Monday Motivation: 3 Questions To Ponder Heading Into 2025

Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday. Thank you, JC for starting off our week off right. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Hope everybody's having a Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving with their family. Hopefully everybody had a good time to rejuvenate, recalibrate, relax, get yourself right for getting into the last stretch of 30 days prior to your amazing 2025 beginning. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Hopefully everybody's having a good start to your Monday.

So far, so good. Oh, what a great day. What a great day, everybody. It's a good start. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. So my wife and I were on our way back from my in laws, which is in northern Minnesota. Good morning, everybody. Oh, I love it. Jen Gillway. Good morning. Good morning, Jules. Good morning. Speak wonder. Good morning, everybody. That's popping in. What a great start to the day. This is certainly making my day. So my wife and I were on our way back from. Good morning, Colleen.

Oh, my gosh, what a day. This is starting off right. So my wife and I were on our way back from the Iron Range, which is in Minnesota, from our house. It's about a three hour drive. Right. And there's a lot of times where Em will sometimes listen to her podcast and I'll just kind of drift off into outer space. But this time, you know, we, we talked. We went really deep on the way back from up north, and we just started asking ourselves questions about goals, what we want to try to accomplish. What are our dreams for 2025 and how can we ramp that up leading into the last 30 days of December to get into 2025?

So I'm popping in from Colorado. That's beautiful. Minnesota here. But these are the three questions that we asked each other. These are the three questions that we asked each other. And I want you to write these down. Okay. I want you to write these ones down. The first one is called relational. The first one's relational. Who's one friend that you want to get closer with in 2025? Okay. Who's one friend that you want to get closer with in 2025? Who's one friend that you're kind of drifting away from and you're okay with it in 2025?

So who's one friend that you're going to get closer with? And who's one friend that you're going to kind of. And it could be family, friend, colleague, you name it. Kind of drift away with a little bit. Okay, that's number one. Relational. So the first one is a relational question. Number two, what is one hard thing that you're going to sign up to do physically in 2025? What is one hard thing that you're going to sign up to do physically in 2025? So, for example, for me, I'm not saying this for ego, brag, nothing, but it's just what I'm going to do.

So I will do at least 50 to 10 mile runs and then I'm going to do something really, really, really big in May. I haven't decided yet, but every single weekend I'll at least do a 10 miler, right? At least 10 miles, no matter what, through the course of the weekend. So I'll do 52 at least 10 milers throughout the entire year. But in May, June, I'm going to sign up to do something insanely hard. It's called my masogi. I don't know what it is yet. And that's okay. And then the last one is, what's one place that you're going to push yourself personally and professionally?

Okay, so again, writing these down, number one, relational, one friend you're going to come closer with, one friend you're going to drift away from. What is one hard thing you're going to do physically in 2025? It could be run your first 5k. It could be walk 10 miles in one day. It could be walk for six straight hours. It could be, you know, being able to ride the peloton for one hour straight. So. Oh my gosh, I see this. M. steen, 29 029. I love it. Are you all signed up already? If you are, that's amazing.

But that's one hard thing you're going to do physically in 2025. M. steen says 13 says 29, 029. If people don't know what that is, it's like it's going to some. There's like 13 of them, I want to say mountain peaks around the United States, like Banff has one, there's one in Park City, Utah. And you just go up and down, up and down, up and down until you have the equivalent of Mount Everest. That would be amazing. Way to go stud. So the one hard thing you're going to do physically, but I haven't signed up for mine yet, but it's something that I have big question marks for for my 2025.

And then what's one place that I'm going to push my push myself personally and professionally? What's one place I'm going to push myself personally? I'm going to push myself Professionally, so I know what it is. Personally, we've been a part of this. It's called White Bear Yacht Club. It's on the north side of White Bear Lake. I know it's going to make me sound super just egotistical or arrogant. Good morning, Shannon Paul. Oh my gosh, it's always so good to see you. But it's one place I'm going to push myself personally and professionally.

So personally, there's this golf thing every Thursday night. And we've been a part of this for five, six years now. And for whatever reason, I just don't go to Thursday nights. And there's a lot of amazing people that are there on Thursday nights. It's called like guys golf night. And I don't do it. For whatever reason, I don't do it. I think it's like pushing me out of, like, my social, like, vibe and like, am I gonna like these guys? Am I not gonna like these guys? Like, what am I gonna do if I'm stuck and blah, blah, blah.

And so I'm gonna push myself personally to participate in this Thursday night golf with these other gentlemen in 2025. And my wife asked me on the car ride home, she said, do you think it's harder to run a hundred mile race or show up on Thursdays? And I said, oh my God, not even close. Thursdays, not even close. Like Thursdays, I'm like, what if it's four hours I'm stuck and da da da da da. Boogie isn't bad. Oh, I like that, Ms. Shannon Paul. That's good. That's good stuff. And then professionally.

