Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you? I hope you are wonderful. But know this, even if you're not wonderful, you're still in the right place. You're still doing the right thing. You're still living this life, which is a verb and not a noun. Right. Things are always evolving and changing. So are you. So we are glad that you are here right now to kick off your Monday with a little time in the Cadre sphere. My name's JC. If we've never shared time and space together before. Hey, everybody. Nice to see you floating on into the live stream this morning.

Thanks for letting me spend some time with you. So, what do we talk about on Mondays? Well, if you are enjoying that first cup of coffee or tea or mountain dew, if you're driving down the road, or if you don't drive down the road anymore cause you work from home. We're normally thinking about what we do with our lives at the beginning of the week. That's a really wide way of saying what we do for work or what our vocation is, what our purpose is. So, on Mondays, since it's off in front of mine, for us, us as humans, that's what we talk about on Mondays.

Professional development, what we do. You're going to see a great lineup of people who are professionals, meaning they get paid for what they do. Right. Their expertise is within the nuance of their work. But also, you're going to see people talking from a peer perspective, as in, I've been in a position similar to yours. I'm going to speak from the one in rather than the one above. Hey, Jules, nice to see you. So check in throughout the day, because you may all of a sudden go, huh, I'm working.

My tank's getting a little empty. Find you a little bit of perspective here, and I'll kick off a little perspective right now. So, I'm not a big math person, but I do like using the idea of a formula to tell a story or to make something a little bit easier to understand. And one of my favorite little word formulas is time plus pressure equals creation. Now, you may go as, like, no, like that. That's like, that's true. Like, that's how. That's how things get made, right? Time plus pressure equals new stuff equals creation.

New idea, new product. And with that, that is your invitation to consider. How do you show up with those people that you work with or work for? Are you a time plus pressure equals creation, or are you a show up? That's the time. Put your head down and do your work without actually sharing your perspective, your magic, your investment, equals creation. Cause I'll tell you, no, time without pressure doesn't get you to where that. Where you'd like to be. You as a person, you as an organization, you as a leader of an organization.

If you don't place pressure for time, we don't create. You know, one of my favorite thought leaders, he says that harmony is the enemy of creation. And I don't like calling things enemies. And I don't like music terms being made out to be maybe not a positive thing. So in theory, I don't like that quote. But I will tell you this. I love the idea of seeing harmony as the enemy of the thing that we're looking for. And here's why. As a musician, if everything was harmonious, we would get really bored of something needs to happen.

In order for us to invest, to move forward, we need the pressure to create the music analogy, right? We need minor chords and dissonance and suspensions and augmentations and all of these things that make music not harmonious for moments. So that's my invitation for you today. Be the pressure and give yourself time and see what is waiting there for you to create. Maybe more so the people that will be touched by what you create. Well, hey, in about 25 minutes, everybody, you're gonna see the one and only Luke jumping on for a little money.

Motivation. Then you got gene coming up this morning before our afternoon slot, central standard time, of course, comes into play. I will see you tomorrow morning. Have a good one.