Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, good morning, Cadre. How are you? I hope you are well. We are live on sites today at my gym, so normally I'm playing music for you in the background as we start our Cadre today. Today. But LA fitness is doing it for you this morning. So you may hear some weights clanking in the background, but it's kind of the cool thing about Cadre, right? No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, you can always tap into your Cadre, your special community, with a special intention. Luke had to jump into a meeting at eight Central, so guess what?

Me and Luke flip flop today. Cindy, Becky, speak wonder. Nice to see you all this morning. My name's JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now on Cadre today. You get a little level set. You get a little opportunity to go, huh? Whether this is my first time on Cadre or my millionth time on Cadre, whenever we get out of the automated mindset of going, I'm gonna consume the thing, and all of a sudden, it becomes fresh again.

It becomes something that we're doing with great purpose. So on Mondays, what do we do? We talk about our development of what we do, professional development. On Saturdays, we talk about who we are, our personal development. So I often talk about our ability to follow boldly. We often think that we always have to be the leader. It's foolish, right? We aren't always the leader, actually. What do we teach our kids? Follow the line leader, or, you know, share. Right. All these things we teach our kids, we kind of attempt to unteach ourselves with constant lead.

Lead be for first. Leaders never follow bull. So what if we follow with great purpose, with great excitement, with great passion? Well, let me tell you a little story. It has to do with this tennis ball that I borrowed from my dog, Willow. So on Sunday nights, I teach a somatic movement class. Somatic means to feel. So often when we move or exercise, it's not about feeling, it's about doing right. It's like, do ten push ups rather than feel yourself doing push ups. So on Sunday nights, I teach this class that we move for the sake of feeling.

What happens when we move? And last night, all of the movements had to do with engaging this, a tennis ball. The first person showed up for class and they saw a bucket of tennis balls, like, ah, cool. And they picked one up and they started throwing it against the wall, and they started playing with it. They were really comfortable and excited about tennis. Ball. Second person showed up and they were like, oh, my gosh. I have no hand eye coordination. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

Think about what I just said. The first person showed up and they're like, ah, cool. Second person showed up and they're like, oh, my gosh. How often do we create environments for people, for the people that we are leading, for our followers, for our organizations that don't acknowledge how they're going to have natural dispositions for what's going to be happening? That first person who showed up, they were really comfortable with throwing a ball around. Guess what, in that sense started when they were a little kid.

That second person who showed up, they felt that this was something that was humiliating or something that showed their inadequacy or something that showed their incapacity. When did that start? When they were a little kid. But the cool thing was this class was not about doing, but was about feeling. So now, all of a sudden, class started, and the first exercise within this movement was stand on your non dominant foot and throw the ball up and down in your non dominant hand. That's the only rule.

They didn't have to do it ten times. They didn't have to throw at a certain height. They didn't have to. It was just, here's the thing to consider than to see how you feel when you're doing it. And then you do these nine different things, and then we do it three times. By the time that we were done, everybody in the room, I was like, so how did, how is this? How was this experience? And the prompt for the day was clarity. Clarity is understanding that your first reaction to something may not be true.

So in other words, the person who walked in saying, like, I have no hand eye coordination, that that reaction may not actually be true. And that that person who walked in and like, oh, yeah, I love this. Tennis ball may actually not be true, because at the end of the day, what we were doing in that room didn't really matter. It's a tennis ball. You're standing on 1ft and playing catch. What does matter is our reaction to these things. That person who walked in being like, ugh. At the end, I was like, did anybody have any, like, aha.

Moments? And that person who didn't have a good reaction walking in, seeing that we were gonna be using a tennis ball as an apparatus that day, like, I was amazed at how much joy I found by the time I got into this experience. Because they didn't give a rat's b*** about what they were doing, but they just started experimenting. They just started playing and seeing what they felt when they were doing stuff. Then all of a sudden, they started having these big ideas about stuff that had nothing to do with what we were doing.

It liberated their mind and their body to go, oh, I'm feeling things. I'm playing things. What are the things that hold a lot of power in your life or a lot of power within your organization's people's lives? Maybe you need to play with them for a little bit and see what you are holding as an understanding. It may not be true. Y'all have a great day. You'll see my sweaty mug and my messy hair tomorrow morning. Have a good one.