Don't Get Bitter, Get Better!

All right. We live? How do I know? We're live. All right, we're live. Let's go. Okay. Today or tonight, this evening, we're talking about how to get back on routine. I know that the subject line said, don't get better, get better, but we're going to switch gears and we're going to talk about how to tick things off your list when you feel overwhelmed, because that's what's happening right now in this life, right now, okay? So I was problem solving with my dear friend Alec DeWitz here, the genius that is behind this cadre app.

And he said something very simple to me. He said, what are your top five difficult things? Let's write them down and you can start ticking those off. And it was so simple. Here I am thinking, I've got 50 billion things I'm going to do and I'm trying to write it down in 15 different places and put it in my Trello and put it on my to-do list. But it's like as simple as chipping away five things at a time, one thing at a time, and not 50 billion things at a time. Like focus on just the core five, right, Alec?

Yep. So That made a lot more sense to my brain. And now I can write down five things that I'm going to focus on just to get through tomorrow. And it'll help me sleep better tonight. And I'll set myself up for success tomorrow. And I'll come up with a roadmap for how I'm going to tick off those five things tomorrow instead of looking at the 8 million things that I have that need to happen over the course of the next three weeks. What's one that we can share with everyone here? So funny you should ask.

Let's go. So one of the things that I want to tick off my list is I have completely fallen off of my eating habits and my vitamin routine. So I tend to go through these phases where I get gung-ho about having a new system or a new plan implemented in my life and I don't take it as far as the 30 days that it takes to build a habit. So I fall off of that habit faster than I should and it sets me up for failure. So instead of staying diligent with my habit and actually forming one, I just set myself up for failure.

And so I am, in order to implement re-implement like my vitamin routine and my eating routine, I am going to make myself a schedule and I'm going to use, let me show this tool that I have, one sec. My labeled vitamin container, it's got the beautiful labels and I'm going to start filling this up and I'm going to put it right on top of my Nespresso machine so I can't physically open the Nespresso without this thing falling off, which will remind me. So if you don't see it, you won't take it, or if you don't see it, you won't wear it, which is what I tell my styling clients.

So try to hang everything as much as possible. So when you are trying to build a routine and a habit, it needs to be visible, it needs to be in front of you, and it needs to be doable. And one of the things that I have implemented that is slowly but surely becoming a routine is taking my athletic greens every day because I love drinking water. It actually tastes good and it's already like sectioned out into little pouches. What's up, Luke? Hey, Luke. Can you hear us? Absolutely, you can hear us.

Let's go. Yay. Amazing. So we're talking about vitamins and athletic greens and working on your routine, but you don't need to. I got a question for you, Risa. What was the biggest thing that you noticed when you started taking Athletic Greens? That I did not crave coffee, like that like burst that I was getting from coffee, which I will be honest, coffee was like one of the first things that I was wanting in the morning. And I wasn't doing my lemon water first. Like I was just doing it all backwards.

So now that I do lemon water first, which cleans out my system, and then the athletic greens, I actually am finding that by the time I get through both of those beverages, I don't even really crave my coffee, which is crazy. Nice. What do you like to put in your coffee? Do you do like the MCT oil or bulletproof coffee or butter or anything like that? Nope. I don't like the taste of MCT oil. I think it's so hard to take down. So, okay, downstairs putting kids to bed. Okay. Bye, Luke. You can sign off now.

Bye. Yeah, I don't like MCT oil. So if I don't put my collagen powder in my smoothie, I'll do a scoop of collagen protein in my coffee. And then I just do like a milk alternative, like unsweetened almond milk, no sugar, nothing like that. And then sometimes I'll do a little bit of cinnamon if I want like a little flavor and a little bit of like natural vanilla. Right on. Yeah, what do you put in your coffee? I recently have just been putting in some almond milk. So just a little bit of almond milk in my coffee.

Otherwise I go for, if I go out for coffee, I get like a latte. But I don't like the super sweet ones because after about one or two of those, and I try to go back to normal coffee, it's just not the same. So I'm back on black coffee with a little bit of almond milk or coconut milk or something like that. Because we've talked about if you had to like, if you had to rate the milk alternatives from like best to worst, it's like coconut milk at the top, right? And then almond milk. And then at the bottom of the list is oat milk.

