Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week (Monday Moments ep. 459)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and in honor of those heroes AND in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of IN AWE, I wanted to share one of my favorite stories from the book. It will remind you we all need someone cheering us forward and it will encourage you to embrace that role. In doing so we change the world one life at a time. Starting with our own.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary. |
| 0:16.1 | I record these every week so that you and I can begin our days and our weeks in awe and on fire with a burst |
| 0:22.9 | of inspiration and you will need an inspiration if your answer to the next question is yes. |
| 0:27.6 | You ready for it? |
| 0:29.6 | Have you ever been to a marathon? |
| 0:32.5 | You ever run in a marathon? |
| 0:35.3 | All right. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, the energy and the excitement that all the runners feel at the |
| 0:39.5 | start of the race oftentimes dissipates throughout the race. The energy fades, doubt creeps in. |
| 0:48.3 | Surrounded by others, we can sometimes feel completely isolated. It's one of the reasons why |
| 0:53.7 | roadside fans show up with their cowbells ringing, |
| 0:57.7 | inspiring signs held high, and shouts of encouragement. Those screams, those screams of encouragement |
| 1:04.8 | can make all the difference, can't they? For parents and for students alike, the arrival of May, |
| 1:12.7 | welcome to it, by the way, happy May to all of us. The arrival of May feels like a bit of the last leg of a marathon. We've been |
| 1:19.1 | running fast since August and we can almost see the finish line, but we're wiped out. Rather than |
| 1:26.9 | viewing ourselves as the runner, though, let's adopt the persona of those fervent |
| 1:31.8 | roadside fans showing up with cowbells, inspiring signs and shouts of encouragement. |
| 1:38.0 | And rather than cheering for runners, let's raise our voice for the real athletes in this race |
| 1:43.7 | as we sprint to the completion of the school a year. |
| 1:46.3 | You ready for them? |
| 1:47.9 | Our teachers. |
| 1:49.4 | Our teachers. |
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