Monday Motivation

Happy Monday, Cadre crew. It's a manic Monday. It's a manic Monday. Let's go. What a great day. If you're summertime in Minnesota, you know, two things, construction and humidity. It's both around the corner, right? Construction starting going around in my backyard area. You'll kind of see, or if you hear some of it, just, you know, bear with me through the process. But, yeah, I got absolutely fried this weekend through sun because I was outside doing my hard challenge. I had asked everybody on Friday.

I went live, and I just said, I challenge you to do something hard this weekend. I challenge you to do something hard and just to see how that made you feel and what was your goal and how did you go through that, and what did that look like for you and how that made you feel? Right. Good morning, junk food junkie. What an amazing Monday. Can't imagine starting anywhere off but here on Monday with the Cadre family. Thank you so much for being with us, junk food junkie. So I had about three, almost three years ago, I jumped in and I had one challenge that I challenged myself on with a weekend.

I said, all right, I'm going to run White Bear Lake. And I told that story and running the lake, and it started to more and more and more, which has kind of led me into this variety of different challenges and where I go today and all those other things. But so whatever your challenge it is and whatever your heart is, I wanted to see how that made you feel. Right. And your challenge. So, for me, for example, this was my weekend, and it turns into, literally our family excursion, our family events, and what we do and how we do it.

And I got my little guy, six years old, riding a bike by me while I'm doing some of my miles. And there's a couple other ones of some of the other children that ride my bike with me as I'm getting in my miles and stuff like that, right? So this was my challenge over the weekend. It was 1000 sit ups, 20 miles of running, 1000 pushups a nap both days. There's this compression stuff called the hyperice that I use for my legs, right, to do it both days for 45 minutes, gallon of water each day, the sauna, both days, 40 miles of biking, and then a cold plunge, right?

So here's. You can see it. So you see each one of those things, right? You see, like, the thousand sit ups and each one of those checkpoints as they continue to drop the push ups, same or similar. And then I just have a Saturday or Sunday check of kind of like yes or no. So it's real. It's really simple. I mean, we're not talking something difficult. It's just a sheet of paper that I write some goals on. And so what I think that I have found over the course of. Over the course of the weekends is, you know, number one, you know, you start with your small goal, whatever your small goal is, and anybody's heart is different, and anybody's, you know, small or big is different, too.

And I understand that. So somebody, maybe this weekend, you know, just decided to read a few chapters of a book. That's amazing. Way to go. Awesome job. Continue on that goal. And I think what you're gonna find is that you're gonna start in with, like, just a few more and a few more and a few more as you continue to roll and go. Right? And before you know it, you're gonna have, like, this plethora of different things that you're gonna try to accomplish over the course of a weekend. Right? So how does this make me feel?

Right at the end of the day, it's not just a white sheet of paper. And how does this make me feel? Number one, I have generalized anxiety disorder. So, anxiety is something that I deal with, I've been dealing with since I've been 1413 years old, the farthest I can remember with some things that have always led me into different anxious moments. So, number one, it helps me with my anxiety to create where my mind has an opportunity to recharge. My mind has an opportunity to slow from racing. Right.

My mental health flourishes through these weekends of challenges. My mental health is in a good spot. Allows me all this think tank time. It allows my body to, believe it or not, recharge, and that's my mind recharging through the course of the week. So, good morning, Reese. Always good to see you. Jill and Mary all in, all day, of course. But what ends up happening, like I said, is my mind. For individuals that are anxious, like, your mind never stops, like, your worries never stop. And for me, those 45 minutes to those hours or three, 4 hours, whatever that looks like on weekends, allows my mind to find its happy place.

Right? So that's number one for my feeling anyhow. Number two, like, number one is anxiety. Number two is, I believe small wins can turn into big wins. And so if I have a small win of a micro goal, ultimately it leads to maybe the next thing and the next thing. Right. The third thing, I believe in my heart of hearts, doing hard things is what separates you and your future from others. Doing hard things allows you to take on different challenges at work. Doing hard things consistently allows you to form a growth mindset with discipline and whatnot.

So, again, I can't stress enough to push all of your chips in on doing these hard things, right? So I say start on a weekend is you have two days. You have two days to define what that is, what it looks like. Before you know it, you're gonna take these hard weekends and you're going to turn them into maybe, like, I'm going to do one other thing throughout the course of the week, and before you know it, you're going to start in, you're going to have, like, a challenge a day, right. But. But small things lead to big things.

