What’s In Your Toolbox?

Angel. Hello. Hi, Cadre. Hi, Cadre. We're coming at you from a different background, which is a different point of view. A different point of view. That's a restaurant here in Phoenix, and it's this beautiful overlooking, this incredible landscape up on a mountain. It provides a different point of view, and the different point of view is exactly what we want to chat with you today on this beautiful Tuesday about. I'm laughing because we're whispering. We're in a community space, but on TikTok, the whole.

What is the. Where you, like, whisper and make scratchy sounds into speakers? Asmr. Asmr. We're not gonna do that to you. We're not gonna do that. No. And if you have no idea what we're talking about, go look it up. Oh, there's a whole community on TikTok around ASMR, so the whispering is kind of funny, but we are self aware, and we're socially aware, and we don't want to disturb our fellow coffee goers by having too loud of a conversation. We feel like we're at a good volume right now, though. Yeah.

And this conversation is very poignant because we are in a different. We're in a different space today, and it's. It's been a common thread through conversations that we've been having over the last couple of days around getting outside of your comfort zone and switching up your routine. Really, it serves two purposes. Right. I feel like if you're stagnant in what you're doing on a day to day basis, a change of scenery can really, really help you get some new flow and some new ideas. I mean, this coffee shop that we're at is beboppin.

It's beboppin'it's. Poppin'people. Are in and out. It feels like a Saturday. So the vibe is different, the energy is different, the music is different. Rather than us sitting at home, in our home offices with the same energy and the same view, getting outside of our norm allows us to think a different way or see different things that could provide us an opportunity to come up with new ideas. And we need them. We definitely need them. And one of our favorite conversations that we have is around a keynote that we give.

It's called the art of pickling. The art of pickling. The art of pickling. We'll have to do videos on that a little bit later. However, we were speaking to women on Sunday at the junior league here in Phoenix around shaking it up and doing hard things and getting outside of your comfort zone. To break routines, to prove to yourself that you are capable of doing anything, whether it's small or big, you just need to do it. So we are the example for you today around doing something different. Well, and how easy is it to stay home?

Right, Luke, you just said sometimes I get stuck in a rut. This is a great suggestion. We're in 2023, which, if you can't do the math, is three years after 2020, where the whole world shut down and we were forced to stay at home. And a lot of people got comfortable in staying at home. We got comfortable behind a screen on Zoom meetings. And what we know from working with teens and tweens, as well as their families is they've stayed in that comfort zone, and it's become really hard for them to then go out in public and face the world and people and have conversations and make eye contact.

So maybe this notion of getting outside of your home and going to just your local coffee shop is difficult for you because you feel some sort of anxiety or your heart rate starts to go a little bit faster, thinking of getting outside of what you're normally used to. But we want to challenge you that it's such a beautiful switch up of energy in order to create a new flow. And I know I've said that a couple of times, but I think it's important to hit on it twice. So not only are you switching up your routine, I know AC DC, you hit me all night long, right?

Not only are you switching up your routine, but you are getting outside of your comfort zone, because if you're a creature of habit, that could be really dangerous for you in cementing those practices of every day. Just doing the same, same stinking thing. So what we want to challenge you today is take yourself on a date. Take yourself on a date somewhere. And what I notice about myself in particular, when I do go out by myself and switch up my routine, is knowing when I grab my phone to distract me.

Ooh, fill that void. Filling the void. So, again, it's just taking inventory of the things that I'm trying to avoid, so I can't really be present with myself. So take yourself on a date or figure out something else that is easy to do, that you can switch it up so that you can also create and welcome new energy. Hi, Risa and Luke. I will absolutely accept Adair. However, I don't have Angus's style and or his moves. I have two left feet, so I would trip and fall right on my face if I was trying to emulate the way that he commanded that stage.

So good. So we want to know, like this week, how can you get outside your comfort zone? How can you break your routine in order to allow some new energy to flow in? I think that's one of the coolest tools we have in our toolbox, is understanding when things are stagnant for us and how to switch it up. It doesn't have to be necessary going to a coffee shop. For me, I take a different way home every day from Jill's, whether it's just one different side street, whether it's an entire different loop.

I really try to focus on breaking habits and not getting stuck in the same routines. I want to see a new view. I want to listen to a new radio station. I want to hear new inspiration coming through the radio waves at any chance that I can get in order to break those habits and routines. Love it. Risa. How do I get someone else besides myself to take me on a date? I'll take you on a date. Does that count? I don't think that counts, but. And, girlfriend, you are. You're fabulous. I think you put it out there.

I think you do exactly what you just said. So obviously, you're in the confines of a community that you know, like and trust. Why don't you put that out on your Instagram Stories? Right? We don't get what we don't ask for, and people don't know to connect us with potential opportunities if they don't know what we're looking for either. Right? Because we can talk about it within a group of friends and they know. But who in your community knows somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody, right?

It's the seven degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. Like, who could, who knows an eligible bachelor to take you out on a date they don't know if you don't let them know totally well. And that's a good call out because maybe you want to take yourself on a date to be by yourself. Or if you've been by yourself for so long, put it out there that you're ready to infuse some new energy. And I love dating myself. I've been single for the last, I don't know, like ten years. And taking myself to a restaurant or bringing a book to a coffee shop and reading is one of my most favorite things to do.

And it's funny because it's uncomfortable in today's day and age, always looking to fill the time with somebody else. But if you're ready, I mean, look, maybe he's ready, too. I don't know. We'll drop him your number. The perfect time. So get outside your comfort zone. Get outside your regular routine. Let's work on breaking habits this week, and we would love to know how you are going to focus on doing that, because where your focus goes, your energy goes. Amen. So until next time, we'll see you in the community feed with this little prompt.

But until next week, we'll be excited to hear how this worked out for you. Bye, everyone.