An improv teacher explains how choosing an intentional stance each morning—supportive instead of complaining, optimistic instead of pessimistic—shapes your entire day. He argues that a single conscious choice shifts your purpose, improves your attitude, and makes interactions better.
Hello everyone. Here is your moment of yes for today. Yes, I need to shave. 2 days at Disney has turned me into Wolfman Jack, but that will be coming off today. Your moment of yes for today goes back to an improv idea, an improv principle that we teach, and it's all about making a choice. When you step on— Excuse me. When you step on stage, even though you're creating something entirely new, you're not working off a script, You're making it up on the spot. As you walk out on stage, make a choice. Even if it's an emotional choice, a physical choice, a goal or an objective, have something that you're bringing to the scene. And when you think about that each day, what choice are you making as you start your day? Are you going to choose to be supportive? Are you going to choose to be a complainer, pessimistic, negative? Are you going to choose to embrace each moment? Are you going to choose to try to lift up people in your life, lift up your coworkers? So every day we have the ability, really moment to moment, but when I wake up, I think to myself, what choice am I going to make today? What's going to be my objective, my purpose today? And use that sort of as the lens or the filter to how I approach the whole day. It's amazing when you make an intentional choice To sort of guide your day, to give you sort of some purpose to the day, how it shifts your entire day. So today, as you watch this, or now that you've watched it, make a choice. How are you going to approach the rest of the day? And stick to that choice as your intention. Hopefully it's a good choice. That's your moment of yes for today. Have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful day.
