Don’t Get Used to Who I Used to Be

This one might be short today, Cadre fam. But let me tell you, it packs a puncheon. It is important. My name is Mary. This is Jill. If you don't know us. No, you do. Welcome. Welcome to our little corner of the Internet. What are we talking about today, Jill? Man, we are talking about something that sounds pretty simple, but it's really profound when you think about it. It is not simple in any way, shape or form. That's true. It's not. It sounds simple. It sounds simple, but here, here. But it ain't easy.

You ready for it? You are allowed to change. You're allowed to change. You're allowed to change. You're allowed to grow. You're allowed to ebb flow. I mean, you're allowed go of things to make space for things. This concept has transformed our lives because we really figured out that we're the driver of the bus. Of our own bus. The bus. I like to say I am the star of my movie and everyone else are extras, right? So I not only direct what's happening, I write the script and I decide what happens in my day to day life, including who's a part of that.

And I want to call out why. It's hard to really fully believe in this concept. For me, I grew up hearing, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Does anybody else. Does anybody else have parents that said s*** like that? Yeah. Yeah. You know, you can't change. You are who you are. You can't change someone. And you're right, I can't change Jill. But I can change someone. In that someone is me. I am allowed to grow and. And like new things and dislike things that I once liked. I can do it all. I'm the driver of the bus.

I'm the producer of the movie. And I think someone listening needs to hear that. That someone in your life is telling you that you're stuck or you can't do those things, you can't. When really it's been on your heart for years. And I think why we're so passionate about teaching youth this is because we wish we had someone pouring and encouraging these type of messages into us when we were that age. When we were that age. So for us, I mean, if we could have heard this straight out of the womb, that would have been great.

However, I mean, we start to form an identity about ourselves and what we're capable of. Around ten, 1112. So when people are telling you that you can't do this, you're not capable of doing that. Your identity starts to form in those camps. Your identity starts to form in other people's opinions of you and what other people are telling you what to do. So we want to encourage you to take a moment and check in with what you want. And are you proud of the person that you are today, right now, today, not who you want to be at the end of 2023, but who you are today?

And if the answer is no, we want to encourage you that you are allowed to change. You're allowed to make positive changes for yourself. Because the one who benefits from that yes, is you. 1000%, hands down. If you start pouring good into your cup, you benefit. But guess what happens when you pour so much good into that cup that it starts to overflow. She benefits. Your friends benefit, your family benefits, your coworkers benefit, everyone benefits when you start to make positive changes for yourself.

So something, something that we heard that just really drove this point home the other day. Profound. Loved it, will now. I mean, it is in these pockets. I'll pull it out whenever I get a chance. Do not, I repeat, do not get used to who I used to be because I'm me now. And you don't know me if you are part of a past life. We posted something on social media that was pretty funny. If you knew me in my era, my twenties, 20 to 25, I was struggling as a movie producer. We didn't have a big budget. I didn't know what was going on.

You don't know me anymore because I have taken, Jill has taken the steps to better ourselves. And we're not by any means saying that we've arrived. We're not looking for. We're looking for progression. We're not looking for perfection. We'll never have a day where we have arrived. That's not the case. We're constantly in this work with you. We might just be one to ten steps ahead of you. And that's why we're here empowering you with this concept. You're allowed to change. So do it. Do it. Don't wait.

Don't wait. It's not worth the wait. We don't need you being 50 years down the road, looking back, saying, dang, I wish I would have done that. I wish I would have taken that step or that risk or that chance. Because don't wait. Yeah, don't wait. Because guess what? The world needs you. We need you. Our children need you. And we can't wait to hear what you're going to change. We can't wait to hear about the positive changes that you're implementing in your life to create change for others. You got this.

You got this. Go and live a transformed life. Let's go, baby.