Monday Motivation: The Social Dilemma

Good morning, Cadre family. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, my gosh. What an amazing day. I'm just going to give it 1 minute until the notification tab or light pops on. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. You're going to hear about mine in about a minute. So, JC, thank you for that awesome kickstart, by the way, that was a great kickstart to my week. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning, Cadre family. Here it is. It's eight bells. Good morning.

Good morning. We'll give it a second. Today. It is just one of those, like, ridiculously gorgeous mornings. But here's the thing. You can manifest it to be beautiful wherever you are. It can be Seattle, be a little cloudy. It can be out east. It can be out east. A little rainy. It could be central with sun. It doesn't matter. It's just a beautiful day. All right, guys, we're going to kick it off. This one's actually a little bit short and sweet today. What I want to tell you is this. I had the opportunity over the weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, to spend a large amount of time, by large amount of time, I literally mean every minute, every hour outside of the time that you slept, you know, with somebody, with another group.

By another group, I mean friends, close acquaintance friends. They're as close friends as we have. They were our neighbors for a decade, and then we haven't grown apart by any stretch of imagination. We just moved. And when we moved, you know, our relationship has kept intact and we've been able to watch the kids grow and watch the kids grow up. And you can see the smile on their. On my face because I just think they're such amazing human beings and people and why am I bringing this conversation to the forefront today is I believe that you have a social battery.

I believe that you have a social battery. And your social battery either gets drained or it gets filled. Imagine if you have electric cardinal and you show up to a coffee, to a lunch, to a weekend, and you fill up. You're coming with your electric car, and your battery is maybe 50% right. So your battery is 50%. When you come to this coffee, when you come to this weekend, when you come to spend time, when you go to the wedding, when you go to these things, right, you're at 50%. And then every minute, hour, day, your charge is either going to go up or it's going to go down.

And what I found is this weekend, I came in with my 50% battery and I left a true 100% full the time that we were able to spend. It's the old adage, no drama, mama, no bad energy, good energy, laughing, spending great time with one another. And I encourage you to think about your relationships, your friendships, those acquaintance you have, and when you hop in to work events, when you go into your personal life and you spend time with others, because really, that's all a choice, right? Work is a choice.

And where friendships are a choice and where who you spend your time with is your choice, I want you to think about are the individuals that you're spending time with ramping up your battery to a full charge, your social battery to a full charge. Are they peeling and taking it away? Right. We're either giving or taking. Giving or taking. And I just have to tell you, I took, took, took all weekend long. And it was easy, it was fun, it was memorable, it was enjoyable. It was those life experiences we live for.

Watching your daughter get up on the skis and my son kneeboard for the first time, seven years old, which is crazy to think about, but it just a remarkable weekend experience. Remarkable something that we live for, my wife and I live for, to spend that time with those individuals. And, you know, I woke up one morning and had a conversation with an 82 year old mother, of course, the group of individuals, the grandmother, et cetera. And it was very memorable for me. And to hear the story of the how and the where.

And, you know, everything from horseback riding to losing your watch on the horseback, you know, those things you'll never forget. But you enter a Monday soulful. And so again, I ask you your weekend. Not every weekend. I come Monday morning and I'm feeling 100% charged. I would be lying if I tell you that, but I am today. And make no mistake about it, I would say 95% is curtailed to the individuals in the y. So my shout out to you, ballises. Thanks for the most amazing weekend. My wife and I absolutely loved it.

It was remarkable. Thank you. Thank you for having us. And not only that, but thanks for taking the kids a day early. They just had the time of their life. So I hope that you all take this one in today. Think about those work relationships, those friends that you get to spend time with, family or otherwise, and ask yourself, is my battery inching up or is my battery being drained? If your battery is being drained, we've talked about boundaries. We've talked about all those other things. And if your battery is being charged, maybe you gotta ask yourself, how can I get back to this well again sooner?

So take care. You guys have a wonderful, wonderful, dynamic week. A wonderful week. Do something special. Find ways to see how you can charge the battery. This is going to be a phenomenal week. I have no doubt about it. Hopefully you can lift other people up in your work organizations, the people you get to rub shoulders with, the people that we get the privilege to come to work with and call colleagues, lift each other up, find ways to fill up their battery at work. Be the energy and the light and the love that I think we all need.

Take care. You guys have a wonderful rest of your day. Thanks for joining in, everybody. It's just so great to see all the different faces and names and ats right at, call it representative who? Right at whoever showing up here. But I've seen probably 30, 40 names popping, so it's, it's always beautiful to see and partake on this beautiful Monday. So have a wonderful, wonderful week, you guys. Do something really special for somebody out there, okay? Lift up your organizations. Lift up each other.

Bye bye now.