Make Your Dreams Come True!

Good morning. Gonna give it a second here. See, if people pop in every week, I get to say it's Friday. I don't know if that means anything to you. It means nothing to me other than it's just the end of the week, the Monday through Friday week. But other than that, it's just another day at the office, otherwise known as my living room. So I hope you guys had a great Monday through Thursday. And whatever the weekend means for you, I hope it's just gonna be jam packed. And that you are going to wring out the towel as best as you can.

What is up, Nick the poet? Every time I see your name, it just makes me smile. So thanks for being here, Nick. If it's just you and I, I'm cool with that. If more people want to hop in. Amazing. Now that I know everything's working okay on this live stream today, I am going to jump right in. So every week, I talk about making your dreams come true. And that can be a lesson in business. It can be motivational. It can be stories that just inspire me to work toward my big dreams. And for me, my big dreams are not just work related.

They're not just professional. They are personal as well. And I think, you know, as we sort of think about what making our big dreams looks like, there's a lot of lessons to be had along the way. So the thing that came to mind that I wanted to talk about today was responsibility. Responsibility. It's like saying, resa, there is a re in everything. Rework, reinvigorate, reimagine and responsibility. And I just feel like it's just fun for me to say that. But I want to ask you guys to think about something today, and it's, how are you taking ownership of your big dreams?

And what I mean by that is, is your ability to show up. Right. Responsibility. You are in charge of the outcome. And I know I've talked about this in other live streams before, but just lately, I've had a lot of things coming at me that have caused me to sort of look at my big dreams and how it's on me to make those come true. It's on me to get in the room with the right people. It's on me to take ownership of how I show up. Nobody else is responsible for how far you might advance in a company. Nobody else is responsible for taking a meeting with somebody and showing up on behalf of the company.

That's you. If you're the owner of your big dreams, you need to be the owner through and through. And Luke likes to talk about. What's up, Katie? Luke likes to talk about blame, claim, shame. So where are you blaming? Where are you shaming? Where are you claiming? Sorry. In a different order. And I always bring my big dreams and my efforts toward my big dreams back to that statement. But, you know, I just really want to talk about and share with you guys that you are ultimately responsible for the outcome of your opportunities.

It is not your colleagues responsibility to do the work that you need to do to show up, get recognized, close a deal. It's on you. How you show up determines your future. It is nobody else's responsibility for what you get out of a situation, what you get within a company, that is on you. Your attitude is nobody else's responsibility. That is also on you. How you choose to take a breather, how you choose to listen to somebody, how you choose to take ownership, take feedback, it's all on you. It's nobody else's responsibility.

The way you communicate is also on you. It is not your boss's responsibility to communicate on your behalf. How nice would that be if I could just whisper in somebody's ear and say, can you say this for me? Gosh, wouldn't that make things easy for people? How you communicate determines where, how people see you and where you fall in a group of people. And, and ultimately, in this, in this world, your communication is your responsibility. So I think about, you know, how, how easy it is to just say, well, I didn't get that promotion because this person got my way or, you know, I I didn't do x because this person stopped me from doing it.

It's not their problem. It's yours. And as I've been building toward my big dreams in my life, I've really had to humble myself and humble my ego and take responsibility for my actions, for my words, for my thoughts, for my work effort ethic. My effort and my work ethic. It isn't up to somebody else as to whether or not I get promoted. It isn't up to somebody else as to whether or not I get a job at a company. I ask you, are you sacrificing to get to where you need to be, or are you self sabotaging?

Are you, in your own way, it is nobody else's responsibility. It's yours. Are you playing well with others? Are you building trust? Or are you stonewalling? It's so important to think about these things when you are working toward your big dreams and trying to get to the next phase in your life or in your business. I realized along the way that the minute I can humble myself and say I have a lot to learn, that's when it really just takes the pressure off of trying to be perfect. And it allows me to listen more in a room with people who maybe are more advanced than me or maybe know more about the situation.

It's allowed me to walk in with a learning mindset and the idea that you never want to be the smartest person in the room. When an athlete is interviewed after the big game, do they say to CNN or ESPN, yeah, you know, we lost that game. And I blame my coach. He really dropped the ball. He really didn't show up for me today. He really did not tell me when to pass that ball or take that shot. You never hear an athlete passing the blame off to their coach or to any of their teammates. I challenge you.

Watch an NBA post game conference, where is the blame going? To themselves, to the things that they need to do better, to how they need to show up. Maybe how they need to work harder. Maybe how they need to change their mindset. Maybe how they need to shake it off? What do they personally need to do in order to succeed? Those are the people you should be looking to for examples as to blame, shame or claim. More often than not, people at the highest levels of what they're doing are claiming responsibility for their own actions.

I ask you, how are you doing this? Where are you doing this? Are you in your own way of your end goal? I want to end with this quote that I read, actually today that inspired a lot of this conversation. And it's this. To earn more is simply a choice. To risk more, try more and believe more. How are you risking? How hard are you trying and how much do you believe? I will leave you with that, and I will challenge you to pause on that thing you want to say that could derail your path to your big dreams.

I challenge you to try a little harder this week. Your big dreams don't just happen. They're earned tooth and nail, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. When you see people succeeding and it feels like an overnight success and you feel imposter syndrome and you want to be envious of where they're at in their journey, don't compare somebody else's chapter 25 to your chapter two. Learn from it. Be humbled by it. Strive to get to that chapter. Earn it. Believe it. Remember, everyone has to start somewhere.

How are you doing it with integrity? How are you taking responsibility? And how are you pushing your way with a good attitude to get to where you need to be. It's your opportunities, your outcome. So I hope you can take that into the weekend and really challenge yourself to look inward instead of pointing the finger outward. I love you guys. Have a great weekend. Make sure that you tune in this weekend. We have some great lives happening. And then next week, we're almost into March, you guys. We've got new Cadre commitments hitting the resources tab.

We just had a blog post dropped by Wendy Holtman, who's one of our coaches here at Cadre. I encourage you to head to our website also to watch Chris Edrington's story behind his why here at Cadre? And we'll be dropping more of those bi weekly. And I just really appreciate you guys tuning into these live streams and hearing what we have to share with you, and I hope that you feel inspired by it every day. Have a wonderful weekend.