Enoughness 101

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy Saturday. You know, it's been a dream of mine for a while that Cadre Saturday mornings would kind of turn into old fashioned Saturday morning cartoons, and it kind of feels like we've gotten there, right. If you haven't checked out already, Helene with it's your birthday was on about half an hour ago. Got doctor Charisse coming up next, and then Kristen and then Garrett and Daniel this afternoon. What a great lineup for our personal development day today. My name is JC Lippold.

If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. It's a gift. It's a gift to spend time with you. It always is. As you're signing in, it's nice to see your names flipping by on my screen. I hope you see one another as well. Feel free to say, hey, say good morning. How are you? How are things going? So personal development day? We spend so much time thinking about what we do. Right now is a great time to think about who you are and the things that you care about outside of the what.

On Monday, professional development day, we talk a lot about the what. What do you do today? We talk about who, who are you and who are you becoming? And I phrased that last bit on purpose. Who are you becoming? Have you ever heard the phrase do something that your future self will thank you for? How do you feel about that phrase, do something today that your future self will thank you for? If anything comes to mind, feel free to go ahead and type it into chat now. Again, if we've shared time together before, you know that I spend a lot of time thinking about the things that we say and do almost automatically.

And I offer a different perspective. Definitely not the right perspective, but a different one. Cadre is all about showing you and reminding you and amplifying that voice in your life that there are many ways to wellness. So what I say may not be truthful for you. It may not resonate with you. Speak wonder says in regards to the do something today that your future self will thank you for. Speak wonder says, it makes me want to stick around to meet my future self. I love that perspective. I love that perspective.

Speak, wonder. Doing something today that your future self will be thankful for makes you want to stick around to meet that person. I love that it almost puts some energy in your tank today and changes perhaps where your eyes are looking, whether looking down or forward or up. So speak wonder. Thank you for offering your perspective. I'm going to offer one within the scope of enoughness. If you're like, gosh, I thought JC talks about enoughness. He hasn't said it yet. Boom, there it is. Enoughness.

Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already, indeed, in this moment, right now, enough. The disclaimer is always, that does not then mean that the response is complacency. Enoughness does not lead you to going, hey, I am going to do nothing because I'm already enough. The end. No, enoughness actually does the opposite. Enoughness as right now, I am so incredibly enough that I am capable of doing something incredibly worthwhile. Jules says that the phrase do something today that your future self will be thankful for says, it makes me think I need to do something with purpose.

Ooh, I love that. Right? It means that today is a good day to do something because you're choosing to do it. Bye, Jefferson. So here's a different perspective on the phrase do something that your future self will be thankful for. In the lens of enoughness, so often we're sold the idea that everything that we're doing today is going to make us into who we are supposed to be, or into someone who is better, or into someone who is enough. So sometimes for some people, and I would risk to say it this way, sometimes for every person, the phrase do something today that your future self will be thankful for can be a little bit of a trap.

Here's what I mean. Have you ever gotten to the place where all of a sudden your intuition is saying, hey, let's go down this pathway, but that voice that is saying, tomorrow is the day that you will be enough. Tomorrow is the day that the thing you don't like about yourself will be gone because you will have purged or repented or shown up and sucked, or all those phrases that lead us to believe right now you need to do something because you are deficient or you are incomplete. So we probably know those people, right?

Those people who live excessively in the tomorrow I will be enough. Tomorrow I will be thankful for who I am. Everything's about balance. There are things that I do right now with my future self in mind. There are things I do right now with an homage to who I used to be. Just like we talk about tomorrow on thin space, come back same time, 24 hours minus seven minutes from now. But sometimes, and I would risk to say the majority of the time, what we should be doing is doing something that our present self will be incredibly thankful for.

When you're thirsty, you should give yourself something to drink. When you're tired. You should give yourself some rest when you feel alone. You should place yourself around people. When you are having the idea that is counter to what the world is saying, you should be thinking right now. You should honor the thought that you're having do something today that your present self will be thankful for. Culturally, I've never heard that phrase. Now, again, am I saying don't do anything that your future self will be thankful for?

No. Gosh, I'm gonna say it again. Speak. Wonder says, making it makes me want to stick around to meet my future self. Jules says it makes me think I need to do something right now with purpose. Oh, my gosh. 1 billion%. Yes. But isn't it weird? We live in a culture where and I listen to a lot of stuff, I'm around a lot of people. I've never heard someone say, do something today that your present self will be thankful for. Never heard it. So maybe my gift to you today and your gift to yourself that all of a sudden, you go, I'm going to take care of my future self, my present self, and my past self.

Something to think about and speak. Wonder. I'm so happy that you're streaming wonder years. It's a show that stirs up so many things. Such a good one. Y'all hang around. I saw Kristen pop in here a little bit ago. Kristen will be jumping in in just about an hour. But again, we are always here for you, Cadre. I hope you are well, and we will talk to you soon.