Monday Motivation: The 55k Billionaire.

Good morning. Good morning, Cadre. Hope everybody's having a great day today. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. What a beautiful morning. Broadcasting live out here, Minneapolis St. Paul today. Hope everything's going well for you. West coast, central time, mountain, east coast, wherever you are, Canada, United States and Mexico. Hope everybody's doing well today. Hope you had a good weekend. If you worked all weekend. Thank you. If you were able to rest, reset, relax, get it back, recalibrate.

Good for you, too. Hopefully you're starting your Monday off strong and feeling good about the week. Thanks for being here. I have a kind of a short and sweet message today. I've had the opportunity to work with an individual. We're going to use the initials MV. MV, okay. I had the opportunity to work with this individual for about 18 months, and MV, I would say her salary or pay range somewhere between like 48 and $55,000 a year during that time. And she's a first generation lotion whose mom and dad came across, crossed the river in Laos and able to escape the country.

And I use escape, not loosely, like, really escape the country because of war torn areas that were happening there during that time and able to come to the Minneapolis and land in Minneapolis St. Paul region. And like I said, she makes somewhere between 50, $55,000 a year. And I've never meth somebody who as happy as MV. And I want you to think about this. When you scan your organizations and you look through your companies and you have some folks that might be part time, you have some individuals that might be salaried and sitting somewhere between that 40 and 60 range, and some individuals that are making six figures, and some individuals, they're in the 1%.

But regardless, happiness, joy, love, how they show up, how they affect other people, how they're coming to work. I just really, really encourage you to think, who are your MV's at work? Who are those individuals that are showing up that can't wait to get home and pick that pickle out of their garden and do it with so much love and joyous, that can't wait to see their kids for dinner time when it's the little time that they have because they're working two different jobs, right? They have their salary, daytime job.

They have their part time, night and weekend job, and doing whatever it is to survive, but yet, like, taking every opportunity that exists in this world and making the most of it. So, again, you know, we were blessed and fortunate here to have many organizations, and they're people that are part of Cadre at this point. And I want you to think about this, this week. Like, who shows up as an MV at our company? Who shows up that's so joyous, loving, happy, bringing so much passion and love, you know, despite their circumstances, despite their upbringing, despite all of it.

And then also the flip side of the coin. And, you know, I don't want you to focus on this 49%, but I want you to think about it. How many individuals that are coming to work are just, are miserable making the amount of money they're making and trying to find that joy, love and happiness in this life. And we have everything at our fingertips, but sometimes nothing. So I encourage you to take a step back today and go like, how can I find the joy of the little things? How can I find the joy out of mowing my yard?

How can I find the joy out of picking weeds? How can I find the joy of making a beautiful dinner for my family? And I think when you find joy and love and happiness in the little things, you're not going to try to search for the big things and you're not gonna have to try to spend and outspend enjoyment yet. You know, this, this, this is transitioning from MV now. But, you know, this entire weekend, I think Saturday and Sunday, like, we spent a grand total of probably $20 total on spaghetti, noodles, whatever.

And we worked outside a lot this weekend. We just worked out a ton. I got stuff all over my, my hands still from the weekend. But the amount of time that we were able to spend as a family outside picking weeds, rock picking, you know, making our yard look nice, I just can't tell you like, how prideful and joyful I am. Instead of spending two, three, $400 to go to some event, and I just want you to think about that this week and take a step back and go, you know, what am I spending this money for anyhow that I have?

You know, what if, what if I made 55, $60,000 a year when it was like MV and, you know, could I find joy and love in this world? And if the answer is you couldn't, that's okay, too. But what if you could? What if you could? What if you could be happy? If you can be happy, then you could be happy anytime. So shout out to UMV, you know who you are. Have an amazing week, you guys. And I hope this just leaves you to ponder today and asking yourself like, what is true happiness for me? What does that really mean?

Have a wonderful week, you guys. Do something special. We have some awesome live streams coming up, some great people that are presenting always Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We have the beautiful mess on Thursday right in our backyard here in Minneapolis St. Paul, sponsored by the Minnesota Autism center. That's going to be a great event on Thursday. So take care, you guys. Have a wonderful week. Show up for somebody that's always really, really important. Take care, guys. Bye.