In this short monologue, the speaker continues the "Put It Down Revolution" series by reflecting on two recent intimate corporate training sessions of 10‑15 participants each. During the presentations, several attendees repeatedly checked their smartphones, prompting the speaker to highlight a broader cultural habit of constant connectivity. He questions what people are truly connected to—pointing out that phones keep us linked to endless streams of emails, texts, news, and music—while suggesting that this perpetual stimulation hinders deep inspiration. The speaker argues that the most creative insights arise during idle, disconnected moments when we shift from "doing" to "being," allowing inner reflection and a sense of connection to something larger (spirit, love, the universe). He urges the audience to "put it down," count their phone checks, and deliberately disconnect to reconnect with deeper creativity, ending with a personal shout‑out to Brian Riechers for resisting the phone.
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Good morning everyone. Here is your moment of yes for today. This is part 3 of the Put It Down Revolution. I don't know how long this is going to go on, but as long as I feel inspired to sort of talk about it, we're going to continue talking about it. And so yesterday I had an important corporate training session, actually back-to-back sessions that I was doing with a group of about 10 to 15 people each. each session, so a smaller intimate corporate training. In both sessions, at different times during the hour session, different people pulled out their phones and were texting or were doing whatever in the middle of a presentation. Now granted, if I'm at a big giant auditorium and you're with a couple hundred people or whatever, you might take out your phone, you might respond to an email or a text, but not in an intimate group. Of 10 to 15 people. And instead of addressing it during that moment, it kind of probably would have taken our talk off in a different direction. I sort of decided to let it slide. But it reiterates this idea of our constant need and feeling to be connected. And it's like, connected to what? Think about it. What does technology keep us connected to? You know, we get up in the morning, we've got our iPhone that we can check. Any texts, any emails, any tweets, whatever we want, we can check that. We can go to the bathroom and listen to music off of our phone. We can turn on the 24-hour news and hear a bunch of news that has nothing to do with us. Then we get in the car and we can listen to satellite radio or listen to our iPhone. Then we get to work and we immediately go to our computer. In between our computer, we still have our phone that keeps us connected, connected, connected, connected. But connected to what? What are we connected to? And I ask you, when does the most inspiration or new insights or creative ideas come to you? My guess is that it's not when you are constantly taking in information and being stimulated by distraction. That's probably not when the best inspiration is coming. It's probably in that idle time when you are not quote-unquote connected. To distraction. When you are disconnected from these exterior impulses and you are connected to your own deeper connection of the universe, of God, of love, of spirit, of your own internal creativity. When you are being, not doing. So the connectedness just keeps us in a constant mental state of doing without the reflective step back of being. So today again, put it down. How many times did you count yourself checking the phone yesterday? I was very conscious of it yesterday. So put it down. Disconnect in order to connect with deeper inspiration. Brian Riechers, you have not gone to the smartphone yet. You are the smartest one of us all. That's your moment of yes for today, everyone. Have a great day.
