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    On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
    On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
    On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
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    On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life

    By John O'Leary

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    In the bestselling tradition of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicic’s Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7-step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possibility—from an inspirational speaker who survived a near-fatal fire at the age of nine and now runs a successful business inspiring people all around the world.

    When John O’Leary was nine years old, he was almost killed in a devastating house fire. With burns on one hundred percent of his body, O’Leary mustered an almost unimaginable amount of inner strength just to survive the ordeal. The insights he gained through this experience and the heroes who stepped into his life to help him through the journey—his family, the medical staff, and total strangers—changed his life. Now he is committed to living life to the fullest and inspiring others to do the same.

    An incredible and emotionally honest account of triumph over tragedy, On Fire contains O’Leary’s reflections on being that little boy, the life-giving choices made then, and the resulting lessons he learned. O’Leary very clearly shares that without the right people providing the right guidance, at the right time, he never would have made it through those five months in the hospital, let alone the years that followed as he struggled to regain mobility, embrace his story, and ignite clarity of his life’s purpose.

    On Fire encourages us to seize the power to choose our path and transform our lives from mundane to extraordinary. Once we stop thinking solely on the big moments in our lives, we can begin to focus on those smaller opportunities that tend to pass us by. These are the events—the inflection points in our lives—that can determine how we feel about life now, where we are headed in the future, and how many lives we can impact along the way. We can’t always choose the path we walk, but we can choose how we walk it. Empowering, inspiring, remarkably honest, and heartfelt, O’Leary’s strength and incredible spirit shine through on every page.

    Editor's Note

    Ignite your passions…

    Suffering from burns all over his body as a child altered how John O’Leary viewed and lived his life forever. Without suffering through the pain O’Leary endured, you can learn from his past to motivate yourself and your team to live life to the fullest and overcome any trials.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGallery Books
    Release dateMar 15, 2016
    ISBN9781501117749
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    John O'Leary

    John O’Leary shares his expertise on overcoming adversity and how to live inspired with more than 50,000 people at more than 120 live events each year around the world. In 2006, he was inducted into the Energizer “Keep Going” Hall of Fame. He was selected as Saint Louis University young alumni of the year in 2008, was voted “Speaker of the Year” for Vistage International, and was recently chosen as one of the Top Ten “Most Interesting People” in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is also a lifestyle contributor for ParadeMagazine.com. He considers his greatest success to be his marriage to Beth, their four young children, and his relationships with friends and family.

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    • 5/5
      Very inspiring story with great lessons learnt. Good read. Satisfied.
    • 4/5
      Very insightfully and vey helpful tool to read always nice.
    • 5/5
      Amazing. Highly recommend. Life-changing. It made me cry... but it inspired me.
    • 5/5
      inspirating, easily read and understanding the life and love.. recommended it.. should read list also!
    • 5/5
      Very inspiring. A must read. The voice and the style of writing is easy to understand; but underneath its simplicity are nuggets of wisdom. I’ve highlighted the words that I would be reading again.
    • 3/5
      A great message-- so 3 stars, but the writing and format of the book? Probably closer to 2. Anyway, this was a quick and motivational read. It reads like an hour-long TED talk-- very inspiring and ready for you to take some bullet points away from the slide show.

      As a St. Louisan, I particularly enjoyed reading about Jack Buck and all the amazing kindnesses he gave to others. I had no idea he was such an angel in disguise!

      If your library has a copy and you feel like you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and make some magic happen in the one and only life you've got - pick up this book!
    • 5/5
      In On Fire, John O'Leary shares the seven critical choices we can make to wake up and live an energetically inspired and intentional life. His story comes on the authority of someone who experienced the tragedy of severe burns at a young age and then turned his story to the positive at every turn, helped by others along the way. What starts like so many other x-steps-to-success books in the self-help format then transcends to move and inspire.
    • 5/5
      Inspiring and motivating book. Read and get fired up in your pursuit for success. Against all odds, I can.., you can.. and we can...
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      I love the way it works when you have a phone and it doesn't have the same problem
    • 5/5
      Very inspiring and yet very simple. It all starts with me!

      When I first read the title and table of contents. I thought I had already had this figured out. None of the ideas were new to me. Yet, something in me compelled me to keep going. I loved the book! It strengthened my beliefs for sure - but it also taught me many things that I thought I knew but had a bit more to learn. He gave me a reason to stop analyzing and stop acting. He may have even given me a reason now to finally start thinking deeper about my why and actually pay attention to it.

      Read and be inspired! Do what he says and you will never know despair again!

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