Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday moments.

We create them to help start your week on fire with a quick burst of inspiration.

We were recently asked by listener McKenzie, John, what's the biggest mistake you have ever made?

Woo, McKenzie. Unfortunately, we only have several minutes to go through your question and for me to

keep your answer relatively short because this could go on

for a very, very, very, very long time. What's the biggest mistake that you've ever made?

I've made mistakes, McKinsey, in relationships. I've made them in business and how I've chosen to spend my time where I've invested my money, how I've reacted to

criticism or success or failure. I'm not proud of the times that I've reacted from a place of

selfishness or judgment or fear. What I've realized, though, is that often my biggest

mistakes in life, and I'd like to argue, our biggest mistakes in general, aren't the

things that we've done, but oftentimes they're the things that we chose not to do. In college,

I ran with an active, fun, and social group. We consider the weekend in college to be Wednesday.

That's when it started, and it rolled on through Thursday, Friday,

Saturday, and into the wee hours of Sunday. One of my very best friends and one of the most

dynamic, most outgoing, and most potential-filled individuals I have ever met was a gentleman

named Mark. Although I sensed he was beginning to hang with an even faster crowd,

having too much fun, too frequently, with too many stimulants, I never voiced my concerns to him.

In August 1997, my friend would become another tragically unnecessary statistic of drinking and driving. The heartache from that loss still follows

me even today. As does the mighty regret that I wish I would have been bold enough in that

friendship with him to voice my concerns. Certainly there are things that we regret doing,

but so often it is the words left unsaid the actions

not yet taken the places not visited the life not fully experienced and lived that leaves us with

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