Monday Motivation: 8 Hours A Day

Is it you? Is it? Good morning, Cadre. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Let's give it a minute while my folks join in. Listening to this awesome tones and I song doesn't get much better than this one. I had a dream that someday we'll just fly fly away good morning. Good morning, everybody. We're starting off with some unbelievable music. Hope everybody is having a wonderful start to the day. Getting crushed already on your Monday. I love it. I love it. All right, I'm gonna pause this bad boy.

Ah. Did everybody have a wonderful weekend? Hopefully you rolled into a self care Saturday and a professional developer, personal growth. Excuse me. Personal growth Saturday and a self care Sunday. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Jumping right in here, mister Hugo. Good morning, Brenna. Good morning. Joe Pajoy, Jules. Gosh, there's so many individuals here that popped on right away this morning. There's nothing like a Monday. It's going to be a great week. But I got a couple nuggets that I want to share with you today.

Today. And I really want you to think about this and if this is or isn't you, so how this all started. Good morning, Beth. Good morning. Good morning. Hopefully you had an amazing vacation away. We all deserve it. And it's always great to take in that sun, especially that southeastern, southeastern United States sun. But my son and I were driving back from church yesterday and he had made mention that one of his teachers said to him, imagine this. Imagine if you do not like Mondays and you would live to about 70 years old.

If you're lucky, you're going to spend ten years not liking Mondays. And, you know, him and I talked about that. And as we do, we go deeper. And naturally we said to, I said to him, I said, imagine this. Imagine, you know, going to school, going to college, finding a job, working and putting five ish hours into a company, an organization, into a thing, whatever that thing is that you necessarily don't jive with, don't like you're not loving the work, you're not happy, you're not fulfilled, you're not in love with it.

So let's just think about this. 40 hours a week, go through the course of a year, times it by five. You've just burned 10,000 hours. 10,280, to be specific. So I think it's just this moment of time. Like, he brought it up again to me and I naturally talked back to him about, man, I am so lucky that I get to do what I love to do, which is help people, support individuals, lift each other up. But do you, and do you get the opportunity every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, where you're working, your organization, your business, the people that you get to be privileged to call, colleagues, coworkers, etcetera?

Can you not wait to come in on a Thursday afternoon and share XYZ with your teammates? Or is it to the flip side of the coin, Saturday, Sunday, where you're really dreading coming into Monday and you're anxious about it? Or it's a struggle bust to get the shoes on, your pants on or your skirt, your dress, or your sport coat or your jacket. You just kind of struggle through getting into Monday, not motivated by the work, not energized, not positive, not happy. And my question to you is this. Let's say you make between.

I'm just using a number, 70, 80, 90,000, $60,000 a year, doing something you want to use the word hate, doing something that doesn't bring you fulfillment and joy. What would it take for the flip side of the coin to move the needle, to make a choice or a decision to put your flag in the ground, to say, you know, I love being outdoors, I love fishing, and I would like to start a guide service, or I would like to start this, or I would like to try to work here, give it a go on this working nature.

Starting a role at Rei. My question is, is that delta and change of salary too much more over your happiness, joy, and love for the aforementioned role? Because what I found over the better part of the last 10, 15, 20 years of my life is some people are just miserable doing what they're doing. Miserable. And I just do not want you to do that. I do not want you to be miserable doing what you're doing. I do not want you to be miserable having to show up to work, to punch in the clock, punch it out.

You know, there's some individuals that I know that are incredibly wealthy, incredibly successful, and they're miserable day to day doing what they're doing. So, again, I just, I really want to push this one on to you today, and I want you to think about it, and I want you to think and ask yourself, like, what would it take for me to be happy doing what I do today? What would it. What would it take for me to be inspired to show up on Monday? What would it be for me to become a trend transformational leader in the industry that I show up in?

And if that's not you, that's okay. But then there's two different paths that you can go, because some individuals make the lives of everybody around them miserable or some other. Some individuals show up and make the lives of everybody around them positive, inspiring, upbeat, etcetera. So even if you don't get to do what you love to do, are you at least making other individuals lives better? Because if you're not, then I think that's a great separator to say, maybe it's my time and why am I saying this and why am I preaching this?

Number one, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to say that there's a lot of individuals that are organizations across the United States that are miserable in their jobs. Number two, there's 83% of all individuals are looking for new jobs. So let me say that again. 83% of individuals in the United States are looking for a job today. That means 17% of all individuals at our organizations are quote unquote fulfilled, happy, energized. It doesn't say they're making great money, but it's they're happy where they are.

83% are not. So what does it take to be the 17%? You've got to find what it is that you love to do and align it with something in your professional landscape. What do you love to do personally? What do you love to do professionally? How can they align at a 20,000 foot view level? I love to help people. That's it. I love to help people. How can I do that in different roles, responsibilities, etcetera? I found it. I found how I can help and support and develop. Sometimes I'm doing it for free. Whether it's coaching individuals, helping support people.

I love doing it. Love it with all my heart because I love supporting and helping people. I love helping individuals find the light bulb moment in their life to figure out that whatever that was for them is not for them and it's time to go. Go. And I can make changes and I can establish goals and I can drive results in my life and I can make change. That's it for me. And that's what I love to do. But multiply leaders and bring joy and fulfillment into other individual's life through business or otherwise.

But you figure that out for you. And when you do, please follow up. Send me an email. Let me know. I love that so much when people have those light bulb moments for themselves. So please let me know. Those are, those are kind of what I live for here at Cadre. But boy, we have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful live livestream schedule coming up for today. Everybody from Matt Taffy to Gene Nichols to Nick Hanson to JC Lippold. We have a good crew coming on board today. I think there's, like, five or six live streams, so keep those notifications on.

As always. I would say there might be a nugget or two that you might just pull away. You never know. So hop in and take a listen to their two minute, three minute, five minute, seven minute spiel. Because you just, like I said, you never know what just might click or resonate with you that day. And last but not least. Least is this. Do not waste 10,280 hours in a five year career that you don't even want to be in, and you're miserable. So that's my words of advice and wisdom for you. Have a wonderful week.

Lift somebody up. Thank you for being part of the Cadre journey. Our community is growing, and it's going to continue to grow. We got some really cool advancements coming down the pike from our home screen. From a tech perspective, it's going to be really cool. I'm just excited for you guys to all see, but with that being said, take care. Be good. I appreciate you guys more than you'll know. And thanks for showing up. Showing up's half the battle in this life. Bye bye, guys.