Enoughness 101

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you? It is officially, if you're keeping score at home, Saturday. Bravo. If Saturday is a day of rest or play or recovery or a little change up of schedule for you, you made it. Congrats. My name is JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share some time and space with you right now. It is a gift to share time and space with you. It is. And that's not only when you have your stuff together or when you're feeling good.

That's all the time you are always someone worthwhile spending time with. So thank you for the opportunity to do so. Hey, Chappa. Hey, Jules. Hey, speak wonder Saturday is happening. You are in it. You can check out Helene's. It's your birthday livestream, which wrapped up a little bit ago, and then you got Kristen coming to us from Denver in about an hour, and then Dan from the west coast this afternoon. That's how they do it on the west coast Saturday afternoon. Live streams. We got everything for you right here in the Cadre sphere.

So on Saturdays, I talk about the idea of enoughness. Saturdays is all about personal development. And my kind of pool of thought when it comes to personal development is the belief that you are already, indeed, enough in this moment to accomplish something pretty darn radhe, which, if we think culturally, may sound kind of backwards. And there's a review coming in from speak wonder right there. Helene. Helene's livestream earlier on this morning. Speak wonder just gave it a listen and two thumbs up from the speak wonder.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Speak. Wonderful. So this idea of enoughness, it's kind of counter cultural. It's not counterintuitive. It's actually incredibly intuitive. Our bodies love to exist in their current state. They love to rest and recover and to tap into existing knowledge and habit and ritual. Our bodies love going back and repeating. That's all in the pool of enoughness. So the precursor I always give with enoughness is this. Enoughness does not mean, hey, don't change, hey, be complacent.

It's only in our culture that I have to say that because people get worried. It's like, no, I don't want to be enough. It's like, no, like, you can be enough and also wants to grow and change all at the same time. Why? Because we are complex beings. So simplified solutions to complex realities normally don't get us very far. They don't. They may make us feel good because it's like, hey, if I just do this one thing, everything will be okay. Wow. Yeah, it sounds great. And it pretty much never works.

Now again. Pretty much never. That doesn't see how I stayed away from the absolute there. Yeah. So in the world of enoughness today, I'd love to talk about comfort zones. What do you think about comfort zones? Do you like them? Do you hate them? Do you believe in them? Do you refrain from them? Tell me what you think about comfort zones. I recently saw someone share from a very popular thinker and mover of people in this world that comfort zones are the enemy of growth. And I'll say, when I saw this, I was like, oh, my gosh.

I've never seen something like that before. No, I think normally we can all agree that what we're taught is that being comfortable is not a good thing to be. Being comfortable is laziness. Being comfortable is stagnant. Being comfortable is going backwards. Being comfortable slows us down. Speak. Wonder says, I like to jiggle out of comfort zones. Jules says my comfort zone is very small. Oh, Jules. I bet we're kind of similar. I always joke that the reason why I am comfortable doing so many things is because I'm uncomfortable doing everything, meaning I'm always uncomfortable.

So no matter what I'm doing, it's pretty easy for me to do, relatively speaking. So what I would like to offer you from the book of enoughness today is that comfort zones are pretty awesome. Comfort zones is one of the two most areas of growth that we exist in in our lives. The top two are comfort zones and uncomfort zones. See, I'm playing the binary card back at the people who want us to think that life is as simple as, do this, don't do this. Here's what I mean. You know, humans are one of many species on this planet, so I always love learning about the way that species can exist and survive and grow and thrive by looking at species that aren't like me.

So I often think about this. I see a squirrel that maybe lives on both sides of the road. So a lot of times it has to do that scary dance of running across the road, hoping that it doesn't meet a human on a bike or in a car. I've never seen a squirrel become stronger by daily dodging cars. No. Squirrels try to stay away from cars all of the time. Why? Because the discomfort of dodging cars doesn't make you stronger. I think about fish in the ocean. I've never seen a fish every day swim at the shark's mouth.

Why because I think the fish knows that dodging danger on purpose doesn't, doesn't make you stronger. You know, I think about deer during hunting season. I've never seen deer get ready for hunting season. Bye. Going like this every time it sees a hunter, no deer naturally run away from hunters. Why? Because the discomfort of being in the danger of the hunter's space isn't good for us. Oh, speak wonder. The book is being written. It's being written, my friend. So as we think about the deer and the fish and the squirrel, what do we learn from these things?

That there are times that we meet discomfort. The good thing is we're all designed with nervous systems to fight and flight those situations, right? We can see the fish, we can see the deer, we can see the squirrel. When the car, the hunter, the shark come nearby, and they giddy up away from those situations. But it's so interesting because humans try to teach other humans that putting yourself into discomfort for the sake of discomfort's sake is somehow going to make us be more infallible. Actually, comfort is a really good place to seek out.

Comfort is the place where our body goes, ah, now we can rest and digest. Comfort is, ooh. Now we can dig deeper into the things in which we find comfort in to learn more about them. I grow as much, if not more, in my comfort zones as I grow in my discomfort zones. And that's not me saying that I'm not going to be in the midst of discomfort. That doesn't mean that I'm not going to exercise or learn things I don't know or go into situations where I'm going to experience new things. I'm not saying that at all.

I'm actually saying quite the opposite. I'm going to be in my comfort moments with all that I am and for as long as I need to be in any moment. And then in those moments when I need to be uncomfortable. Yeah, I will relish in those moments as well, that I will tell you, binary existence. This is good and this is bad. Comfort is for the weak or the lazy, and discomfort is for the strong and the curious and the courageous. I think there's a lot of really, really powerful people who think that if they ever come out of the discomfort, that they're going to lose what makes them special.

And it seems to me it's the people who find comfort and relish in it. Who are the people who go furthest in the world. I've never seen the professional athlete or the world leader. I've never seen the person who's literally changing other people's lives. I've never seen them shy away from being comfortable. Nor do they hide from it. No, they show the world. I am resting now. You should, too. I am not running at danger, because running at danger is for the privilege to think that danger is something that they control.

Nah, actually, comfort zones are rad. Comfort zones are not the enemy of growth. Comfort zones are the accompaniment to life, which is a journey of growth. Comfort zones are the accompany to life, which is a journey of growth. So again, I poke with love to those who say that being enough is never enough. And I poke with love to say, maybe you've been misled. Maybe life is full no matter where you are, no matter when you are, maybe different degrees of nourishing. And in those moments, you go, oh, I think I need something else right now.

Like, maybe that fish needs to swim upstream to feel alive. Maybe the deer needs to jump through the river and act like it's being chased to feel its heartbeat. Maybe this squirrel plays in the street even though it knows that there's something incredibly, incredibly off kilter about that idea. Why? Because if we listen to ourselves, it's the second tenet of enoughness. Number one, your words are enough. Number two, your feelings are enough. Your feelings are enough. Taps into your intuition. Listening to that little voice inside that says, hey, do that.

That makes sense and feels good right now. That's your enoughness voice. Y'all be where you are with what you have, because you don't really have a choice. Have a great rest of your day, everybody, and we'll see you tomorrow morning in the thin space. Peace.