A speaker urges students and athletes to help anyone struggling, even without all the answers. He invokes the Good Samaritan to argue that quick intervention builds a team culture where people feel safe taking risks. The message lands especially hard during the holidays.
Good morning, everyone. Happy Tuesday. How you doing today? Here's your moment of yes for today. So I've been working with a lot of the classes and a lot of the athletes this week or so based on the idea— we've been talking about teamwork, but thinking about the idea of getting out of your comfort zone in order to help someone else who's in need, to support another player or to support another person. With the idea of when you see someone who is struggling or floundering, for lack of a better word, it is your job to get out there and help them, save them, support them as quickly as possible. Even if you don't have the answer or you don't have it all figured out, your goal is to make sure they're not struggling. So to help them out, to come to their rescue as quickly as possible. And to try to cultivate that mentality, especially within a team environment, is whenever you see someone in need, whenever someone's struggling, Get in there and help them. And hopefully the idea is, as you create that culture, they will do the same for you. Then you've created a culture where everyone is looking out for everyone else, every need is being taken care of, people are free to take risks, to step out, to do the best they can, knowing that if they, if they get stuck, if they flounder, someone on the team is going to have their back. And I love that idea, that selfless expression of living your yes, of living your purpose. When I think of the Bible, probably the story that resonates with me most in the Bible is just the simple story of the Good Samaritan. And the more that I've learned about it now, and knowing not only was he helping his fellow man, in fact, that really wasn't his fellow man. It was seen as a group of people that, you know, you were not an enemy, but just a group of people you didn't get along with. For him to extend himself and to see someone else Struggle and to put everything else aside in order to help out and to give and to take care of that person. You know, it's such a simple idea of selflessness and compassion, and yet— and here we are at the holiday season, and what a perfect time of the year to just have our perspective, our lens, our focus be on how can we help other people. When I see someone struggling, how can I extend a hand and just extend that compassion? So that's it. That's what I'm thinking about this morning. That's your Moment of Yes for today, everyone. Have a great day.
