Cadre Today and Family Ties

Hey there, Cadre. How are you? My friends, it is Thursday, and the heat has not turned on in the house for some reason. A little ditty to start out the day. I love that lyric. I'll repeat it again in a moment. Hey, Jules, nice to see ya. How are we? How are we? Nice to see you all showing up. It's literally as good as a cup of coffee, if you like coffee is. It's good as a cup of orange juice, if you like orange juice. It's as good as a Mountain Dew, if you like some Mountain Dew. All right, I'll hit the pause button.

So that's a song by Adam Melchior called Serotonin. And the first lyric really resonated as I was planning today's Cadre. Today, Adam says, I crawled back into bed, trying to hold that serotonin in my head, trying to keep the good juices from getting squelched by the day. You ever feel like that sometimes, that there are things that can take. Take the good stuff, leaving you a little empty, leaving you a little undercharged, you know, One of my favorite things about Cadre is rather than always being the wow.

They're just consistently positive and always smiling and always, always there. Hey, Chris Portman. Yeah, Luke, right? What a line. Crawling back into bed, trying to keep the serotonin in my head. But as I was saying, one of my favorite things about Cadre is that I think the end result of being in the Cadre sphere is always, ah, now I feel a little bit more grounded or seen or happy or whatever the good juices do. Because you see people being real. There's some magic to that. So what do we do on Thursdays, Thursdays in the livestream world, we talk about caring about other people.

Yeah. Being responsible, being the support for being the person that others can fall back on for other people. There are millions and millions and millions and millions of caregivers in our society who don't do it because it's their job, don't do it because it's their paycheck, but do it because there's love. We finish out the week Thursday, caregiver day, Friday, grief and loss. You know, my friend Kelly always says that grief is an indicator of love. Right. You don't get to love without also grieving sooner or later and often.

And I also don't think you get to love without the call in certain ways to be in care of those people around you. So maybe today, as you are crawling out of bed or bopping out of bed or jumping out of bed or rolling out of bed or whatever verb you're using to get out of bed. Perhaps you're feeling a little empty, a little tapped, a little like, oh, my gosh, it's 7:30 in the morning and I don't know how I'm gonna make it to 7:30 in the evening. Well, I'm glad that you're here, and I hope that you're good.

I hope that you're full of energy and full of the things that you need. But if you're not, that's okay too. You're, first of all, still absolutely in the right place. And secondly, you are still wonderfully capable of doing the things you need to do today with creativity, with courage, with the best that you got. Because the things that we do that are most important in this world are things that don't necessarily require us to be at 100 all of the time. Now, again, there are some things that do require us to be at 100 to do it.

As we think about caring about those people around us today, I invite you to think about the things that you have, regardless of how you are doing. Maybe the hard work you do today is giving yourself credit for those things, Giving yourself credit for your capacity to be and do and support, even if you may not have all of the things that you wish you did right now in terms of energy, capacity, clarity. So as I settle into my very cold office where the heat has not turned on to start chipping away at some work, I think about all of those people in my world who I.

Who I take responsibility for in certain ways, in small ways, in big ways, I'm going to do what I can do in the way that I can do it. You know what? If I have to fill my cup a little bit today, yeah, I'm probably gonna do that as well. So wherever you are, whatever's going on, I wish you the best. And if you don't got the best, I wish you exactly what you need when you need it. Knowing that that may be a little bit of clarity and remembrance that you have something of worth. Y'all always chime back into the Cadre sphere anytime you need.

It's really quite simple. Pick up that phone, hit the Cadre sphere button, and all of a sudden find what you need in that moment. I'll go ahead and play from the beginning of the song again a little. Add a milkier serotonin. Have a good one, y'all.