JC explores enoughness as a practical way of being, outlining four levers—honesty, intuition, curiosity and presence—to help people calibrate into the moment. He ties the idea to a music anecdote about his senior rock ensemble.
On Saturdays, we talk about personal growth, personal development. JC talks about the idea of enoughness. If you are honest, intuitive, curious, and present, yeah, you're probably gonna be doing some pretty cool things in the moment.
So alive and kickin' is Minnesota's premier senior citizen rock ensemble. There's a reason why we love going to live music versus listening to recorded music. If you want the world to start getting better at being enough, start allowing other people to be enough.
Happy Saturday. Everybody singing the same old song oh, what a different era of music yeehaw, y'all. And night skies get washed away like the snow and the rain we'll let build. Jamie. Good morning, my friend. Okay, that's enough. Rhinestone cowboy. Hey, everybody, happy Saturday if we've never shared time and space together before, everybody happy Saturday. My name's JC. I always start out with a little bit of music to play on in Rhonda. Nice to see you, my friend. And you may be going like, wow, Rhinestone cowboy on a Saturday morning.
JC, what's up with that? Well, first let me say I hope you're well. And even if you're not well, that's okay, too. It's my favorite thing about Cadre. No matter how you're doing, no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, you being here is always awesome. Jules, top of the morning to you. How many places can you show up to where the prerequisite is showing up? Right. You don't have to show up a certain way. You don't have to be good. We hope that you're good. But even if you're not, this is still the right place to be.
Cadre is the place where professionals and peers offer you resources and knit together a community to show you that there are many ways to wellness, many ways to being well. Why? Because this world is not binary. This world is not good. Bad. This world is not right. Wrong. You are living a very unique existence with things in and out of your control. So on Saturdays, we talk about personal growth, personal development. You may go. It's like, okay, tell me more. Well, Mondays we talk about professional growth and development.
Saturday's personal. I like to think about it this way. Mondays we talk about what you do. Saturdays, we talk about who you are. I, on Saturdays, talk about the idea of enoughness. I am the enoughness guy. I'm a vocational person, meaning I feel called to the things that I do. I feel very much called to talk about this made up word of enoughness. Enoughness is the idea that you are already, indeed, enough. That does not mean to be complacent. That doesn't mean that you are a noun and not a verb.
No, it means the opposite. It means you are a verb. And right now, you are capable of doing something that has great worth. So how do we calibrate into this moment? Well, there's four levers. First of all, your words are enough. That's your honesty. Number two, your feelings are enough. That's your intuition. Number three, your thoughts are enough. That is your do it with me. Your thoughts. I don't know what this movement is. I think this is calibration in JC sign language. And lastly, you are enough.
That is your presence. Yeah. So if you are honest, intuitive, curious, and present, yeah, you're probably gonna be doing some pretty cool things in the moment. Back to why Rhinestone cowboy was playing at the beginning of today's livestream. Well, I shared yesterday that I am the music director of a senior citizen rock ensemble. Poo poo. Yeah. So alive and kickin' is Minnesota's premier senior citizen rock ensemble. It's a nonprofit designed to give voice back to senior citizens. Why? Because so often people get old.
And when people get old, what happens? We go, okay, now you're old, and you're not supposed to. You're supposed to be quiet. You're supposed to retire. You're supposed to not do anymore. Alive and Kickin says, no. You have life to live. You have things to say and perspectives to share. So we had a concert yesterday, and there's a band member named Jim. And Jim is singing Rhinestone Cowboy. And Jim came up to me and he's like, JC, JC, I really love, like, like, thanks, thanks. Thanks for playing, you know, so I'm the.
I'm the piano guy. He's like, because sometimes I get ahead, sometimes I get behind in the music. And you're always right there. You're always right there. And I go, Jim, that's. That's. That's rock music, right? There's a reason why we love going to live music versus listening to recorded music. Now, again, like, we love studio recordings, too, but there's something special about live music. And live music is special because you get to see the musician, like the lead musician, like the storyteller, like the person at the front mic in real time, go, hey, you know what?
It's not about doing it in the way that we may perceive that as, right. It's about being enough in the moment. So if I get ahead, if I get behind, who cares? This is the moment. So all of a sudden, Jim is just this big personality. Jim was a high school principal. Jim is just this guy that you want to hug. And again, disclaimer Rhinestone cowboy. Not one of my favorite songs, but there's a build, you know, before it goes to the chorus. Actually, I think I'm right there. But I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me like a rhinestone.
And everybody, whether you know the song or you don't, he's just like. And Jim gets excited, so all of a sudden, you don't even care if he's ahead or behind. And I'm just sitting there at the piano being like, dude, you go, and I am going to affirm your enoughness. I hope in this world you have people who affirm your enoughness that when you feel like you are making a mistake, they go, no, keep going. And if you don't, here's what I hope even more, that you are affirming other people's enoughness.
Because if you want the world to start getting better at being enough, start allowing other people to be enough. Starts with us, y'all. It's the reason why I sit at the piano, and I'll tell you, I'm not a good accompanist. I plunk all the wrong notes, but I don't care because my job is to allow that person in front who has all the spotlight on them to move the story forward. No one ever comes up to me after a concert and goes, JC, I heard all those wrong notes you played. They go, nice job, piano guy.
And I go, sure. Cause they don't know what they're talking about. All they know is they had a good time. Why did they have a good time? Because they saw the person on the front of the stage being enough. You're gonna see the one and only Kristen Grimes coming to us from Colorado in a couple hours. And this afternoon from the west coast, Dan Griffin is going to be talking about all things shifting the ways that our male identifying human beings in this world are living this life. I'll be back tomorrow morning to kick off self care Sunday.
Y'all enjoy your day in the Cadre space. And a smile can hide all the pain but you're down when you're riding.
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