Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast, Monday Morning

Moments with John O'Leary. I record these so that you and I can begin our weeks in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration.

So here we go.

We're going to be talking today about being forever young, forever young.

Not that song from the 80s, but how to live this out each day in spite of what takes place around us in our lives.

While many of us associate retirement

with lazy mornings, afternoons on the golf course, and evenings playing bridge, a gentleman I met

several years ago took a radically different path. Instead of slowing down upon his retirement,

Pat Hinman embarked on a second career and became an executive coach.

Pat and I met when I spoke at a monthly gathering of business owners that he coached.

Several of his friends had prepared me that Pat's health was failing.

It turns out that almost a year of struggling with stage four cancer had taken its toll on Pat.

Knowing this, I did not expect to encounter such vitality and such passion from a man who was receiving regular chemo treatments and who on that day, listen to this one, my friends, was turning 98 years of age.

That's right, 90 stinking eight years old, he turned that day.

But when Pat saw me enter into the room, he stopped speaking mid-sentence to the room.

He put his pad of paper down, and said in a loud welcoming voice, everyone, our guest John O'Leary has arrived from St. Louis.

Let us welcome him. He walked over, looked me in the eyes with a big smile, shook my hand firmly,

and thanked me for making the trip. During my three-hour session with the group, while

every one of the executives in the room was taking notes and engaged with the presentation,

no one was as dialed in as Pat. He soaked up every word and vigorously the entire time took notes.

After the session, we celebrated Pat's 98th birthday as we sang happy birthday. He looked as joyful as a child,

wearing a playful smile and using his hands to spiritly conduct our singing.

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