Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Hey, everybody in the Cadre sphere, happy, happy Monday, little lover boy. Working for the weekend on a Monday, right? Doesn't that feel right? Wishing for the weekend to show up again? Tis the time of year, of short days and gloomy days. Great thing is, you're in the right place. You are right here where you can be how you are with what you got and appreciate and honor that. Okay, lover boy, I'm hitting pause. Everybody's working for the weekend. Feels like it sometimes, right? But think about this.

Some people don't have weekends. Have you ever been one of those people where Monday comes around and everybody goes, ah, do you have a peaceful weekend? And you go, Friday, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday isn't my weekend. Or maybe your weekend is extra busy because it's your time to do all the things you're not doing Monday through Friday. Great thing about the Cadre sphere is that it invites you. It challenges you to realize that there are many ways to wellness because. Because there are many ways to live this life.

Things that we get to choose, things that we don't get to choose. Right. If you are living your specificity, your uniqueness, your relationship, your haves and your have nots, all of a sudden you go, ooh, what I need is going to be an id different than what everybody else needs. So, Beaze, B****, Jules, Speak Wonder. How are you, y'all? Nice to see you this morning. Speak Wonder says, yesterday was one of the hardest work days. It was all volunteer. It's called caregiving. Yeah. And how many of you are caring for people you don't even know, people you don't even see?

Are you taking care of yourself? Are you taking care of the civic responsibilities, the global responsibilities that you have? You are impacting so many other people. You know, I have laying next to me this ball of yarn. If we've ever been in an event together, you've probably seen me throwing balls of yarn around. I do this exercise that connects people through different prompts. Ball of yarn sooner or later creates this web connecting everybody in the space. All of a sudden, I invite people to pull the web tight.

1%. The whole web rolls like this. One person's pluck is spelled by everybody, no matter if they're standing next to each other or all the way across the room. That's what we mean when we say Cadre sphere. All of you doing what you do amidst everybody else doing what they do, creates this web. And it's a. It's an opportunity for us to say, so what do we do with this web? Well, One of the things we do with this web is we do live streams like this. My name is JC if we never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share time and space with you.

It truly is a gift, Anila. It truly is a gift to spend time with you. And then within this web, live streams, pre recorded content starting next week, live interviews between me and our contributors and this wonderful little community feed that we have that allows you to share the moments that present. But here's the deal. On Mondays, what do we talk about? Professional development. You're going to see people like Luke and Jason and Matt Tappe and Gene all coming up later on today talking about how we do what we do better or clearer or with a different perspective.

And I always talk about the idea of following boldly, right? Following is not seen as something that we want to do. We want to lead. But if everybody's leading, who are they leading? The answer is nobody. If everybody's saying, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, follow me, follow me, who are they leading? As we look at this world, the answer is not a lot of people. So what if we flexed those muscles of following? We got really, really good at going, hey, you know what? Here's someone we an idea with a mission, with a purpose, with the, with, with a way to move together.

And all of a sudden the follower actually looks a lot like a leader. You know, it's what Derek Sievers calls the first follower. The first follower is who turns that lone nut into a leader. I invite you this week to consider who are those people who are moving you, who are calling to you, who are charging you? What if they are who you point to this week you say, hey, here's an idea, here's a mission, here's a purpose, here's a perspective. I'm going to shout it to the world. And all of a sudden, where does the world look at that thing that you care about that you are moved by?

All of a sudden the movement begins or the movement accelerates or the movement grows. It's kind of what we're doing here in the Cadre sphere. I invite you to point to the things, to share your perspective on the things that you see here in the Cadre sphere. Throw in the community feed. It's like, wow, I was really thinking about what Anila said last week today and I encourage you to go back and watch Anila's livestream or wow, speak. Wonder said this thing to me in the community feed that I felt like it was literally right to me.

Here's what I mean. The power of following grows when you do it boldly. And I love kaja, or I love Speak Wonder's image here, right of the fence. The fence in our global backyard. Since right here through your phone or through your screen. Lean on it. Lean on it with those people you agree with and don't agree with the people you understand? You don't understand. And go, huh? Where are we going? How are we going to get there? A little more following is my recommendation, y'all. As lover boy comes back in saying, I'm working for the weekend, I hope you are working towards whatever fills your cup.

We'll see you later.