3 Lessons from My Burn Doctors I Still Live By Today (#117)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
30 years ago I was burned on 100% of my body and not expected to survive. I beat the odds and recovered thanks to the care, encouragement + love of my family, friends, healthcare team, MLB baseball players and countless individuals I'll never know.
From this, I have a profound sense of gratitude for my life + perspective on overcoming challenges. Today, I share 3 of the most formative lessons I learned during my recovery. One is a favorite I share on stage from time to time. One I shared in my #1 National Bestselling book ON FIRE. One I've never shared before. I hope they fuel you to live inspired today.
SHOW NOTES:
- Start each week with Monday Motivation email! Get it here.
- "You have two eyes, two ears + one mouth. Use them proportionally." - Dr. Avazian
- John shares his favorite quote + what it means in your life: "When you know your why you can endure any how." Get Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning to read it in context.
- People matter.
- Words matter. Be aware of the words you're listening to + the ones you're speaking.
- If we hear it enough, even if it is wrong, we think it's true.
- What words are you listening to: Through your social feed, news + on your commute? Where are you listening/being fed? What we put into our bodies shows up in our lives.
- What words are you sharing with your children, family, spouse + coworkers. Are you telling them through your words + actions that their best days are in front of them?
- Wonder matters. "I no longer identified as a wounded person. Wonder matters. The way he had a twinkle in his eye + joy in the way he worked + treated the others, I saw that and try to exemplify it 20 years later.
- Grow. Learn. Share. Produce. Go through life with great wonder.
- Check out a few of Dr. Pappalardo's poems here.
Enjoy this episode on life lessons from my doctors? Check out Ep. #38 with Nurse Roy, this is one of the most popular stories I share from the stage + an amazing reminder of the impact EACH of us has each day. Don't miss it. Check it out here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | During this holiday season with Hanukkah having just passed and Christmas this week, I hope you enjoy it, and New Year's right around the corner, I wanted to share a really special episode. |
| 0:11.8 | Today, I'm going to provide three lessons that I learned from my burn doctors that inspired me not only to survive after being burned on 100% of my body as a nine-year-old, |
| 0:23.0 | but to boldly and to gratefully and to humbly live out their lessons through the manner in which I still live today. |
| 0:29.9 | One lesson has been shared in my best-selling book. It's called On Fire. |
| 0:34.7 | One lesson that's been shared by me just a couple times from the stage. |
| 0:39.5 | And one lesson that you're going to hear today has never been shared at all in the past. |
| 0:44.0 | But I believe that all these lessons will help inspire you to close out this year strong |
| 0:49.5 | and to start the next one on fire for your life. Make sure to start each week fired up for your life by signing up to receive my Monday morning |
| 0:58.7 | motivation newsletter. |
| 1:00.4 | There's a link in my show notes. |
| 1:01.8 | You can learn more about that at John O'Leary inspires.com. |
| 1:06.5 | Go to the show notes. |
| 1:07.7 | Check out all the podcasts there, but make sure you sign up for the Monday morning motivation. You will love it. It will get you fired up to finish strong this year |
| 1:14.4 | and to ensure that your best year remains in front of you. |
| 1:20.6 | Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. John is the number one national |
| 1:26.7 | bestselling author of the book On Fire. |
| 1:29.3 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker, |
| 1:31.4 | and he's the host of the Live-inspired podcast. |
| 1:34.3 | John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story |
| 1:38.0 | so that you can wake up from accidental living |
| 1:40.9 | and more fully live your life story. |
| 1:46.2 | Here's your host, John O'Leary. |
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