Monday Motivation: You Are Still Standing.

Good morning, Padre family. I'm gonna give it just a minute here while I collect my thoughts and wait for you to join and hopefully collect your April fool's joke. Let's go. Let's give it one quick minute here, guys. Hopefully everybody had a world class weekend and always remember what it's really all about. I see some folks joining. Oh, it's gonna be a week, guys. It is going to be a wonderful, wonderful week. I'm back. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Oh, it's so good to see your names.

It's so good to see the faces joining this live stream today. This is really exciting for me to be back here and chill, chat about a couple things that I, you know, you're going to take away today is, you know, what was vacation like for wetland number two? The next one you're going to hear about is when we were down in Charlotte, we talked about goals and trying to achieve those goals by March 31. So I'm just going to hit on those real quick. And then last but not least is, is a message that I'd like to, you know, hope everybody hits home today is still standing.

What the h*** does that mean, still standing? Well, you're going to find out. So number one. Oh, my gosh. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, it's always so good to see you all here. First I want to hit. I'm back. I'm so excited to be here. This is what I live for. It was a great week. It was a great week with my family. You guys knew about my goals. Read one book, run 5 miles a day, go on a hike, turn on off all technology for the days, take a nap each day. So I can tell you all that I hit four or five.

The one that I didn't was run 5 miles every day. I did not do that. I gave myself grace. If you can hear, I'm still, I can't even believe I'm saying this, like, ten days later coming off of this cold. So I did everything else, though. And most importantly, what did I do? What did I do was connect with my wife. To have an amazing connection, laugh and not talk about work, and just to really go deep with each other on different conversations. com reality tv show stuff that was kind of funny. And during that connection, we even went back to our dating era and dating days, to early marriage and just chit chatted about things and laughed and caught up.

And it was amazing to see my kids have so much joy and love swimming in the pool, kind of the simple things of life. And they were able to jump in the pool and swim. They spent hours in the pool, and it was just a blast. And the hikes that we were able to go on as a family was really special. You know, every day to go up and do, whether it's a 1 mile, three mile, five mile, and see my little seven year old puffing it with us and keep going, it was really special. And so, if any of you have not been to palm springs, I highly suggest it.

The hiking is gorgeous. The ambiance, the scenery, everything about it is just really fantastic. And it's small enough. It's a little less than 50,000 individuals with its own airport. So it's just fantastic. So I would highly suggest Palm Spring. Goals, goals. Goals. Moving on to goals. Challenge the group down in Charlotte to write down your goals. Why is because if you think about something, you have, like, 4% chance of actually being successful. If you speak it out loud, your chances go up. And then last but not least, if you write it down, your chances go up in, like, the 20th, 5th percentile to actually achieve those goals.

But you're ready for this. If you actually write down the goal every single day, every single day, you have a 42% chance, statistically speaking on odds, 42% chance to hit that goal. So I challenged individuals in Charlotte to write down your goals and see if you can hit them by March 31. So if there's anybody from Charlotte that's listening in or participated, you know, in the Charlotte event, which is awesome, and there will be more Cadre events coming to cities near you. So far, we've been in Minneapolis, Charlotte, and Seattle, and our hope is to continue to spread these throughout our country and meet all of the individuals that are participating in our Cadre community, which we love and we support.

And so, who knows? You might even get a goal. Talk there. But I would love to hear from our Charlotte crew if anybody achieved those goals by March 31. And then, last but not least, something I wanted to hit on today is spiritual or not, I think there's my goals, then fail at attainment. No self discipline. But here's something I totally get that. Sue newfie lover. Sue, the only suggestion that I encourage you to tweak is to write them every single day. So every single day that they're always showing.

And so you write every single day on a post it note, put it up on your kitchen, somewhere in your kitchen, your refrigerator, you name it. So you walk by that goal. You see that goal every single day. And that supposedly on odds is a 42% chance of achieving those goals, which just, again, escalates your goal to be able to execute from an idea to a concept to, I think I can, to writing it down every day. And so it's just really the power of that manifestation. So. But I would like to jump into still standing and what is still standing to me or to maybe other individuals here.

You know, yesterday was a pretty big day for a lot of us, you know, Easter Sunday. And. And I think there's a lot of different ways that you can look at Easter, whether it's a religious practice, not religious practice, jewish, orthodox, muslim, you name it. There's so many different meanings or literally zero meaning for individuals. And I think this way, this all applies. My major takeaway from yesterday is I get the opportunity to still. I get the opportunity to believe in my conviction. I get the opportunity to fail and get back up.

