Monday Motivation On A Tuesday: Bringing Your Best

Good morning, Cadre crew. This is a big one. I'm just gonna give it a second here. Got some tunes going this morning. Let's give it a second till a couple folks arrive here. What a great day. Beautiful day. Anyone know what today is? Today is world mental Health day, and I have a feeling this day is probably personal for a lot of people much like me. So I'm gonna give you five things to think about today. So let's give it one more minute here, and then we'll get rocking. So, again, happy Tuesday, wherever you are in the world, excited to be here with you today.

Today is world mental Health day. So there's a couple things that I want to just share with you. Good morning, Katie. Number one. Number one, you know, again, this day is very, very personal. Good morning, junk food junkie. Good morning, Katie. Mental health doesn't define you, right? So mental health doesn't define you. You are not anxiety. You are not bipolar disorder. You are not schizophrenia. You have the ability to figure it out and move forward. Good morning. Live it up. 14 hn. Let's go. Good morning to you, too.

So, again, mental health does not define you. It's a part of you. It's maybe a diagnosis, right? Me, I have generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks. It is what it is. That's a part of my life. I have to figure out what to do in order to make sure that. That I live in more balance, but it doesn't define me. Number two, it can feel like a roller coaster. Yes. Yes, it can. If you are, you know, maybe you battle seasonal depression. Maybe you have anxiety. I totally understand what that feels like, to feel like you're on the roller coaster of life, right?

You're up and down. You're up and down. You're up and down. And, you know, this is. This is something that I want to tell you that I found. You know, instead of being in this roller coaster, I liken it more to a teeter totter for a while. You're on this teeter totter, and you're all the way. Imagine just being in, you know, fourth grade and grade school, third grade and grade school. You go all the way down on the teeter totter, and then you go all the way back up, all the way down. And that fulcrum feels like it's way off balance.

What I encourage you to do is to figure out what things bring you up here and keep you here. What things bring you up here and keep you here. Maybe it's exercise. Maybe it's the food you eat, maybe it's sleep, maybe it's things you read. Maybe it's the people you connect with. So again, I want you to figure out what balances your fulcrum. Okay, next one, you may feel really alone. You may feel really alone, but the reality is you joined a really, really, really big club. There are millions of people that are struggling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, etcetera, through world mental health day.

So I just want to tell you that there is a really, really, really big club out there, and we're a part of it. Why did we develop Cadre? Right? Why did we develop Cadre? Well, of course, we wanted to be able to bring peers and professionals together in one. To be able to have a community for individuals, to be able to connect with other individuals. Right. This is precisely why we did it. You joined a big community. You don't feel like that? Right? Again, I can liken it to going back to my mid twenties and sitting in a tub most days at night when I'm depressed and feeling down like you feel all alone.

But the reality is, let me tell you, you joined a big, big, big community. Next is find connection. There's so much in this world that you don't even know what it is that you might like. I'll give you an example. If you told me when I was 1314 years old that, Luke, would you love to go agate picking? I'd probably say, what the h***'s an agate? And today, it's one of the things I enjoy most. And so therapeutic, right? You know, running an exercise, taking a walk out in the dark. Poetry, right? Poetry.

For some individuals, writing, there's a variety of different things that ultimately, that you might find connection with. And then, last but not least, I'm going to circle these out. You know, again, mental health doesn't define you. Number two, it can feel like a roller coaster. Number three, you joined a massive club, and we are here for you. Number four, find meaningful connection with anything in this world. It can be anything. A red footed tortoise. I mean, that's. That's a big connector for me.

And the last one, which I think is so important, and it'll give you so much feeling of gratefulness, is getting involved. It could be donating your time, it could be donating your money. It could be volunteering. Anything of the like, go. Go to a. Go to a food kitchen on a Saturday, go help out in a homeless shelter, and then go back to your regular life. And when you're feeling maybe that little depression, or anxious or otherwise go do those things and check out, you know, what maybe the other side of life can look like.

Right? So I encourage you to get involved and volunteer. So today is World mental Health day. It is personal for a lot of people. It certainly is personal for me. A lot of these days, 365 days go by and it's like National Pancake Day. National this day, national this day. And a lot of those just kind of go by the wayside. It's still a great day, don't get me wrong. But again, this one matters to me and this is one is so meaningful. Today I want to celebrate all those individuals on this app in this world that are struggling with their mental health.

And I just want to tell you, I'm with you. I stand with you. I am here for you. You can dm me, you can message me, you can text message, you can call, you can do anything at any time. And I promise you I'll answer your call, I will respond to you and I will do anything in my power to support you. So please, please reach out if you need the help because a life loss for mental health is not necessary. So I want to be here to support in any way, shape or form. Have an amazing day, y'all. World Mental Health day is special.

It matters to a lot of individuals and it should matter to you. Find out ways that you can get involved, find out ways you can take action, be involved and help. Help one another. Carry a case of water in your car to handle a bottle. There you go. I love a junk food junkie. Carry a case of water in your car to hand a bottle out of your car window if it would help them feel good, and then you did it. Trust me, I feel it 100%. I'm with you, junk food junkie. It's crazy. A lot of people don't know, like kind of, you know, walk with the homeless a lot of days.

So I enjoy that. In St. Paul. We have a few different homeless shelters here in Minneapolis, St. Paul. And I stop there frequently throughout the courses of the day, just making sure people are right, dropping water, doing whatever it takes. So I hear you or seeing if people need help, but have an amazing, amazing day, y'all. World mental health day matters. It matters up here. It matters right here. So do everything in your power. Support one another. Take care. Have a great day. World mental health day.

Bye.