Fresh ideas spoil if you don't act on them. The speaker compares inspiration to produce rotting in the fridge: insights from conferences or aha moments fade when they stay in your head. Move them to your heart and into action, or they're wasted.
Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for today. Have you ever gone to the grocery store and you've got these big plans to make a feast? You buy all this fresh food, fresh produce, fresh vegetables, fruits. You've got this amazing feast that you are going to plan. So you bring it home, you put it in the refrigerator, you store it, it's ready, it smells good, you're ready to go. Yet, if you only ever leave it in the refrigerator, nothing happens. In fact, that fresh food is going to spoil. It's going to rot. It's going to shrivel up and die and actually leave you with kind of a disgusting science project. Well, inspiration is really no different. When we think about it, we go out, we have an amazing experience, something happens to us, whether it's going to a conference, Or taking a class, or just having an experience that creates any type of aha moment. We have all these great plans of potential, what we're gonna do with this new inspiration, how it's gonna change our lives, what we're gonna do. Yet if we just tuck that inspiration away on a shelf, if we leave it where it is, or if we just kind of put it away for a rainy day, the freshness and power of that inspiration will also Spoil, rot, shrivel up, and die. And does that mean that inspiration is gone? No. But what it probably means is that we're going to have to have another experience that sort of recharges or reinspires us. So the key thing is, is what do we do with the potential that— and the power of an experience or an idea Of something that we've felt, that we believe in, and we know is ultimately going to transform our lives. If we just keep it intellectual and we keep it in our head, it's just going to fade away. But if we move it from our head to our heart, which leads to action, then it just might transform our lives. So take it out of the fridge, put it on the table, and let's start having a feast. That's your moment of yes for today, everyone. Have a wonderful day.
