Monday Motivation: When You Don’t Have “it”

Happy Monday everybody. It's Luke here. Hope you all had a great weekend. Again, happy Monday to you and yours. Cheers. We'll give it one second here while everybody's locking and loading. Did you have a great weekend? What's one thing that you did for yourself this weekend? I'll tell you mine. I was able to blow gutters. For those individuals that live in Minnesota, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Like for me time, I was able to blow gutters. Yep, you heard that right. Blow gutters in Minnesota.

I had my earphones on and my earbuds in and I just listened to great music and I was like, oh my gosh, this is gold. And just got a little bit of time, etc. But so over the weekend, just want to kind of share like, you know, Friday, it was a long week. It was a really, really long week heading in. And so Friday, We always do pizza. So we had pizza. There was a carbo feed for my son for basketball on Friday night. So that went from like 6 to 8. So like really for the first time at about 839, call it like you had like rest and reprieve kind of started, right?

So 839. Then on Saturday and Sunday, we were in basically back-to-back to back basketball games from 8 in the morning, which was an hour away. 45. So it was like this 13, 14 hour day. My wife was at one set of gyms. I was at the other set of gyms. And then we did this again on Sunday. m. another hour drive to go watch my son play basketball. This time it was great though. We were able to have like one spot to watch where my wife and I could ride together and all that. So like this weekend, it was not a whole lot of rest, relaxation.

And then we have to get things done on Sunday. Like, all right, you're gonna go grocery shop. I'll blow the weeds, or excuse me, the leaves. I'll get the gutters cleaned. I'll do that. All right, what are you gonna do? What am I gonna do? So then coming into Monday, the fact of the matter is like, you don't have it. you don't have it, you don't have the juice, you don't have the spunk, you don't have the rest, you don't have the relaxation. So what do you do? Well, what I always try to do is just focus on two things, right?

So I try to focus on two things. Number one, can I make somebody else's life better? Okay, so number one, can I make somebody else's life better? Because that immediately, no matter how little sleep I have, you name it, like I can immediately like get juice from that. It's like the gratitude formula, right? So like if I can get juice from the gratitude formula, like I feel really, really good. Make somebody else's life better, #1. And then #2 is I rely on music. Yep, you heard that right. I rely on music.

So in the morning, listen to my favorite tunes. Lunchtime, listen to music in the office, listen to some great songs in order to just continue the flow if you don't have it, whatever it is. So what are some things that you love to do when you don't have it? And what I mean by it is the motivation, the energy, the drive, have to fulfill on the things. I would love to hear you and have you put in the chat when you don't have it someday, but you need to have it. What is it that you do? Is it, maybe it's eat food, maybe it's go for a walk, maybe it's listen to your music, maybe it's writing a journal.

I'm just curious, what are the things that you all do? when maybe your energy is a little lackluster heading into a Monday because it feels like you worked all week and then basically you worked all weekend. You didn't really have a whole lot of you time, but you're expected to get back in the saddle and deliver and be the best version of yourself. So I would love to hear what you all have to say and thanks for joining in today. And I promise that I'll get through today and it'll be good and so will you.

And just remember that the it is sometimes maybe it's just in our heads and that we can get through a day. I always say the Navy SEALs can go five days without sleep. I can go one or two and still fulfill and do what I need to do come Monday. e. like a Monday night to say, okay, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to put myself in a really good position of success tonight to be able to have that rest, to be able to have that relaxation, to be able to do the things I love to do tonight. And I think I should be able to do that just fine.

But please share. I would love to know what it is for you. All right, everybody, have a good week. I wasn't hoping that this was a depressing Monday morning motivation, but I always hope it was a real one. It's real. It happens sometimes, like where our weekends just get us caught up and we're like, oh man, I got a wedding, I got this, I got to fly out. And then, yeah, sure, we can change it to I get to. The fact of the matter is, it still doesn't make us less tired. So just keep that in mind and hopefully everybody has a phenomenal week.

I'll be thinking of you and thanks for allowing me to always participate here first thing Monday at Cadre. I live for it. I live for the community. Thank you all. Have a great week. Bye-bye.