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

This is an episode that we record so that you may begin your week in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration. So let's take the first

step together with a question. How do you achieve something as a team far greater than what you

could achieve or accomplish as a disjoined collection of individuals? Well, this was the question

I was invited to answer last week for the United States

men's national soccer team. Their coach, a gentleman named Greg Burhalter, and one of his

assistant coaches and a dear friend of ours, Travis Thomas, invited me to speak about what real

success requires, how to come together to achieve it, and the mindset necessary to win each day,

to win each day. That means every day. Near the end of our conversation, individual players

were able to ask questions and one of them asked for my take on their three core values.

The values are relentless, brave, and unity.

I shared that for me, being relentless or being doggedly determined in the pursuit of a goal is a necessary gift,

because it liberates us to show up in ways for others that transform both our lives and theirs.

That's the awesome part. Now, the example that I gave

to support this was the story of my sister, Susan. At just seven years of age, her focus to save

my life gave her the strength, the courage, and the drive to enter into a burning home

not just once or twice but three times this little girl

with her dark hair goes in on her hands and knees through the smoke through the heat through the

fear for cups of water racing back outside relentlessly throwing them on my face risking her life life for mine. It's a beautiful story of

relentlessness, a beautiful story of love. And then when it came to bravery, I share that surprisingly,

it doesn't have much to do with being fearless or maybe being daring. I think a lot of us think

that's what bravery is. But rather, it's what is frequently unpopular or maybe even untested for a cause greater than ourselves.

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