So again, here's the three questions. We're going to do it again. And Jules, way to go. Grandma's marathon's in the books. Way to go, you badass. That's amazing. So the very first one is relational. One friend, you're going to get closer to one friend, you're going to drift farther away. Next one, what's one hard thing you're going to put on the books in 2025 that's hard for you? It doesn't have to be hard for like the rest of the world. You know, it's gotta be this or it's gotta be this. But what's the one thing that's gonna be hard for you to do physically in 2025?

Like I said, I shared mine. I don't have my one thing yet, but I will. And then what's one place that I'm gonna push, push myself personally and professionally? So again, I have My personal down and my professional is still yet to go. I think I'm getting closer. So I got my big, big one in 2025 physically and I got how I'm going to push myself professionally. So I encourage you to think about these things and talk to somebody close to you. I am so lucky that I was able to spend a three hour ride with my wife and just kind of digesting this.

And I did go deep about some friends that I'm drifting away from and I was like, you know, I just don't know if this relationship's right for me. And you know what this looks like. And you know, she just said, I encourage you to think about maybe that this is an energy suck more than an energy take like that you're gaining more energy from the relationship rather than sucking it out. So those are some things I really, really want you to think about going into 2025. Don't have to have the answers today.

We're still, you know, call it 30 days away. Close to 30 days away. So take that, take this conversation in today and write that down relationally. What is my goal next? Of course, your masogi. I call it mazogi. What's one hard physical thing you're gonna get in the books for 2025, right? Number two, what's one place that I'm gonna push myself personally and professionally? How do I wean off of a friendship? That's a good question. Speak wonder. How do you, how do you wean off of a friendship? To, to be brutally honest, like, I don't know if I'm the person to ask because, you know, what I do is I just, I kind of go there, I kind of go there with the conversation with somebody.

So it's not like ghosting somebody. I'm like, hey, I just, you know, like this, this friendship is hard for me. You know, things might not be working. You know, I text you, you don't text me back. You know, you say we're going to set up something for Thursday nights, we're all ready to go for Thursday. You don't show up or you text me last minute, like those things are hard for me. And to me it's just better saying like, hey, I don't know if this friendship's working and just being honest, like just be super direct.

If that doesn't work for you, then I can, I suppose you can go the Gen Z route, which is just ghosting me. I'm just kidding. But you know, I hope that, you know, we always take other, you know individuals, emotions and feelings into play. Or. Or maybe the friendship needs to set boundaries first before you wean off of it. So that's something to think about, right? Because like, I tried not to go 0 to 100 in everything in life, especially the FL friends, but there's some things where you got to like, have that conversation with somebody, say, hey, you know, what happened last week?

Or why didn't, you know, why weren't you there? I texted you, you didn't text me back, or whatever that looks like. So I think you just got to think about it for yourself, of what you want and why you want it. But again, relational, physical, personal, professional. And I know some people add spiritual and all the other things, but for me, these are my big three questions that I just really want to drive down than my goals. And then, so the last week here coming in December, we're going to be talking about goals, like how to actually set goals.

Because then what I do is I take the relationship work my way backwards. I take my physical, my big masogi, and I work it backwards. I take my personal and professional and then I work backwards so I can set tangible, meaningful goals over the course of xyz. Honest conversations are hard but worth the effort. They are. They are. There's also nothing like it. You know, we at Cadre, with our leadership team and our group, you know, we have total radical candor. And sometimes it may hurt for a minute and sometimes it may sting, but it's so beautiful knowing exactly where you stand with somebody else.

Maybe it's a leader, maybe it's a friend, maybe it's somebody. And those direct conversations, they actually, those speak one or they get easier and easier and easier as soon as you start going there, as soon as you start going there to say, you know, this isn't working for either of us, or this is this, or I. I'm really struggling not having you hear me. You know, I think, I think taking the easy way out just kind of pushes things to a boiling point. And the easier you take it when it's simmering in those conversations, when it's just kind of simmering right here, the easier it makes the conversation go down.

So think about that. Rather than like both people boiling and coming to an emotional place in the conversation versus more like fact base. Like, hey, you know, I sent you a message and you didn't follow up with me, or I was all prepared for dinner and we had everything set ready to go and we were going to have a dinner date and, you know, you texted me last minute. Like that hurts. Like, you know, keeping it fact based versus emotional based can really be beneficial. So something to think about.

But I look forward to this whole Cadre. You know, again, what is a Cadre? Group of individuals trained for a particular purpose. I look forward to this group to see what your goals will be as you head into 2025. So go knock it out of the park. Have a dynamic week. Be good to everybody. I. I just can't tell you and thank you enough how good it was to see all these amazing faces, man. It just, it just. People just kept popping and popping and popping. So. Jewel speak Wonder. M. steen. Ms. Shannon.

Wow. It was so good. But be Zobitz. It's so good to see everybody pop on the live today. So you guys have a dynamic week. I hope you're able to spend just wonderful time with your family stress free. This is what my hope for you all. So take care. You guys. Have a dynamic week. Lift somebody up. Trust me, there's a lot of people that need it. All right, bye everybody.