Wellness Routine

Oh, my gosh. Hello, Cadre. Happy Friday. m. Central Standard Time here in Minnesota. My name is JC Lippold, and this is wellness routine. Every Friday I hop on here, hopefully near the start of a transition for you, not saying that the weekend is a calm space for you, it may be. You may have a traditional work week where it's Friday and all of a sudden Saturday and Sunday are different, or you may not. But anytime that there's a transition, even if it's other people's transitions, it allows you the opportunity to go, what am I doing for myself?

That's a really important thing to do, to loudly say I am doing something for myself, because if I don't, I'm not going to be able to do anything for anybody else. It's been a really long week for me, meaning lots of. Lots of meetings, lots of early days, lots of curveballs, not a lot of sun, not a lot of natural world providing me the things that this species has provided through fresh air and sunlight and sleep and rest. So thinking about wellness routine, things that we can do to be well, is a really important thing for me.

I was 1 minute late to the live. I apologize if you're there and if you've been waiting, but I was on a call with a couple of my Cadre mates. I was on with Luke and Shannon, and we hopped on to a Zoom call for a little end of the week. Huh? Before that, I was on a 30 minutes call with my Cadre mate Alec, our product tech person who makes all of this possible. And we realized that we had not had a one on one conversation, talk about life, since the first conversation we ever had when we were introduced to each other.

When I started being a part of Cadre earlier this, well, I guess now it's 2024, in the middle of 2023. So even though through the screen, it was an opportunity to connect, I'm a big office fan. The tv show, the Office. I hope you are as well. If you're not, it's a wonderful set of stories of normal people doing their normal stuff, working their jobs, living their lives, and what happens when people do that for a long time. There's one scene where Kelly Kapoor, played by Mindy Kaling, is, I think, at a happy hour with Stanley Hudson and Oscar Martinez, two of the other employees.

And, you know, they're standing at the bar, they have a drink in their hand, and they're talking about paper. So the office is about a paper company, Dunder Mifflin paper in Scranton. Pennsylvania and Stanley and Oscar are talking about paper at the happy hour, and all of a sudden, Kelly caper goes, ugh, do we have to talk about paper? And Stanley and Oscar go like this, and it's this moment of going, gosh, shouldn't we be able to have lives outside of the things that we do? Isn't this our opportunity to not talk about the things?

Here's how life works. More and more, we hear about the struggle with rumination, rumination, the ability of the brain to go click, click, click, click, click on the same thing again and again and again and again. When we leave the thing that we do, very rarely does our brain leave it all on the table, leave it all on the desktop, or leave it all in the office. It stays with us. Why? Because part of the magic that we have is we care about what we do. We put ourselves in what we do. So when I had these wonderful calls, which I think were a really good thing for me to do for my wellness, talking with Alec, talking with Luke and Shannon, we talked about work for some of the time.

We talked about family, we talked about why we are the way we are. We talked about thoughts that are going on. We talked about how we are doing. And amidst all of that, I think our whole being goes, I'm literally sitting here with my second monitor and my other laptop and my iPad, and I have a giant whiteboard over here with two sides. And guess what? I still have rehearsal for 3 hours tonight, and Monday's not that far away. Often doing well things for ourselves don't seem like they have that much worth, that it's rebellious in the best way possible to say, for this moment, I'm going to do something that has to be good for me, like, innately, somehow it's going to have to shake me at my core.

And for me, today was scheduling some time with some coworkers to maybe talk about work, but with nothing on the agenda and to provide space for maybe us to talk about other things, too. So what do you have going on this weekend? Who is someone you can call up? Who is someone you can acknowledge? Who is somebody who can be like, hey, thinking about you. Hey, what's going on? Hey, we should get together six months from now when we have free time doing those little things, have a great, great benefit and pay great, great dividends.

Do them long enough and you start to see that to be true. I hope you're well, Cadre. We'll see you soon. Bye.