Me Time ✨

Hey, everybody. Happy Sunday. I'm so excited to be here live with you all today. My name is Jean Mitchells. I am many things, as are all of the amazing Cadre team them members. One of the hats that I wear is as a coach, both as an executive coach and also as a spin instructor. And so when I talk to you today about me time, I'm coming to you live from the indoor cycling studio that I am a part of. And why am I at the studio? Hello, hello. Happy Sunday. So excited to have you here. How is your Sunday?

Are you having a good one? L Ford? I'm gonna do a little tour, slight tour of the space I'm in today. As I was mentioning, as I hi. Speak, wonder how you doing today? So I think you're from Pennsylvania. Did I get that right? Hi, JC. How are you? Happy Sunday in Minneapolis. It's so gorgeous. That's right, Pennsylvania. Yeah. Nice to have you here. So I'm calling in today, phoning in today from cycle bar uptown Minneapolis, which is the spin studio that I teach a lot of classes at. One of the hats that I wear is an indoor cycling instructor.

And I teach a lot of classes. And I love it. I love it because when people take their classes, we coach them all the time, that this is me time. This is time for them. Time for you to just be a part of a space for 45 minutes, 4% of your day, of just letting go and taking time for yourself. And so today, with me time, I'm just sharing a little bit about sometimes me time isn't always by yourself. Sometimes me time is grabbing a friend and going to do a workout or a hike or an activity with somebody that you're close to.

Or maybe it's just showing up for yourself and going to any event or going out to dinner by yourself and taking a book and just enjoying the ambiance and the food. Today I'm here at Psycho bar, and my whole team is on the other side of this wall, riding bikes that go nowhere, in a dark room, doing a little photo shoot. So I couldn't imagine being somewhere better on this amazing Sunday. And here's some of my team ladies, say hi. So, on Sundays, when we talk about me time, there's so many ways that we can do that.

But most importantly, it's about finding a space where you can release and let go. And sometimes that is by yourself. When you go for a hike or a walk with your dog. Maybe sometimes that's pulling out your gratitude journal and writing it up. Maybe sometimes it's coming together with a group of people whose energy lifts your energy. And I say that energy specifically because we all have people in our lives, in our days, that sometimes when we're around them, we walk away and we might feel drained or depleted.

And so on Sundays, for me, I have been very intentional the last few months to kind of reclaim Sunday back as my day, to take a pause to not plan anything. And if I do plan something, I'm really intentional with who it is with or what the activity is. And I'm doing that intentionally, which I'm not always great at, to create a space where I am surrounding myself with either an environment or people who will help continue to lift me up energetically. Over the last six months or so, probably last year and a half, I've been going through a lot of grief.

We have a grief day on here, and it's multiples. I lost my dad, a year later I lost my mom, and I'm still processing that whole, that whole space without my parents. Sundays were my day that I would go visit my mom and we would hang out and laugh, and we call our sisters and they would tell stories, and I would sit holding the phone for her so that she could hear it. And I would laugh behind the scenes because they were so silly and goofy. But every Sunday, she looked forward to that because it lifted her spirits and it lifted her energy.

And if I'm being honest, it lifted mine, too. So I've decided over the last several months to just try to reclaim Sundays back. And, you know, when we're thinking about the people that we're surrounding ourselves with, there are times that we all ebb and flow. And sometimes when we're ebbing and flowing with our own personal energy, that can impact the people around us, too. And I found that when I've been able to take some more time for myself, by myself, reading a book, writing in my gratitude journal, creating some new habits that will help me to, one, process through the grief, and two, to be able to rediscover what it's like to lift up energetically in a way that feels natural to me.

Because what feels natural to me might not to you. And I was listening to a podcast recently, and the lady on there, there's an app, and I'll find what the name of the app is because I wrote it down, but I don't have it with me. But basically what she does is she identifies in a year, twelve habits that she wants to try to implement. And each quarter she works on three of them, and an example of one of those would be doing a five minute meditation every day or journaling gratitude. Five minutes every day.

So she does it for three full months, and the app helps her to track that, because that's a structure that works for her. And at the end of the three months, it now just becomes integrated into her daily life. And so by the end of a year, she has maybe eight or nine new habits, because not all habits that she thinks are gonna work stick. So when I think about that for myself and think about what Sundays have been for me, this has become a part of my new habit, which has been amazing. And also, I've been doing a lot more with gratitude journals.

I'm not great at always writing, but I've been taking time to write and process information, my gratitude journal, and finding time that way. And I will find a small pocket of friends that if they're available or there's something nice to do. In Minneapolis, it's 70 today, 75. It's going to get up to. To go for a walk or go to brunch. But people that I know that are going to meet me where I'm at, and we can lift each other up together. So on this beautiful Sunday, I'm going to head back into the studio here.

We're doing a little photoshoot.