Enoughness 101

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey there, Cadre. Happy Saturday. How are you? Well, I hope you are good. And if you're not, that is just fine as well. Saturdays, what do we do? We talk about growing personally. Personal development, kind of who you are. Car jazz, nice to see you. Personal development, who we are. Mondays, we talk about professional development. Amy, nice to see you, Jules. Oh, by golly, all the. All the friends are walking into the virtual Cadre sphere right now. So, as I was saying, personal development is about working on who we are Mondays.

Professional development, working on what we do. Oh, Miss Shannon, Paul is in the house, everybody. Nice to see you. MSP. So, I know it's your birthday. Crew Helene and Christina did their live stream about 30 minutes ago. And later on this morning and today, you'll see Dan and Garrett, you'll see Kristen. Always these little moments to go, where are you? How are you doing? And by simply clicking in to the Cadre sphere, it is always a reminder you're doing something really good for yourself. And that is enough.

There's the word enoughness. That's what we talk about at this time every Saturday. Enoughness. One of my most favorite made up words. What is enoughness? Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already, indeed, enough. In this moment, you are capable of doing something life changing, life giving, life altering, life embettering. The world often teaches us that we have to do something before we are enough. Enoughness says right now there's something that you can do. If this is your first time tuning into an enoughness livestream, there's four tenets.

We talk about either all of them or one of them each week. Those four tenets are your words are enough. That's your honesty. Your feelings are enough. That's your intuition. Youre. Your thoughts are enough. It's your curiosity. And lastly, you are enough. And that is your presence. Your honesty, your intuition, your curiosity, your presence. These are things that you can flex to work on your enoughness. Today, I'd like to talk about the last one. That you are enough. We often see deficiency in enoughness in the popular things that we hear and say to ourselves and to others.

If I said this phrase, finish it in the way that comes to mind, feel free to type it in or just say it out loud to yourself. Okay, finish this phrase. Be as good as you are, or be as good as. And often we hear that phrase, and it's be as good as you dream to be, or your future self will thank you for be as good as is often a phrase that invites us to go, hey, do the thing 1% better. I like saying, be as good as you are today. Like, if you want to maximize your moment, like, if you want to rock as hard as you can rock, it's not about working harder than you can or being better than you are.

It's about taking the moment to be present enough to go, huh, what do I have going for me? Like, think about Gary sinise in Apollo 13. Yeah, I just dated myself. Apollo 13, the movie. You remember it? Have you seen it? If you haven't, you should. It's great. But there is an actor who plays an astronaut who they thought was going to get sick. They thought he was going to get sick. So they took him off of the flight and he didn't get to go to the moon. He's like, I'm not going to get sick. They're like, nah, it looks like you're going to get sick.

So they took him off, and of course, he's depressed. He's frustrated. He's not getting to go to the moon. An astronaut not going to space is like a fish without water, y'all. Well, all of a sudden, in Apollo 13 historically, but also in the movie, right there is trouble. Houston, we have a problem. And Gary sinise gets woken up and brought in to NASA to say, hey, Gary, you need to help us figure out how we can get Apollo 13 back to Earth safely. So number one, Gary had to realize that it's like, hey, I'm not in space.

But right now, I can do something with my expertise, with my knowledge of astronauting, to help out his friends. Then they bring in Gary, and they say, gary, here's all the things that the astronauts on the shuttle have that they can use. And all of a sudden, it's like Gilligan's island. It's like MacGyver. It's like he, like he had a pen, a hat, an eraser, some post it notes. And they said, gary, use these things to fix the space shuttle. So then all of a sudden, Gary went into the test shuttle and used all these things to build something that could help the shuttle get back to earth.

Both of these examples, Gary not getting to go on Apollo 13, he could have said, I don't have any worth anymore. I'm not going to be one of those people on the tv, one of those people driving down the street, waving in the back of a convertible at all the people saying, welcome back to Earth, Gary. All of a sudden, Gary had to go, right now, I can, in this moment, I can help get the shuttle back to Earth number two. Gary could have been like, we don't have anything to. To fix the shuttle. But Gary said, here's what we do have.

Both of these are wonderful examples of enoughness. Now, again, why do I use this movie? Enoughness is all around us, but we're literally talking about the space shuttle. We're literally talking about this big, awesome thing. Could you imagine having your life's work be taken away from you? And you know what? I know a lot of you can imagine that. I know a lot of times the things we talk about here on Cadre are hitting you when literally your world is falling apart. Even in those moments, y'all, enoughness is a valuable calibration tool, because in any moment, you are built to survive.

You are. That's the nice thing about our species. We have mechanisms that can get us going. Shannon Paul, fantastic examples. Thank you, Miss Shannon Paul. The way that you use comedy and language and story. Thank you for being a fantastic example of enoughness. Jules, when one door closes, another one opens. Yeah, right. All these things that we say, like, that is such a phrase that we hear all the time. And we may go, ah. Like, so often that phrase is, ah, don't feel bad about the door that's closed.

Cause there's another door open. Nah, like, feel bad. If you're feeling bad, guess what? You still are enough. If you are struggling, you still are enough. If you are down and out, you still are enough. And again, not like, tap on the head, you are enough. But no, you have the capacity to do something. So my team, my Cadre, my very special group of people with a special intention, with a special purpose. That's what Cadre means. If you ever were wondering, that's what it means. A special group of people with a special intention.

I think that special intention is reminding each other here that we are enough. I hope you have a great day, everybody. m. central standard time to talk about the thin space. But in a little bit, you're gonna see registered dietitian Kristen Grimes from Denver. You're gonna see Dan Griffin, who helps, especially those male identifying humans, catch up in a world that often where we're male identifying people, men don't do the work that our female identifying friends do. Dan's doing the work and helping men get there.

You're gonna see Garrett, sports psychology superstar. And I'm not saying that like, he's sitting on a high shelf, but he's a really, really wonderful, wonderful person who takes things off the high shelf and helps you look at yourself and your performance in this world. He had a lot of great opportunities to connect with a lot of really cool people today, y'all. I hope you have a good one, and we'll see you soon.