I get the opportunity to miss and to continue to still stand. I get the opportunity to go through h*** and back some days. I get the opportunity to fail sometimes in business, I get the opportunity to fail. Sometimes in marriage. I mean, it's relative. Like, what I mean by fail in marriage is not showing up the way I need to. I get the opportunity sometimes to fail as a parent. I get the opportunity to really struggle sometimes when it comes to my mental health. I get the opportunity sometimes. Like, you get those moments, and you can look at yourself and say, like, I'm still standing.

I'm still here, you know, for those individuals that show up as caregivers and to say, like, God, I went through a tough, tough, tough week. I went through a tough day. I just have such an utmost level of respect for our caregiver population. And to always say, like, I'm still standing to go through our individuals that always show up on Friday's books talking about trauma, grief, loss, you name it, Sam. I'm still standing for those individuals on Sundays that are showing up in the pivotal moments of despair and lack of hope in their substance abuse journey, self care, recovery, and to say, I'm still standing for those individuals that are struggling personally, professionally.

Just take this moment and just take this moment and say, we are so blessed in this world that we are still here and we are still standing. And I can change my attitude, I can change the direction of my life in an instant if I choose to. And I believe that is the gift. Many gifts that came from yesterday, don't get me wrong, but I think one of the most major gifts that I personally receive is that I can always change my mindset set to, I'm still standing, I'm still here, I'm going through it. But he's man of life.

You know, he just thinks of what that individual went through. We can all endure too. We can all adapt, we can all change. We can all make the best of the situations. We can all have a growth mindset. Speaking of growth mindset, an individual just joined. Chris. Chris Edgerington. I just want to tell you I love you, man. I know some of the things that are going that on in your life and guess what? You're still standing. You're still standing as the man you are, the father, you are, the person you are.

There's some other individuals that I know that are on here that have went through things, whatever those things may be, challenges, frustrations, deterrence of life. And you can look and you can show up today and you can say, I'm still here, I'm still standing. And believe in yourself and have conviction to make the changes you want to make in your life. So now it's not just, I'm still standing, but I'm progressing. I'm progressing. I'm making the appropriate changes. I'm making dynamic changes in my life.

I'm growing, I'm developing. I've learned from my mistakes. I'm reacting less emotionally, I'm engaging more analytically. So my challenge to you today is believers, non believers, that's irrelevant to me. But my moment yesterday was that we get the privilege in our world today, wherever we are, to stand up, to stand up and look at ourselves in the mirror and have an opportunity to make really, really strong, strong conviction, self belief changes in ourselves because we've still stood through everything else.

So with that, I'm back. I'm back here for a while. A long while. I can't wait for the rest of our life here at Cadre. Vacation was good. Speaking to goals, I've hoped those individuals that have the opportunity to participate in our Charlotte event, knock their goals out of the park and always remember you're still standing and what are you going to do? Because we get the privilege and the opportunity to do so next. Boy, do we have a day? Do we have a day on the schedule. We flow from Gene Nichols to JC to Nick Hansen's back on the app, going live, walking with Nick.

He is a poet. He is beautiful messaging always. And then wrapping it up and circling around to finish it up. So I really encourage you to listen in today and you're going to continue to find some of your people, and you're going to continue to find some of your people on Mondays, find some of your people on Tuesdays, find some on Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. And maybe not everybody's for you, and that's okay. And h***, I might not be for you, and that's okay. But the best part about it is there's somebody that is and somebody might that you hear and talk to on Cadre just resonates with you and says, wow, that one worked.

Wow, that one made sense. That one hit home. So I really, really encourage you to listen to in because you never know what just might hit that day or might spark some interest or spark something in your mindset to make maybe even some changes. Because I think all about this life is about my message of still standing and making through it, no matter what. So I encourage you today to take the Cadre leap and the Cadre journey, to try a variety of different individuals that are showing up for you and showing up for us.

I'm a fan, just like you, where I can't wait to listen to some individuals, you know? Again, my favorite, I'll just be honest, my favorite out there right now is Doctor Charryse on Wednesday mornings. I cannot wait to get ready and listen to her and hear her message. But that's me. And somebody else may love JC and somebody else may need Shannon. Somebody else may love on them. And all the other individuals that participate here on the Cadre platform. That's the beauty of it. So find your spot, find your place, not only in life, but here at Cadre.

And we look forward to continuing the journey together. And thanks for all the individuals that showed up today. I love you guys. Vacation was good, but it's even better to be back. So take care, be good to one another, show up for each other. And always remember, you're still standing and you can get through anything. All right?