In this motivational monologue, the speaker greets listeners on Monday, June 27th, and shares recent travel experiences before reflecting on a quote from mental‑skills coach Lauren Johnson: “If you make the same mistake twice, you’re not learning. If you are no longer making mistakes, you are not growing.” The speaker explores why repeating mistakes signals a lack of learning, how avoiding mistakes can indicate stagnation, and why being challenged—rather than simply avoiding failure—is essential for staying in one’s growth zone. Listeners are prompted to examine whether they are repeatedly making correctable errors, whether they are being sufficiently challenged in personal, professional, or health domains, and to consider pushing beyond comfort zones. The talk ends with a call to action: use this “moment of yes” to consciously choose growth and challenge for the week ahead.
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Good morning, everyone. Here's your moment of yes for Monday, June 27th. I am back, back home in Jupiter. Last couple weeks here before, before making our way up to St. Louis and then Michigan here for a little bit. But yeah, been a busy week. Obviously New York and then Sacramento and then back home last night. And then now it's, now it's in prep mode. So here we go. So I was speaking at the conference, Elite by Choice conference, by my good friend Lauren Johnson, who is a mental skills coach. She worked with the Yankees for 4 years. Now she has her own mental skills consulting coaching company. And she shared a quote that I thought was, ooh, I gotta write that one down. That's a good quote. And the quote is this from Lauren: If you make the same mistake twice, you're not learning. If you are no longer making mistakes, you are not growing. Hmm, I like that, right? So it's that sweet spot of, it's, you know, it's one thing like as a coach or as a parent, right? What's frustrating is when, you know, a child or someone that you work with, they make a mistake, they're corrected, shown the right way to do it, and then they make it again, which is like, okay, were you not paying attention? Are you trying or are you not? So you feel like, okay, There's a disconnect when we're making the same mistakes over and over again. Alistair's probably listening to this and going, yeah, you know, like I've been telling you the same thing for 25 years. So to make the same mistake over and over again, that's where— well, failing is not a good thing because this is actually correctable. You're just choosing not to learn. And obviously sometimes people are actually trying to learn, but usually it's like, okay, hey, you do— so there's a choice not to learn. All right, so we can, we can deal with that. But if you find you're in a spot in your life where, wow, you're just kind of cruising, everything's going great, and man, I can't remember the last time I screwed up, made a mistake, fell on my face, right? Well, that might be a sign that, oh, okay, are you pushing yourself enough, right? Because then we're not in our growth zone. So it's finding that sweet spot. And when I say failing, what I really mean with failing is is dealing with resistance. Am I being challenged? Am I being challenged? Is this stretching me? Not am I falling down and embarrassing myself or, you know, like, am I being challenged? And if we are being challenged, we're in our growth zone. If we're constantly making the same mistakes, we're probably just not paying attention to the most important things. So, as you roll into a Monday and you've got the week ahead of you, Are there mistakes that you're making over and over again that are definitely correctable but you're choosing not to make them? Let's pay attention to that. And then B, are you being challenged in your personal life, professional life, maybe with your health, athletically? Are you being challenged? And if not, do you need to push that edge a little bit and get outside your comfort zone? Yeah, that's your moment of yes for today, everybody. Have an awesome day.
