A book (📕 / 📀 / 🎧) by John O’Leary
Your life can be radically inspiring if you learn from your past and become proactive in the present
John O’Leary was 9 when he inadvertently started a fire in his garage while he was playing. The fire burned his entire body, with two-thirds suffering 3rd degree burns. Everyone thought he was going to die that night. Yet, he spent the next 5 months choosing to live. These months of excruciating pain taught him invaluable lessons. His journey to rehabilitation and triumph involved several years with different curves on the way.
“99 Look for good and find good. Look for bad and it will show up.”
John O’Leary
Motivating others to be optimistic by sharing your pain, loss, triumphs and lessons is more meaningful than talking from abstract thought. In a practical and humorous manner, John O’Leary vulnerably shares the choices he had to make to become resilient and gain perspective.
No matter how hard things might be, good things can come out of the darkest moments.
Is there something you want to change in your personal and/or professional life? Do you crave an inspired life? You can make choices that will produce the results you seek.
“99 Everything we do matters. Our lives are sacred. There are no small players. There are no small tasks.”
John O’Leary
The path to a positive outcome for your life is not a lonesome road. You need a tribe, a community, a family that will provide the support system you need to bring transformation to your life.
This summary emphasizes the 7 choices that can ignite you to move in the direction of a radically inspired life. These choices are:
- A choice to live rather than avoiding death
- A choice to come out of hiding to experience life’s miracle
- A choice to explore the potential in you and jettison indifference
- A choice to ask the right questions the right way
- A choice to be courageous and step out of your comfort zoneA choice to live a love-motivated life and shun fear
Let’s explore each of these choices to see what they can bring into your life. For O’Leary, these choices led to a radically inspired life that includes a wife, 4 children, and a multi-platform company, “Live Inspired.”