Enoughness 101

Always remember who you are. Hey, Cadre. How you doing, sugar? You're a sty. That's Billy Porter singing Love Yourself. Good morning, Chris Sportman. Nice to see you, my friend. How is everybody doing out there? I played Billy Porter's Love Yourself to kick off our Saturday morning as a reminder to myself and a reminder to you. If you didn't check out Shannon Stauff's new live stream yesterday, give it a listen. Shannon's new live stream is all about learning how to, I like to say, be on your own side.

Some people may say learning how to love yourself. So I put that song into the community feed yesterday, so give it a a listen. Both Shannon's livestream and also a little Billy Porter. How you doing, Cadre? I hope you are good, Chris, Luke, everybody out there. I hope this morning is something in response to what your body is asking for. And if you don't have the time or the opportunity to go ahead and give yourself something that your body's asking for right now, I hope you're looking for that next moment when you can go, ah, or nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, or.

Or whatever else it is that you need. Right before I signed on about nine minutes ago now, I sent my dad a text message saying, hey, live it up today. And that's where we're going to chat. Because as I always start off live streams here, I hope you're doing good, but if you're not, that's okay too. On Saturdays, I talk about the idea, the idea I talk about most in my life. The idea of enoughness. Enoughness is a concept with four little calibrating arms to calibrate something or to recalibrate something.

Rather, you need to acknowledge that you already have everything that you need. You just need a tweak to go ahead and increase efficiency and increase awesomeness of the thing. So what is enoughness? Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already indeed enough and capable of doing something right now that is good and exciting and would fit in the category of you living it up. How often do you go, you know, I can't live it up because. Because I'm sick. Or I can't live it up because I'm worried.

I can't live it up because I have too much going on. Or maybe you're in this one. This is my regular Saturday morning one. Here's a little insight into my tormented life at the beginning of weekends or the beginning of vacations or the beginning of time. Where could Maybe do something that would fit into the live it up category. This is when I go into worry mode. This is when I go into everything's going to fall apart mode. This is when I go into I have so much going on next week that I'm going to spend this weekend in rumination and worry and torment because what if everything next week doesn't go right?

Hey, Shannon. Nice to see you, my friend Shannon. I kicked off today's livestream playing a song that I put in chat yesterday to invite people to run towards your new livestream on Saturdays. So if you're like Shannon and you jumped in the middle of the live here, go ahead and watch the beginning because there's a good bop that kicked us off today. Okay, so back to this idea of living it up and how it fits into the concept of enoughness. So at 7:53 Central Standard Time, or 8:53 where he is, I told him to live it up today.

Not as a, hey, it's easy to live it up, but as a reminder that we always have the opportunity to go, huh? So what can I do right now to make this moment or to make the next available moment be one that is good, that's exciting, that's fun, that's nourishing, that allows you to go. If you're wondering what those four calibrating arms of enoughness are, first one starts with your words. We say your words are enough. It all comes down to your honesty. Maybe you would feel really good right now to speak the truth quickly to yourself or to others.

The second one is all about your feelings. Your feelings are enough kind of lives in the pool of your intuition. That part of your being that says, oh, yeah, do that. That would feel good and it would make sense. What if this morning you said, you know what I have the feeling for? Big bowl of Lucky Charms. And you gave yourself it because you're feeling worth saying, hey, you know what? All the things going on inside says here is what's going to make me feel good. The third one is the dance with your thoughts.

All has to do with your curiosity. What if you have this thought in your head, you know, what if we moved all the furniture around in the office today because it may, may make more sense with where that window is that has that draft and we always get cold. What if in the winter months we move the desk over here? Doob doo doo doo. All of a sudden your curiosity drives you to a place where you go, we're living it up, y'all. And then lastly, this is Kind of the big one, the soft edge one, the one that maybe is hardest to understand.

And it is the you are enough. It has to do with your presence, your awareness of where you are and what's going on. What if all of a sudden you were planning to wake up at 8am and get to the gym because you never miss a gym day, Then all of a sudden your dog is laying on your arm, the sun is shining in through the window, and you go, no. That whole idea that you can't miss the gym, maybe that makes you feel like you're doing it right because you're consistent, you're doing the thing. And it's always.

You're always there. You always show up, no matter what. And all of a sudden you're in a moment where you go, nah, here is what right now is providing me the opportunity for. And you are bold enough to acknowledge your presence and say, here is where I'm going to be. This is what living it up is going to look like right now. So everybody, no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, no matter if you're doing great or if you're not doing great, how can you live it up right now? I think enoughness has a pathway for you.

So does Billy Porter. Love yourself. That's really all you need. Loving yourself is all you really need, y'all. It's the prerequisite. It's the thing. And then acknowledging that self that you're loving is enough.