A coach asks a boys' soccer team: would you rather be fearless or courageous? Fearlessness is the absence of fear, but courage means acting despite it. They're mutually exclusive. He ties this to the team's motto, "one more," and challenges each player to find their own moment to step outside their comfort zone.
Hey everybody, here is your Moment of Yes for Thursday, August 24th. It is Shepherd's birthday today. Shep is the big one, 6. If you get a chance, send Shepherd some love. So I'm getting ready to go over, speak to the boys' soccer team, um, and talking about the idea of courage. I'm going to ask them the question, would you rather be fearless or would you rather be courageous? And can you be both? And the answer is no, you can't be both. I just had a menthol, right? You know, the mint goes up your nose. Yeah, bless me. Uh, can you be courageous and fearless at the same time? And the answer is no, right? Fearless is the absence of fear. Courage, by necessity, needs fear in order to be courage. I know we've talked about this idea before, but I'm going in today To get them— their theme this year is one more, right? One more. Like, can we do one more sprint? Can we make one more tackle? Can we make one more run? What's it take in order to do that? Courage. It takes courage to do one more, to give one more, to be one more. So for each of us, we're always given the opportunity, no matter what our comfort zone is, is to find out what courage looks like for us today. Right now, in this moment, to take one step, to take a leap, to step outside of our comfort zone, to do one more. So what does courage look like for you today? What does one more look like? And perhaps you haven't been thinking about it all day, and this is an opportunity to take a step out or just confront the thing that maybe you've been trying to ignore. I might have one or two of those myself. So there you have it. Courage. One more. That's your moment of yes for today. Have an awesome day, everybody.
