walked into the Now. I will take up the work of this day as a personal Pledge to do my best — with interest and enthusiasm. I will do the things I have failed to do before. I will attempt new things that I know now that I can do.

DO

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Do. The Doer is the digger — and the digger is the Builder. Do. The Doer is the mover — and the mover is the Winner. Do the things you start, Do the thing you have at heart, Do what the other fellow can but doesn’t; Do while there’s time, Do while there’s life, and Do while there’s hope; Do for your own sake, Do because you love to, Do b

ENTHUSIASM

Nov 08 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Enthusiasm is what happens to a man when on taking invoice, he discovers that his Heart and Head and Determination have finally welded into and become a part of “the Main Chance.” Enthusiasm is a process — not merely a condition. Most everybody has a Head and Heart and Determination — but it’s the folks that have sufficient sense to get th

FAITH

Nov 07 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Have Faith. First, Faith in yourself, then Faith in the thing you set out to do — then Faith in the result. Faith is the ability to believe you have won before you have. It’s the art of beating the enemy, the obstacles, or the plan of your opposers, before they have securely organized. For Faith is to take victory in hand at the start. Have Fai

STICK

Nov 06 2024 1 mins

By George Matthew Adams (1913) Stick. Just Stick. This is the essence — the beginning and ending — of Success. Stick. The Sticker is the “getthere” man. Stick. Everybody begins — but not all Stick. Yesterday you failed, maybe, but to-day you can Win — if you Stick it out. All achievers wear a badge labeled “STICK.” You Stick — to-day. When you fed like quitting