Get inspired with episode 405 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live the Perfect Day. Edited and adapted from Lessons in Living by Elizabeth Towne. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IF you were going to run a Marathon race would you prepare for it by sleeping until the last minute, then tumbling out of bed in a hurry, throwing on any old thing that came handy, and starting off at the highest possible speed? If you did you would certainly fall by the wayside before you had reached the halfway mark. And yet to the average person every day is a little Marathon race with Time, and many of us begin it in just that haphazard sort of hustle. If we don’t hustle, we drag and complain, or we snap at every brush with those who are running the same little race beside us. When Johnny Hayes won the Marathon in the Olympic Games, he trained for months before-hand. Every hindrance to his goal was laid aside; he ate the healthiest food, kept regular hours, trained carefully every day, kept his mind ever focused on the one thought of success in that race. And because he made this careful preparation and ran the race in the most judicious fashion, beginning very easily and gaining speed as he progressed, he came out ahead of everybody else, still in good trim. His closest competitors in the same race started out with the idea of distancing everybody in the first mile. For this one reason that they ran too hard at the beginning, they collapsed before they could reach the finish line. They had spent their energy too lavishly at the start, while Hayes conserved his. The successful life is made up of a succession of successful days — every day being a little Marathon by itself. If we live a successful today, we make a wise preparation to live a successful tomorrow; and so on, day after day, year after year, through our whole lives. Discover the Book: Evergreen: 50 Inspirational Life Lessons: http://inspirationallifelessons.com/ Support our podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts Subscribe to the Inspirational Living podcast at the iTunes Store, Stitcher.com, Google Play, or our website Podcast.LivingHour.org. We produce weekly motivational podcasts, adapted from the works of the most inspirational authors of the past. Transform Your Life in 30 Days with The Majesty Program: http://livinghour.org/majesty/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyUdzgToGiI