In this personal monologue, the speaker shares a recent travel ordeal that became a live demonstration of his "Moment of Yes" philosophy. After a class and a busy day, he faces canceled flights from Palm Beach to Chicago, but instead of panicking, he calmly embraces each unexpected turn—being rerouted through Fort Lauderdale, securing a delayed Chicago flight, and ultimately arriving earlier than planned. Throughout, he emphasizes the practice of responding with a "yes" in each moment, acknowledging lack of control over external events while choosing a positive, adaptive mindset. He frames the experience as a practical illustration of his concept, noting that more travel ahead will continue to be approached with the same "yes" attitude, and ends by wishing listeners a good day and hinting at an upcoming arrival in Vienna.
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Hey, good morning everyone. Here's your Moment of Yes for— what is today? Thursday? Thursday, March 18th or the 17th? I can't remember. So hey, I apologize again yesterday, unable to do the Moment of Yes until I thought about it late at night. It was my last Watson class yesterday morning, so I think I was a little overwhelmed making sure everything needed to get done to help them finish their college course yesterday morning. And then it was a busy day getting ready for travel. And so here we are. I'm in Chicago Airport on a 6-hour layover. And I think this morning was the perfect sort of, again, opportunity and expression of living Yes and, right? These are called a moment of yes. And so it's how do we respond with our yes in each moment or in those moments? And when we don't respond our best, we have next moment that's coming right behind it to correct ourselves, to show up and respond better. And so, you know, Hollister dropped me off at the airport in Palm Beach. I got up to ticketing and they're like, flights to Chicago have been canceled. They're like, we can get you on tomorrow's flight. And it was weird. Like, there wasn't this moment of panic. There wasn't this moment of like, oh crap, like this shouldn't be happening. It was like, oh, okay. Call Hollister. She got me, you know, got in contact with my U.S. soccer rep, and he's like, "All right, can you get to Fort Lauderdale?" All right, let's get to Fort Lauderdale. So she she took me down to Fort Lauderdale, dropped me off. Supposed to be on a flight, which still would have allowed me to make the connection, you know, for our our overnight Frankfurt flight. And and again, just kind of when I when I said goodbye to Hollister. I was like, you know what? I can't control this. I'm like, I don't feel good about it, but I can't control it. I just felt like, you know, weather delays and getting all the flights backed up. I'm like, hey, I can't control it. And if I need to come home, if I need to take the train home, don't worry about it. So I checked in, walked to the gate. You know, I had like 3 hours until my flight. And I walked up and it was a Chicago flight of where I needed to go. It was almost taking off, and I went up to the guy, I'm like, is there room on this Chicago flight? And he's like, yeah, this flight's been delayed since 7 AM. So it was a 3-hour delay. And he's like, yeah, I can get you on. So I stepped onto the plane. We took off, had the whole row to myself, landed in Chicago earlier than my original flight would have, would have gotten me here. And so, um, yeah, it's fun when you have these moments where You don't allow yourself to kind of get caught up in the emotion, the panic of it, and to allow things to happen and to see and just allow them to happen, good or bad, who knows, right? And so, yeah, I just thought, hey, I forgot to do a moment of yes yesterday. I'll do one today because this feels like more of like instead of, hey, let's talk about this concept, hey, here's a practical example of it. And I say all this knowing that I have another 12 hours plus plus probably 15 hours of travel ahead of me and multiple connections and just kind of yes-anded every step of the way. That's your moment of yes for today, everybody. Have an awesome day. Next time you hear from me, hopefully I'll be in Vienna. Take care.
