Motivation Monday: Rule #7

Good morning, Cadre family. Gosh. Excuse me. Good morning, Cadre family. Well, unfortunately, I'm on the run. I'm sure, like most of you are in your lives as well. There's three things I'm going to cover today. I'm excited about all three of them. Number one, we're going to hit on Mister MLK. Number two, we're going to talk about the rule number seven, continuing my 13 rules to change. In order to change one thing, you have to change everything. And then last but not least, there's an exciting announcement about Cadre.

So those are the three things that I'm going to cover today. All right, so let's start with mister, you know, Martin Luther King. You know, today we honor the life and legacy of Mister Martin Luther King, who showed us an insane amount of vision, passion, perseverance, forgiveness, love, hope, joy, all the things. Good morning, speaker wonder. You know, no matter how far we've come, we've still got a long way to go. And I think it's always just important to remember that everybody can be great, everybody can serve, but there's grace and love and passion and heart that we need to have.

And how to remember this day is to celebrate and act. To celebrate and act and remember. I think it's so important that we remember to take action and act today. So I just want you to be thinking about that as, you know, you take a minute, you know, in your life. I'm sorry about that. And we are definitely alive. Good morning, Mister Hugo. Love you, man. Sherry, always good to see you. Always good to see you on the lives. Anytime I see recovery cafe, frog Town, I'm like, there's a good human being right there.

But. So I wanted to share three things to say. Number one, Mister Martin Luther King junior. Think about today. Think about your privilege that you have that other individuals that walked before us didn't. So I really want you to take a step back and think about that today and how you can take action and what movement you can move in the needle and the dial of your life and other individual's life today. Number two, going with my 13 rules, in order to change one thing, I change everything. This was the biggest one for me and quite frankly, the hardest, which was my inner circle.

My inner circle. To switch and change the narrative of my inner circle was really hard for me. I love that. Thank you, Sherry. But in order to change my life and the trajectory of my life, mental health, alcohol, panic attacks, generalizing anxiety disorder, you name it, my inner cereal changed, which included work friends, which included personal friends, which included family, all the above. And it was hard. It was super, super hard because, you know, a lot of the friends that I love and care about, you know, were we were there for each other in various ways.

It could have been fun. It could have been enjoyable times. It could have been the golf event. It could have been the happy hour. It could have been, you know, all those different things that included alcohol. And then, you know, what changes sometimes is when you remove that from your vernacular through your normalized living. It's crazy, the response that happens by some of the individuals. What's the matter with you? Are you okay? What are you doing? What's this all about? Why is this another one of those sober January things?

You know, you get. You get a lot of different things from a lot of different people, and then all of a sudden, there's those one or two individuals that will sprout. Well, they'll say things like, good for you. Tell me about it. You know, help me understand what's going on. You know, let's. Let's. Let's try something different, you know, than a happy hour. Maybe you want to go meet at the gym tomorrow. You know, it's just. It's funny, the. The percentage of individuals that show up in different ways when you start changing things in your life.

And there will be the 50, 60, 70% that still may jump on the bandwagon of, dude, what's up? You know, what are you. What are you doing, man? You know, to the other switch and swap of. Oh, I understand. Good for you. Good for you. This is great. I'm excited about the changes that you're making in your life. And so, you know, my inner circle has got very, very small and really threefold. I would say my friends, my family, and then my professional relationships. And if you looked at my text messages from 5710 years ago, you would see, I mean, I'm not kidding when I say this.

Hundreds of individuals in a month, and now I'm in the dozens, right? I'm, you know, probably 1020 people on the regular in a course of a month, which includes family, friends, all of it. You know, my circle is just rock solid. It's tight. And the time that I'm privileged to spend on this planet, man, I make the most of it. And I really want to press you with this one point here. When you spend time with individuals in your inner circle, what does it actually look like? I really want you to think about this.

Are you experiencing joy? Is it a venting session where there's a lot of, you know, 51% of negatrometer with lack of solutions in your talk. And, you know, unfortunately, where I was living years and years ago to where I am living, you know, that's just few and far between. You know, running companies and running organizations and building teams and doing all those things is about taking action. Doing it with people you love and care about and trust and making sure that you're taking extreme action and you reduce fear.

And doing all that in your inner circle can be really complicated and difficult at times, but it's the most rewarding feeling in the world. And there are times where what my familial milieu like used to look like in my family versus what it looks like today is different. And I'm going to look you all in the eye and tell you that's okay. And it's actually better. It's better for me and it's better for them. And I can rest assure you that. So I want you to think about your inner circle today, and I want you to ask yourself a couple questions.

Am I bringing value to them or are they bringing value to me? Do they know me at a different level of depth? Do they, do they know me truly who I am? Or do they know me at like, a surface level of who I am? And last but not least is what does the time look like that I spend with them? What is, what is that? What does that time look like? What does that time look like that I spend with them? What do I do with them? And I want you to think about that. Is it things that make me better? Is it things that make me healthier?

Is it things that make me stronger? Is it things that bring joy and love in my life? So I want you to think about that. Mister Hugo says, love inspired, do something more positive and finish a four day fast. So needed some. I love you, brother. And see, this is, this is the people you want to surround yourself with. When I think of Cadre, live, eat, and breathe wellness on your terms. Mister Hugo, I love you. And this is the reason why. Look at you. Just finished up a four day fast. Need a little extra motivation, you know?

Back to recovery, frog town. Yes. Let's normalize being healthier. This should be good. Thank you. This should be good. The relationships with that we have with others, that we challenge individuals to do some, you know, crazy, awesome things that some people might say are crazy and awesome, but to us, it's normalizing healthiness. So again, I just wanted to hit, so far, we've yes, I just finished. Awesome. Joe Pad Joe. I love it. So I just want you to think about this. In order to change one thing, I changed everything.

So we started off with, number one, pain, purpose and passion. And all we do. Number two, saying no. Number three, exercise. Running on your own terms. Not saying you have to be an ultramarathon. The medical medium, book alcohol. Choose what you feel is best for you from all the way abstinence versus does it serve you how much the next one is listening to music, right? Listening to music was one that I did last week, which keeps my brain active and dreaming and I love it. And then my inner circle.

So far we got through seven. There's a few more to go. They may be confidential and some not confidential. What sort I'm looking for. They might be hit on some nerves for some, into the controversial for some folks. And then last but not least, I wanted to share this. That's right. Congratulations, Mister Hugo. Thank you Sherry, for that. The last thing I want to add is this. The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal highlights ten organizations every year that gets selected as their group of ten businesses to watch.

And I can look as the CEO of this organization, which means that I support an amazing group of people. That's what a CEO really is. We were named to that list in Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal is one of the ten organizations to watch. And it's such a privilege to be here every day with you, with this team. And as much as other individuals watch the other lives and are fans of what they do, so do I. The content that we're driving this place, that we can consciously consume information 24/7 that's good, that's healthy, that brings you to a good place in your life, is really special.

And so it's an honor to be here with you. It's an honor to lead an organization that does good in this world. And so I hope that you all appreciate what we're driving to the marketplace and why. And we really look forward to working with some amazing organizations as we lead their mental health and wellness benefits for their organizations and companies. So thanks for being a part of the ride. Thanks for being along with this journey. And we hope that you all are enjoying it as much as we are because this is a dream to be a part of.

So with that, I will leave you all with Mister Martin Luther King's if you can't quote, crawl. Excuse me? If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, do anything but keep moving. And so I think it's really, really important as we take that sentiment today and move it forward. Love you guys. Have a remarkable rest of your week. Do something special. Help somebody out. Bye.