Bold Followership

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy Monday. And actually, this is the second time I've gotten to sign into the Cadre sphere today. Why? Because this morning I was having coffee with Luke, and Luke invited me to film his live stream with him. So nice to see you again, everybody. No matter where you are on this great big planet of ours, on the Monday, I hope you are great. On Mondays, we talk about professional growth or professional development. What does that mean? Well, professional development. Hey, Chrissy the trainer.

Zero five three. Nice to see you, my friend. Marisa, it's always so much fun when all of a sudden you start seeing names of people you know and people you don't know. I always call strangers people I don't know yet. So if you're one of those people, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you today. As I was saying, it's a professional growth and development today, the things that we do versus Saturdays, personal development day, where we talk about the people that we are. This is the doing day.

Saturday is the being day. That's how I think about the two. How do you think about those two? But on Mondays, I talk about the idea of followership in a world where we are often led to be number one or the leader, the one on top, the one always with the freshest idea, if you think about it. I don't know, maybe I'm the only one. But I spend a majority of my life as a follower. I follow traffic. I follow like someone. Someone writes a song and someone goes, hey, have you heard this song? And I go, no, but I know you and I like you.

Therefore, I bet I should listen to this song. And all of a sudden I'm following within someone's taste or someone's idea or someone's excitement. So followership. So we talk about here throughout Monday. You've probably seen some other notifications on your phone. I know Matt Taffy was on a half an hour ago. Gene Mitchell's earlier this morning. Luke this morning. It's so great to have many pathways to wellness and growth presented to you here, but I'd love to remind you that your perspective in the Cadre spheres is incredibly valuable, incredibly important.

So always share your thoughts. Always say, hey, always let us know how you are doing, because that is what Cadre is inviting into this world, a space of access to the conversation around how you are. The world is better when you are better, the world supports you when you need support. Right now, if you go, no, the world does not. Cadre sphere is your opportunity to be a part of that world. Okay, so, followership. This morning, as I shared, I was having coffee with Luke, and all of a sudden, Luke said, hey, do you want to film my live stream?

Before I thought about the question, I said, yeah, of course. I didn't know what he meant. All of a sudden, Luke got up out of the chair, and he took his coffee mug from the buttered tin, which is a nice little breakfast restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota. And he started walking down the sidewalk, and I was like, oh, Luke just borrowed the coffee mug. And in that moment, Luke walked around the corner into a little urban park, and he said, right here. Right here. And we sat down on this bench, and he started his live stream.

Jules, nice to see you again. Two times today. And he sat down on this bench, he started his live stream, and all of a sudden, he handed the phone over to me to hold the phone for him while he did his live stream. In that moment, I thought of two things. Number one, I had the opportunity to be incredibly present within where he was bringing the conversation. He was talking about how him and part of his family sat in the screened porch when the rain was falling. And he closed his eyes, and he found himself present within the moment of the rain.

People spend millions and millions and millions of dollars to try to capture that. Like, you could Google rain sounds or meditation nature. You'll find videos and tracks recorded to replicate that. And he simply made the point. Simply not meaning not valuable, but simply, as in, like, hey, you can sit where you are and turn up your awareness of what's going on around you and save the $50 million to be present in that moment. Luke gave me the opportunity to do exactly that. Well, I sat in this urban park with buses driving by and people walking by.

I got to hear someone offer me space. Who's offering you space? That if you held their phone for them while they recorded the moment, figuratively. But for me, it was literal, that you could be in the moment that you are in and find that little scoop of what you need right now. The second thing that I noticed this morning, I said yes. Right away. Luke said, hey, do you want to do this thing? And because Luke is one of those leaders that I love following, I said yes. I don't know where he was taking me.

I don't know what he meant by film, his live stream. But it was the best of things. Who are those leaders in your world? Who are those people who inspire you, who give you energy that maybe are saying yes? Or maybe if you go, hey, can I. If you ask a question, they would offer opportunity for you to say yes to. Who cares what the opportunity is? I love following those leaders who fill my cup, who inspire me. But how often do you not say yes? Because maybe you don't think that you're enough. There's my Saturday.

Or you struggle with being in the moment at hand. Hey, there's my Sunday livestream. Maybe you feel on the outside of that leader's circle. There's my Tuesday livestream. The outward facing click. All of these are opportunities for me to go, huh? I could literally talk about saying yes to Luke inviting me to be a part of something on any of these days that I jump in and share with you. Why I not because I'm a great leader. It's because I'm one h*** of a follower. So to all of you out there today, who can you say yes to?

And where will they leave you, and what will you learn? Take some time to think about it. Write it down. Maybe you comment right here. Who is someone that you can follow, and you can maybe walk up to them and say, hey, tell me something. Hey, let's do something. Let's dream big. And all of a sudden they guide you somewhere, y'all, I will see you tomorrow. But, yeah, we're facing click. We'll see you later.