Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing? Happy, Happy Monday. C. and Jefferson coming in to say howdy, howdy for Cadre today. Today. And Jeffy's being a little bit shy. That's what Jeffy does. Jeffy's your classical Jack Russell goes from being the supervisor and the growling monster into being the very, very shy, sweet, sweet boy. Hi, Jocelyn. How are you today? Ah, healing with drg. How is everybody doing? Jules, nice to see you. T North. Oh, nice to see y'all. Jeffrey's warming up, seeing all y'all.

Come on in. Be a bit. Nice to see you. Well, hey, everybody, we hope you're doing great. Rachel, we hope you're doing great, my friend. And if you're not doing great, know that that is okay too. Jeffy hurt his, hurt his paw this weekend taking off his McNugget T shirt. His toenail got caught in his T shirt and it gave him a little. See, you can hear. Okay, okay, okay. There we go. Here we go, buddy. There's your blanket. But yeah, so Jeffy hurt his. Hurt his paw this weekend, so he's been hanging out with me a little bit more.

And now you can hear his brother and sister out there barking at probably the neighbors. Okay, you let Jeffy out. Okay, Jeffy, go check it out. Go check it out. Hey, everybody. On Mondays, what do we talk about? We love talking about the things that we do. That's my broken down way of saying our professionalness, our developing the stuff that we do with our lives rather than on Saturday when we talk about who we are, our personal stuff. And of course, because we're always thinking about how we're doing and maybe how we can be more efficient or more effective or more joy filled or more consistent, it moves into a development space.

You know, I take the long pathway to break that down. I could have said, oh, we talk about professional development because I don't want to have the assumption be when you come into the Cadre sphere, it's all about getting better, better, better, better, better. Actually, Cadre is a place where you come no matter what. If you're on the way up, if you're on the way down, if you're taking some time, if you're, if you're sprinting, if you're backpedaling, no matter what, this is the place to be because it acknowledges that all those are parts of the puzzle back to Jefferson.

So I started following Jefferson around when he was kind of acting a little bit different. You know, I sense that he maybe hurt himself because his energy was kind of down and, and you know, he was kind of catering one side of his body and he didn't want to go down the stairs. And he, and he wasn't as playful. He wasn't playful in way. So what did I do? I followed. If you look at the title of this live stream, it says bold followership. Most of my professional life has been spent in the field of following and helping other people follow better.

You may be like, well, who wants to follow? And I go, well, I do. I want to be an excellent follower when I'm a part of a team. I want to be as good of a follower as I possibly can be when I'm helping someone bring their, their, their plan to life. I want to be as good as I can be when I'm a citizen, when I'm a neighbor, when I'm any of those things, I want to be as good of a part of that team as it can possibly be. And members of teams are followers of the rules of the game or of the leader or the coach or of the mission or the vision.

Hey, Speak Wonder. Nice to see you. So I followed Jefferson around and I could see quite a bit of things that I could. That I wouldn't be able to see if I just jumped into action and tried to fix whatever I thought was wrong. You know, I think whenever we sense that there's a problem, we go into leadership mode. How can I fix the problem? My invitation for you today is when you see a problem, follow it for a bit, ask questions, watch how the thing or how the people who are a part of the thing are operating, and see what you learn by observing, by watching, by walking on the pathway that you think is probably the wrong pathway, but walk down it with a mindset of, huh?

What can I learn from the perspective of following? Because I'll tell you, Jeffy told me a lot. All I had to do was follow and listen. And now, I mean, even like right now, you see how quickly he jumped out of my lap. He's like, okay, Papa, I know that I'm not feeling that great, but obviously there's something outside. And I'm the Jack Russell and I'm the supervisor in the family. So I have to go check out what's going on. He told me all of that. If I wasn't listening, I wouldn't have responded.

If I was like, no, no, no, you need to stay here. You need to stay here. No, like, you could see that he felt good enough to go and check out what's going on. Follow today, everybody, and follow every day. Because the more you follow, the more you really see the moments when the world needs you to lead. Y'all, I will see you tomorrow. But a reminder, on Thursday of this week, Dr. Jessica and I are going to be jumping into the interview seats to talk about boundaries. That was my Vogue interpretation of boundaries, y'all.

Luke will be coming up in a little bit, and then, you know, we have a great Monday lineup. And of course, pre recorded content is always sitting right here for you. So have a good one. I'll see you tomorrow. Talk to you later.