Rule #1 of 13

What's up, everybody? Happy taco Tuesday. It's Luke Wentlands here, your chief motivational officer, and someone who's been at cadres since day one. A one from day one, baby. But it's Taco Tuesday, and we are pumped because we had a great start to our week so far, rolling into the week with a lot of passion and purpose. It's one of my rules. So I talked about how I'm going to be sharing my 13 rules for overall mental health and wellness. Take them, love them, leave them, leave something at the door.

Take something with you. It is all good. I just hope that it gets your brain to think about some of these things and maybe what this looks like for you in your life. And I hope that you can integrate some of them. If none of them, that's all good, too. If all of them, that's fine as well. But regardless, we're going to start with our number one, purpose and passion. Purpose and passion. My dad and a lot of other individuals I've heard always say, like, if you love what you do, you're never gonna work a day in your life.

The reality is that's bullshit. You will absolutely work a lot of days in your life, and you're gonna continue to work a lot of days in your life. Whether you love what you do or don't, it is still work. But trust me when I tell you there's a couple things that won't be on the table. When you're purposeful, passionate about what you're doing, you are gonna continue to go after it. You will figure out your why and. And you're going to roll into different opportunities that you feel are best fit and best served for you.

So, again, loving what you do also does not mean you'll never work a day in your life. So, again, when it comes down to purpose and passion, when you talk to those individuals that are building things, doing things, working in different departments, divisions, you name it, and you can just tell right away that they have a lot of passion for what they do. They love what they do. And when they love what they do, it's an amazing, beautiful thing with purpose and passion. Number two, those individuals become obsessed, right?

They become obsessed with what they're doing. You never hear individuals that make it in their respective sport crafts talk about practice, except Allen Iverson, and he was joking about it, obviously. But practice is a thing of beauty. Practice is what we love to do, getting better at our craft because you're obsessed. So I want to ask you what it is that you're doing and choose to do 40 plus hours of your, of your week, which if you really break it down, it's basically half of the time that you're awake, right?

So you have your work, you have your free time, and you sleep. You know, my question to you is, number one, do you love what you do? Back to purpose and passion. Are you obsessed? So when with things come out, like the Sunday scaries, burnout, stress, like, how are you phrasing that to yourself? Because if I have purpose and passion behind what I do, I love what I do, I become obsessed. What I do, I maybe turn the verbiage around a little bit. Have I regained my balance? Have I found my balance?

Have I found my harmony? Number two, have I reclaimed my identity? Right? What is my identity with my purpose and passion? Not only like, am I a husband? Am I a father? Am I, am I? Am I? Am I? There's a lot of mis, don't get me wrong, but sometimes that identity is taken over for your purpose and passion, where you actually become it. That's also a scary place to be, but it's also a fun place to be too, because, you know, there's a lot of dopamine rushes with all these things that you continue to do when it comes to your, your, your purpose and passion and the love for what you do and becoming obsessed.

So again, these are a couple traits that I like to talk about with purpose and passion. The last one is luck. A lot of people will say things like, they're really just talented. They're kind of that overnight success. Well, they have access to resources. They got a little lucky. The doors will open. That's what will happen. Luck will find you. When you have purpose and passion, people will enter your life that want to help you. You will love what you do. You'll become very, very obsessed with it, which sometimes can be unhealthy.

That's what I said. You need to regain your balance or reclaim your identity. Not, I'm burned out or stressed. Be careful, those things. And luck will find you. And luck will find you in a variety of different ways. And some people find luck and success of money. That's fine if that's your thing. Other individuals will find luck in the people that enter their life, other individuals will find luck in maybe the next thing that they choose to do with that purpose and passion. Other individuals might find innovative practices or processes and the other things that they choose to do and love to do because of their purpose and passionate.

So again, ask yourself these three questions. When you really identify your purpose and passion. Your why do I love what I do? Am I obsessed with what I do? And is maybe some doors open for me or have I found some luck? Purpose and passion has a variety of different angles and ways. People can say I'm purposeful or I'm passionate about it, but these are my three that I feel have happened to me through these identifiable means. When I found my purpose and passion, there's not necessarily the right way or the wrong way to find it.

That's a question I get awfully a lot of, like, well, how do I find my purpose and passion? And this is what I'll tell you. You will know when you know. When I found out that I love tennis, like I told the story before, that can of that ball, just smell the can of the ball. It made me so happy. Bounce the ball on the court 100 degrees and hot and sweaty, you know, walking into a bubble because I'm located in the midwest and just hearing that sound of the echo back and forth, measuring the net. And you can also tell when it's like a quarter of an inch off because you become obsessed with that purpose and passion for that maybe sport.

Or in this case, what I hope is a direction that you choose to do with that other half of your life, which is your work, which is your career, which is your future. I want to help individuals find that purpose and that passion and their why. And if you ever need help with questions, how to do this, why to do this, all the things I would love to be there to help support you. This is something I live for. I hope someday you can feel what I feel when I wake up for what I get the privilege to do every single day.

I definitely work. And yes, it's a lot of work. I never worked a day in my life is not true. I work every single day. But I love it. I love what I do. I've become utterly obsessed with what I do and how I do it. m. Mornings because my mind just races in the middle of the night of like, these are some things we could implement, these are some things we could integrate. This is what we can do to help our customer. This is how we can serve individuals better. There's such thing as Sunday scaries. There's no such thing as stress or burnout of working with people.

That's just a part of the game. It's what we do. It's how you do it. And luck sure has found us and we are lucky to say that. And many doors have opened, and that's a beautiful thing. So we are so blessed and fortunate to be here, here at Cadre again. My name is Luke. If there's anything I can ever do to support you on this journey with rule number one, reach out, and I will be happy to support and help. If you'd like a beanie or hat like this, please reach out as well. Have a wonderful week, y'all.

Thank you so much for your time. Enjoy it. Remember rule number one, purpose and passion. Do you have it? If you don't, where can you find it?