In this brief motivational talk recorded in Houston, the speaker shares a personal anecdote about his son Shepherd’s soccer game to illustrate how to handle pressure and mental readiness. He emphasizes acknowledging feelings rather than fighting them, using a warm‑up period to focus on two or three key actions, and relying on established habits, routines, and behaviors to achieve desired outcomes. The speaker extends this approach to everyday work challenges, such as a busy Monday or travel‑related stress, urging listeners to concentrate on incremental habits rather than the distant outcome. The talk concludes with an encouraging call to start the week with these practices.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for March 21st. March the 21st. Wow! Here we go. Well, hello from Houston. We're in Houston here for a couple of days, and then we head to Mexico City on Wednesday, back to Orlando for the weekend, and then off to Costa Rica a week from today. So three games in about a week, and we'll see if we qualify. qualify for the World Cup. So, as you can imagine, a lot of pressure, a lot of external pressure, internal pressure around doing what needs to get done. It's funny. So, I'm in Houston. Shepherd had a soccer game yesterday. And so, I called him right as he was getting to the fields and asking him how he was feeling. And he's like, actually, Dad, he goes, I haven't even been thinking about the game. And I was like, okay. He goes, yeah. He goes, I'm definitely not mentally ready for this game. I was like, okay. All right. All right. So, what can we do? What can we do to— I'm like, you've got the entire hour warmup to kind of get engaged. So, talked about some different ideas, but acknowledge. Acknowledge the fact that, okay, hey, you're not noticing that you're mentally ready. That's fine. And so, we went back to, okay, let's think about 2 or 3 things you can focus on. Use the warmup to get ready, all these different things. And then, he went out and enjoyed himself. thought he played well and thought he had a good game. And so when I think about that, right, this going back to that idea of how you feel doesn't really matter. Like when you notice like, oh, I'm just not feeling it today, or, you know, I'm not ready, or I'm not feeling ready. And it's like, okay, all right, we don't need to fight that feeling. We don't fight that feeling anymore. All right, so we don't need to fight that feeling. We can acknowledge it, accept, right, that's the way that I'm feeling, the yes, the and, the neutrality. And then go, okay, so what do I do? Okay, well, I use these habits, I use these routines, I use these behaviors. Let's go back to those. Let's refocus on those. You've got, you know, for him, he had this warmup to get ready. All right, I said, let's focus on those 2 or 3 important things that are going to help you be successful. And it's no different than what all of us are doing. So whether you're waking up today on Monday feeling overwhelmed with a to-do list, or maybe in my case with the team, not feeling overwhelmed, but Sensing that, all right, we got, we got work to do. And you're wanting to focus on the outcome. And again, what we always come back to is, you know, what are the, you know, what are the routines? What are the things that I can actually do to get done and keep focusing on those, keep moving those along and, and letting the outcome be the outcome, right? We're not reinventing the wheel. We're going back to our habits and our routines. So as you roll into a Monday, if you have a lot on your plate, and I know Hollister already started off her Monday with a 3:00 AM airport drop-off. Hello. And so, we go back to our habits and our routines. Again, it's always looking away from the outcomes, right? As, okay, that's where we want to go, going back to, and this is how we get there. We get there one habit, one routine, one behavior at a time. All right, guys, that's your Moment of Yes for today. Have an awesome week.
