Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already, indeed enough. JC will teach the 4 tenets of enoughness and provide ways to apply them to your life.
It's the fourth week through our cycle of talking about the tenets of enoughness. Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already, indeed, enough right now. That doesn't mean complacency. It means that you don't have to change right now in order to do awesome stuff.
The production of Matilda Junior closes tomorrow. There is a character in the show who says the word backwards four times. It literally steals the show, especially with the little kids. Did I mention my granddaughter's name is Matilda? That is making my day.
But I want you to think about how a character who has two words, his name, michael, and then the word backwards, could become so wonderfully impactful with the audience. Why do we, as humans, insist on placing a value on our worth? Next week, we'll look at applications of enoughness.
Hey there, Cadre. How are you? How are you doing? I hope you are great. And if you're not, that's okay, too. My name is JC Lippoldt, and it is Saturday. It's Saturday morning where I am. I am in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, twelve floors above the ground in the double tree, downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Marisa. It is personal development day. Speak, wonder. Personal development day. This is enoughness 101. And it is the fourth week of our cycle through. I'm in a very squeaky chair. If you hear a squeak, it's not a mouse.
It is my chair. It's the fourth week through our cycle of talking about the tenets of enoughness. So, a couple weeks ago, we talked about your words are enough. That's enoughness. The week after that, we spoke about your feelings are enough. That is your intuition. Last week, we spoke about your thoughts are enough. That is your curiosity. And today we're going to speak about kind of the glue that brings that all together. And that is you are enough. And that is your presence or your essence. That may be the hard one, but sometimes I think it's the easy one.
That's the give up and be yourself part of it. So, enoughness, if you've never shared time, let me say that in a less big headed way. If we've never shared time together before, or if I've never had the opportunity to share time with you before, thanks for the opportunity to do so right now. But with that being said, enoughness, I always define it, so I'll do it right now. Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already, indeed, enough right now. What does that mean? That you don't have to change in order to do something awesome right now.
Now again, listen to that whole statement. Enoughness means that you don't have to change in order to do something really good right now. That doesn't mean complacency. Enoughness does not mean, hey, never change. Enoughness means that you don't have to change right now in order to do awesome stuff. So this idea, the fourth tenet. Again, the first tenant, your words are enough. Second tenet, your feelings are enough. Your third tenet, your thoughts are enough. And today, the fourth tenet, your you are enough.
Meaning your presence, your essence, all of the magic that you are in this moment is enough. This is the hard one or the easy one. And here's what it means. Here's how you practice it. It means that in this moment, the stuff that comes to mind, to heart, to word, if you let it happen. If you let it be, if you go, ooh, you know what? Here is what I want to do. Here's how I want to bring it into action. That is what it looks like. So, as I often do, I look around the world, and I go, all right, here are great examples of enoughness.
And, you know, I've been talking a lot about this wonderful production that I've been working on of Matilda Junior. So I'm going to share it one more time, because if, again, if we haven't shared space together before, I do in one of my hats that I put on, serve as an artistic director in the theater world. So, Matilda Junior, it closes tomorrow. But there is a character in this show. The character's name is Michael. He plays the brother of Matilda, and he says two words in the show. He says his name Michael.
He says that once, and then he says the word backwards four times. He says the word four times backwards. It literally steals the show, especially with the little kids in the show or the little kids in the audience. They just think it's the funniest thing. Oh, I'm seeing. Speak, wonder. Did I mention my granddaughter's name is Matilda? Oh, my gosh. Speak. Wonderful. That is making my day right now. What a great, great name, right? Speak wonder. Is. Is the name from the book? Is that where the. Where the idea for the name came from, or what's the.
What's the history of the name Matilda? Oh, and I love the middle name Matilda June. That's beautiful. But I want you to think about how a character who has two words, his name, michael, and then the word backwards, how that character could become so wonderfully impactful with the audience by simply only having that one word. And it really comes down to the fact that the actor's name is Henry in real life, but he is so wonderfully present with the opportunity to make that moment something that it brings the audience to life.
Sometimes we think what we have is small. Sometimes we think what we have is meaningless. Sometimes we think what we have is say it with me, not enough. And all of a sudden, it's not. But when we realize that what we have is born of us, it's born of our words, because it's stirred in our feelings and it's rolled around in our thoughts, and all of a sudden, we start to understand this idea of enoughness, this idea that we are already, indeed, in this moment, enough. Something powerful exists. Why do we, as humans, insist on placing a value on our worth?
Because there is worth. There is worth on what we do. Why? Because the relationship we have with each other, and there is relationship on what we get for what we do. Now, again, whether that is right or wrong, we exist in relationship with the world and with other humans in the systems in which we've set up. And that is what it is. But with that being said, if we don't start to acknowledge that at the beginning, we don't think we have any power to assist and adjust that. So next week, we'll take a little break of talking about the tenants, and we'll continue to look at applications of enoughness.
And then again, we'll continue to work through this cycle of talking about the tenants and then the applications, because enoughness is a calibration cycle. Y'all, I appreciate you. We'll be back tomorrow morning with a little bit of time spent in the thin space. But, you know, there's always time, energy with other contributors right here in the Cadre sphere. Y'all have a great day. We'll talk to you soon. Bye.
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