A coach reflects on transition as life's dominant state, using a basketball story and Pat Riley anecdote to argue that growth happens in the flow between one thing and another, not in stillness. June 25th is a moment to say yes to whatever change is coming.
Good morning. Here is your Moment of Yes for Friday, June 25th. Last day here in, uh, in the middle of Missouri. Um, and so your Moment of Yes for today is, uh, well, today is a transition day, right? Again, we're transitioning from, from, from one set, from one location, transitioning back into another place for a couple days, and transitioning back up to Michigan. So lots of moving parts, lots going on. And it reminds me of a friend of mine who played professional basketball over in Europe for a number of years. And he talks about this idea. I think he was in a workshop with Pat Riley one time, right? Legendary coach, GM Pat Riley. And Pat Riley was talking about so many teams focus on offense, so many teams focus on defense. He goes, both are important. But he said, if you break down the game, the The majority of the game is played in transition, right? You're either transitioning into offense or transitioning into defense. And I think that's true for most sports, right? If you take team sports, you know, the, the live action, the games that are happening kind of nonstop are always in transition because everything is constantly moving one spot to another, to another, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So it's not about establishing a sense of constancy in one space. It's about being able to fall into the flow of transition that life is. Life is constantly moving one direction to another, and it's evolving, and it's flexible, and it's adaptable. And that requires the same things from us. And so, you know, as I transition, you know, I woke up in bed, you know, the other night in the middle of the night, And it's one of those things where I laid there for a second, and I was kind of half asleep, but I couldn't remember where I was, right? In the dark, I was like, am I home? No. Am I at so-and-so's house? No. Am I still in Europe? No. And then I found, oh yeah, you're at camp, right? And so it's easy to sort of kind of lose our bearings from time to time. But the reality is our goal is not to create a constancy. You know, necessarily a physical constancy in one spot. It's okay to have a home, and it's okay to, to like to, to be in that home or be in that location. But life is constant. Life is moving. Life is constantly changing and constantly evolving. Our ability to be in constant transition is our ability to continue to live, grow, and move and evolve. with life. We don't want to become stagnant, and that's more sort of, you know, we don't want to become physically stagnant. That's when muscles atrophize. We don't want to become mentally stagnant. That's when we emotionally and mentally atrophize as well. So it's not about, oh, you need to go out, you need to change locations all the time. No, it's our mental approach of how well do we handle transition and can we embrace it. And when we notice ourselves getting frustrated like I do, where I'm like, oh good Lord, another bed Right, another different bed and I'm packing up and I'm moving and I'm doing this. Just embracing the idea like, oh yeah, this is what life is. Life is flow, life is transition, life is always moving. So, how do you need to embrace transition in your life right now? Right? Could it be kids going off to school? Yes. Could it be financial transitions? Yes. Could it be physical transitions? Yes. What do you need to embrace today from a transition standpoint and bring that yes, and mindset to it? Have an awesome weekend, everyone. That's your moment of yes for today.