The bottom of the list is oat milk. That's absolutely right. And then of course, you want to try not to have sweeteners in your milk alternatives. But I was reading, I read an Instagram post from a dietitian who was rating all of the different milk alternatives. And they said the best one to have was the unsweetened almond milk. And then it was like, or no, sorry, the best one to have was coconut milk, then unsweetened almond milk. And then it's like another nut milk, I think, but oat milk was at the bottom of the list, which I thought, oh, oat milk, that's like the healthiest thing I can have.

And a lot of people will go for that first because they think it sounds healthy because of the word oat, but really it's not doing us any favors. I mean, it tastes really good, right? It's like super thick and creamy and it's got this like, oatmeal like taste to it. But I think a lot of the seed oils that they put in those and chemicals and all sorts of stuff just make it terrible for you. But I love coconut milk. I love almond milk. I love those options. I've also gotten into like regular whole milk too, because I've heard that's really, really good for you.

And my mom, my mom loves whole milk. The other thing I like doing is mixing coconut milk and almond milk together. So which Califia Farms does make one. That's unsweetened coconut almond milk, and that's really good. And that's a good like mixture if you're looking for like a little bit of creaminess. Sweet. I like that. Sounds good. I kind of want some coffee now. Nope, too late. It's too late. You're gonna have to save that for the morning, sir. What time is it? 845? Okay. Yeah, a little bit late.

It's too late. Your body doesn't even, shouldn't even have anything after 8 o'clock, like in terms of food or anything funky, like water and stuff. But after that. Good to know. Yeah. I can't have popcorn. I mean, I don't think I can stop you from that, but you can, you know, if you're gonna have a snack, I would say popcorn is probably safe. I don't think it's gonna like ruin your digestion. But I don't know, don't ask me. Don't ask me. I'm not a nutritionist. OK, so Luke says computer or phone.

We're on the phone. Risa is on her phone. I'm on my computer. And then where would I type my comments, Alec, if I wanted to type comments to somebody because there's no place to type. So that's not really like a use case that we have built out right now, but if we want to do that, we can definitely do it. No, I mean, I think actually it's probably okay that we don't because it's hard when your phone is propped up and you're trying to do a live to actually go in and type, but you can at least see the comments rolling in.

So I like that. Yeah. I think if we could get near instant live streams, because right now there's about a 15 second buffer. So from the second that we're talking right now to the audience being able to watch this, there's about 15 second delay. So if we can get it so that it's instant, imagine the conversations that we're going to be able to have with people, it'll be like, drop your answers down below and boom, people are going to be on it right away. The other thing is like when the text comes up over your screen, like where your face is, it's really dark.

It's black. So I can't read any of it unless I pull it down and scroll. So if it could have like a bar behind it or something. Sure. I don't know. I just can't. I can take a screenshot for you so you can see. Oops. Oh, shoot. Risa, where'd you go? I know. Oh, you're back. Sorry. Oh, needs my face. Okay. All right, so I'll send that too. But once it gets up on to the screen where your face is, it's like really hard to read that text. I can only read the very bottom text, computer or phone are all good thus far.

And then everything else is like black on top of your screen and just it's gone then from my site, really. Okay. And then my phone is showing like buffering, I think because you left for a second. That may have stopped the live. So we may not be live anymore. Okay. Mine still says like I could potentially stop the live. Should I stop it? I think it might have disconnected, but let me check. It still says we're live, but it is just sitting there buffering and it just stopped on their end. To make sure to tell people not to touch their phone like I just did.

But I did get it to work so that you could play around in the background while it was still live. And it's back up. So it is back up now. It just took a little bit of time. Okay. Right on. This is cool that we're testing this out. I hope that everyone here on Cadre is enjoying the application. Yeah, we hope you are. These are some bloopers for you. Yeah. And there's a sleeping dog in the background with his stuffies. This is reality. This is what live streams are all about. Exactly. And I'm going to tick away at all my post-its.

