Monday Motivation

Good morning. Happy Monday, everybody. Gosh, what a great day. It's a beautiful start to the day. Hope everybody's had a great weekend. For the moms out there, hopefully, your mother's day, Sunday was everything and then some that you wanted it to be for the dog moms, for everybody else, for every other. Every other, excuse me, mother out there, you know, again, you know, we thank you, too. Nonetheless, you know, there's. There's this word that I think gets thrown around a lot, and it's. It's called transformation.

Right. Transformation. And the definition of transformation is a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. Right. And one of the most, I would call it, where individuals use. Good morning, Abby. Where individuals use transformation more often with analogous is using the butterfly. Right. Taking the butterfly. Using the butterfly. Good morning, Amy. Using the butterfly from, you know, the very first, you know, caterpillar through the coralis, you know, and often to, you know, this beautiful monarch.

Right. But I think there's a lot of things that people lose sight of in this process. Number one, you know, this is a. This is a four stage journey, right? Going from a caterpillar to ultimately turning into this beautiful butterfly. Four stage. Four. Tears. Number two is the length of time. Okay? So in the process of going from here to here, you know, typically that makes up, you know, 50% of the life of either the caterpillar or the monarch. Again, let me. Let me say that again. So when you talk about the transformation of going from this, you know, caterpillar, which I still think are beautiful, and then transforming into this gorgeous, gorgeous butterfly, right?

It's about 50% of each one of the lives of this animal, I guess you could call it animal, right? And so what I want to share with you today on this word of transformation and, you know, making a thorough change in your life is imagine that. That you do live to, you know, 77, right? 77. The average life expectancy is 77 years old. And you make it, right? And you're there and you go all the way to 77 or beyond. And if we look at one of the most analogous animals, items, anything on planet for talking about true transformation, again, is that butterfly and using 50% of its lifespan in order to incur that transformation.

So imagine you at 77 and going all in on something at maybe 25, right. Your transformation of your lifetime, in butterfly terms, would take you till about 59 years old. Right? So I think we're too hard on ourselves when it comes down to the transformation and the expectations that we put on ourselves for the timelines, for the transformation that we expect to happen kind of like overnight, you know. Right. Whether it's, you know, individuals. For example, you know, my son, you know, he's nine years old and he's in wicked smart, but, you know, he struggles to.

He doesn't struggle to read. He struggles to comprehend what he reads. So he could read like, four, five, seven pages, then he has to go back, and then he has to read those four, five, seven pages again. And then he has to do that a lot. Because for whatever reason, that comprehension, this is a one, two, three years in the running here of trying to get better and better and better at this, and we just keep working and working and working with them. But ultimately, that transformation is going to pay off.

You know, again, what I want to share today is this. You're on a journey, I hope, of some sort of transformation, whatever that transformation might be. It could be quitting smoking. It could be walking, it could be running, it could be exercising. It could be getting up and building a routine. It could be, you know, taking your, you know, phone away at night for better sleep, right? But regardless, like, this is a transformation. This is a process. And if this butterfly, right, from caterpillar to butterfly, is taking 50% of its life in order to finally achieve that state, and all we see is the beauty.

Shiny ball, right? That's all we see. The end. This beautiful monarch with these gorgeous wings fly anywhere, right? That's what we see. That's what we witness. But the reality is that four stage process churning in the Crealis, going through the gooey larvae, right? Going in the mud, doing what it needs to do in order to truly transform into the beautiful butterfly it is. So maybe you're struggling with boundaries, with family. Maybe you're struggling with self esteem. Maybe you have a mental health disorder that you're starting to finally analyze and work with therapists on.

I just want to tell you that, be prepared for a transformation that may take some time, and when it does, you can turn into that monarch, too. And whatever transformation, you know, journey that it is that you are under, right? So I hope to show up as a monarch sometimes, but I'm telling you, it's taken years and years and years to try to show up as that monarch. And some people may do it quicker than others, and that's fine. But if your goal is to ultimately be there, just understand that transformation.

Again, I want to tell you the definition one more time. A thorough and dramatic change in form or appearance. Transformation. A thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. If you want to become a monarchy. It's going to take you a little bit of time to get there. Be prepared for the journey, enjoy it. But it will be so beautiful and you will be so beautiful for doing it. So I encourage you to take those first steps in your transformation journey today and get it underway, whatever that underway is for you.

We look forward to an amazing week here at Cadre. Our live schedule is off and running already. First one of the day kicking off, which is amazing. I love it. So I hope everybody has a great week. We have a new blog that comes out today, so be on the lookout for that at Cadre IO, this is still mental health awareness Month. May is mental health Awareness Month. So just make sure to always just have your eyes on the prize for individuals, asking individuals if theyre okay, if theres anything that you can help with or otherwise, always just make sure to ask if somebodys okay and actually really mean it.

Lean into those conversations with other human beings to the best of your ability. Yeah. Hop onto the Cadre lives this week. They're going to be great. We have the two gals from the girls mentorship with opening up their toolbox tomorrow. I can't wait for that. Taking a walk with Nick. m.. Wednesday. We have a pretty good schedule lined up as well. I'm a little partial this one, but don't miss Friday. Making your dreams come true. It's so good. Cooking with Dan on Sunday is always the best. So hope everybody has a wonderful week.

Make sure to lean into one another and just remember, transformation to this beautiful monarch that we all want to be is going to take a lot of time. Okay, take care. Y'all have a wonderful, wonderful week. Talk soon. Bye.