Life Isn't Perfect... and That's Okay (Monday Moment ep. 291)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our Live Inspired Podcast Monday Moments segment.
My friend, many of us today find ourselves in a less than ideal reality. It’s true. But that doesn’t concern me – I’ve endured far worse.
What does concern me is that we are beginning to risk losing the brilliant, galvanizing power of a collective hope in tomorrow.
We’re overlooking our greatest strengths, namely personal accountability, collective diversity and ferocious optimism.
We’ve been distracted by trying to attain “beautiful, normal, successful and desirable” for so long that many of us were exhausted trying to attain these unrealistic standards before the epic untethering of 2020. And now that the world is changing, we feel like we just might be toppled by it.
My friend, the good news is we’ve got the remedy from that transformational wisdom my mom uncovered decades ago: It is our great opportunity to rewrite the script.
Imperfection isn’t something that we must hide, fear, or feel repulsed and divided by. To the contrary, when our flaws are genuinely embraced and authentically shared they can humanize, connect and inspire.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary Monday Morning |
| 0:13.1 | Moments episode. I record these so that you may begin your week in awe and on fire with a |
| 0:20.0 | burst of inspiration. So let's get after today, but we're going to |
| 0:23.2 | come into the light by first looking at the shadow. So hang with me for a moment. I'm going to share |
| 0:27.5 | with you a quote that I heard earlier last week from a friend of mine. Here it is. This is just not |
| 0:34.3 | the life I expected at all, John. It's so broken. There's so much wrong with my world and |
| 0:40.5 | so much wrong with the world. It's just so far from the perfect life that I once envisioned for myself. |
| 0:48.2 | He shared somberly that there is little reason for hope. The economy is struggling globally. |
| 0:55.2 | Fires are raging in the West. |
| 0:57.1 | Many of us know that to be true. |
| 0:58.7 | Storms are pounding the South. |
| 1:00.9 | Many of you experienced that last week. |
| 1:03.1 | And there's an angry, cynical division |
| 1:04.9 | that is enveloping the entire country. |
| 1:08.8 | Then he went on to say, |
| 1:09.7 | John, personally, man, I'm between jobs, the market |
| 1:12.4 | is soft and despair is growing. Well, my friends, as he shared this with me, I recognize he's not |
| 1:19.9 | alone. He's not alone, and neither are you. There are now more than 29 million individuals |
| 1:25.9 | currently claiming some level of unemployment. There are |
| 1:29.8 | innumerable small businesses that have either already shuttered their doors or they're barely |
| 1:34.5 | hanging on. So, so how do we respond when life goes in a direction wildly different than the one |
| 1:40.6 | we expected? How can we make sense of the chaos that seems to be everywhere? |
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