Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live-inspired podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday moments.

They are created to help you start your week on fire with a quick burst of inspiration.

This week we get to focus on you, the Live-inspired podcast listener.

His name is Dave from Indianapolis, Indiana, took me up on it.

I'm always looking for your questions, your feedback, your ideas to make the podcast even better.

And Dave wrote in and said, John, just a quick question for you, what are your summer plans

with your family?

Well, Dave, my friend, I'm glad you asked.

I think there might be some lessons for all of us as we look toward our summer.

And as we look around at our family or friends that you may want to borrow some things

that we

are doing here's the first thing we're taking pause from work twice i'm going to pause in the early

part of the summer then again in the later part of the summer as a family to slow down and to

celebrate the work that we do if we only work if we only stay busy if we only stay busy, if we only go to practices,

if we only pursue and climb the top of the ladder, we'll never actually be able to pause

and celebrate long enough the great work that we're doing.

And so with my family, we head down to Florida at some point.

We'll head down to Southwestern Missouri at another point.

I'm looking forward to

hanging out not only with my wife and my four kids during those two breaks, but also with my

extended family for both of those trips. I'm super excited to be not only with my own family,

but my extended family as well. Another thing I do, Dave, that I have been doing for the last

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