Monday Motivation. Lost And Found

Morning, Cadre family. I'll wait till the little notification pops and then we'll start up here. I hope everybody's having a good start to your week. Like I said, we'll give her one minute here. Happy Monday. Mondays are kind of great. I love Mondays. Good morning, everybody. There it goes. Hello everybody. Hope everybody's having a great start to your day. It's a wonderful Monday. Good morning. Good morning. Hello everybody. Hope everybody's got a great start and jumping right into your Monday doing all the things.

One of the things that we worked on this weekend was getting our Christmas decorations up. Don't judge me. Do not judge me or my family. It's just something important to us. So you can kind of see some of the things that some of the things that the family put up here. Of course we got our, we got the tree up too. We go fake, but it's all, it's all good. Hi everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I hope everybody's having a great start to their day. Say lost and found. Well, number one, it's, it's Veterans Day.

So let's just, so let's just take a moment and think. Let's just take a moment, think for 15 seconds and just think about somebody close to us in our family, friends, relatives, cousins, brothers, sisters, you name it, that have ultimately given for us so we can be free and live in the United States and do all the things. So just take a minute and just think of like that one person. I'm going to think of my father in law who I love dearly. So just take a second, think of that person or people just go, man, we're lucky, we're lucky to have those people in our lives that either A, pave the way for us or B, continue to pave the way for us with our military and armed forces.

So good morning, Anna. Good morning, Jules. It is Veterans Day. Hopefully everybody's taking that moment in. And if you don't know much about the day, it's also kind of good to reflect about the day and then also lean into some of the data and stats with our veterans and their mental health, suicide, etc, so you know, we need to do more and we need to support more, you know, whether it's traumatic brain injury, you name it, it's just exponential higher than, than us civilians. So something to think about.

All right, Jumping into this weekend lost and found, this, this, this weekend's lost and founds which led me to this Monday topic today. So on Saturday I, I went to my son's Basketball tournament. My wife went to my daughter's basketball tournament. So we were at like two different spots. And we were at, I was at the one location called south of Metro. My wife was north of Metro. So we were good hour, hour and a half away. And I, I, I, I took a picture of the lost and found at the school. And that was of all the things like just Stanley's everywhere.

The green Gatorade, the, the green Gatorade bottles, have you ever seen those before? And sweatshirts, T shirts, shorts, shoes. It was just crazy how much stuff is sitting there. So I took a picture of it and I sent it to my wife. And what's funny is my wife sent me a picture back from up at the school. Like I said north of Metro with the same thing when she found the lost and found. And I was just thinking like, oh my God, there's so much stuff here. But then I started thinking like, how many times in the lost and found I lost this before.

My beautiful necklace that was at the YMCA in a locker and somebody turned it in. I have left a cell phone before, I have left billfold, car keys right through lost and found. And it seems to me like individuals more often than not want to do the right thing and help and support other people. You know, even just like I said, like at this, at our schools with the lost and founds. And I thought about this for a second, I was thinking like, what if there's a lost and found for our mental health? And, and what do I mean by that is like, what if there was an area that we could go to, to have help and support?

And so it just kind of leaned into for this idea for me to say, like, how can we. Because when lost and found is there, people want to help, people are encouraged to help. People will bend over backwards to get things back to people, support other folks, do whatever it takes. So, you know, to like kind of proclaim in a way, like, I need help. How do we do that? And how do we do that better? Because there's, there's this group of individuals that are ready, willing and able to support, right? There's this group of individuals that are ready, willing and able to support us.

If, if sometimes we raise our hand. If we raise our hand, like, I need help. So be on the lookout for something at Cadre that's going to be coming up down the road. And I think I'm going to want to form a community, I want to think, because we've got some awesome things coming down the pike here with Some communities, private communities, all the things. But I think I want to start one that's just called Lost and Found. And I think people will come forward and say, you know, I'm struggling with my mental health, or I'm concerned about A, B or C, or this is something that I'm struggling with, or this is something that is difficult for me.

And you never know, individuals may jump in and say, I can help you. But it's weird how this thing that we've seen since we've been 4, 5, 6, 7 years old, the Lost and found has this group of people that are so ready, willing and able to help. And then we have this mental health crisis in our world right now and a lot of individuals are struggling to ask for it. So how can we lower the temperature to make sure that people feel like they can be ready, willing and able to come forward in a non stigmatized manner to say, here I am and this is something I struggle with.

So that's always been our goal here at Cadre. But we need to make it even easier for everybody, everybody on the platform, everybody that wants to continue to, you know, move forward their life and, and you name it. But I also just want to lean into the opportunities for each and every one of us that we have when somebody else needs that help when they're lost and found. Because if they're lost and support them, and I know that they can be found, there's a lot of individuals that are in this live right now that can attest to this, that can attest to if there's somebody there that can help me with that kind of like smooth landing, my life invariably can be different.

So with that being said, y'all, number one, Veterans Day, take a minute, really think about that, Think about what it means for you. Number two, think about lost and found. And then now you're, I guarantee all the places you go in this world, you're going to see lost and founds everywhere. And you're going to take a minute to look, you're going to look at all the stuff and you look at all the stuff that's sitting there, that's available ultimately gets donated. It gets, you know, whatever if, if you don't actually find your things.

But take a minute when you see that, take a minute, we see the last and final. You think like somebody there is doing a good deed, somebody there is trying to help somebody else. Okay. And then last but not least, how does it affect you? So how does this affect you? How can I help other people? How can I help other people more, support other individuals that need it, and how can I lean in to do that to the best of my ability every single day? So everybody, have a wonderful week wherever you're located.

Enjoy your week. Take care of you guys and thank you so much for showing up. I just consistently saw all the names of individuals that popped into Live Stream, so, so good to see you all and just remember that story of being lost and potentially found. Take care of you guys. Thank you so much. Bye.