The Time Is Now

Morning, Cadre family. What a great day. I just had an amazing cup of coffee with somebody who I would now call a really good friend and also my coach. But good morning, everybody. My name is Luke Wentland, your chief motivational officer here at Cadre. I hope a light bulb moment clicks for you sometime throughout this conversation, and please join in with any comments or just to reach out whenever you'd like. And I'd be more than happy to connect with you at any time to make sure that you're heading in the right direction of this thing that we call life.

But with that being said, when is the best time to start something? Well, the time is now, but I want to share a story with you about how I actually ended up starting my first venture called Northstar behavioral health, just because I think some people sometimes lose sight of the fact that, when do you start? How do you start? Why do you start? What's the first thing that you should do? Why you should do it? So I just want to take you through real quick. Right. So I was working for a nonprofit organization, and I went to a Timberwolves game with some friends, right?

So I was at this nonprofit, working at, working at a non profit in the space that ultimately, you know, has changed my life over the last, better part of a decade. But at the Timberwolves game, it's at halftime of the Timberwolves game. What's up, Risa? And so we're at the Timberwolves game, and it's half time, and we go out to grab a little something to eat, and we're chit chatting and we're asking about, you know, what do we do now? That is, you know, we haven't seen each other for a while. What do you do?

Why do you do it? Just kind of connecting with the guys and the four other individuals that I was with. And, you know, one of the guys indicated that he was in the health and human services field helping individuals with developmental disabilities. And I'm like, crazy. I work in the health and human services field helping individuals, you know, with substances. And just like that, you know, we kind of connected and, you know, kind of talked about, you know, where we should go from here and where this conversation should go.

And, you know, it led into two individuals that are very, very passionate about their work, two individuals that are very, very passionate about their work, which bled into, well, why don't, why don't we start our own? Why don't we, why don't we develop our own? And, you know, it was kind of one of those things where, you know when it's kind of like you see somebody and you're walking on the street and you're like, I had Johnny, I haven't seen you forever. Let's go get coffee or let's go grab a bite to eat.

And then nothing materializes from it, right? But check this out. So we are just done. We just got done. And it was the Timberwolves game on Saturday. Sunday went through, right? Family day, all the things. And then we get to Monday. Very first thing on Monday morning was a text message about when are we getting together to connect on our idea. So for step one, momentum, right? You have this idea, and ideas die. I cannot stress this enough. Ideas will die in a graveyard if you don't take action.

So again, the very first thing was we talked about the idea. We moved it. We had a contact on Monday. We talked about let's get together. Let's make it happen. We get a meeting on the books. We meet on Wednesday. We talk about who's doing what. What does this look like? How are we reaching out? Who are we connecting to? How are we going to learn more about the space? How are we going to figure out how we're going to do this? Is it billable? What's the transferable? All the things, right? So it starts with taking action.

Everybody here that's listening this morning, that's listening today, the thousands of folks that are here, let me address this with you right now. The number one thing that you need to do when you have this idea, when you have this concept in your brain, whether it's, I should leave this role and start a new one, I should sell my home. I should buy a new vehicle. I should go for a walk. I should go work out. I should stop eating fried food. I should quit smoking. When's the best time to start? Now?

Okay. That's number one. Number two is, do you have somebody that's, quote unquote, your accountability partner? Okay. So in any one of those things that I talked about earlier as examples, who's the person that's going to say, but, yeah, let's go. Because I'll tell you right now, if I didn't have that person that sent that text message on Monday to me saying, when are we meeting? When are we moving forward on this? The reality was eight years later, my life would probably be vastly different. That accountability partner is so important.

So, so, so important that you have that person that's saying right here, right now, let's go. Let's connect on this. Let's talk about it. Let's make sure that we're heading in the right direction. Let's make sure that we see each other through on this. Right? So again, let's. Let's just use exercise. An example. Hey, John Doe, let's start our plan together. How does that sound? Okay, great. Let's meet and talk about on this one, Monday, what's our plan? 30 minutes, five times a week. Okay. Let's connect each day that we do this together.

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. All right. Each time we send a text message after we've done it, who's going to hold us accountable to that? Why is. Because when you start something, it's really nice to have that accountability partner. So again, taking action, holding yourself accountable, and you're ready for the last one. It's going to get hard. Okay? Starting an enterprise, making change. When's the right time? It's going to get difficult. No matter what, it's going to get difficult.

Trust me when I tell you that. So what do you do when it gets hard? You've taken action, you're holding yourself accountable. And now things don't go your way. You get punched in the face. There's either one or two things that are going to happen. You're either going to quit or you're going to keep going. And I am a firm believer and I will submit to you, that is very true, that the only individuals that have ever changed the world through this process. Just keep going. Just keep going. You miss a few days on your exercise, you keep going.

Your business doesn't go as planned, you keep going. We don't sell as many donuts as we want to out of our donut shop. You keep going. Take these three pieces of advice, roll it into your next level of change, any change that you have, because the time is definitely now. That's absolutely right, Risa. Don't wait. Number one is to take action. Number two is to find an individual to hold you accountable. And last but not least, you're either going to quit or you're going to keep going. You need to determine what that's going to look like for you.

Nobody else can. But if you do those three threats, you do those three things. Gosh, tongue tied this morning. You do those three things, and I can rest assure you, you will make small change which can lead into really, really big change. So the time is now. Start now. Don't hold back. Any incremental change in your life is real and it's great, and you will find so much happiness and joy with the small changes that can happen in your life. That start by saying yes today. That start by saying yes now.

Make it happen. Make it happen today. So thank you all for tuning in. We're excited about this week. We have an awesome week ahead of us for those individuals in the businesses, world or otherwise. Can you believe it's almost September already? What does September mean? That's the last month of Q three already, which is crazy. Then you get into October, November, December, which is just nuts how fast it's going in Minnesota. We have a heat wave coming on us. It's supposed to be like 90 something and humid to start feeling like 100 degrees.

We got the state fair coming around here in Minnesota. For all those individuals that love our state fair food, we got a great week ahead of you here at Cadre. There's so many amazing things happening. The momentum is real, and it all started by taking these three things. We took action. We're holding ourselves accountable to continue to move forward. And last but not least, we're just never going to quit. And when you do those three things in perpetuity in conjunction with each other, you just find this unbelievable amount of synergies and development as you move forward in life.

So have a wonderful, wonderful week. Be good to one another, take care of each other, and start today with whatever that it is that you want to start with. Have an.