Embrace One Number (Monday Moment ep. 445)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James
As we race through this day, and read about tragedies overseas, challenges in our nation, difficulties in our region, and feel discouragement that there is little we can do to influence positive change, be reminded that your one life is a sacred gift.
While big numbers might grab headlines, the most important number recognizes that what you do matters, that the words you speak influence, that the dreams you cast impact the path you take, and that while your road forward may be difficult, your best is yet to come.
Let's act as if what we do makes a difference. Let's remember that indeed it does. And today, let's choose to not just read about it, but to act like it.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired Podcasts, Monday Morning |
| 0:11.6 | Moments with John O'Leary. |
| 0:14.4 | I record these so that you and I can begin our days and our weeks together, in awe |
| 0:20.8 | and on fire with a burst of inspiration. |
| 0:24.6 | Why don't we begin this episode by quoting the great William James, who reminds us of this. |
| 0:30.2 | Act as if what you do makes a difference. |
| 0:34.3 | It does. |
| 0:36.5 | Well, my friends, a recent conversation with a new friend reminded me of the power of failing forward |
| 0:42.7 | and of the number that ultimately makes the most difference in our lives. |
| 0:47.9 | Let me explain. |
| 0:49.9 | Two. |
| 0:51.6 | That's right. |
| 0:52.2 | The number two. |
| 0:53.7 | After five months in the hospital, I finally went home. |
| 0:57.5 | That first evening, although seated in a wheelchair in intense pain with fingers recently amputated, |
| 1:04.3 | feeling sad about my hands and totally scared about my future, |
| 1:08.4 | mom wanted me to eat by myself, not in a different room, but with my own hands. |
| 1:15.3 | So with a plate of food now in front of me, I spent two hours dropping the fork, two hours |
| 1:22.5 | complaining to mom, two hours crying, it wasn't fair, two hours arguing that it would never work. |
| 1:29.3 | Two hours of failing. |
| 1:32.6 | And then the number three. |
| 1:35.1 | The struggle to simply eat paled in comparison to the fear that I felt that I would never |
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