The Thin Space

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you? I hope you're great, but if you're not, that is okay too. No matter how you are, no matter where you are, no matter what's going on. You saying, I'm going to spend some time considering how I can be, well, where I can be, well, things that I can do to show that I'm on my own side. And that's what we're doing here. We're creating a space where you can find exactly that. Hey, are you a Chris Fortman? How are you, my friend? Chris? I was just at the Good Leadership breakfast this past week, two days ago, and I always still think about when I heard you speak there.

So it's nice to see you this morning, Beezabits. How are you? We got a good streak going of spending live streams together. Hey, Cadre has fidget spinners. Now if anybody wants a Cadre fidget spinner, let me know and we'll. We'll get you one. We'll get you one. It's even things like this that allow you to go, hey, you know what? I am on my side. I am in my corner. Luke. Good morning, my friend. On Sundays, we talk. We center in on the idea of you being on your own side. You doing things that innately are for your sake.

If you are your tool, if you are your resource, if you are your magic bag. Yeah, you better be taking care of yourself, because that's the first step in all of the good things that you do. Why do we take care of ourselves? Because you are the first step in all the good things that you do. On Sundays, I talk about the idea of thin space. The space in between everything that has happened and everything that will happen. That space is always a moving target, but you are. You're in it whether you like it or not.

You have one moment that you have potency and power in, and that is. That is now. Now again, we can go and get into it and be like, well, but. But we have power in the future. I go, we do. We have influence on changing where the future goes. But at the end of the day, the one moment that we have 100% awareness and potency in is. Is this moment right now. So I invite you to do a three minute exercise. When we sign off here in a moment, set a clock for three minutes. For the first minute, either just allow it to roll in your mind, or this is a really good thing to do physically.

Write it down, type it out for one minute, write down everything that you can that comes to mind, or that's already in mind that has existed before now. In other words, spend one minute going, I'm going to write down everything that has happened prior to now. You like one minute to do that. It's not about how much, but it's how quickly you can go, ah, okay, I'm going to write down memories, I'm going to write down, you know, quotes or moments or things that live in you from the past. Minute two, the future.

So once that minute is done, what is going to exist after that time? What are your hopes, worries, fears, concerns, desires? All of those things? That's minute number two. Minute number three. Write down everything that you can that exists in this moment. What are you feeling? What are you thinking? What are you doing? What's around you? What do you see? What are your senses providing you? What are you excited about in this moment? This is a really good exercise to do. I do this exercise every single day.

Three minutes. Why do I do this exercise? It's a calibration opportunity. Most of the time, most people either find ease within the past or the future parts of this exercise. And most of the time, most people struggle with getting into the now minute. Why? Because that's, that's how, that's how we've set ourselves up. We spend time ruminating on the past, we spend time planning for the future. We don't spend time going, huh, where am I? What's going on? What am I thinking? What am I feeling? Yeah, we want to go ahead and say again, loaded comment here.

We want to go ahead and say that, ah, the reason why everybody's so detached nowadays is because of something like social media or we're too busy or da da, da, da. And I go, that's the easy way out. There isn't. There isn't a culprit. There isn't the here's the wrong thing that's making everything go bad. Binary sounding solutions to very complex problems normally don't get us very far. Here's the deal. If you spend all of your time unpacking the past and planning for the future, yeah, guess what?

You only have so much time, so much energy, so much focus. We are beings who repeat ourselves again and again. We are automated beings. Our medulla oblongata does that for us. We need to set some habit around going, you know what? Right now I'm sitting in my car outside of a quick trip. I hear birds back there. Can you hear that? I look around and there's not really any green leaves anymore. This is that I think the first day of the year when all of a sudden I stop noticing the leaved trees and I start noticing the evergreens, the pine trees because all of a sudden that's what's green and all the other green is gone.

You may be like okay JC you just heard birds and saw trees. Yeah, but what is surrounded by those birds and trees? Me. Me in the now my invitation find three minutes if you got three minutes and be in those three minutes to think back, to think forward and then to think now. If you do comment here and share what you think about, share what you find because if you do, you're going to help other people find that moment as well. Y'all, Luke, Chris, Jules, Beezabits, everybody else who flicked on in I hope you have a great day.

I will be back tomorrow morning probably with my fidget spinner right here to spend some time with you. Have a great day. We'll talk to you soon.