Enoughness 101

Well, hey there. Good morning, Cadre. Happy Saturday. Happy personal development day here in our livestream flow on Cadre. My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time together before, thank you so much for the opportunity to spend some time with you. It is a gift to get to spend time with you. I hope you know that. I hope you remember that. And I will always remind you anytime we share space and time together here. Later on today, you're going to hear Eric jumping in and Alec jumping in to share some personal growth concept idea space time.

But I'm kicking off today with a segment that I think is one that we can never get enough of. It's this idea that I love sharing about called enoughness. Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already, indeed in this moment, enough to accomplish something. It doesn't mean change isn't great or necessary, but it means that right now we have the capacity of doing something this world is really good at. Attempting to tell us that we need to change in order to become worthy. You're worthy right now.

That's not meant to be advantageous or to make you feel good, bad or indifferent. It's a truth. So I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina right now, right on the other side of that wall. Other Cadre contributors doctor Charryse, doctor, Leslie, Rachel, Luke, Shannon, Ana are at a recalibrate summit. I'm going to be speaking in about 30 minutes up at the podium, and Luke is speaking right now. I'm going to be speaking about enoughness because it's kind of what I do. But I have to tell you a story. I got into Charlotte last night pretty late and tried to get an Uber from the airport and there weren't any cars to get.

Apparently the gentleman who after a while picked me up, let me know that there was a concert in town and it was just getting released. It was just getting out. So all the Ubers were being used. So all of a sudden this gentleman in a big black suv, like one of the expensive ubers, said, hey, do you need a ride? I was like, oh, yeah, that'd be great. Get in. And he begins to drive me to the hotel. He tells me about how he's the father of four, ages 15, 1312 and three. His wife is a pharmacist, but her qualifications didn't transfer over to North Carolina from where they lived previously.

So he's having to work two jobs while, you know, supporting family while his, his wonderful wife is, is taking care of three year old. And obviously 1513 and twelve as well. And he gets to the place where he goes, wow, like, I just don't have. I just don't have time to work out. And he's like speaking really down about himself as if he's doing something wrong. I was like, dude, you have a three year old, you have four kids, you're working two jobs. Sounds like you have a pretty active life, dude.

He's like, wow, I always feel like I need to be doing more. Like, I feel like I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing because the world says 1 hour is 4% of your day and everybody has a choice. And the things that sound really easy when in reality, people's realities aren't the same as one another. The way that we move our body may not be in the gym. Like saying that nutrition is found on the perimeter of a grocery store. There's nutrition found everywhere. In a grocery store is like saying that you need to go to a gym in order to exercise.

Actually, I think having a three year old living a full life, moving your body, sitting down on the ground, hugging your kid, hugging your family, doing these things, body doesn't care how you're burning those calories or how you're moving your body. So I want you to think about today. Just like my wonderful uber driver who saw me in need and gave me such a wonderful gift. So my attempt to give a gift back was to say, dude, not only are you enough, you're changing lives right now. Changed mine. He's changing his family's lives.

Where are you not giving yourself credit? Where are you already enough? In a world that says you need to do more or you need to do it in the way that I think you need to do it, or you need to show up and suck, consider that today I'm going to head back into a summit around the idea of recalibration. The first thing I'm going to be saying is this story about my Uber driver and I'm going to talk about the idea of recalibration. You can't recalibrate something that you don't already have. Calibration is taking what you have and making it optimized, making it better, making it work for you.

What do you have that you can recalibrate today? Have a good one.