Monday Motivation: 100 Lives, 100 Days

Good morning, Cadre crew. Here we are, Monday morning, one of the days you gotta live for. You gotta absolutely live for it. So just gonna kick it off real quick. Had an amazing weekend. Saturday. Jumped down to the Pride festival. The Pride festival was an incredible experience. If you've never been to a Pride festival, I would highly encourage you go just where individuals, the love, the camaraderie, the community, the connection, and individuals just, you know, with confidence and accepting themselves and accepting others was really a wonderful experience.

So if you've never been to a Pride festival, we have ours held in downtown Minneapolis. Well, that's where it is currently right now. There's talk about it going, potentially going back to St. Paul, but remarkable experience to just kind of see the love, energy, energy of community come together. Highly recommend. If you haven't been to it, please do. Number one. Number two, weekend wise, Saturday was booked. Sunday was booked. Right. Saturday had so much to do with the family and, you know, kind of going here, there and everywhere.

And then Sunday went out to Hutchinson, Minnesota, to visit my folks, which was awesome. They built a new house out there. It's gorgeous, and it's just a fabulous time out in good old Hutchinson. And was there, you know, by the time you drive out there, spend time with your family, spend time with your grandma and grandpa, with the grandkids and all that stuff was just awesome. You can see the smile on my face. Then to finally get back to White Bear Lake, and I still have this self imposed big run, right?

1 or bigger every single weekend, no matter what. And so by the time I got everything set, ready, home, get the kids, it was 08:00. And the last thing I wanted to do at 08:00 was go run. I mean, the last thing that I wanted to do. But, you know, as we always talking to our family, you do what you say you're gonna do, which means that I have to go do it, right. And so it was great. Good start. Got to about 09:00 930. You know, the kids were a little up, a little bit late, and I got a voice note from my kids saying, great job, dad.

We're proud of you doing hard things. You know, all that. So it was. It was this awesome note from my family when the last thing, I mean, the last thing on earth I wanted to do last night late was going a big run. So. But, like anything, you know, doing the hard things is usually the right thing. And so by doing that, you know, again, I'm building that grit, building that stamina, building the energy that I'm looking for in the rest of my life. One last story that I wanted to share with you today.

Okay? I'm sure we all have heard, you know, Glennon, Doyle, Brene Brown, John Morant, just. Just a couple of the names that I just want to, you know, bring attention to today. But, you know, what a lot of people don't know is, you know, Brene Brown was. Was actually when I was at Hazel and Betty Ford foundation. Her book, gifts of imperfection was published by Hazel and Hazel and publishing, right? This. This little tiny conglomerate in Center City, Minnesota, North Lidstrom. Crazy to think Brene Brown started at Hazel and Hazel and Betty Ford foundation, the Hazelnut publishing division.

With that being said, her book started just skyrocketing like this, right? Gifts of imperfection was at target. Bunch of these other things. But let's not forget who Brene Brown was. You know, Brene Brown was a social worker, right? She was a social worker. She then had this TED talk that went viral, right? Millions and millions of views, right? So she goes from writing her first book, gifts of imperfection. She then did her YouTube TED talk, you know, flew. Flew through the roof, right? Just flew.

Absolutely through the roof. And then she, you know, wrote another book and, you know, dare to lead and the power of vulnerability. And now, of course, you know, the Atlas book that just came out recently. But where I'm going with all this is, you know, Brene Brown over the last five years, you know, from, let's call it the unknown to the known, you know, has went from, you know, unknown to known in our world, in our country like this, right? You know, expedited fast. You know, everything she's kind of touching, you know, is kind of churning to, you know, relative goal, depending on which way you look at it, right?

You know, her podcast, her books, the Oprah stuff, you know, her business, right? Growing her business of coaching, working with organizations, going into organizations, keynote speaking, other books, right? I mean, you could say that word a lot. But, you know, what I've kind of seen happen, I think, in the Brene Brown saga, number one. And I think if she was sitting here with me today, I think she would say, you know, I have a very hard time saying no, right? And, you know, she. She said yes to, like, everything.

