In this brief motivational video recorded on June 3, 2022, the speaker (identified as Speaker A) delivers a “moment of yes” reflection to a Kansas City audience. He opens with personal context—mentioning the venue, a past wedding, and a makeshift tripod—before sharing an email from spiritual writer Richard Rohr. Rohr’s concept of “serve the moment” is presented as an alternative to the common “seize the moment” mindset. The speaker explains that living at one’s highest, most authentic self means being in service, and encourages listeners to approach every experience—especially challenges and adversity—with a service mindset characterized by compassion, humility, and grace rather than reactive emotions like anger or selfishness. The talk concludes with a call to adopt this perspective for the weekend, wishing the audience an “awesome” time.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for Friday, June— June 3rd. June. Happy June. Friday, June 3rd, everyone, from Kansas City. All right. A little bigger room. A little nicer. A little cleaner. Looking out on the plaza to the left. Got married here 25 years ago. Hey, returning to old glory. All right. All right. So your moment of yes for today. And if it's a little bit crooked or tilted, it's because I'm not using a tripod. I'm using— Tripod. A tripod. Using my book bag. So book bag as a tripod. All right, here is your moment of yes for Friday as you guys move into the weekend. So Hollister sent me this great email the other day and it was from Richard Rohr. Richard Rohr is the, I think, the monastic monk. He's got to be 80 by now, but super, super inspiring and just a real joy. And in this email, he was talking about the idea of not— the whole idea of like, you know, seize the moment, be in the moment. And he used the term serve the moment. And I was like, oh yeah, serve the moment. He goes, you're in service. What we do, you know, when we're living at our highest, most authentic, purposeful self Is that we are in service. So if we focused on serving the moment, right, being in service to the moment. So whatever is happening in this moment, whatever is happening to you right now, moment after moment after moment, you're not trying to get anything from it. You're just serving the moment. You are in service to the moment. So how would you respond to everything that happens to you throughout the day if you were in service to it? So all these bad things that happen, right, potentially, or when bad things happen, how would you respond to those from a service mindset instead of from a getting mindset or a reactionary emotional mindset? What if I was in service to this challenge, in service to this adversity, so that I'm bringing a mindset of compassion, humility, and grace instead of a reactionary mindset of hurt, frustration, anger, selfishness. Serve the moment. Can I serve this moment? That's your moment of yes for today and for the weekend. Serve the moment. I love it. I don't know if you do too. Have an awesome, awesome weekend, everybody.
