Monday Motivation: 3 Takeaways From This Weekend That Will Change Your Life. Listen In.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. It's Luke Wendtlandt, founder of Cadre. Absolutely excited to be here this morning. I have three nuggets of wisdom for you today that I think you may either, a, resonate with or, b, just might change your life. So listen into this. Oh, and by the way, I just have to show you this real quick. So our friends at the Minnesota Heart Institute foundation. There's your big Brad Paisley sign. I think that's pretty cool. Great way to start the day.

Like I said, there's Brad Paisley Heart 360, and it's sponsored by the Minneapolis Heart Institute foundation. Gotta love that. Gotta love that. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, I hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. I hope you're able to recharge, reset, get the batteries back together. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. So I have three small micro stories today, small, three small micro stories today that I just think may affect you. And I think it might be something that you're going to take with today.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Jules. Good morning. Newfie lover sue. Hope everything's great out east. Be Zobitz Killeen. This is one of my highlights of the week is to go live and do check and to see everybody and just get a kind of pulse and start the week. It's just something I live for. Okay. The first one is going to be a little hard hitting. And then there's two more. So the first one is this. When I grew up and was playing tennis, gosh, it was twelve. I was twelve and unders.

It was twelve and unders. And I was playing tennis with a good friend of mine. He played at Holy Angels and him and his wife had a beautiful boy. We're just going to call him John Doe because I just don't want to give any anonymity from them or, excuse me, I want to completely remain anonymous. But that sweet boy, six and a half years old, lost his fight to cancer. And we had the celebration of life on Sunday. And we were able to connect with my dear friend and my friend's wife and just give hugs and send our well wishes.

You really don't know what to say in those moments, but my message to you today is this, tomorrow is not guaranteed whatsoever. Whatsoever. And if you are not taking advantage of this thing that we have called life, that your one in 4 trillion chance to be a part of, go get it. That's number one. So it's hard hitting my buddy. I'm gonna have coffee with him on Wednesday and just make sure he's doing okay. Man, that grief cycle, I can't imagine what that's gonna be like for them and their family.

Six and a half years old and no longer with us, little boy. Yeah, it's just sometimes life isn't fair. That's for sure. Number two, okay, so, number one, this life is just not guaranteed. And take advantage of it every single minute that you possibly can. That's all I got to say. Take it in all the things. Number two, random acts of kindness. You guys ready for this? Random acts of kindness. Somebody over this weekend sent me a video of a hummingbird drinking from the nectar. And if anybody really knows me, I mean, truly knows me, they know I love my family, I love my wife.

I love my kids. I love tennis. I love ALl the things, right? And then I love hummingbirds. I love hummingbirds. I love hummingbirds so, so, so much. And this individual just. Just sent this little clip, and I just want that person to know that you made my weekend. That random act of kindness. So, again, number one, this life is not guaranteed. Number two, random acts of kindness can change people's lives. Whatever way that you can find to lift somebody up through a random act of kindness, I would highly suggest you try to figure out ways you can help people.

You know, are you. I get it. There's, LiKe, giving and taking, but sometimes giving is REalLY good, and it feels good. But also, the individual that's receiving, you don't know maybe what they're going through or what that might mean to them. So I just want you all to know that that felt really, really, really good, receiving that random act of kindness from somebody. And it was this little clip of a hummingbird. And it just mattered to me. It mattered a lot. Last one. Last one. My wife and I and the kids are having dinner, and we watched 2020, and it was Novak Djokovic.

Okay, right? So my wife and I were watching the 2020. It was Novak Djokovic. And he was talking about, he's a world class tennis player, probably the best that's ever lived. And they were asking him about his mental game. His mental game. And this is exactly what he said. He goes, I have the ability to get just as mad as everybody else. I have the ability to get just as frustrated everybody else. And in fact, I probably snap more than most. But what I don't do is stay there. What I don't do is stay there.

I live in it, I feel it, and then I want to get out as fast as possible to get to a better state. And I thought about that and I was like, how important it is for us to take and get that message right. Like, we can, we can be sad, we can be angry, we can be happy, we can be all the things. But at a certain point, you have to choose, do I want to stay here? Do I want to stay in this state? And what he says, what he says is this, it has not brought me more joy, more winning, more anything in life when I choose to stay there.

So again, I want you to take these three lessons today, and it's not, it's not anything you don't already know, you know, theme, but maybe throw them back into your life. Find ways to incorporate these back into your life. Number one, this life is not guaranteed. And let's live it up. Let's absolutely live it up. Number two, find ways in which to provide random acts of kindness to others. And last but not least is if you're going through something, you're going through something mentally, emotionally, all the things, you have to make a decision.

You have to make a decision. Do I want to stay in this moment? And you can, you can be miserable for a day, a week, a month, but at what point do you say it's time for me to live out of here? It's time for me to move on from this one. So. All right, with that being said, I hope everybody jumps into this week and tries to provide a little bit of random act of kindness for somebody else. I think that would be really special. So you guys have a wonderful week. Lift each other up, find ways to support one another.

Find ways to be a ray of sunshine in this world because it matters. And, boy, doesn't matter a lot. And just for the record, I don't know if you guys see that or not, but that's, that's, that's first ave. First Ave is this really special spot where a lot of bands started and played. Maybe first set, second sets, 50th sets, or if you're like Prince, find ways to always come back before you pass. But all right, you guys take care. Have a wonderful, wonderful, dynamic, incredible, rewarding, fun week.

If something goes haywire, just like Novak Djokovic says, I'm not going to choose to stay there. Okay, don't choose to stay there. Choose to get out. Talk soon, you guys. Bye.