Monday Motivation: Rip It Off

Good morning, Cadre crew. I'm just going to give it one quick minute here. Just make sure everything's working. Just updated the latest and greatest version. So if somebody's out there, give me a yay so that I know it's working and we're live. Give it one quick second here. Well, happy Monday. This is all about taking action. Taking action is one of the most important things that I've ever felt, whether it's personally, professionally, in my health and wellness journey, and or with my family, raising my family, being a husband, you name it.

And there's three things that I feel separate individuals from those that take action, those that don't. Number one, I call it the can versus the can't attitude. Are you a can person? Where I can get through this, I can do this. Or a can't person, I can't. This is too hard. I can't do this. This is difficult for me. This is impossible. There's no way I'm able to make this happen. Right. So you need to switch your attitude to a can versus a can't. Number one, can versus can't. Number two, excuses versus solutions.

You are going to run. When you take action up against roadblocks, that is a part of the game, it will happen. There will be many things that come up against your way, come against your life, and you've got to figure out what to do. Again, it comes versus excuses versus solutions. Are you an excuse individual, making excuses for what you didn't accomplish versus what you wanted to accomplish? Are you going to find solutions to make it happen? So I encourage you to be a solution driven individual and ensure that you continue to find ways to progress, to take action towards your big goal.

Taking action is just literally that. It's taking action towards your goal. There's no outcome that you can already predict that's going to happen out there. So your job is to take action to try to get to that point in order to do so. Next is opportunity versus problems, right? So a lot of individuals view taking action. Again, as I'm going to end up here, I want to become a millionaire. I want to do this. I want to do this all fine and good as far as goals are concerned and seeing that, but I would highly encourage you to transfer that school of thought into a mission perspective.

Right? It's my mission to get here. It's my mission to do XYZ. It's my mission. And when you do that, you kind of come and you start thinking more of about, like, opportunities versus the problems. So for example, right now we're building the Cadre platform and we can't wait to take, continue to take this to the world. We're growing our platform kind of at the speed of light right now. With that being said, opportunities and problems. Are you a problem thinker like this? Is problems that coming up a way or these are opportunities?

My humble opinion, every single thing that's happened to Cadre, excuse me, in the last two years has been an opportunity. Some individuals view him as problems. I view him as opportunities. What an unbelievable opportunity that we've had to be able to go through. What we've been able to go through, good, bad or indifferent, these are nothing but opportunities in life. It's amazing. Learning lessons. And then last but not least, I want to share this. So this is something that I wrote a while ago.

You can see how old this sheet of paper is. This is almost eight years old now. And right on the very top it says, don't talk, execute. Next it says, I can, I will, I must. And last but not least, it says, no alarm is needed. My passion always wakes me up. So these are some things that I want you to take into this week as you're thinking about taking action. I can, I will, I must. Don't talk. Don't, don't, don't talk. The talkers lose. Execute, execute, execute, execute. If you're talking about how much value create or what you've done two years ago, or what you've done a year ago, just stop, take, don't talk.

Execute, execute, execute, execute. The winners usually win. And how do they continue to win? They keep moving. They keeping step taking steps towards progress and keeping to evolve and develop and grow. That's what they do and that's what they continue to do. So in recent cost, this is making your dreams come true. These are some things I want you to think about. Can versus can't, excuses versus solutions, opportunities versus problems. Don't talk, execute. This is barely hanging on by a thread so I got to be really careful with that one.

Want to give some shout outs today? What an unbelievable team of individuals here at Cadre that don't talk but execute or go after and take action. They take action. They rip off the band aid. They take action. Number one, I want to highlight animeo going after her dreams. Her dream is to start a grief and loss platform. Ana, you're well on your way. Continue to take action. Take those steps that I talked about to you. There's everything coming your way as an opportunity. Number two, Shannon Stauff Shannon, what an unbelievable process that you've already taken in order to start making some of your big dreams come true and starting to take action in order to roll out, you know, your autism platform.

So I can't wait to see what you do and how you do it. Go after your goals. You got this. Hold on 1 second. My son Drew. My son drew this last weekend just hammered out a ten mile race. When you talk about taking action, you know there's 1st, second and third place and, you know, he hasn't ran a lot lately, but he still managed to finish in the top three. And taking action that last hundred yards allowed him to complete and finish before the other one of the finishers or the place finisher. So I'm just so proud of him in order to be able to do so.

So he just banged out a ten miler. My son drew, he's not talking about, he's executing. It's what it's all about. Next, I want to highlight JC Lippold. 2, did the New York City Marathon. Talking about taking action. Wow, that's amazing. Way to go. So, so super proud of you. That's absolutely incredible stuff. There's so many other individuals here at Cadre that are taking action every day. Doctor Charryse, doctor Charryse is out in Arizona this week. She is leaning in towards an awesome keynote speech.

So she's out in Arizona doing her thing, working with some unbelievable organizations across the United States that are making change and supporting their people. So what a great opportunity for her to take action and be a part of something special. So I leave you with this. This is your permission today to take action. Is there an email that you want to send? Is there a call that you need to make? Is there a text that you need to make to somebody? Is there an action step that you need to take as a human being?

Do you need to do something? Do you need to move the needle on something today? And if you do do it, don't talk about it, execute it. Go. So again, I think it's just one of those things where there's people that kind of live into taking action every single day and that's just what they do. And there's other individuals that either dream about it, scared about it, fear, or last but not least is they're almost intimidated by it. Which one are you? Right. The fork in the road. Ready to take that choice, to take action.

And it's okay to be a little bit of both. It's okay to be a little scared, but you're still going to do it. But take action today. Don't hold back. Go after your big goals. Go after your dreams. This world is built on dreamers and you can be one of them. It's just up to you. Have a remarkable week. We have so many amazing things happening at Cadre. In one week from today, we're going to be hosting our first ever in person event. Talk about taking action. Misses Shannon from, from the Cadre platform here of saying I want to run a live event.

Well, she's doing it. So look at this. Taking action. Starting on Monday, next Monday, we will have our first live event. Sunday, we'll have our sonic cold plunge out of brace north. Can't wait. This is going to be a remarkable three days, I should say two and a half days, but looking forward to taking action with you all. So again, I just, I really stress and I want to urge you to think about the things that if you had one week left, you had one week left and you wish you would have taken action, or you wish you would have made that call, or you wish you would have had that cup of coffee, or you wish you would have ran that race, or you wish you would have stopped smoking, or you wish you would have quit drinking, or you wish you would have done XYZ.

It's on you. Go do it. Go do it. Don't wait for somebody else to give you permission. Do it on your own. Have a wonderful, wonderful week, you guys. If you need anything else, please always reach out to us here. We're really looking forward to you doing something special in this world with us here at.