I'm going to chip away at all my tasks for tomorrow. Now that Alec and I have talked through and life coached each other. Sometimes that's the hardest part is just bringing them to the surface. But the one quote that I think I live by and it rings true in a lot of certain circumstances or a lot of situations is, the truth always comes out. So we might as well start there. And I use that as like my baseline for like with everything, right? Like you're going to have to face these problems, might as well face them, right?

The more you let them pile up, the more backlogged you're going to be and you're going to sink. So if you can face your issues, your tasks, and your conversations all the same way, I feel like you're going to conquer life. I think you're going to conquer life. Taking over the world. Thanks, Alec. Let's go. Let's go. Well, I am going to Taylor Swift on July 14th. You did not get tickets. My sister did. Dang. So every 14 year old girl is pissed off at you right now? Well, she redeemed herself like the Ticketmaster.

They all redeemed themselves by going back and offering tickets to all of her like, Gosh, my brain can't function. Certified fans or whatever. Certified. It's like her, whatever they call them. I think they call them like certified fans. Sorry. So they went back and emailed all of them. And if you were like registered as like a certified fan, then you got, you got, they gave you an option for tickets again. Luke, we love Taylor Swift too. What's your favorite Taylor Swift song, Luke? Drop it in the chat down below.

I'll tell you my current favorite Taylor song. It's a new release, but it's called Karma. And it's all about her relationship with Scooter Braun. And it's such a good song. Nice. Not her love relationship, but her like when she was on his record label. And it's so good. So what about like, what's that one song? Like Romeo, take me somewhere. Yes. Yeah. That's my favorite song. That's your favorite song? Love story. It's called Love Story. Love Story. There you go. There you go, Cadre. You learned my favorite Taylor Swift song.

That is amazing. Also, can you share, show us a little bit more about your outfit? Like what's the fit here? Like what's the vibe? Is this a jacket? Is this? Is it reversible? It's like a stylish bomber. It's like my one of my new favorite jackets now. It's so cute. Is it reversible? Like what's the vibe? It's seersucker. So it's got some seersucker vibes and it's got little pockets right here. So I feel like a boss. You do look like a boss. You know, for those who don't know seersucker. Seersucker is like a textured kind of like ribbed linen blend, like cotton linen blend-ish.

And it's like very New England. Seersucker is like what you find like on Nantucket and like Connecticut and like very New England fabrication. So seersucker is like paying homage to my roots in Maine and I love it. I'm here for it. Right on. That's exactly right. It's got a little rib to the touch. Love it. Makes me think of my childhood. A lot of my Easter dresses were made out of seersucker, homemade by my mom. Sick. So cute. I'm loving this vibe. You look so dressed up today. It's so good. You know, it was a little bit chilly, you know, here in Minnesota, it's about negative 42 and a lot of ice outside.

So I had to put on something warm. If that's a spring jacket, I don't think you're super warm. I think you should wear that to the Phoenix Open next year, whole 16. Done. But I do like that white polo, just too much. You got to show Luke that polo. I'm obsessed. Do you have it? Luke, you got to get your shirt. Luke, you got to look at this shirt I gave Alec for the Phoenix Open. It's Bill Murray collab with Tito's. And it's like limited edition. And he wore this to the Phoenix Open and it's got little Bill Murray, Bill Murray's all over it.

It's so cute. Look at Bill Murray with all the birds and then show him the sleeve. Oh yeah, there you go. And then show him the sleeve patch. So good. We're not affiliated with Tito's here at Cadre, but. No, and drink responsibly. No, we are not affiliated with Tito's. We just have a good friend who works for Tito's. And Tito's is a very philanthropic company that puts company wellness at the forefront of their company culture. So we love our friends at Tito's, but we are not endorsing drinking or any certain brands here at Cadre.

Great, great fashion show. So Risa, we've been live for about, 10, 15, maybe 20, who knows how long, time just flies by talking to you. So I'm gonna go, but I think you should keep talking. This is your live, so I want you to run the show here and I will, I'll catch you on the live stream, okay? All right, catch you later. All right, peace. Thanks for being here. All right, so is it just me? Okay, I'm still here. That's my screen. I see the blue screen. There's where Dewey was. All right, now I'm going to say goodnight.