Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, hey there, Cadre. I'll block the light from you. How are you doing? There's a camera there. I was like, what is that thing? Look at that. We're on Cadre. And the buttered tin is watching us too. How are we doing today, Cadre? I hope that you are doing great. I really do. I hope you're doing great. But if you're not doing great, I hope you remember that that is absolutely okay too. You're still worthy, you're still cap. You're still enough. You're still all of those things. Junk food Junkie.

Nice to see you, my friend, so often, especially on a. Like a start or a finish, like a Monday or a Friday. If we don't feel 100%, how often do we go? Well, I guess I don't have it today. Yeah, you have something today. And that something can be thrown on the fire, can be put in a coffer, can be amplified to the world to do something good for you and for those people around you. So tap into those things. My name is JC if we never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share some space and time with you right now.

Hey, Luke. Nice to see you. Hey. Speak. Wonder. So I'm in Minneapolis, and it is a snowy morning. We've had, I guess maybe we would say unseasonably, but it's been unseasonably seasonable for quite a few years now to have it be warm in January. Hey, Becky's. Nice to see ya. But we got maybe an inch or two of snow again last night after everybody went to bed, before everybody woke up. So the drive this morning was pretty precarious. I saw probably two dozen cars spun out on the road and other people driving slow and spaced from.

From one another to try to get to where they're going. You know, on Mondays, we talk about developing professionally. Getting your swim aerobics in? Yes, Becky's. We talk about professional development quite often. Sometimes other things, but quite often how we develop professionally. You may be like, what is. Say that in a different way. Here's how I talk about it. Saturdays, we talk about personal development. That's talking about who we are. Mondays we talk about professional development. That is what we do.

Personal, who we are. Professional, what we do. So you can see in the title of this live stream, it says Bold Followership. This is what I focused on in my graduate studies, the idea that so often we exist in a world where leadership is the active thing and following is the passive thing. So, of course, as people who are supposed to be stronger, harder, faster, deeper, all the time. Go, go, go. We should want to be leaders and not followers. And I say no. We spend a majority of our life in the seat of follower.

And there are the world lives on and is moved by active bold followers. People who say hey, you hear what they're saying? Hey, do you see where they're lead us? Hey. Do you take time to amplify these ideas and to rally other people around them? Do you show them how following within these footsteps is going to get us to bright glorious places? I would say most people don't think that way, but right now we're talking about it. So here's an idea for you. You may remember I mentioned all those spin outs on the road so often if we don't acknowledge the things that are changing the pathway where we are led, we often going off court, we often go off course, right?

So I knew the second I got in my car this morning that I needed to follow where the snow and the weather and the other drivers were leading me to. Which means I needed to slow down, I needed to create space, I needed to be kind to myself, knowing I wasn't going to get to where I had to get to on time. And in doing so it allowed me to get to where I needed to get to. So often we go, we're gonna bum rush forward no matter what. Nothing can change our course. And that may sound strong and machismo and committed and passionate and all these things, but also 9 times out of 10 ends up not being true.

It may sound like that's the thing to follow, but in reality, if we actually want to get to where we're where we're wanting to get to, we're not gonna get there. Jugfu Junkie says think about if we follow the news, sports, weather, community, happen, et cetera. Even if we are in leadership mode, we're still followers. Absolutely. We do not exist in a world unless we have literally carved out our own little plot on the land where no one else exists with us, we are never in the seat of leader for very long.

If you haven't watched the first Follower video on YouTube, I highly recommend it. Becky's I talk about it all the time. Everybody watch Derek Sievers how to start a movement. YouTube. It's three minutes long and it's beautiful. Derek says that this it's the first follower who turns the lone nut into a leader. Think about it. The person who's leading, unless there's somebody following, who are they leading? Why are they a leader? Maybe in their own mind. Junk food junkie says, oh, that's the same message.

My bad. So here's my passing thought for you today. You can't cook a turkey faster than you can cook a turkey. At the end of the day, it takes time for us to get to where we're going. Like a frozen turkey. You can't just crank the oven up to a thousand. You're gonna go ahead and end up in the ditch, just like all those cars on the side of the road. You want that turkey to cook, you need a lot of time and space to do its thing. So what are you following today? What are you bringing into your awareness that's gonna change your course?

Do that, y'all. Luke's coming up in about 22 minutes, but I will see you again tomorrow morning. And I want to remind you, Wednesday morning Cadre Today interview with Ms. Shannon Paul, 7:30am Central, stand time. Thursday evening Cadre Today interview with registered Dietitian Jay Petruno, 5pM Central Standard Time, 6pM East coast, where Jay is in Boston. Y'all have a good day.