Monday Motivation: The Essentials

Good morning, everybody. It's Luke Wentland, your chief motivational officer. I'm here to talk to you about the. What I believe is the essentials of life. So I just wanted to hit on those real quick. But I think it's gonna be a great week for everybody this week. I think there's gonna be something mesmerizing that's gonna happen to you. I don't know exactly what that is. I believe it for myself, and I believe it for you as well. I've got a. A plane going right above us right now, so let's give it 1 second.

It's always live some fortunate events happen in your life, such as life. But with that being said, here's the thing that I want to talk to you about today is these essential items of life. Okay. What do you need to truly survive? Right? Obviously, you need air to breathe, you need water to drink, and you need food to eat. Right? So let's take. Good morning, Katie. So let's take a step back on these particular three items. Number one, you need air to breathe. It's basically coming down to your health.

Your health is life. Good morning, Risa. Health is life. Going on to the next is water to drink. We are so blessed and fortunate that we live in areas in this world that we have safe, clean water notwithstanding, obviously Flint, Michigan. But I know that they're doing some things in flint, of course, for the water. And then you need food to eat. Some individuals have made it 30, 40 days without food on a long term fast. Not me. But regardless, you do need food to eat. And this is the fourth one that we're hearing a lot about right now in regards to studies of loneliness, where it's basically the same or similar vein of, you know, going, what sort?

I'm looking for, like, an addiction based perspective where it's killing people off. You know, it's loneliness and connection and human connection. So again, we need air to breathe, we need water to drink, we need food to eat, and we need human connection. And I believe the fourth one is the most important one that we can ever have in our life is the human connection and bonds that we have with other individuals. It may be your wife, it may be friendships at work. It might be colleagues. It might be partnerships that you have with other individuals.

It might be, like I said, those friendships that you've had for 2030 years in your life, whatever that looks like for you. But human connection is so critical and so important. And I also want to say to the flip side of the coin, is the lack of human connection. So, you know, again, I was talking about the studies, is studies in the same with human connection is basically. It's killing people off of the same vein with substance abuse. So if you take a look at human connection and what that actually causes to you, it's basically the same thing as smoking pack plus a cigarettes.

It's the same thing as mental illness or substance abuse. When it comes to depression, suicide, ideation, all the things. Human connection, I would argue, is the fourth critical piece of life. And it's a need. And I also liken it to, I've seen those individuals that have all four, whether they have a dollar in their pocket or they're a billionaire, and you see that they have their needs met. So they have the capacity or the ability to breathe because of their health. They have the capacity to drink water.

They have the capacity to eat, and they have awesome relationships. And I mean awesome relationships. And those relationships don't come with words like toxicity. They have. They don't have to be mutually agreed upon. They're just true partnerships of connections with other individuals. And I believe those individuals separate themselves real quick in the world and how fast they do. And then here's the best. Here's the kicker. When you then take that fourth component of life, of that need of connection, and then your connections actually inspire you, because if you have the connection that doesn't inspire you, you can see what happens there.

But then when you have the connections that do, and I encourage you to run like h***. Run like h*** to those people. Run like h*** to get to them and find ways to either work with, have relationships with, bond with, whatever that looks like for individuals that can be close to you, that can connect with you, like minded. And then there's also these seasons of life. There's seasons of life of connections as well. So I encourage you to do the best you possibly can to find individuals that you can connect with on a level of partnerships, relationships, all the ships, and have an amazing opportunity to work side by side with those people, to love side by side with those people and to inspire side by side to those people.

So again, I would argue the fourth need in this world. Forget all the material things. Forget them. Forget all of it. It's just human connection and human bond and decency. Human decency. You do those things, you're going to live a very fulfilled life. We have a remarkable live schedule coming up for you this week. It's always the best. If you haven't participated in our Wednesday support group here on Cadre please join me. I'm the facilitator. m.. Central Sunday nights, we float anywhere between five to nine to twelve individuals that have been participating in our AA meeting.

That's remarkable as well. So we're trying to provide as many opportunities for you to connect with other human beings here to support you through the journey of life, because we all need it. You never know when you're going to need it, but so I really encourage you to think about the connections you've made and the connections that are in your circle. And, I mean, we've all heard the same thing. Look at the five people you're around, and I can tell you the future of your life, right? So look at those five people that you spend time with.

Look at those five people that you hang up the phone with. Are they negative? Are they positive? Are you drawing inspiration? What do those connections around you look like? And if they aren't positive and they aren't driving a future better you and they aren't five x ing your life? Yeah, think about it. So have an amazing week, you guys. Like I said, we got a remarkable live session. We got many of opportunities here for you at Cadre. We're growing on the app and on the platform, which is so amazing.

Our numbers just keep going. We've actually 33% increased our viewership in the last week, which is amazing. So it's so cool to see all the new faces and all the fresh faces that are in our lives or on our community chat feed, et cetera. Safe messaging is very, very important to us, so anytime you post it will go through a review process. We want to make sure that you can consciously consume content at the right time, when you need it, how you need it, and why you need it. But it's important for us to keep it safe.

So we hope that this is the social platform that exponentially grows your life, because that's important, and that's why we do what we do. All right, everybody, enough from me. Have an amazing week. Take care of each other. Do the best you can to support one another in this life. And again, air, health, water, food, human connection, that fourth one, really think about yours. All right, have a remarkable week, you guys. Thanks again. Bye.