In this brief motivational video, the speaker delivers the July 25th "Moment of Yes" from Dallas, where he reflects on his recent work with FC Dallas and upcoming travel back to St. Louis. The central message asks listeners to consider whether they are leaving space for others' insight or filling that space with their own "shoulds"—the urge to fix or give solutions. He illustrates the point with a 20‑minute conversation with a new Ghanaian player who, after being heard, felt better and found his own inspiration. The speaker emphasizes compassion, empathy, and active listening as ways to create that space, and ends with a call to apply this mindset in daily interactions with family, friends, or coworkers, while also cheering on Dallas.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your Moment of Yes for Tuesday, July 25th from Dallas. Here working with FC Dallas yesterday and today. Here we go. Flying back to St. Louis tomorrow. Should probably be able to get back on the Monday, Wednesday, Friday Moment of Yes schedule, but it's been a little bit crazy last couple of weeks. But thank you for your patience. Yes, your Moment of Yes for today is, are you leaving space For insight, or are you filling that space with shoulds? With shoulds, with shoulds, right? You've heard me say before, it's not mine, but I love it, right? Don't should on me. Yeah, it's our tendency, our impatience, but also our love to want to help people or fix people or just give them the solution right away. Obviously, the opposite side of that is to allow space for people to share, To get everything out, to open up. And then in that space where you're there with compassion and empathy and listening, you are providing that space for them to actually kind of let inspiration come to themselves. Right. I had this opportunity yesterday. I was meeting with a new player. He's just come to the team, to the country from Ghana. New country, new team. He's got some stuff going on, family stuff, you know, getting settled, all this stuff. And he said, hey, can I just talk to you for a few minutes? It turned into about a 20-minute conversation, of which I said very little. And at the end, he said, you know, just being able to talk this out and share this with you has already made me feel better, right? We've all had those experiences where someone opens up to us. First of all, the privilege to have someone to open up to you, and then B, you You know, for us to be able to just listen and let them get it out with very much else than compassion and empathy. And in that space that we leave is the space where they find their own divine inspiration and insight. So the moment of yes for you today is as you go about your day, whether it's family, whether it's friends, whether it's a coworker, Are you leaving that space for their own insight, or are you trying to fill that space with your own shoulds? There you go. That's your moment of yes for today. Have an awesome day and cheer on Dallas tonight. We need 3 points.
