Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Hey there, Cadre. Happy, happy Monday morning. How are you? You good? You know that? I hope you are. But if you're like probably 49 or 51% of the world right now, you're probably not good. Maybe that number is higher or lower. But again, at the end of the day, if you're good, that's great. If you're not good, that's okay, too. I'm not going to say it's great because we know it doesn't feel great. Beezabits. Right when we don't feel great to have someone say, oh, no, but you're so great. No, but it is okay.

You still have the capacity. Anila, how's it going? Jules. Nice to see you, my friends. Well, I am sitting here at the Buttered Tin on Monday morning where I often find myself. The holiday music is bumping in the background. No one's here yet. And it's nice. It's nice to be in a space at the beginning of your days to go, where am I? And what's going on? As we settle into another week ahead, we're kind of in those last couple weeks of the year where obviously we're the last couple weeks of the year.

We're in those last couple weeks of the year where we often start going, okay, so now what do I have to do? Or what's the next thing? Or where do I go now? Or what's my plan? Or what's my goal? Or what's my vision? It's kind of how we're acculturated to exist. On Saturdays, I always talk about, or on Sundays rather, I always talk about the idea of thin space, the space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. This is the hardest time of the year not to get stuck in where we've been or where we're going.

You'll notice in the community feed, the work community feed. I shared a quote this morning all about comparison and purpose play with one another, that it's really hard to fall victim of comparison if you have a really clear purpose, a very clear purpose as to why you do what you do. Allows you to go yes or no very clearly when you're looking at how you are doing what you are doing, or good or bad when you're looking at the KPIs and how you're doing what you're doing. So as you look at the work week ahead, as you look at calendar Q4 ending up in a couple of weeks, depending on how your fiscal year is set up, that dance is always going as well.

But my invitation for you is this. Whenever we look at industry standard or best practice, ask yourself, does it apply to you in what you are attempting to accomplish in the world? You know, I've been in the health wellness space for a long, long time as a consultant, majorly for the last eight years. Or whenever I hear people who are attempting to grow their piece of the pie in the health wellness space and they go, ah, but here's what everybody else is doing. Here's what everybody else is doing.

I always raise this question. I'm like, do you see anyone who's really creating a sustainable model for business in this segment of the industry right now? And they go, no, that's why there's this great opportunity right now to really forge forward. And I go, if you don't see anybody being successful, why are you taking the success patterns of those people? I'll tell you why. Most of the time it's because it's easier, it's more comfortable to go, here's what everybody else is doing. This is going to provide us some consistency or some comfort that we're doing the right thing.

When in reality, you looking at best practice may lead you down the wrong pathway. But you coming back to your purpose, why you're doing what you're doing in the first place will make you go, hey, you know what? These 99 people are going this way, we're going this way. You want to know why? Because here's why we're doing what we're doing. All of a sudden the irrationality of going, why are we going the opposite way from everybody else? Irrationality falls in way because you have an answer. You know exactly what it is that you are doing.

This is normally when I pick up the reusable water bottle that's sitting over at the table behind me and I go, the people who bottled water and created access to something that everybody benefits from clean drinking water. They didn't look at other beverage brands, they didn't look at which celebrity they could go ahead and get to carry around their water bottle. They said, our purpose is to give people drinking water. How do we do it? Hey, what if we created a reusable water bottle that people could fill and fil Again, what's Cadre doing?

I'll use Cadre as an example. Cadre is creating the refillable water bottle for resources community fostered by peers and professionals to show the world that there are so many ways to wellness, so many ways to being well, so many ways to feeling better. Than you do right now or feeling what you are feeling right now. So if you ever find yourself falling into the wrestle with comparison, I have one simple question for you. What's your purpose? Go. I want to remind you that tomorrow morning before I throw the deuce tomorrow morning we have our second Cadre today interview.

I'll be spending this time, 7:30 Central Standard Time with the one and only Gene Mitchells for a wonderful little conversation. If you're like, wait, what are these Cadre Today interviews? Go back one week from tomorrow and you'll find Seth Perry and I talking about mental health stigma in the faith space. Tomorrow Gene and I are going to be talking about how do we find calm in the rat race. Ooh, that kind of rhymes. Mental stigma in the faith space. Find and calm within the rat race. Okay, I'm done.

Lin Manuel signing out. Y'all have a good one. Bye.