In this brief motivational video titled “Moment of Yes: October 23rd,” the speaker invites viewers to reflect on how they are responding to the stresses of the current world—pandemic, election season, personal and professional pressures. He emphasizes that while external events are uncontrollable, individuals have full control over their effort and attitude, the core of the improv principle “yes, and.” Using a light‑hearted improv anecdote, he illustrates that even when presented with poor ideas, one can choose a positive response. He urges listeners to bring attention back to the present moment, use breath to anchor themselves, and recognize that they already possess everything needed to respond effectively. The talk concludes with repeated affirmations of “yes, and” and wishes the audience an uplifting weekend.
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Good morning, everyone. Here's your Moment of Yes for Friday, October 23rd. Hopefully everyone's waking up, having an inspiring day. You have some weekend plans. We have a whole lot of soccer this weekend. So your Moment of Yes for today is, how you doing? How are you processing? How are you responding to, to the world, to life's current situation? Are you getting overwhelmed? Are you getting stressed? Are you getting afraid? Are you inspired? Are you encouraged? Are you energized? Are you depleted? How are you responding to the current situation? This is the big yes and opportunity. This is what it means to live yes and. Because we cannot control what's going on around us, we cannot control what comes at us, we cannot control what happens to us, but we only 100% of the time get to control our response. When we think about controlling the controllables in life, it's effort and attitude. It's the effort we put forth in something. I can sort of control that. I can control my effort and I can control my attitude, how I process it, think about it, and respond to it. But I can't control what happens after that. As soon as I put my energy out there, I put my action out there, I put my response out there, I can't control what comes back. And that's what improvisation is. That's what improv is on stage. That's that yes, and. And so if I'm performing on stage with Frank or Jesse, which we both know they're horrible improvisers and they give me horrible ideas all the time. I'm just kidding, but they're watching. And so regardless of the idea that we give each other, it might be a horrible idea, but we still yes it, we accept it, And now I get to control that response. And sure, based on the information or based on the offer, it makes it— it's going to make it harder to respond effectively and positively, but I still get to control what that response is going to be. And so as we continue to move forward through a pandemic, through this election season, which we're getting down to the home stretch here, as we process whatever your economic Career, personal, whatever is going on, we have that ability to yes-and it and to keep bringing our focus and our attention back to the present moment, to right now. We get overwhelmed when we feel like what's going on around us is so out of our control, which it is. So what we need to bring our focus and our attention back to is ourselves. To feel that peace, to feel that love, to notice, to take that breath, to feel that right now you have everything that you need, to take that next breath, to feel right now you have everything that you need, to think about how do I need to respond to this situation right here, right now, because in this moment I have everything that I possibly need, even if it feels like I don't. But you're breathing it, you're thinking it, so you do. And then the next moment, and then the next moment, and then the next moment. So let's keep bringing our focus, our attention back to right here, right now. We have everything we need in this moment. Yes, and yes, and yes, and. Have an awesome weekend, everybody.
