Me Time ✨

Hello, everybody. Happy Sunday. Try to change so the light can adjust. Cuddle on in here. How are you today? Jean Nichell is coming in from Minneapolis, Minnesota on this beautiful Sunday. Hey, Jules, what's up? Happy Sunday. How was your really fast trip to Minneapolis? Did you have a good drive? Did you miss the weather? Always excited to be here on Sundays. I'm sitting in the lobby of the apartment building that I live in. I got back close enough to home, but not all the way to jump in today.

Sundays are for marathon training. So coming in on me time today, I wanted to take a little pause and celebrate with you. You might ask, what are we celebrating? We don't have to have a reason to celebrate, but what I wanted to celebrate with you guys is how far we've come in 2024. Think about it. We are weeks away from calendar flipping into a new year. And when we look back on 2024, so much has happened. Maybe many of you are new to Cadre and you discovered Cadre in 2024 and you decided that Cadre was going to be your me time, your opportunity to reset, your opportunity to explore different concepts around your own health and wellness.

Maybe 2024, you, I don't know, did a first race or you took a class in 2024, what did you do? What is one thing that you accomplished that may or may not have been expected or unexpected? In 2024, I ran two marathons in two weeks. I did pretty well in both of them. Injury free. More importantly, I took one step forward in my process for missing my mom and dad. And I feel like sometimes that's the most important step that we can take, right? Just one step forward. So in 2024, what magic can you celebrate for yourself now?

What's fun about today? And I don't know if you know, but it's a full moon tonight, so it's cloudy here in Minneapolis. I'm hoping that it clears up a little so we can see her beauty. But it's the last full moon of the year. Jules, you did not miss the weather. Oh, no. But I'm glad it was a quick trip and you were safe. In 2024, you ran your first 5k in almost 5 years. That's incredible. Congratulations. So today is a full moon. It's the last full moon of the year and I'm a Mooney. I think there are many great energetic cycles that happen around moon energy, but at the very least, a moon, a full moon is a reminder to us to bring our whole majestic self to life.

It's the point in time, in a 28ish day cycle, that the moon shines so bright and so bold and so beautiful. So what if we allowed ourselves once a month to shine our brightest, to be our biggest, boldest version of ourselves? What would that look like? What do we hold in that maybe we would just let out so that the whole world can see it? I was looking at some photos recently. I have a Mac computer, an Apple computer, and it has off to the side this little photo flip. And so it does, like through the years.

And every once in a while I glance at it and I'm like, oh, I remember that photo. And I was looking at a few of them recently and I was like, wow, I was really fun. And then I paused and I was like, well, I'm still fun, but I just could remember that particular photo and the energy that I felt. And I was laughing and you could see that I was just really happy in that photo. And it got me to thinking, right? Like, how might we in 2025 find more opportunities for just pure joy and pure laughter? What are some things that we can do?

And it's not about being rosy every day and joyful every day, like that would be amazing. But life ebbs and flows, just like the infinity symbol. Sometimes we're on a high, sometimes we come down to the low, we swoop around and then we come back into the middle. So we're always going to have that ebb and flow. But how might we in 2025 when we look ahead, so we've looked back. So in 2025, when we look ahead, what might be some opportunities to find some more joy? And who do we want to do that with?

And I say that part intentionally because I don't know about you guys, but let's be real. How often do we just get sucked into our day to day? Waking up in the morning, doing our routines, going to work, doing our work thing, coming home at night, maybe excited, maybe exhausted, whatever that is. Maybe we do a workout, maybe we don't. Maybe we take a nap, maybe we don't. But are we doing intentional things with the people who lift us up? And I say that part intentionally because we can have and know 100 people, but we might only have 10 people that really see the real us, that make us laugh and giggle.

So are we investing in the other 90 and spending more time with the other 90 or are we spending time with the 10? And there's no right or wrong answer. Sometimes we need to spend time with the 90 for a bunch of different reasons. So here's what I did today. I have a group of people that take my spin classes. I teach spin classes at 6am on Wednesday mornings. And it's one of my favorite classes to teach because it's the same people that come and we just get to know each other and we take silly selfies.

I've gotten everybody to do a little dance and jump coming out of class. Like, I don't know, we just laugh and we work hard in class and then we laugh and then they yell at me. But what I did is I went out to our text chain because we have a little task group that helps keep us accountable to showing up for each other and doing fun things and celebrating life. Anyway, I made a list and I was like, okay, team. So here's our winter list. Add anything that you want. And I added a list of different things that we could do outside of taking spin classes together because we all have fun together.

