The Thin Space

Good morning, Cadre. How are you? How are you doing? I hope you are great. I really, really do. Every day. I really, really hope that you are great. I hope we are. That we're all great. And just like I remind you, I remind myself every day that if I'm not great, I'm still really, really capable of doing lots of stuff. And my worth is also not wrapped up in me doing stuff. Right, crew, all y'all who are walking into the room. Hey, Karn. Nice to see you. We are not wrapped up in what we do, even though we get wrapped up in what we do.

We can be great and not have to accomplish anything, and we can be not great and still accomplish miraculous things. What did I say recently? Oh, our capacity changes, but our worth doesn't. The value of who you are does not change based on what you are able to output. Good morning to you too, Jules. Oh, fogged in. Erie, Pennsylvania. Erie, you always have some weather happening. You remind me of Minnesota. Well, hey, everybody, it is Sunday, which means we talk about self care, the act of doing things that make you more capable of doing the things that you do for other people.

Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to talk about self care that way? But we very much live in a culture that doing stuff for ourselves is taboo. It's scary. It's something we're not supposed to do, so we always have to attach it to what we do for other people. That's okay, because guess what? You also doing stuff for other people better prepares you to do stuff for yourself. Right? So it's cyclical. It's. It's. It's infinity. It keeps going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth.

So what do I talk about on Sundays in the self care space? The idea of thin space. The idea of being where you are with what you have and honoring that. Last week, I spoke about how, you know, the. The very natural phenomenon of time moving faster and slower, when in reality, time always moves exactly the same speed. But we've all experienced those times when time flies by or time slows down. Why does that happen? That happens when we're not actually living in the moment in which we're in. If we're living in the future, normally time slows down.

If we're living in the past, time quite often speeds up. Right? If we're. Think of. Think of it this way. If you're on a road trip and you think, oh, tomorrow at this time, we will be where we're going. And all Of a sudden, every second becomes an hour, or if we're living in the memory of the past or the lesson of the past. Now all of a sudden, we come to and like, oh, my gosh, all of this time has just flown by. We can think about that within, like, the weather. So, like, in the dark days of February, when it's really cold, perhaps, what do we do?

We think about spring. We think about Groundhog Day, and time slows down. Or maybe in the warm days of summer, we go, oh, my gosh, it was just June 1st yesterday, and now it's June 10th. And guess what? All of a sudden, it's September. So that's what we spoke about last week. Going to give you a great example of time being exactly as long as it is. So I have the opportunity and the privilege of being the director of a group that uses rock music to reclaim voices. Who's in this group? People age 62 to 90.

That's. That's the deal. That's the nonprofit. It's senior citizens using rock music to say, hey, we're not done yet. You may think of us as Grammy or Grampy or as the retired old neighbor down the street, but we're here singing Led Zeppelin in leather pants, and you're going to listen to us. So as part of the show that we do every year, the cast members do voiceovers. So this year's theme is it's the 15th year of this organization, and this is the reunion tour year. We're looking back at all 15 years, years and doing our highlights, and we're going on tour.

And part of this is that every single cast member writes a voiceover that then plays throughout the concert so we get to know the people and their stories along with getting to hear their music. So all of the voiceovers are about reunions in life, either reunion with with people or with talents or passions or activities or reunions with. With with themselves. Last night, I got to go through every single one of the voiceovers and edit them, but it was also my first time to read all of them. I'll tell you, getting to read these powerful stories and getting to know these friends of mine in a different way.

I was in that space. I was not thinking to the past. I was not thinking to the future. I was going, wow, this story has captivated me. And in that captivation, I didn't get anxious. I didn't be like, okay, how many do I have left? I didn't think. Think about how tired I was, which would kind of bring me to the past. So, oh, my gosh, there's been so much going on, and I'm so tired. I'm so tired and all these things been going on. I was where I was with what I had. And all of a sudden I got through the end of looking at all of these stories.

And then for a moment I looked back and I was like, oh, my gosh, I just went through so much work, so many moments of execution in my life, and I went right to there, and all of a sudden I was like, okay, check this off. Now, what's next? Because I have a day full of work today as well. But in that moment, I was where I was with what I had. And by golly, did I honor the heck out of that. So my invitation for you find the things that pull you into the moment that you are in. Because as I always lovingly love to say.

Lovingly love to say. As I love to say and lovingly remind you. There we go. There's only one moment where you have any power, and that's right now. You have no power in the past, you have no power in the future. You may be able to mildly influence the future, and we can definitely learn from the past. But in reality, you got one moment where you have power, and it's right here, right now. Speak wonder. Your lives make me present too. And when all of us spend time together right here, right now, that's one of my favorite ways to get into the thin space.

Y'all have a great Sunday. I will see you tomorrow morning as we kick off Monday, 7:30aM Central Standard Time. Peace out, y'all.