Control What You Can. Let Go of What You Can’t. (Monday Moment ep. 277)

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John O'Leary

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our Live Inspired Podcast Monday Moments segment.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

- Viktor E. Frankl

My friend, as you step into your Monday and begin your week, determine to control what you can and let go of what you can’t. As you prepare for the unknowns ahead, choose to unclench your fist, let go of your anxiety and open wide your heart. Recognize that powerlessness fades when we embrace the brilliance, the miracle, and the influence within our attitude, decisions and lives.

This choice will fundamentally change your world. And in that, you’ll be liberated to improve the larger world, too.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, my friends. Welcome to August and welcome to another Monday morning motivation with John O'Leary. As you know by now, I've recorded these to start your week on fire and in awe with a burst of inspiration.
0:22.6	Well, looking for that burst myself, I was going back through some articles I've written
0:27.2	over the previous several years, and I found one in the midst of the heated debates taking
0:32.2	place way back in 2016. There were candidates on both sides of the aisle, belittling one another, belittling the other
0:40.4	side, making a mockery, I think, of what they were moving toward as we moved and marched
0:45.7	and guided ourselves toward the November election. And so I wrote an article, kind of a commentary on what
0:52.4	the political season looked like way back in 2016.
0:56.8	And in reading these words just yesterday, it reminded me also of how generally our mood is right now.
1:05.0	And so I wanted to share with you this article. I think it played appropriately back in 2016,
1:10.4	and I think it lives accurately even right now.
1:13.6	The name of the article is the toxic blame game, or as I called it in parentheses, to myself,
1:19.3	the death of powerlessness. So why all of us, from presidential candidates to the rest of us,
1:27.0	need greater accountability? So my friends, from presidential candidates to the rest of us, need greater accountability.
1:29.7	So my friends, as you listen to these words this morning, I want you to be reminded that these
1:35.2	were written back in 2016.
1:37.6	And yet I think they still bear weight and truth in your life in early August 2020 in the midst of a recession in the
1:47.2	spread of COVID-19 and all the challenges we face individually, relationally, politically,
1:54.1	socially, and the United States and beyond. So let's begin this article today. Let's begin this
1:59.3	Monday morning motivation today with the words of an incredible survivor.
2:03.6	His name is Victor Frankl. And Frankl says this. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing. The last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
2:19.6	And here it is. The overarching narrative this political season is about American anger.
2:27.4	The 2016 race is already historic thanks to the frequently belligerent tone and the
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