In this brief morning message, the speaker shares a recent experience at a city Target that illustrates a "circle of kindness." While parking, a teenage window‑cleaner offers to clean their car; the speaker gives him $5. Later, the speaker helps a driver back out of a tight spot, and the driver returns a dropped receipt and thanks the speaker for the earlier help. The exchange creates a quick ripple of goodwill that returns to the speaker, demonstrating how small, easy acts of kindness can cascade between strangers. The speaker ends by encouraging listeners to start their own kindness circles today.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for Tuesday, September fifth. Yeah. All right. Happy happy Labor Day weekend, everyone. I hope you got a chance to do something or relax or start packing up boxes because you're moving at the end of the week. I don't know. Hypothetically speaking, right? So your moment of yes for today actually comes from two days ago. Hollister and I went to Target. And so, we're living in the city, and so we go to this Target, which is in the city, and it's like chaotic. Parking lot is chaotic. People are— it's— and like, you go— it's just a chaotic, like stress-inducing parking lot. And so, as we were going in, there's a young man, like with a squirt bottle and a rag, and he was like, hey, can I clean your windows for you? And we're like, hey man, we're good. Yeah, yeah. Like, but like a nice— Yeah. Kid. I don't know, maybe maybe 15, 16 years old. And, um, you know, so on the way out, he's still there. He's actually working on a car while we're there, and I'm kind of thinking, oh, that's great. And I asked Alistair, I was like, hey, do you have any money? She was like, I have a $5. All right. So, so I went over to him while she was putting the stuff in the car. I was like, hey man, uh, here's, you know, here's $5. I'll get you next time. He's like, oh, thank you, sir. I really appreciate it. That's so great. So as I'm walking back to our car There is a car that's trying to back out of a spot, and I can tell that he doesn't know if he's got enough room to make the turn. So I stop, and I'm just guiding him and telling him he's got it. You got enough room. You got enough room. You got enough room. Great. And he gives me a thumbs up. And then as I'm walking to my car, he puts his window down and goes, hey, I don't know if you need that receipt, but you dropped it. And I dropped like, you know, the Target receipt. And I was like, oh, hey, thank you. And he goes, and by the way, thanks for helping me get out of the spot. Right? So, um, I jumped in the car, I was like, ah, that was neat. And she goes, I saw that. I was like, we had a nice little kindness circle, right? Like, so, you know, I went over to help the kid, came back, helped the guy, the guy in turn helped me. It was like just nice, this nice like 60 seconds of, oh yeah, like this is easy, right? This is the way it's supposed to be. You know, wherever you are, city, suburbs, like wherever you are, chaotic, It's really, really easy to just be kind and to do simple things and like to be able to see just kind of this quick little ripple effect from person to person to person and it came back to me, right? Because the guy helped me in return. So, there you have it as we start kind of a new week after a holiday week. Just kind of that circle of kindness, right? It all comes full circle. So, what do you need to do today or what can you do today to get that circle started? Have a great day everybody. That's your moment of yes.
