Monday Motivation: The Power Of One.

This is my life. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Looking forward to this live stream. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Happy Monday as we're nearing 2025. Hope everybody's having a great stretch for the holidays. Good morning, everybody. Probably some of you all are doing, like, a weird week, like a work Monday, work Tuesday, or maybe a little bit of Tuesday, finishing out on Friday. Who knows? But we'll see our stigmas. Joint says, love the hat. Done. I will send one off to you.

So there. You will have one. I know. I owe Jules a hat, too. So I got. I got two stories I want to share today as we're nearing into 2025. I'm not talking goal planning. I'm not going to talk any of that stuff. It's just to me, you know, goal planning and getting set for goal planning and preparation for goal planning is not just a two days before the New Year's and saying, all right, now I'm. Now I got this New Year's resolution. Here we go. I mean, you have a 4% chance. I'm gonna stick to the 96%, where we're gonna talk about, like, lifestyle habits, changes, things that we wanna do differently, you know, pressing our goals in appropriate quarters.

What does that look like? What's our big goal that we're gonna try to achieve? That's what you're gonna hear from me throughout the duration of the year. I'm not gonna sit here and sell you on some, like, let's Change this in 2025 about ourselves, and let's go here and let's go do this. It's just not me, so I'm not going to do that. But what I am going to talk about is two things that I think are very, very important. Number one, I went to the Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown. And check this out.

All right, ready for this? So my wife and I, on Christmas Day, went to the Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown in Hibbing, where he was born and raised. And so, like, this whole group of, I want to say, like, late 60s, early 70s, were at the Hibbing Theater, small theater, and they all were there. And it was just so cool to see, like, these are probably, you know, individuals that KNEW Bob or Mr. Zimmerman, you know, as they were growing up and whatnot. And it was. It was just a really, really cool experience to say, like, this is where he was born and raised.

This is where we were when the movie came out. Watch the movie, and I would encourage you to watch it. If you don't have a. If you're interested? It's a really great show. My wife and I absolutely loved it. So that's number one. Number two, the power of one, the power of belief, the power of hope, the power of one, right? So I want you to think about this. I want you to think about your life and I want you to take it back six months, a year, two years, five years, 10 years, 20 years. And I want you to think about the most pivotal, impactful moments of it.

And if I really think about that, I would say those five moments in time were predicated on somebody believing in me. Right? Like Hugh, you believe in me and I can believe in myself. Oh, you, you think I can actually do this? You think? It gave me hope, gave me inspiration, gave me motivation. I wanted to prove something to that individual. So what I'm trying to say here today is if you have an opportunity right now that you can influence somebody by giving hope, by, by, by believing in them, by giving the power of, of a shared mutual belief of something, whatever that something is, that, my gosh, you're, you're, you're, you're purposeful, you're passionate about, you're, you're loving and awe and inspiration inspiring towards.

I am, I am telling you, you can change the world. And I'll give you an example. Okay, so back in the day, does anybody heard of a guy by name of Novak Djokovic? Novak Djokovic is the, you know, most looked at greatest tennis player of all time. Growing up Czech Republic. Growing up in the Czech Republic. Excuse me, Serbia. Growing up in Serbia and war torn country. And there was an individual that was his coach when he was 6, 7, 8 years old. And he always talked to her about the Wimbledon and his dream of being the Wimbledon champ and da da, da, da, da.

And he said, I'll never forget, she said to me, novak, you're the chosen one. And he goes, he's like, I was dumb enough to believe it. Like I was dumb enough to believe that she thought I was the chosen one, that I was the golden one. I was the golden child. I was these things that she said that I thought. So think about that with your teammates. Think about that with your other employees. Think about that with the people that you get to work with, right? Like by, by bringing them up, by fueling their fire.

Like people don't know what they're capable of until sometimes, like you show them a little hope and you believe in them. And personally, I've loved doing this over the last eight years in the recovery space and the recovery Journey of showing people that hope and like you can be more, you can do more. I believe in you. You got this. It be hopeful. You know, these opportunities are presenting them before yourself. But then I also do this all the time in the professional, my professional landscape.

Right. Whether it's giving individuals internships, whether it's supporting them through the development, growth, whether it's taking them along the ride and the journey as teammates, I just. People don't know what they're capable of. And I'm a firm believer in that and the power of hope and the power of one, of one person to believe you. And I'm telling you this right now, that there was one individual that I'll never ever forget and she will forever, I will forever be indebted to because I didn't believe that I could do it myself.

I was leaving corporate America. I was going to go work at Hazel and Betty Ford foundation, which is in the health and human services field. If you're not familiar. And this individual, I'm sure there's 50 people that were much more qualified than I for this job, guaranteed. And she took a leap of faith and she just belief in me. And that forever changed the tragic trajectory of my life. It allowed me to learn and develop from some of the best and the brightest in the space. It allowed me to take next steps to develop my own program.

It allowed me to go and go and go and go. So again, the power of belief of one, of hope of one man. I'm just, I'm telling you, it is infectious and the opportunities that can come with it. When there's belief that you can do something that you don't even know you're capable of yourself, it is, it's game changing. It's absolutely game changing. So push your chips in on somebody this year, maybe do it a few times. Push your chips in on somebody this year that you can show them that you believe in them.

Show them, push your chips in that you can show them that they can do something that they don't even know they're capable of. That to me, the hope of one fantastic that is I, Betsy, I believe in it with all my heart. I'm a byproduct of this and I'm also a product of it. By product mean I trying my best to show other individuals that they can do whatever they want. But I'm also a product of it where individuals have taken a leap of faith and believed in me. And I think both are just as infectious and beautiful.

So we will end, we'll End with a little Billy Joel in the background. I mean, how can you not love that? But hope everybody has a wonderful week as you lean into and jump into 2025. Like I said in the earlier part of my live stream, I am not going to sell you on New Year's resolutions. I'm not going to sell you on goals. I'm not going to do any of that. Heck, I'm not even going to talk about that as we head into 2025. I'm just going to talk about the power of belief. And if. If somebody can believe in you, before you know it, you start to believe in yourself, and then you start to believe in others, and then this ripple effect just multiplies.

And then in organizations like Cadre, you now have amazing teams. Have a great new year, friend. You too, Betsy. Knock 2025 out of the park. I know you will. You're such an amazing human being. Our stigma, Jules, Beth, all the individuals that have joined on the live stream today, thank you for showing up. Thank you for support. Because to be frank, like, you know, imposter syndrome, me, you know, doing this and sharing my stories, and I find that when you give it away, it grows in you. I believe that to be true, too, but I.

Yeah, I just want to share again. You know, even being here right now doing this was simply just belief and hope that we can. And then before you know it, like 3 more join and 5 more join and 10 more join and 20 more join and 50 more join, and before you know it, you have hundreds and thousands of folks that. That believe in the power of. Of this. What is this? What I hope is, is. Is. Is. Is selling, not even selling reverbing good feelings to the world that you may not know even exist in yourself.

How beautiful is that? Great opportunities, great moments. So go have them and go crush the year. Do something special. Do something special for somebody else. And I think you're gonna find that it will make you feel amazing. Take care of you guys. Here's to learning, loving, growing and thriving. Peace. And then you can always just listen to a little bit of this or Bobby Dylan, if you'd like. Take care of you guys. Bye.