In this brief motivational address delivered on June 3rd, the speaker frames the day’s “Moment of Yes” around the challenge of dealing with uncertainty and the things we cannot control. He shares a conversation with a player who learned to “control the controllable,” and relates his own experience of stress caused by dependencies on others (e.g., waiting for a video partner). The speaker describes how he used mindfulness, breathing, and a “release‑and‑surrender” mindset throughout the day to stay present. He urges the team to notice moments of anxiety, trigger a personal release technique (such as breathing), and refocus on the aspects they can truly influence—namely their behavior and performance. The talk ends with a call to apply this practice throughout the day and a wish for an awesome day.
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Good morning, everyone. Here's your moment of yes for Thursday, June 3rd. It is match day here in Denver. Long night, short night. And so your moment of yes for today, I think if you were to boil everything down, the consistent message in many of these moment of yeses based on just sort of what I'm going through, and then I know talking to you all, what we're all going through is just our ability to deal with with uncertainty and the ability to deal with the things that we can't control. I was talking to one of the players the other day who spent the season in Europe, and I said, you know, he was talking about how much he'd learned about himself. I said, well, what's the number one thing you've learned about yourself this year? And he's like, to be able to control the controllable. He's like, there's so much outside of my control, it's really difficult not to kind of get sucked into that. And I think we can all echo that. And every time I come into camp, so much of my day-to-day with the team is, is having to do things that are outside of my control, having to wait for things to get done or, or partner with different people, which is really difficult. And even to the extent that I was up till, you know, 1:30, 2 o'clock in the morning last night working on a video. Because the person that I'm working with, I kind of have to wait for them to get things to me and things like that. So that can cause a lot of stress and cause a lot of anxiety. And so even— it's funny, I moderated 2 mindfulness sessions yesterday. I did a leadership talk on mindset, and what I was having to do throughout the entire day was breathe, release, let go when I felt myself getting anxious. Or stressed about something that was outside of my control, and coming back to my own sense of breathing and surrender and release, and focusing on what I can actually not control but influence with my actual— excuse me— behavior and performance, and then working the best I can with the things that are outside of my control. And so, it's very real to me. I know it's very real to most of us. So, today, Thursday, Let's just continue when we notice ourselves again, trying to control something or feeling anxious or stressful about something. Can we trigger— that's that trigger— to release it, surrender it, whether it's going and doing breathing or whatever your response is to that? Let's do that and come right back to the present moment and dealing with what we can actually influence. All right, guys, that's your Moment of Yes for today. Have an awesome day. Bye.
