Enoughness 101

Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I wasn't able to go ahead and bop in to live yesterday, so I missed y'all. I hope that this morning is great. I am back in my chilly car because the second spring that we've had here in Minnesota seems like it's taking. Taking the day off. But that's all right. So. Because change is always happening, I think it's the greatest gift we have in the Midwest, right? That every day we wake up and we go, huh, Something's changed. And it reminds us that we're changing too.

Hey, Jules. How are you, my friend? If you're great, I bet sooner or later you're not gonna be great. And if you're not great, I bet sooner or later you're gonna be better than you are right now. So on Saturdays, we talk a lot about personal care, personal development, tweaking, this wonderful mechanism we have of a body that moves us through life. And I always talk about this idea, whether it's Saturday or any other day of the week, this idea of enoughness, this idea that you are capable of doing something right now.

And I had this thought yesterday. So in my life, I do a lot of facilitating, teaching, holding space, public speaking type of stuff. And I'm thankful that it's something that I feel very comfortable and called to do. So yesterday I was helping lead a gathering, a breakfast. There's 260 people in the room. And these events come together. Like we have our wonderful World Teen Mental Health day event tomorrow, 1:00-4:00pm in Minneapolis. So if you're around Minneapolis this weekend, feel free to sign it up on the eventbrite.

You can find it on all of our socials. But events, events, events, events. And I thought I had this thought yesterday, you know, as I looked at all these people walking into this event, and even myself, I thought, who do I have to be in order to participate in something? Like, who do I have to be to be in an event? Who do I have to be to go sit at a table with strangers? Well, how do I have to dress? How do I have to sound? What time do I have to show up? All of these things are things that I think most humans naturally think about.

They're walking into a room and they go, okay, who's going to be there? And how do I have to act? Okay, I'm walking into work. So now I have to bring out this part of my personality or, okay, I'm going to see this person today. So I need to make sure that I speak a certain way or present myself in a certain way. As we put all these layers together, what ends up happening, we almost exercise not enoughness. We go, okay, I have to. Like. It's one thing to be prepared. It's one thing to go, where am I going?

Who am I getting ready to talk to? Where am I gonna be today? What do I need to know? What do I have to plan? Not talking about those things, but I'm saying, how do we have to make ourselves appear that's maybe not authentically us in order to be a part of the thing? And I'll tell you, as I think about how I do what I do, one of the success points is I don't have the ability to be someone other than myself. I'm not good at it. I'm not good at being not me. C. like, you're so comfortable up there.

Someone said this to me yesterday. It's a. It's a client of mine. She reminded of me the first time I worked with her and her company that her employees came up to her and said, that JC guy, he's clearly doing what he's supposed to be doing. Translated, that guy seems to be the hand that fits in the glove. And I'll tell you, y'all, the world needs you. Being you. Like, all of you all of the time. Right now, you all of me all the time. Yeah. And guess what? The all of you that's gonna be available 10 minutes from now is different than the all of you that's gonna be available half an hour from now.

So not all of you. As in, do you remember that time that you were at your greatest? That's who you need to be all the time. No, when what you have is enough. And that was a wonderful application in my mind of what we talk about here on Saturday mornings. So when Kristen bops in in about two and a half hours here, and then you got Dan coming from California this afternoon, or anytime you jump in and find a piece of content, remember what we're doing here is not inviting you to be someone that you're not.

No, we're inviting you to look in this mirror that we hold up to you and say, do you see that person? That's your opportunity. That's all that you have. And that's amazing. So go, y'all. Go out into this world and do the things. I will be back tomorrow morning, 8:00am Central Standard Time. But like I said, you got Kristen and Dan coming up this afternoon, Kristen this morning, Dan this afternoon. And then tomorrow, if you're in the Twin Cities, please join us at Big Brothers, Big Sisters Minneapolis in Minneapolis for our World Teen Mental health day event, 1 to 4pm Central Standard Time.

We'll talk to you soon. Bye.