A sports facility worker uses the release point from baseball pitchers and quarterbacks as a metaphor for handling pressure. Do your best on what you control, then let go of the outcome and trust the process.
Good morning, everyone. Happy Monday. Here's your moment for— here's your moment for you. A moment of yes for today. A little overcast here, but a little water is always appreciated. So I'm kind of a self-admitted sports junkie. Obviously, I work at a sports facility. I love sports. Hopefully, I'm not too over the top. Alistair will probably say that I am. But anyway, it's playoff baseball time. Football season is in full swing. And I don't know why this idea came to me this morning during listening, but it did. But a baseball pitcher, when they let go of the ball in their rotation, they have their release point where they release the ball. Quarterbacks have the same— have a similar thing. It's called the release point. When do you let go of the ball? And it got me thinking this morning. Well, that came later, but I was just thinking of whenever we feel like we have a great sense of responsibility or a big project or something that we're working on or something we just feel like we're responsible for, that sense of added pressure and burden that we can feel. And obviously the most peace and relief comes is when we release it, when we let go of it, when we turn it over, when we feel like we've done our best, we've done all that we can do. And we just have to let it go. We can't control the outcome. So you do your best, you work as hard as you can, but you have to let it go. You have to let it go, and whatever happens, you've done your best. And then you try to do better next time. And it just got me thinking about a pitcher or a quarterback. Their goal isn't to— is to hold on to the ball and make it, you know, and get it to its destination. They actually They throw it, they release it, they do their best, but then they let it go. And then they have to trust. They have to trust in the receiver or trust in, you know, in the pitch itself, but they have to let it go. There's that release point. And the more attuned your release point is, the more successful is the end result. So for today, your moment of yes for today is just to release, is to do the best you can possibly do, but know that you are releasing You are releasing it and you cannot control the outcome. You can only control— actually, you can only do the best you can, but then releasing it and letting it go. Hope that helps today, everyone. That's your moment of yes for today. Have a wonderful day. Bye.
