You Are Doing An Amazing Job Being You

Cadres fear. Good morning. Hello. It is Shannon. Okay. Trying to find a place here where I'm not in the sun. Good morning, guys. All right. It is Monday morning. It is Monday morning, 09:04 Central Standard Time in Minnesota. Happy Monday. I'm gonna quick do this. So I'm Shannon. Oh. Yep. And there's a train going by which seems really appropriate for both my life and this moment. So I hope that's not too loud. It feels like it might be a long train, so apologies. Okay. So, good morning. So, for those of you who I have not met, my name is Shannon.

I am part of the Cadre team, and I am a human who. I'm not a mental health professional. I am. Hey, good morning, junk food junkie. I'm a mom of a child with autism. I am a person who lives with anxiety and CPTSD and who has been in therapy for eight years. So my self appointed job here at Cadre is to talk about my life and just human, the idea that we're all human, right? And all the hard things we go through. So on this Monday, as we start a week, I want to take a minute to say something so basic, but something that I think we all need to hear as we go into our lives and our worlds, which is, you are doing a great job at being you.

I don't think people tell us that enough. I don't think we tell ourselves that enough. We spend a ton of time telling ourselves all the things that are not good enough, all the things that we should be, all the things that could be better, and what we don't do, especially on a Monday, as we go out into the world. And for many of us, that means jobs. That means being around people who may be different than us and their values in their how they see the world, all the things. And it means that we might be hearing messages that are not in alignment with what we believe about ourselves or what we believe about the world.

So, essentially what that means is it's kind of like, you have to, actually. So I'll tell myself. So I'm a professional person. Angelo, kid. Good morning. I'm a professional person, and I have to go out into the world, and I have to not put on an armor. But, I mean, I think you all get it, right? So you're out in the world, and you have to be a certain way. You have to show up in a societally in a way that aligns with the job that you have, or even just, you know, like if you go to the grocery store and you're.

And you interact with someone, there's a social norm that is expected, right? So you. You should smile and, you know, make eye contact and do all these things. And so sometimes when we do that, it can feel a little bit like we are playing a role. Right. So I'm actually, I'm going into a meeting after this, and when I go into that meeting, I'm putting on my professional self and I am actually representing Cadre. And so there's something that goes along with that, of if I'm representing Cadre, I should be this, this, this, and this, right?

Some of that is my own story that I'm telling myself. And some of that is just the world. And so what I want to say to you today, junk food junkie and Angelo kidd, is that as you go out into the world, remember that being you is the best thing you can do, showing up as your authentic self, whatever that is. And don't name it. Good, bad, ugly, don't name it. Just be you. And the more we can do that, and the more we can remember that if we do that, we are being our best selves, the better we're going to feel in life, the better we're going to feel day to day.

And the more as we go out on a Monday morning to sort of, you know, put on our armor, if you will, for the week, we're going to remember that we're doing a fantastic job. And as long as we are ourselves, we're gonna show up in a way that is, that is amazing and authentic, and we're gonna feel in alignment with ourselves. And that is the number one thing that matters. I can just speak to that from my own experience. And so I just want you all, junk food junkie and Angelo kidd to remember that, too.

Angelo Kidd says, keep up the great job being beautiful. You. Right back at you. You are a beautiful person, junk food junkie. You are a beautiful person. I'm glad you're both here. And for everyone else out there, as you head into this Monday, just remember that I'll use junk food junkies words. Your grandpa said you'd be somebody important. Be yourself. That's exactly right. Just remember that the most important person is your authentic self. So I hope you have a beautiful week. I will see you back here in the Cadre sphere.

And just remember that you are loved and be who you are. Have a great week, everybody.