J.C. Lippold sits in a small New York hotel room and explores the concept of enoughness, using a small-room-in-a-big-city analogy. He presents enoughness as recognizing what one already has while still moving toward growth.
Well, good morning, Cadre. Happy Saturday. Happy November. Happy Time change. For those of you who celebrate or loathe or put up with time change, I hope you are great.
J.C. lippold is in New York for the New York City Marathon. He talks about the idea of enoughness. Saturdays are our kind of personal development day.
I always love analogies in the fall. If you want a good analogy for enoughness today, think of a small hotel room in a very, very big city. When they're activated in that big, big, bright, beautiful world, all of a sudden, everything comes to life.
Well, good morning, Cadre. How are you? Happy Saturday. Happy November. Happy Time change. For those of you who either celebrate or loathe or put up with time change, I hope you are great. C. lippold, coming to you live from New York City this morning. I am sitting on the floor of my very small hotel room. Jules. Happy Saturday. Beezabits. Nice to see you. Oh, my friend. Nice to see you. My very small hotel room in New York City, right next to. About a block away from the one World Trade Center.
Um, it's the New York City Marathon this weekend. I'm not running it, but I am diving into the pool of energy that's created by it. Saw a revival of Ragtime, the musical last night. It was miraculous. Got to ride the subway, which always feels very cathartic and very magical in a. It's always fresh for me. I get to be around other people and their stories while they're going where they're going and I'm going where I'm going. That's a lot. A long ramble of saying. I am sitting in the middle of what I think a lot of people on this planet would see as nothing but opportunity, right?
Just a big, big space with lots and lots of things going on. And I'm sitting in my little hotel room. The one thing you can always count on in New York City is that hotel rooms and spaces in general are going to be pretty small. Why? Because there's a lot of people, a lot of stuff, and often a small place is enough. Oh, there's the word, enough. So we talk about every Saturday morning around 8:00am Central Standard Time, 9:00am Eastern. Is this idea of enoughness? What is it? Well, enoughness is this idea that you are already indeed enough in this moment, which doesn't equate to complacency.
It doesn't equate to so don't do anything. It's actually the complete opposite, because you are enough. You. You have something right now that you can use to do the things you want to do, to move in the direction you want to move, whether that be forward or up. Or maybe nuzzling into your truth right now, the rest of today, Saturdays are our kind of personal development day. So this afternoon, you'll see coming from the west coast, you start in the morning on the east coast, you'll go to the west coast this afternoon, or Dan Griffin will talk about, for all of you, male identifying creatures out there or anyone who loves a male identifying, male identifying creature about how do we exist in that Way.
In a world that's told us to not feel things and not think, not share, not express, how do we. How do we become more of ourselves? But back to enoughness for today. I'm sitting in a very, very small hotel room in a very, very, very big city. I don't know why, but I always love analogies in the fall. I think as things change and it's harder to kind of put rough edges on things, I think analogies allow us an idea that we can wander with, that we can feel. So I'll say it again. I'm sitting in a very small hotel room in a very big city.
What's the analogy? There I am, one person in a very full world that may seem like, oh, what can I do? Well, let's think of it this way. I don't need a lot of space on the inside when the work that I'm doing is going to be sparked outside of me. This small hotel room serves its purpose because it allows me a space to focus and calm and ground and rest and eat right, to sustain myself. And all of a sudden, I walk out of this room into the world. I start doing the things in New York City. And all of a sudden, this small space is enough to do the things.
What I have here, here being room, here being me, is enough to go out into that big world. Big world, New York City, big world. What I'm creating, what I'm feeling like I'm supposed to be doing. So if you want a good analogy for enoughness today, think of a small hotel room in a very, very big city. The room in itself is the vessel. The things that exist within it, your hopes, worries, fears, concerns, desires, dreams, those are the things that exist that dwell in this small room. And when they're activated in that big, big, bright, beautiful world, all of a sudden, everything comes to life.
You already are indeed enough, my friends, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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