Enoughness 101

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy Saturday morning. JC Lippoldt here on personal development. Saturday. As you know, on Cadre, each day has a different livestream theme. And on Saturdays, it's all about your journey on developing as a human being, not in what you do, but in who you are, right? On Mondays we talk about professional development. Saturdays we talk about personal development. And normally I'm on about 3 hours later, but I am getting ready to hop in a one way flight down to Florida to move my parents back up to Minnesota for for the spring, summer, early fall.

So I am sitting at the airport checking in with my friends here. I see Jules, I see Kay Barrick hopping in. Nice to see you all. Speak wonder by golly, nice to see you my friend. So on Saturdays on personal development days, I love talking about my favorite concept that I spend time teaching on and sharing with other people. And it's the concept of enoughness. Enoughness I define as the practice of affirming that you are already indeed enough. The practice that you are already indeed enough. Now that doesn't mean sweet.

So don't live. Don't learn. Don't be curious, don't grow. What it says is rather than thinking that you need to wait until tomorrow when you accomplish something else in order to be enough to start living the way that you live. As if you are capable, as if you are worthy. The world in which we exist of in does a really good job of saying, hey, once you do this, then you have a voice. Then you deserve to be confident. Then you deserve to be heard. This concept of enoughness shifts that to saying, nope, you are already indeed enough in this moment and therefore you are ready to do something great.

Don't you love the sound of the airport? All of a sudden you hear the announcements. Speak. Wonder asks if that's a live musician in the background. Nope. They actually do have quite often live musicians here at the Minneapolis St. Paul airport, but that is some boxed sound right now since it's relatively early. But as a as a proud Minnesotan, I'd love to share that MSP airport was just named best airport for the third year in a row. So if you're ever flying through Minneapolis, be ready for a treat.

Thanks for asking. Speak wonder. And Jules, you are sunshine. And thanks for the safe travels. Wishes. So today on the enoughness 101 livestream, I'd love to talk about how wonderful comfort zones are. Yeah, you heard me correctly. Comfort zones are great. Comfort zones are a space in which we grow. In which we grow through nourishment in our body and our mind and our spirit going, hey, right now we are safe. We are familiar with. We can dig deep into understanding the things that we know and appreciate.

And I always like talking about comfort zones in two ways. Number one, culturally, we are taught, as human species, people, that we need to get uncomfortable to grow. That if we're not getting uncomfortable all the time, we are in. In a state of regression rather than in a state of exploration and growth and creativity. We only grow in our comfort zones. We only grow outside of our comfort zones. That's what we are taught as a species, right? Is that what you've been taught? Think about a lot of the personal development or a lot of the kind of mantras where we're taught to believe in when it comes to how we're supposed to work and how we're supposed to show up.

We're supposed to get more and more and more 1% better every day. Pain is weakness leaving your body. Da da da da da da. I don't know. Physiologically, we're designed to be rest and digest quite often, we're designed to be in that parasympathetic state where we feel safe and we open up to being nourished by the things that we experience. Rest is not weakness. Rest is a really powerful gift that we can receive. And sometimes finding rest is the hard work. So, number one, think about that. But number two, let's think about the other species on this planet.

I've never seen a minnow swim at a shark's mouth just to get stronger. I've never seen a deer every day try to jump in front of as many cars as possible to get better at not getting hit by a car. I think about the rabbit. He doesn't run in front of the hunter and go, hey, Hunter, come on, try to get me. In order to get better at not being got. So why do we feel, as a species, that we need to jump in the way of danger and challenge and discomfort in order to grow? Now, again, I'm not saying the opposite.

I'm not saying no. Never go into an uncomfortable place. I'm not saying that at all. But culturally, I think we're taught that we go, if I'm comfortable, I'm stagnant. If I'm uncomfortable, I'm growing. I don't know. I very much disagree with that. I think we grow in discomfort. I think getting out of our comfort zones is a really powerful way to experience life. I also think getting really good at nuzzling into comfort is a really good way to grow and live life. So maybe today your opportunity to grow personally is in challenging yourself to nuzzle into that comfort zone.

Yeah. I challenge you to not challenge yourself. I challenge you to not have to get out of your comfort zone every single second. So the world goes, wow, that person is throwing themselves on the coals every second that they got. That must be the noble, that must be the pathway towards. Doesn't make sense physiologically. I don't think it makes sense emotionally or spiritually. Physically, mentally, either. So as you settle into your Saturday, find your comfort zone, if you are in it today and make the most out of it.

Have a good rest of your day. We'll see you soon.