Monday Motivation

Happy Monday. Happy Monday, everybody. It's Luke Wendtlandt here. I'll wait till you all join. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. It's a beautiful day here in Minnesota. The rain isn't going to rain on our parade. It's not going to happen. Hope everybody's having a wonderful day. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We'll wait till you all join. I got caught in a little bit of rain. I'm not going to lie. So I'm walking underneath an underpass here, but that's all. Good. Good morning, everybody.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. How is everybody doing? It's 4 July. Post the 4 July. How are you doing with, like, you tried to push all of that into one week and then you followed up with the next week and I'm sure you're still busy. I get it. So am I. Good morning, everybody. Hope everybody is having a fantastic, fantastic start to their week and you had a good weekend to recharge, reset, do all the things. I wanted to give you one tip today I wanted to give you one tip today that you can use anytime at work, and I've been using it for years.

Okay. Does anybody know this muscle? Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Oh, my gosh. Nate, finger. Jules, Colleen. I love you guys. Good morning. Happy Monday. Does anybody know about this muscle that attaches the lower part of your vertebrae and your hip flexors? It's called the psoas muscle. P S O a s. Psoas. You say it just like psoas. Psoas. Right. So there's this muscle, and it's the muscle of the mind. Okay. So it's the muscle of mind. You actually carry and hold a lot of your anxiety in that muscle.

It's one of the biggest muscles that you have. If you look at it and you google and research the psoas muscle. Okay, so listen to this. If you are at work and you are having maybe conflict with a teammate, maybe you're anxious before a meeting, maybe you are struggling to get all your work done and it's keeping you up a little bit and you have a little bit of anxiety at work. There's the old stretch that they call the lunge, the runner stretch. Right? So the lunge, the runner stretch. Does everybody know what that one is?

The lunge, the runner stretch. I'll do my best to show you. Okay, so you kind of do one of these and then you go like this. And you can see, like, how my foot is back there, right? So this is that. That. It's called the runner stretch, the lunge. What it does is it stretches the living daylights out of your psoas muscle. This is specifically the psoas stretch. And I encourage you, if you're ever super anxious or super nervous or excited and you have a lot of things going on at work, to take a moment and get that stretch in.

Okay? Get that psoas stretch stretched. Because what'll happen is two things. Number one, you might even be dizzy, as weird as that sounds. Like, if you're holding so much anxiety and stress, who here has went to do yoga before? And when they're in yoga, they almost come out and they're like, oh, my gosh. I'm just like. It's like wringing out my whole life of emotions and stress and anxiety and da da da da da. And you just feel so drained after a yoga. Well, in this particular case, it's kind of going to give you maybe that same or similar vein.

You might even feel a little, yo, lightheaded. You might have to drink some water because you're feeling dehydrated. Right. So I encourage you, again, listen to the tip of the day. If. If you're feeling anxious at work, if you're feeling stressed, if you're feeling nervous, if you're feeling all those things, I want you to stop and I want you to do three minutes on each side. Three minutes on each side. Again, it's the lunge, the runner's lunge stretch, where you go like this. See how my foot's in the back?

Just like that. And you're going to give it one of these, and you're going to stretch that out, and you're going to count to whatever. And it's really important that your shoulders are going straight forward and they're right above your hips. And you can feel that. You can feel that all the way through. And so somebody like me, who has anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder, and I get anxious a lot, you know, what I try to do over my workday is I get that running stretch in. It's the psoas muscle.

So again, remember this. Remember this muscle. And remember, if you're anxious or nervous at work, to just sit in your office, go outside of your cube, go outside of your work, and get that stretch in. Today, it's the psoas p s o a s soas muscle. Last but not least, I want to end with this. I've had the opportunity, the privilege, the dream, the honor to get to know a lot, a lot of people in this Cadre sphere over the last, gosh, two and a half years. And I just want to let you all know that I had the privilege to attend Miss Shannon Paul's comedy, the comedy through chaos event on Saturday night.

She sent me a Message and said, I'd like to invite you and a plus one, you and a guest. You can be on my guest list. I would love to have you come. And I want to let you know I said yes. Remember, there's a live about this. Just say yes. And I said yes. And I went with my wife. And it was amazing. It was utterly amazing. Comedy through chaos and Miss Shannon Paul. I laughed. I had to laugh at myself through some of the things that even, like, my wife and I do, we looked at each other and we kind of gave, like, one of those nudges on the knee, like, that's us.

But it's. It was fantastic. Unbelievable experience. Comedy through chaos. Miss Shannon Paul, she knocked it out of the park with her and her team. And also an individual from Khadra who is also on there, Tiffany Norton. And she was the final act of the day. And it was just so good. So I just want to let you know, if you are in the Minneapolis St. Paul area, and you ever are, you had the opportunity to see comedy through chaos. It was really meaningful. It was impactful. We talked about neurodivergence, anxiety, substance abuse, mental health, all the things, and it was fantastic.

So with that being said, guys, you guys have a wonderful week, wherever you are. Our livestream schedule is officially, like, getting ridiculously off the charts. Whether it's Stephen, Amelia, Imitas, the teams on Saturday, Sunday, all the different things that we're covering is just borderline world class. So I love it. I love listening in. I love seeing the live streams. I hope you all do, too. If you can't watch the live streams, just always know that you can go back and watch them as a quote, unquote, pre recorded pieces of content.

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