In this short motivational video recorded on Friday, October 16th, the speaker delivers a "moment of yes" encouraging listeners to recognize that personal and societal change often occurs in subtle, almost imperceptible ways—like a fine mist from a sprinkler or a steady drip from a leaky faucet. Using the mist analogy, he explains that even though we may not feel the transformation, continuous exposure to small, positive inputs (curiosity, compassion, open‑mindedness) gradually reshapes us, much like a child’s unnoticed growth spurt. He reinforces the point with a faucet‑drip analogy, showing how consistent tiny contributions accumulate into a full pitcher of water, symbolizing significant impact over time. The speaker urges the audience to appreciate these marginal gains, accept that change is ongoing even when not immediately visible, and to carry this perspective forward into the weekend and beyond.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for Friday, October 16th. I think it's the 16th today. I've got some some birds in the background being loud. So all right, here's your moment of yes for today. I heard this great analogy. I was listening to a podcast yesterday, and this great analogy as far as thinking about how change happens over time, and especially during this pandemic, and how You know, I mean, 7 months and counting, it's completely disrupted how most of us live. And when you look at change and you look at how things have changed, how we have changed, how the world has changed during this time, there's definitely drastic things that have changed during this time. But most change in our life, the analogy they use is like a mist, right? Mm-hmm. It's like when you've got like that sprinkler or the hose on like the super mist feature. And if you're not careful, you can't even tell that you're getting wet because it's so light and it's so small. But, you know, if you stay there for a little bit, you will get soaked even though you can't even really feel that you're getting wet at that time because the mist is so subtle and it's so small. And I love that in thinking about sort of our own transformation, our own evolution, how we are constantly We're constantly getting better, even if some of our anchor issues, some of our anchor beliefs, some of our anchor fears— that's why they're anchors— even if those don't tend to change too much, there's so much of our thought and our improvement that is happening all the time. But it happens like a mist. And so if we're not careful, we'll think, I'm not changing at all. I'm not getting better. The world's not getting any better, because we're not seeing these huge these huge cataclysmic shifts. But when we truly see that how you are changing and how I am changing and how we are changing and hopefully how the world is changing is more of a mist and that it's subtle but it's constant and it's like the idea of marginal gains or micro changes, right? But when we're committed to just being open-minded, when we're committed to curiosity, when we're committed to compassion, We're allowing ourselves to be in that mist and be transformed by it, even if we can't notice while we're being transformed. It's like growing as a child. You can't necessarily feel that you're physically growing, but you look in the mirror and you're like, holy cow. I remember I tell everyone between the summer of my sophomore year of high school to my junior year of high school, I grew 6 inches over the summer, but I didn't know it. I didn't notice it, but I didn't even recognize myself in pictures. Because, because it's— it feels so subtle at the time. The last analogy I'll use is that Hollister and I have a, a bad faucet on our back porch, and so we would put a little pitcher like underneath it to gather the water, and then we would water the plants with it and stick it back under so that we're not wasting water. And if you were to watch it, you'd be like, oh yeah, that's That's a pretty consistent drip, but it's not like water's just gushing or flowing. It's just kind of a consistent drip. But in that, those drips would add up to a full pitcher of water by the end of the day, right? That is some serious impact when you look at it from that perspective. But if you just notice a drip every once in a while, it doesn't feel like it's doing anything. So your moment of yes today is Notice the mist that you are constantly living in for your improvement. Appreciate that. Have that perspective as you pull back and you look at the world and you're like, okay, I don't always see the changes that I want, but I accept that I am living in the mist and the mist is always doing its work. You are doing your work. You're being transformed even if you can't feel it. That's your moment of yes for today, guys. Have a great weekend. I'll see you on Monday.
