Monday Motivation: Embracing Fear

Good morning, Cadre community. What a great day. It's a beautiful day in Minnesota. In Minnesota, this time of year, for me, in April, I mean, whether you're religious or not, Ramadan, Passover, and Easter, just. It's just this big rebirth. You know, you look around like the snow starting to go, the grass is starting to calm, the. The lake is, uh. You know, the lake is, uh, unthawing. It's a beautiful moment. But, uh, you know, when you. When you have these days and these rebirth days, you know, I always.

I always, like, set my April up, my April, May, June, July, August, September, October. And I was talking to my wife about this yesterday on our walk, and I was saying, you know, this is. This is. This is our time, and this is our go time. And what does that actually mean? Like, what does go time? What does go time look like? And go time means on weekends, like I told her, I said, I commit to 80 to 100,000 step weekends. Like, absolutely bare bones minimum. Like, when Friday hits, like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I prepare for absolutely big, big, big weekends of steps.

And why. Why is that important to me? And it's important to me to take advantage of this Minnesota weather. This Minnesota weather. We've been hunkered down all winter long just to get an opportunity to see this, to see this weather, to see what this looks like, and this massive bus that just started the minute I started talking. Right? What are the odds of that, too? But regardless, I'll show you the lake here in a second, and when you come around, I'll just give it a minute. But again, this is what I was talking about.

Like, all the people out walking, you see everybody out walking here. You see the lake coming around, the ice is starting to come off. You could also take that in, and you could definitely get your ice plunge in. That's a great thing to do. But this is. This is the rebirth moment. The rebirth moment in Minnesota. And all of us midwestern people, like, look at this guy, will be so happy. And why? It's just. It's just guaranteed, right? Good morning. How are you doing today? Nice day. Unbelievably beautiful.

Unbelievably beautiful. Right? And so, you know, again, there you have it. And our Minnesotans, we just wait for these moments, for this opportunity and this, like, rebirth. And that's why I was talking about this, this time of year around Easter in Minnesota. Yes, we have Passover. Yes, we have Ramadan. Yes, we have. What am I missing? Ramadan, Easter, Passover, all the things. Good morning. And so when you have these moments in Minnesota, I always ask myself, like, am I living or am I dying? Like, am I living or am I dying?

Or am I staying status quo? Right? Am I living or am I dying? Or am I staying status quo? And to be honest, there's not a whole lot in the middle of that spectrum, right? Good morning. So if you're living, are you going out for your walks? Are you smiling? Are you enjoying the natural beauty of the world? Are you doing that? Or is life status quo of. Well, you know, it's just going to roll winter back through, and that's just what we're going to do. Or are you dying where you're negative and you have this negative look still?

I mean, how can you not smile and enjoy just grace and happiness and just seeing what we see here today, right? And so, you know, I'm just going to. I'm going to challenge everybody, whoever you are. You know, this time of year, you know, like I said, religious or not, you know, the rebirth, and you can take that for whatever that's worth. But are you living or are you dying? Are you living or are you dying? What you're doing today? Are you living or are you going backwards? You got one life. You got one life to walk to.

Take this in this morning, this is all I need. I have. I have shoes, I have a phone to be able to do this. I have an outfit, and I have this beauty. And this beauty is all around us. It doesn't matter if you're in west coast, east coast, central, right? It does not matter where you are. You know, we have access to more tools, more information. We can fly somewhere in less than a day. We can get access to anybody on the globe in a minute. We can do all the things. But as a society and as a world, you know, we're more troubled than ever.

More mental health concerns, more addiction concerns, more suicide concerns, more everything. So it's almost like we have an embarrassment of riches that are creating a mental health crisis in our world. And yet these individuals are, you know, having their bee stand right there and they got their bee stand going, and other individuals are going out for their walk and smiling and enjoying this life. And so I'm wondering if all the things that we've created over the last 150 years are causing more stress and chaos than this walk.

Right? Like this. This walk. It's free. It's literally free. It doesn't cost me a cent. Nobody, nobody would have to literally do anything on the planet over the last 150 years for me to experience this except take care of our planet. That's it. You don't need technology. You don't need anything to be able to do this except this moment. And I'm telling you, get out. Get out and walk. I'm committing, like I said, to 20 to 25,000 steps, literally every single day. And you can check my receipts to prove it when I'm all said and done, every single week until it gets to October and November again.

I need this. I live for this. I live for this moment. To be able to walk in, see this, talk to the people that are smiling, enjoying life out on their walks, happy. Look at that. May peace prevail on earth. Tom Kev, taj Yeeb, Maj Rao, Natad 10. May peace prevail on earth. Unbelievable. That's right, Alec. We are living. Carrie, always focus and moving forward. Risa, you're living. You can always tell which people are living and which people are dying. Keep on living. I love you guys. Have an amazing day.

Talk to you soon. Bye.