J.C. Johnson invites a gentle morning check-in, reminding listeners that it's okay not to feel great while appreciating each person's inherent worth and the shared human experience of going through stuff.
J.C. Johnson: We hope you're doing great this morning, but it's okay if you're not. He says we have to remind ourselves that other people are going through stuff. If you aren't here, you're still incredibly worthy, Johnson says.
Today is in the all time best movie, you've Got Mail. Meg Ryan talks about Joni Mitchell's river. I hope we all find the river that we need when we need it. Y'all have a great Tuesday, and I'll see you tomorrow morning.
Hey, hey. Good morning, everybody. Little Joni Mitchell playing on this Tuesday, y'all. It don't snow here. Stays pretty green. I'm gonna make a lot of money, then I'm gonna quit this crazy scene. I wish. Hey, Jules, Amy, good morning. Good morning, River. Joni Mitchell, such a good tune. I hope you're doing great this morning, y'all. C. if we've never shared time and space together before, if you're new in the Cadre sphere, or maybe with the change and wiggle of the schedule, perhaps this is simply a different time that you are logging into the Cadre sphere.
Nice to see y'all trailing on into the room to spend some time with maybe people you do know and people you don't know. Hey, Colleen. Good morning. Good morning. I hope you're good. I hope you're doing great. I hope that you're finding some softness and some peace and some calm, but also know that that may not be the case. And here's your assurance that that is a okay as well. Whether you feel like it or not, you being on this pathway of life is kind of the one thing that brings. Brings everybody together.
I bump into the Cadre sphere to go ahead and on the daily remind you of those things, that we hope you're great, it's okay if you're not, and that it's a gift to spend time with you. And I thought today would be a really good day to strip down just to those things. We hope that you're great. Why? Because we live in a time when we're told that everything is great, even if it's not. I don't feel like that if things aren't great, I feel stressed or sad or frustrated or angry or lost. So having someone else say, ah, you just need to change your perspective and everything's great, that makes me feel even sometimes further away from feeling great because I go, oh, wait, do I see that things aren't great?
And also, I'm not capable of doing the thing that the world says I'm supposed to do. And that just always be great kind of adds on to the weight. So, A, I think that's why we're always really excited to see you and we cheer you on when things are good. The second part, but even if you're not, that's okay, too. First of all, it's true, right? If you aren't here, if you're here, you're still incredibly worthy. You're still incredibly capable. You're still incredibly in the game of Being where you are with what you have and honoring that, you're still incredibly potent within impacting other people's lives.
You know, how often do we maybe run into the angry person at the grocery store and we have to remind ourselves, it's not me, it's not me. Like, like, like there's something going on that's making them have the energy that they're having. And that's not to write off our capacity to maybe positively influence that, but it's to go, ah, people are going through stuff. So when it may be easier to go, gosh, that person's not okay. And the end, if we can have that perspective on other people being like, huh, Something is causing them to be in the state that they are in.
And that something may be generational, it may be something in existence for, for all time, but if we can do it with other people, we can also do it for ourselves. You know, I met with the CEO of engineering manufacturing firm yesterday. He's in his mid-30s. So he's a young CEO and a wonderful CEO. Here's the thing that stuck with me. You know, he says, you know, he's really analytical. He's a planner to the place that he never makes any choices, that at least the probability of success isn't present.
And he said he spends most of his time with his growing organization inviting people and educating people that this is, this is what growth looks like. So it may be easy to only talk and clap and be on your game when you're in these parts. But he's like, no, like, this is what growth looks like, right? We move forward, we move back, we move forward, we move back. We gain capacity, but we don't have experience with that capacity. So we get fumbly and bumbly and we fall, fall down and we struggle and then we gain confidence and maturity within those skill sets.
And then we, we grow again. So when we say things like, hey, we hope you're great, but if you're not, that's okay too. Now we're welcoming you in to what we see as the sustainable reality of life. Because the last thing that we often say is that we're glad you're here because spending time with you is a gift. Like there's benefit that comes out of spending time with you. Now I'm going to deflate you just a little, little bit. Everybody. We could say that too. Everybody is a gift. Spending time with anybody and everybody is a gift.
You know, go back to yesterday's Cadre Today interview with Speak Wonder who is in the house and check out in the community feed Speak Wonder's take home prize. I'm not gonna bring it all the way to the forefront because I want you to go check it out, but Essence Speak Wonder shares the pathway to connection and the benefit of connections pathway. So if you simply log into Cadre every day, you open it, you listen, you lay it down, and you don't feel like you do anything with it, know that you having the daily reminder and the calibration of someone hoping that you're great, someone reminding you that if you're not great, that it's okay too.
And lastly, that you are a gift to spend time with. So when I played Joni Mitchell's river at the beginning of today's livestream, the reason why that was a song that bopped in my head. Today is in the all time best movie, you've Got Mail, which technically I think of as a Christmas movie too, because it moves through the fall and into the holidays and they have a Christmas party where Greg Kinnear sings like a clarinet. Diddly diddly, diddy diddly that. But Meg Ryan has this moment where she talks about Joni Mitchell's river and how sometimes she just wishes she could put on her skates and find a frozen river and just go away, go back to a different time, a time when this was happening rather than when this was happening.
And I know you may be in that place right now, you may not be in that place right now. I'm pretty empath and I can read minds and all those things sometimes, but I don't know what you're going through. You're on the other side of a screen. But I do know that if I'm throwing a dart 51% of the time, some of y'all are going to be great. 49 of y'all are going to be not great, but 100% of y'all are going to impact the lives of those people that you spend time with, just like you're doing right now. And so I hope we all find the river that we need when we need it.
Oh, that voice just floats all over the scales. Y'all have a great Tuesday, and I'll see you tomorrow morning. Y'all, when we say we're here for you every day, we mean it. Have a good one.
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