She said yes to everything. Trying this, trying this, trying that. And, you know, again, most of it was successful. There's no denying that fact. But success at what expense, right? You know, let's not forget, you know, that Brene Brown has been in recovery for x amount of years. And, you know, she's. She's now, I would say, like, fallen off the face of the earth, right? I know she's big into pickleball and stuff like that still. But, you know, over the last six months, you know, Brene Brown's exit, it kind of went like this.

And my gut is just. My gut is, if Brene Brown could give it all back again and continue to do what she loves to do and probably be that amazing social worker and change people's lives, my gut is, I bet you she would. And again, that's all hypothetical. It's just a guess. But what I'm trying to tell you today is this is sometimes, like, fame, fortune, money. You know, all the things that you're chasing, all the things that you're chasing after on the day to day. For some individuals, you know, you kind of get those things and you achieve those things.

And what you find is individuals are miserable. Individuals are absolutely miserable when they've reached the ceiling of the fame, when they've reached the ceiling of the money, when they reach the ceiling of all the things they thought would make them happy. And I think sometimes when you go back to your roots and, yeah, actually, you really take a step back and you deep dive yourself and say, like, what really is making me happy? And ask yourself that what in my job and my role in my family and my life and my kids and everything really drives true happiness, joy and love for me on the day to day that I can wake up every single day, whether I make 30, 50, $60,000 a year, I think $68,000 is still the threshold for happiness.

Right. With your role and responsibilities, you know, where you exponentially don't gain any happiness above that. So think about that. You know, think about that in your life and think about, you know, am I. Am I really happy right now with what I'm doing? And happy is fleeting. I get that. But am I fulfilled? Am I driving purpose? Am I. Am I reaching some goal that I'm trying to prove something to somebody, right? Or am I ultimately doing this? Because this is my why, this is my purpose. This is my vision.

This is what I want to do. Right? So I want you to really take a step back, and I want you to reflect on this message today. I want you to ask yourself, like, am I doing what really is making me, yes. Happy. And think about that. And really think about that today. So I am going to be coming to you a lot in the next 100 days, right? In the next 100 days. I'm going live 100 times in 100 days, so be on the lookout for it. I can't wait to share different messages and stories with y'all as we continue to take this journey through the next hundred days.

It's going to be an incredible experience. I have to go all shave today, get all ready to rock for this. What I feel is going to be an incredible, you know, three plus month journey, you know, with the Cadre crew and who knows where this is going to take me on my own self fulfillment and growth while I'm here, but I'm going to push myself outside of the comfort zone and do something that I've never done before. So 100 lives, 100 days starting right now. Our lineup this week for lives is unbelievable.

I think there's ten or twelve different people with a variety of different messages. Please join in. Check it out. You're going to love it. Our commitments, you know, they all, we're getting close to the end of the month. We always know that the next commitments are going to drop. Those are those micro goals that you can process and work with in order to and that you can process and work with in order to continue to evolve, you know, and push yourself on these. Like I said, micro goals. Sorry about that.

I have a couple phone calls beeping in with recording live on my phone, so I'm sorry. But again, look forward to the commitments dropping. Next blog will be up soon. We always have amazing blogs from our writers. Maybe it's a get to know you series. Maybe it's some advice, words of wisdom or otherwise lean into that. That's going to be good, good stuff. So keep. Keep the gas going on, you know, seeing our commitments, our blog and all the things, and we will continue to update new content for us.

There's always going to be new wellness experts that are going to be showing up and delivering amazing messages of hope, grief, loss, support. Anything that we can do to be able to resonate and build this community to be as strong as it possibly can. So we're here for you. We're always here for you. That's why we do what we do here at Cadre, where we're connecting and delivering real experiences from real people. So look forward to seeing it grow together. If there's anything you need, please always reach out to our team at Helpadre IO or supportadre IO.

Regardless, one of them will bring you to us and we'll be more than happy to help you right away. We had our last. We had our last. Well, excuse me, we had our first ever aa meeting on Sunday. We had six faces show up, completely anonymous. Had some amazing stories of individuals, their journeys. So we're here for them. We're always going to be here for them. Our support group is always on Wednesday. Take a look at it. Be a part of something bigger than yourself. Be a part of the Cadre journey. Start now.

Start now. That's all you got to do.