Tactical & Practical Wellness

Well, good morning. Cadre JC Wright here, sitting on the floor of his Hampton Inn room with his phone propped on his suitcase, getting ready to hop into the rental car to drive to the airport to head home to lose 2 hours flying from Pacific to Central standard time. m. Where I am. I hope, wherever you are, that you are doing all right. And if you aren't, that's okay too. This is a live stream on tactical and practical wellness. As a week gets ready to start. My intent is to offer you something that's tactical you can, that you can do, and practical something that has purpose for your ability to feel good.

As Shannon would say, like our goal here is to help you feel, feel better. So in my lead in, I shared my sitting on the floor with the phone on the suitcase in my hotel room rental car, losing time. Flight Monday morning to hopefully make you go. Because that's what I feel like. I feel like that every morning. Living with a lot of panic, realities and my resting state, always in the state of what can go wrong. Especially on a day like this where I'm not going to be able to get what I normally would get done on a Monday, which would make me feel like I'm enough, which would make me feel like I'm validated and worthy and fill in the blank.

Well, I've been in Seattle hosting an event alongside Rachel Havocost Cadre buddy, and that was on Saturday. But yesterday, Sunday, I had the opportunity to head to a class at Seoul Yoga, which is on the bank of Lake Washington, to take class with 54 strangers and be led by an old friend of mine. An old friend of mine, Sarah. I knew Sarah in a previous work life and I've stayed within her sphere of positive energy and awesomeness ever since then. It was really, really wonderful. As I was driving to class, looking at the beautiful landscape here in the Seattle area, it's like, wow, what a beautiful world and beautiful opportunity that I have.

But even the anxiety of going like, gosh, it never feels good walking into a place that you've never been to before with a big group of people you don't know. So of course the anxiety of going would have been really easy. And I'm pretty good at this, of turning around and not showing up. But I said, hey, here are the things that I'm really excited about. See Sarah, to enjoy this drive, to have some time on my yoga mat, not to do the yoga because I was tired and didn't know the what and the how and the why.

And being away from home physicalizing often adds to anxiety. But simply being on the mat, to me, sounded and felt good in that moment of automation, of like, I need to go to the thing because I'm signed up for it. I manualized my affirmations. I said, well, what am I grateful for right now? What is actually providing me a little bit of energy, a little bit of excitement, a little bit of grounding. Well, in this class, Sarah shared how when we are in autopilot mode, which thankfully, our medulla oblongata beats our heart and blinks her eyes and rises and falls our breath.

Right. It's good that we have automated realities. It's good that we get good at doing things again and again and again. That allows us to be dependable, allows us to grow, to learn new things. But Sarah said that when we are in autopilot, we lose the ability to be present. I saw that so many times this weekend. So my little bit of tactical and practical for you this morning, or anytime you feel stressed or like the ground is not underneath your feet, take some time to manualize the good things.

I am excited to see my puppies when I get home. I am excited to spend some time with my Cadre mates on some work calls and some connection calls this evening. I'm excited to sit on the ground and say, good morning, Marisa. Good morning. Speak wonder in my hotel room before I hop to fill up my gas tank so I can drop off my rental car, so I could get through security, so I could da da da da da da. So I can get home so I can make up for the work that I didn't do when I was on the plane because da da da da da da.

Right? So easy to go into that wonderful state of automation. But I am grateful for the opportunity to sit here with you for a few minutes. So, Marisa, speak wonder anyone else who's there right now or listening later. Junk food junkie. You sensed I was going to say, who else is there right now? Can you manualize something? Can you do the work of going, I'm going to think about something that amidst all of the things today, you know what, laying that stuff aside, I'm really grateful for. I'm really excited about.

Because what that does is it allows you to remember that this life is happening through you, not to you. Doesn't mean that simply because it's through you that it's not hard or bad or stressful. No. It simply means that you have the ability to process it with good feelings, with bad feelings, with. You are going to feel this life, as opposed to your hands being tied behind your back and being like, ah, I can't do anything. That would be the two. Now this is happening through you. So I'm gonna get ready to do my frenetic run to the airport.

Da da da da da da. But wherever you are, I hope you do that really, really rebellious thing today of seeing that you have a little bit of opportunity to go wherever you are. Breathe in. Open mouth. Have a good day, y'all. We'll talk to you later.