Monday Motivation: Think Tank Time.

Good morning, Cadre family. It's Luke Wentland here. Just going to give it a second until our little notification, pops. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. I love our stuff in Christmas. There's our Christmas tree. We're trying to get all the things all moving forward here. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. There's our notification. We are live. Happy Monday. Happy Monday, Beth. Happy Monday. Everybody else that's popping in, I see all the names just keep dropping one after another after another.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hope everybody's doing. Doing fantastic this Monday. Good morning, staff. Just say, I just wanted to give you a personal and professional piece of advice that for feedback for yourself. And it's called the Think Tank Time. Are you guys ready for this one? This one's really, really interesting, and I think it's something that just may float your boat to change the way you do a few different activities in your life. Good morning, Steph Irwin. Good morning, Speak Wonder.

Good morning, Jew. Good morning, everybody else. That I kept seeing all the names pop one after another, that's always the bet. One of the best parts about my week. So I used to just run, right? I would put on my headphones and I would listen to music and I would go run and I would listen to the tunes and I would do all that, right? Or I would have a podcast going someplace in the house when I was doing different activities or if I was vacuuming, I would be listening to maybe, you know, Armchair Expert or the Joe Rogan experience or something of the like, right?

Well, lately, over the last probably two, three years, one thing that I've kind of changed up is when I go run, when I work out, when I do activities around the house, I. You know, some people think this is like, you know, putting yourself through a nightmare. It's actually not. Um, I rarely listen to music anymore when I. When I run, um, I like to just let my mind wander. And I just love, love, love that think tank time where I just think about life goals, the direction of things. Um, you know, maybe it's financial responsibilities, maybe it's the business, maybe it's whatever.

So, number one, if you're doing activities, physical activities, and you can allow your mind to wander, it's some of where, like, the greatest ideas, concepts, you name it, have come up. Okay, so this is all from the personal side, professionally speaking. What I find sometimes is we run meetings and we go through meetings and we talk about big things and we, you know, discuss goals, key result areas, rocks. We discuss all these different things in meetings. I'm sure you all do, too. And then it's kind of like we address the issue or we talk about the issue and we move forward with a different task or responsibility, or we maybe even want to try to find a way to solve for it right then and there.

And what I would encourage you to do is to say this in a meeting. I need time to think about it. Just say that. Like, literally, I need time to think about it. And then it's really crazy cool, because before you know it, everybody else will kind of say the same thing. And you might go a minute with silence in your group, by. In your group, in individuals, in the meeting, right? There might be, you know, six people in the meeting, and everybody's taking a minute. And it's one, two, three minutes of what probably will feel like the most uncomfortable silence in the world.

But what will come out of it is just gold. Like, people actually get a minute or two to think. Just let's. Let's slow up, let's hold up. Everybody just take a pause, take a beat, right? So again, from a personal side, I encourage you to find activities that allow your brain to just wander, get to the root. Rachel, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I love it. I love just seeing all the different names pop throughout the course of the live stream today. This has been beautiful. So again, personally, what are activities you can do around your house?

Workout, cleaning, dishes, laundry, where you can just let your mind just go. Just let it run. Let it run into outer space and just see what comes out of it in your think tank. Time to the flip side of the coin. When you are in professionally, and we're in a lot of meetings, unless you're maybe a solopreneur or doing a lot of business on your own, you know, maybe then you can find a different way to be able to do this. But I would encourage you, if you have the opportunity in meetings to just slow down, get everybody to have a minute sometimes and just pause as the facilitator, as the leader, or as a teammate in the meeting and just say, hey, I just need a little bit of time to think on this one.

1, 2, 3 minutes, 60, 120, 180 seconds can be pure gold. Pure gold. So lead your teams that way, too. Lead your teams that way, too. But I think what you're going to find is what might sound like misery right away to have, like the music going and you so accustomed to the music bringing motivation, et cetera, for you to get rocking on your runs and stuff like that. I think what you might find is you're going to love the peace and you're going to love that silence and what happens in between. You know, your two ears may just be gold.

So I want to encourage the silence. I want to encourage silence in your life, both personally and professionally. And you just. I'm excited to see what happens to you when you actually do this. So. So give it. Give it a try and let's see how it goes. Everybody make an amazing week out of it to do something special. Help somebody out if you can. Gosh, it's just. It was so cool to see all the names pop in today. Amazing. Have a wonderful, wonderful week, you guys. Mr. Steen. Speak wonder, get to the root.

Jules, Beth, all of it. You guys have an amazing week. Do something special. Lift somebody up. We all need it. Okay? Take care of you guys personally, professionally. Think tank time. Think.