Travis, a tennis instructor, tells his students to treat every drill like a Grand Slam final in front of 2,000 people. The speaker uses this to argue you should bring that same full energy and excitement to everything you do, not just the big moments.
Good morning, everyone. Here's your moment of yes for today. Happy Monday. As you can see, the sun isn't quite up yet, so it's a little early. But your moment of yes for today, for Monday, is fired up. So every morning when I walk into work, there's a gentleman who's been actually at the academy for over 30 years now. He teaches the adult campers who are on campus for the week for tennis. Hi, Travis. And he's out there every morning. I can hear him as I come walking up. He's just so much joy, so much enthusiasm, fired up, bada bing, bada boom. And it's a great way to start your day. And if he sees me, you know, he yells out my name. He tells everyone that he's working with, that's Travis from leadership. It's just a great attitude. It's just a great way to start your day. So much so much joy there. And he told me a story. He stopped me as I was walking to my office last week, and he was talking to me about leadership. And he said, I tell these people all the time, whenever you're doing a drill, whenever you're doing an exercise, to give it your all. And he goes, I tell them all, imagine that you're at stadium, at center court, Grand Slam championship and 2,000 people are watching you and everyone's watching you on TV and how would you, you know, how would you hold yourself? What kind of effort would you put forth? And he's like, I tell people to treat every drill, every exercise as if that's what you're doing and to bring that energy and to bring that enthusiasm to it. And I love that. I love that example. It's such a great way to think about, you know, how do we show up for everything that we're working on? What if we imagine that, you know, we were center stage with every little event that we were doing in our life? And how would we want to show up? How would we perform if it were such a big moment instead of thinking that there's small or irrelevant moments or just going through the motion? So I love that story from him. I've been thinking about it a lot this past week, and that's your moment of yes for today. So thank you, Roger. Fire it up. Have a wonderful, wonderful day, everyone. Thank you.
