In this solo morning monologue, the speaker announces his final days living in his Jupiter home before renting it out and moving to St. Louis for a year with his companion Mako. He describes the practical preparations—packing, bikes, a car full of belongings, and help from Hollister—while framing the transition as a "road warrior" adventure. The core of the talk is a meditation on surrender: he distinguishes surrendering control of outcomes from giving up purpose, likening surrender to a big exhale that creates space for inspiration, creativity, and divine guidance. He pledges to approach the upcoming journey, including any unexpected rain, with this mindset, inviting listeners to share in his "moment of yes" and encouraging them to have an awesome day.
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Good morning everyone, here is your Moment of Yes for Friday, July 8th, also known as, uh, my last morning waking up here in Jupiter, waking up in our home, at least for the time being, at least for the next year, um, as, uh, we'll be kind of starting a new experience renting out our house and then living for the year in St. Louis. And so everyone's already gone, um, I leave today with Mako. Mako and I are going to be road warriors on the road. Pray for us, right? We've got a car filled with stuff and 2 bikes on the back. Yeah, let's hope those bikes make it. So, getting to this point today of being able to leave the house— now we're renting it furnished, but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. And Hollister did a bunch of that before she took off to camp with the boys. And so since I've been back from my multiple trips, it's been getting the rest done. So here we are, right? And so I think the idea of surrender, you know, I think I've talked about surrender a lot. Surrender, surrender, surrender. The more you surrender, it's almost like taking a big exhale. Every surrender is a big exhale. Where every time the stress, anxiety is a big inhale where you're holding your breath, the surrender is an exhale. And a lot of people can— obviously, when you wave the white flag, you surrender, or I quit, I surrender. Surrender, I think, has a different meaning also. It isn't in the quit, it's in the I am going to quit trying to control this outcome. It doesn't mean I'm going to stop working. It means I'm going to quit I'm going to quit trying to have control, controlling the situation. That's what I'm surrendering. I'm not surrendering my purpose, my passion, my effort. I'm surrendering controlling the outcome, like a big exhale. That's what it should feel like, a big exhale. And this is the thought that came to me this morning, was the more we surrender, the more we leave space Room for inspiration, for the divine, for intelligence, for creativity, for love. By surrendering my need to control the situation, the more I surrender that, the more I create space mentally, spiritually, emotionally for sort of that divine inspiration to move in and lead the way. And which is the inhale. You're inhaling the inspiration because you've made way by exhaling the control, by surrendering the control. So that's what I'm doing today. I'm sure the day, the drive, everything is not going to go as planned. But regardless of how it goes, as a little unexpected rain rains down right now. I'm going to surrender and make room for the divine. That's your moment of yes for today, everybody. Have an awesome day.