And so I put on there two different museums. I put out there. Roller skating, ice skating for people that want to be outside versus inside. And I added in like bowling, just old school. There's an old school bowling alley where it's like the wood floor. You don't even get the fancy computers. And I think I added one more thing and I was like, okay, who's in? Like, what do you. Like, what do you want to do? And I just started the conversation, and one guy is like, have we picked dates yet? And I was like, no, we're just in a brainstorm.

Because I know that if I don't start that conversation now, December's gonna fly by, January's gonna fly by, we're gonna hibernate, and next thing you know, it's spring. And we haven't done some of those things that will make us laugh and bring us joy. So I started the conversations today because I know that when I hang out with these people, they just bring me joy and we laugh. So again, it's not about. In my mind, meantime isn't always just about isolation, but it is about intention. So on this full moon.

So here's what's great. I'll circle back to full moons and full moons. It's a time of manifesting. The way I look at a full moon is this one you can check in with your goals. What goals did you set that maybe you haven't achieved yet? And check in with them, because we might come up with five goals, but only one or two of them are the ones that we really, really like or that we're really invested in. So how are we doing on a full moon? We check in, we look back, and then we invest the time and the energy into nurturing those goals, nurturing those dreams.

So what are a couple of things that we still need to do, and how might we make that manifest, that in our mind? Because our minds are so powerful and they can really propel us into the future. They can hold us back, they can ground us. Our mind can tell our body it's stronger than maybe the body thinks it is. The mind can tell our body that it's weaker than what our body feels. It's powerful. So how might we use that energy on a full moon to be really intentional right now, in this time? Intentional with our thoughts, careful with our thoughts, because what we think, we can create.

So you want to make sure you're filling the bucket with the things that are going to fill us with joy, fill us with fulfillment, authenticity, courage. Now, in this particular moon, you might have, over the last few days, felt a lot of emotions. It could be negative emotion, it could be positive emotion. I'm a very high empath, and I feel everything. So things have been happening. But you can use that emotion as fuel for investing into what's next. And if. If you're feeling anger, use it, let it out.

Because the more we pack stuff down, it just gets stuck like a clogged drain and a clogged drain. We all know things start to eke out in weird ways, right? So don't pack it down. Feel all of it. Feel the joy, feel the happiness. And recognize that on this full moon, you get the duality of dreaming and strategic along with focus and intention. So what might you dream? And then what can you take from that and put some intention around and do that tonight? Maybe light a candle and dream. Maybe pull out the journal and journal, do the thing.

Maybe send a text to your group of besties and say, let's manifest something that we can do together. Maybe you go to a paint class. Maybe you just go to the art store and buy some watercolors and you paint whatever you see. It doesn't matter what it is. It just matters that we're investing in ourselves. And sometimes when we're around those besties, that's what is fuel for our soul, fuel for our emotional bodies, Especially this time of year where all kinds of emotions can run rampant. Because let's be honest, adulting through the holidays sometimes can be really hard.

And we want to go back to being that kid, right? Because you that have Those kid memories. Many of us do. Not everybody does. But we think about Christmas, and it's for the kids, and that's a fact. And as an adult, Christmas and holidays can be really hard. Whatever holiday you celebrate as an adult for a variety of reasons. So why not invest the time in finding a few things that are going to bring you joy? Use that Mooney energy, which is a very feminine energy, where we nurture and take care of ourselves.

We invest in ourselves. Speak, wonder. I had a feeling you were a Mooney, too, Jules. I'm going to intentionally go for a run after this so I can clear my mind. Good for you. Get some clarity. Go for a run, go for a walk. But find those things that are going to inspire you and start the conversation, start the brainstorm, start the journal, and literally just begin. You don't have to have a plan. You don't have to have a script. You don't even have to know what it will become. You just start. So on this beautiful Sunday, even if it's foggy, on this moony Sunday, fun fact, it's a Gemini full moon, and I'm Gemini, so I'm feeling a little extra.

Go out there, send the text, find the people that bring you joy, the 10%, the small circle of people that bring you the most joy, and go sign up to do something with them or invite them over or invite yourself over. Do the thing. Because that can be as nurturing for your soul and your mind, doing anything simply on your own and for yourself. So let me know what you decide. Have the best day. I'm here on Monday as well, so I'll see you for Professional Development Day. Oh, Jewels. Yay, Gemini power.

Have a great day, everybody. We'll see you soon.