Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired Podcast Monday, Morning Moments with John O'Leary.

We record these so that you may begin your week in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration. And for those

of you in the Missouri world, or maybe you were from Iowa, a little part of Illinois and Indiana, I think,

caught some of this too. Last week, we got some snow. I know, we got some snow. The forecast was

calling for just a dusting, just a slight dusting. We ended up

getting several inches of snow. It turns out, my friends, that weather is a hard thing to predict.

Weather is a hard thing to predict. So is life. So is life. Let's talk about that.

On Monday, November 7th, 2016, I spoke at a conference for business leaders. It was down in Florida.

The expert who spoke just right before I did, he was an economist. He shared his perspective on where we were in the business cycle, where the rates were heading next.

He talked about where to make large investments and where to pull the profits off the table.

Then he went on to say, here's what you need to expect in the next 12 months, over the next three years, and in the next decade of operating your business.

The presentation that he gave was engaging, the charts he used, man,

they were beautiful. The message was delivered with conviction. It was great. Everything the

economist shared that day was based on the obvious outcome of the election of the 45th president

of the United States the following day. The expert based every single slide, every chart, every prediction

on the presumption that Donald Trump would lose. Of course, everybody said it would happen.

Hillary Clinton, he knew, he knew it to be a fact, would win. She would become the new leader

of the United States. Obviously, the former vice president

Biden would be permanently out of politics. That's clear to everybody. And it goes without saying

the strength of the CDC would ensure that we would never have to navigate some rogue virus spread.

The future was clear and we had life figured out until about 24 hours later when the election was called

for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was then permanently out of politics looking even farther

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