Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, good morning, y'all. Happy Monday. Little Johnny Math has to kick us off. Good morning, Ben. Nice to see you, my friend. We'll hit the pause on Johnny Mathis for now. Something's coming, y'all. So Johnny Mathis singing Something's Coming from West side Story, an old tune, but one of those songs that invites us to think about what is around the corner. All right, so Tony in West side Story is going, gosh, something. Something's happening here. Is it love? Is it hate? Is it fight? Is it freedom?

And then, of course, the story plays itself out. My friend, Terese McLow, who one of my mentors, one of my colleagues. Let me grab her book here and my big stack of books. Therese is a master facilitator of things that need to be facilitated. Nice vague way of saying, Therese works with people to go, how do I understand what I need to understand to do the things I'm doing in this world? So Therese wrote this book called the Facilitation Advantage. And I got to know Therese in the era of facilitating on online, On Zoom, on WebEx, working with corporations going, hey, corporation, you are attempting to make your people better, to help them go further, to give them the skills that they either don't have yet or help them uncover the skills that they do have that maybe they aren't using.

And I got to watch and learn from Therese and facilitate alongside Therese. For organizations all around the world, facilitation is often about redirection. I'll say that again. Helping others, educating others, training others is often about redirecting what they already have. So here on Cadre on Mondays, we talk about professional development. And most of the time on Mondays, Professional development Day, I talk about the idea of boldly following. So rather than thinking about, I need to lead, lead, lead.

No, we need to go ahead and have the skill set of consciously, actively, courageously following the things that we see in this world that need energy, that need amplification. That's what I'm doing today with Terese. So Therese shared a message on LinkedIn. You can type in Therese McLow, M, I, C, L, O T. And in her post, she has two circles. One says excitement and the other says anxiety. And she makes the point that anxiety and excitement are relatives. They may even be the same thing. So if you are getting ready for that big presentation, that big moment within your work, and you're trying not to be anxious, Tree says, no, be the thing that you are, but visualize it.

Understand it to be something that's good, something that's pointing at the positivity or the fruition or the progression that you've been working at. As we think about the energy that we're experiencing today, here's your takeaway. Energy is energy. The way we perceive it has power. Energy is energy. The way we perceive it is where the power lies. So you got the big meeting coming up. You anxious about it? What if rather than feeling anxiety, feeling like something's going to go wrong, we feel excitement?

We feel this is the moment something's coming and we set ourselves up to be in rest, digest rather than fight flight. We set ourselves up to have the freedom of breath and the confidence and the clarity of voice. And all of a sudden we go, ah, now we are walking in with the reality that this something is good rather than this something is bad. That's me following. That's me going, what in the world is guiding me somewhere? And rather than me having to be the one going, okay, I need to be the trailblazer.

I need to be the one leading the way. I can look around and go, huh? Here is the opportunity today to learn, to grow, to shift, to accomplish, to connect. All of a sudden we move from a space of anxiety to a space of excitement. We move from a space of having to be the one with the answer, the one looking around and being like, hey, you know what? That person has the answer. I'm going to go ahead and move within their clarity, let them be the torchbearer of this moment. All of a sudden we get a lot further because we're going together.

Yep, Johnny Mathis to play us out. But Monday's lineup is full. You'll see Jean, who just ran her third world major marathon yesterday in Chicago. She'll be up later this morning. Matt Taffy coming up right at the noon hour, Central standard time. And look throughout the rest of the day. There's always live opportunities. And if you don't show up at the time when the live is going on, check out the pre recorded content. Have a good one everybody. We'll talk to you later.