Sunday Serenity

Happy Sunday to the Cadre crew here. Hey, it's Jason Lennox, and I am your resident recovery champion, coming to you at Sunday Serenity. And you'll notice a little bit of a different background. This will be a little bit shorter. I'm trying to make sure I stay in enough light. I'm on top of a mountain. My family's in Massachusetts and don't get a lot of service here, so I'm scrambling for a good place to catch you. And it's raining out here. I don't know if you can hear that. I love the rain. It's beautiful.

Not so much when it's dropping on me. So I think I'm out of the elements for now. But anyhow, good to be here with you. So I'll go ahead and jump right in. You know, the question I'd posed, hey, speak wonder. Good to see you. The question I posed in the subject line here, the title was, who are your advisors? And I had a lot of experience with this, and I want to tell it in kind of three parts. First of all, when I got into recovery, you know, I remember they said, find a sponsor and work with that sponsor.

Do what you can. Listen to what they have to say. And, you know, my sponsor been sober for about 24 years, and. Good evening, Jules. Good to see you. My sponsor been sober for about 24 years at that time. And, you know, he would have me doing things like service work, all kinds of things. I mean, he was regularly signing me up for things. And I just remember people in my life go, is that how that's supposed to work? Seems like this guy's kind of bossing you around. And, you know, my comment was, well, he's been doing this for 24 years, and he seems to have a pretty good life.

And, sorry, I'm still trying to get the lighting right here. He's been doing it for 24 years, and I've got 24 years of a whole lot of nothing to show. So I think I'm going to listen to the guy. And I just remember everything he said. I believed, and I went for. He was a strong. He was one of those people that was there in the beginning for me. And I've held those people and mentors in recovery and outside of recovery for professional decisions, for personal relationship decisions. I mean, we get so twisted up here sometimes with the things that we need to act on and make decisions on, and.

Sorry, I'm still trying to get you some light so you can see me, but either way, hopefully you can hear me. But mentors and recovery sponsors. And again, just these advisors in our lives are so important. And today, I actually have a couple coaches that I hire. I have a therapist, and I've got some trusted people in my life, a handful that I can go to regularly for support and for guidance and for mentorship because we all need a little bit of that. And, you know, this last week, I. I stepped away, and I quit my corporate job.

And. Sorry. As I still try to get some lighting here, it's getting a little bit darker. There we go. Maybe that'll help. I quit my corporate job, and, you know, that was a six month decision, six month process, and I was just back and forth wrestling with the decision. What do I do? Should I stay? Should I go? Benefits. You know, no benefits, guaranteed income, all the things. And, you know, I leveraged all the people in my life that, you know, are my mentors. They are my advisors. And at the end of the day, I kind of knew internally what I wanted to do, but I still needed to lean on other people.

And I'll tell one last story here. I released a newsletter here this last week, and my first official one as part of my business launch. You know, in it, I wrote a blog, and there was a story in there as I was really wrestling with this decision for the last time. I remember it. It was Tuesday, August 23, and, you know, again, struggling. It was a little bit agonizing trying to go through this process. And I sat in the chair in my kitchen, and on an island, there's a hologram candle holder of my father.

It's a picture of him doing this, blowing a kiss, and it sits there. And I. You know, I look at that thing, and I'll give them that sign back every now and then. But, you know, that particular morning, I just looked there, and I said, my dad passed away 20 years ago. And I said, dad, can you help me? Can you make this a little more clear? Where should I go? What should I be doing? And as I wrote, it was. It was just a matter of seconds. There were seconds of silence, and immediately, I heard the four words that would just change me forever.

Go build something special. The words that, wherever it came from, my father, the spirit internally just pulling those words out. But those are the four words I heard, and I knew immediately the direction I needed to go. And, you know, the next day, I gave notice and moved on to the next phase of my life. So I think that's an often forgotten advisor that we can lean on. I have several of them that have, I call my afterlife advisors. People who've come and gone and I know are still out there and I can lean on them and I can get some of those answers from, those are some of the most important people in my life.

And so, of course, I want to leverage them. But in any event, I'm going to sign off here soon because it is getting a little bit darker. It's good to see those of you who have joined. And again, I ask the question, who are your advisors? Who are your mentors? And if you don't know, one of the things I always like to do is urge you to take some notes, to document, to think about this, think about it overnight, come back to the table tomorrow and say, who are the people that I lean on for the most important things in my life?

And, you know, we should have different people for different areas, for business, for personal, for family, all the different things that we do. So document that. Make sure you've got on speed dial those people that you know you can count on. I appreciate you all hanging in here as it's a, a little bit of a unique livestream here and getting a little bit darker as we move along. But those advisors, those mentors, they do for us sometimes what we can't do for ourselves, and they help us clear what gets fuzzy.

So I am grateful that I have those people, grateful that I can listen to them, grateful that they will advise me and guide me and I will continue to use them. And look forward to seeing you next week, next Sunday. It'll be a little bit brighter, I promise. I'll be up north, but I'll find a good spot. Hope you all have wonderful weeks. And again, document, go find out who are your advisors. Look forward to talking next week. And again, have great weeks. Bye.