In this brief motivational monologue, the speaker greets the audience and frames the segment as a "moment of yes" for Friday, March 5th. While in Colorado for a weekend talk, he invites listeners to consider their own "reset"—a mental reboot that brings attention back to the present moment. He explains that cultivating such presence requires habits and routines, highlighting his personal achievement of 90 consecutive days of at least ten minutes of daily yoga. The speaker connects this practice to the ability to notice distraction, breathe, and choose responses consciously. He references Viktor Frankl’s concept of the space between stimulus and response, describing it as the awareness zone where one can decide how to act rather than react automatically. The talk concludes with encouragement to maintain awareness over the weekend, emphasizing that life unfolds only in the present moment.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for Friday, March 5th. Hallister and I are in Colorado for the weekend. I'm giving a talk on Saturday, and we're visiting some friends. So enjoying the change of weather, the change of pace here. And again, yeah, it's the end of the week. How's your human reset been going? Anyone been hitting the reset button on noticing yourself distracted? Kind of in a funk, bringing yourself back to that present moment. So whether it's Frank's swipe— is it swipe right, swipe left? You know, that idea is not working for us, swipe it off to the side. Or hey, pressing that reset button that brings us back. It's a reboot. It lets go of it, releases whatever we're stressed about and brings us back to the present moment. And then how do we develop? How do we develop the ability to be able to tap into that reset, to tap into our mindfulness, to tap into our breathing, to tap into our presence? How do we do that? Well, we need to have habits. We need to have routines. Today I'm celebrating day 90. Where is it? Right there. Day 90 of my yoga, at least 10 minutes a day of yoga. So I did it this morning. So 90 days down. My feeling is that once I get to 100, I'll probably keep going because I'm enjoying it that much because it is cultivating a routine which allows me to, when I catch myself distracted, to come back, to breathe into the present moment, to bring my full awareness to the present moment. Where is the only place life is happening? In the present moment. So there you have it. So again, happy Friday. Continue to notice yourself. If you guys remember my friend Ian, I am noticing. Continue to notice your thoughts and your emotions so that you can create space. Viktor Frankl talks about there is a space between stimulus and response. In that space, that's awareness, that's noticing, that's where we get to choose How we're going to respond. When we don't have awareness, there is no space. So it's stimulus response. That's how road rage happens. That's how saying something really we regret happens because we haven't cultivated a space in between the stimulus and our response, which I would call a reaction, right? Throw a tennis ball against the wall. It hits the wall and comes right back. Hits me in the hat, right? That's the reaction. But if we have presence, we get hit with the stimulus. We have space in between where we get to observe, observe, notice, and then choose our response with a yes and response. Yes, this is the stimulus, and I'm going to choose how to respond from the best version of myself. How's that sound, everybody, as we roll into the weekend? There you have it. That's your moment of yes for today. Everyone have an awesome weekend. Bye.