Right? So we got to take that first step. And the first step is challenging yourself with a goal over the course of the weekend. So if you didn't do this, number one, I'm just going to ask the audience, did anybody do anything that they set up for themselves hard this weekend? Did anybody have a goal? Did anybody have something, a challenge that they had that they pushed themselves forward on and they gave it a go? You know, mine was to not get sunburned. I'm just kidding. I got absolutely fried.

But I'm just curious. I'll give it a second. Okay. It looks like Amy said yes. Amy, do you mind typing in what your goal was? What was your goal over the weekend? And Resa was a yes. That's amazing. And, Risa, it doesn't. Hard, hard, less hard, whatever. It really doesn't. It doesn't matter. To learn how to empty the tanks. There you go. Right? So that's an amazing, amazing goal. Right? So Amy says to learn how to empty the tanks in the rv. That is absolutely right. Jill, hard is subjective, but I'm so proud of you, Amy, that you took that on.

You took on that risk to give it a go and to give it a try. Right. To learn something new, to learn something hard, learn something different, to put yourself out there. And then my guess is. This is. My guess is you are really proud of yourself when you're all done. So no matter how big or small your goal is, you have this feeling of self accomplishment. That's why Admiral McRaven, one of the most famous speeches of all time at the University of Texas in 2000, I want to say 16, when he said, start off by making your bed.

You get that first goal done of the day, and before you know it, you just get this cycle going and it feels amazing. Again, I want to challenge everybody here at Cadre. I want to challenge everybody here at Cadre. This is just kind of basically how I live now is every single weekend, I have my one hard, right? I have my one hard, and it's every single weekend. And then every day, I also do a little something, right? It could be a sauna. It could be cold plunge. Cold plunge, by the way, takes, like, three minutes, not long.

All right. Sauna. It's a little bit more to it. Running, maybe stairmaster, going for a walk, you know, reading, whatever. Like, I try to challenge myself every single day to make sure that I'm always putting myself in difficult positions which ultimately stretch me and allow me to grow as a human being, as a person, as a leader, as a father, as a. As a friend, as all the above junk food junkie. Yes. I set my goal to clean up the yard and catch up. There you go. You know what's so crazy about that?

You know what my wife's goal was? My wife's goal over the weekend was to clean out her closet. And I'm so insanely proud of her that she did it. And, you know, her. Her cleaning out the closet is a little different than mine, but that doesn't matter. And I'm super jacked that she moved forward and did that, and so she felt really good about her progress and what that looked like. But again, I just want to stress, like, how, you know, these weekends. These weekends look like a lot, right? These weekends look like a lot.

But at the end of the day, do you know what it was? It was the most amazing family time. Like, it was the most amazing family time to have my son drew finish up through 3 miles with me, to have cam ride a few, you know, 5 miles to the end of the lake and back, you know, whatever that looks like, right? Like. Or to see cam try to do a push up or two was absolutely just made my year. So look at that. So Amy says I have to. I have to use a portable dump station. Oh, that's funny. Kelse, good morning.

It's always good to see Kelsey. She's the best junk food junkie podcast listening. There you go. Awesome. Awesome stuff. So, with that, I hope everybody just identify something for the next 52 consecutive weekends. The next 52 consecutive weekends, I challenge you. I dare you to give it a go and to have one goal every single weekend for yourself. One goal. You can define your hard. You can define that subjective nature of it. That's up to you. But my gut is you're going to be really, really, really proud of yourself as you continue to accomplish these things.

And it's going to snowball, and it'll also help upstairs. It'll help your heart, it'll help your soul, all the above. And so I just I can't stress it enough of, you know, lean in to those challenges on the weekend. Lean into the consistency, lean into the discipline, and you're going to be blown away with your growth mindset throughout all of it. So I love you guys very much. Have an amazing week. We have a wonderful week here at Cadre Teresa, to Kelsey, to Amy, to jill, to junk food junkie, to everybody listening in today.

Again, just thank you for your time, and I hope you appreciate the message, and I hope it just takes on a different wealth of wisdom for y'all. So thank you. Thank you. Take care, y'all.