In this April 1st vlog, the speaker shares several personal updates and reflections. He celebrates his team's recent World Cup qualification after a challenging process and mentions the upcoming World Cup draw. He provides a brief health update, noting his stomach returning to normal and lingering back strain. The core of the monologue revolves around discovering a "FutureMe" email he sent himself a year ago, which asked about vaccination status, his role with the national team, World Cup qualification, and the lives of friends. Reflecting on the answers, he emphasizes the value of writing to one's future self as a gratitude and perspective exercise. He encourages listeners to try the same practice—either via the FutureMe service or handwritten letters—and invites them to share their experiences.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for Friday, April 1st. This is the only April Fool for today. Happy April Fool's Day, everybody. So, I'm back home. You can see by the shrubs, the bushes, that I'm back home. We qualified, made it interesting, but at the end of the day, we qualified in what proved to be an extremely difficult qualification process, which we anticipated, but really, you never, I guess kind of know how difficult it's going to be until you're in it. But we qualified, we're in. The World Cup draw is today at noon on Fox Sports 1 for anyone who wants to watch. My stomach is almost back to normal, a little rumbling still. And my back, which I strained the first couple days, is still barking at me a little bit. But we move on, we go on. And so it's funny, I was going through my email today Before I record these, and I got a message from myself from April 1st, 2021. There is this website or program called Future Me where you can write an email to yourself and you can send it into the future however long you want it to be and then it sends you a message on that day. So, completely forgetting that I did this a year ago, It was a message to me from a year ago. And it was interesting because it was asking questions like, hey, have you gotten the vax yet? Are you still working with the national team? Have you guys qualified for the World Cup? How is Holland doing at Principia? What college did Trinity end up deciding? So all of these things, which I'm like, a year ago were completely in question. Obviously, the World Cup one is funny because, you know, the fact that it wasn't until 2 nights ago that we actually qualified. And so, when I thought about that today, I was thinking just what a healthy exercise that is. I apologize for that, the weed whacker. What a healthy exercise that is to— I love doing reflection writing and I love doing visualization, sort of, you know, intention writing. But that idea of projecting out even to a more distant future, be it a few months, a year, a couple of years from now, where we get a chance to see what we were thinking about previously and to, to be able to then have gratitude, right? Gratitude that I'm still working with the national team. Gratitude that we're going to a World Cup. Gratitude that Trinity picked a school that she loves and Holland's at Principia and he's thriving and And everyone is doing well. Gratitude for all the good that is there that we obviously take for granted. We can easily— I don't want to say we do, we can easily take for granted. And so, that's your moment of yes for today. More of a challenge as well, which is to sit down and send yourself a message. Obviously, I would say, hey, go to future me so that it's automated. But if you want to do a handwritten letter and tuck it away, or do something and just think about what big questions you're in today and seeing how you're thinking about them and when you get that future letter, what that might look like. So hopefully that's a fun April Fool's activity exercise for you. And if you do it, let me know how it went for you. Again, it's a great way to bring perspective, reflection, and gratitude to where we are today. That's your moment of yes, guys. Have an awesome weekend.
