Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to Live Inspired Monday Moments with John O'Leary.

As you know by now, I create these to give you a burst of energy and encouragement not only for this Monday, but for the week to come.

I got an awesome question from listener, Carol.

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So email me right now, even before I share this question and the answer to it,

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anything you want to share, feedback you may have, or questions you'd like answer it on air,

email me, podcast at John O'Learyinspires.com. It's what what carol did and in doing so she asked this question john

what keeps you so grounded i love this question john what keeps you so grounded carol thank you

for listening and thank you for tuning in and thank you for writing in. I have a few key phrases that remind me of

what is most important and also what is not. I've gotten in the habit of repeating these to myself

throughout the day as needed. I want to share them with you right now. And listeners, unless you

are driving, I encourage you to consider writing them down or trying to

commit them to memory. They serve me well. I think they'll serve you well, too, on this Monday

and throughout this week. Here they go. Number one, before entering any conversation, here it is,

I say these words to myself. They keep me very grounded. They keep me very intentional. They keep me

very in tuned with a person directly across from me. I've shared this in my book. I've shared

this in speeches. I've shared this in recent podcasts. But here it is again. I love you.

And there's nothing you can do about it. Those words free me to engage with greater alertness, more focus on their needs, without any

judgment of where they're coming from.

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