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Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are you today? My light is very alien today. Name this band, everybody. Like, it's one of those songs that you kind of hear and you know, but you go, who's saying that? We'll get to the chorus before we hit the pause. And we'll hit the pause save tonight. Who's saying that? Who's saying that? I'll tell you at the end, but in the meantime, I'll let you know. We hope you're doing great. From everybody at Cadre and from everybody in the Cadre sphere, we hope you are doing great.

And if you're not doing great, that is a. Okay as well. Even though it may not feel like it will always be. That squeaky wheel reminder for you right here. On Wednesdays, we talk a lot about that big old bucket of mental health, everything that fits into that ocean. When people say, I need to think about mental health, or I've been focusing on my mental health or mental health is important, we hear those phrases. And as I always love to say, words are vessels. They're vessels, right? This is only a water bottle because right now there's water in it.

If it was. Didn't have water in it, it would be a bottle, meaning what we place in the vessel is what makes the vessel have the direction or the worth of or the clarity. So mental health, what do those words mean for you? I had a family member yesterday, say in a group text to other family. Good morning, Sandra. Hey, Jules. Hey, Robert. Nice to see y' all. I had a family member yesterday in a group family message, say, you know, I was thinking, and it seems like we all could be told that we have some pretty severe mental health issues, and yet we've all been successful.

And. And that was. That was the message with the intent of it being kind of a I love you, I see you, we're doing good message. But of course, I can't let anything just be what it is, because words are vessels. And I go, what does that really mean? And as I broke it down, I think it meant this, that mental health is. Is like having mental health issues is bad and leads you to not being able to be successful. And you know, what my family member was saying was, hey, look, we all have mental health issues, therefore, we should not be successful.

But we've been successful in our own ways, and that's pretty great. And I go, okay, I understand the intent. The intent was, hey, we're all doing life as well as we can. And look, we're all doing okay. I love that message. Here's where I think a little tweaking may be important. Mental health issues or mental health uniqueness or specificity or, or change or variability. These things aren't bad. They're, they're human. It'd be like walking up to 10 tall people and being like, hey, even though you're tall, you've made would be like walking up to 10 left handed people and saying, hey, even though you're left handed, you've made it.

Now again, are there certain things that are more difficult for tall people in this world? Yeah. Are there things that are more difficult for left handed people in this world? Absolutely. If you want to read a really good book on being aware of other people's realities, read the Urgency of Awareness by Jody Farr. And Farr is with a P. P. Farr. Jody walks down the path of saying, hey, the more that you're aware of the world you live in versus the world that other people live in, the more you can lead with compassion, the more you can influence one another.

So it's like if you've never thought about how hard it is in this world to live the left handed life, I'll tell you this, the amount of lawnmower accidents and lawnmower deaths for left handed people versus right handed people, it's astronomically higher. Why? Because lawnmowers are designed for right handed people. Back to the point. So when I was told in this family group message, hey, we all have some pretty severe mental health stuff and look, we're still successful, that's great. I kind of wanted to go, what?

But I understood the intent, hey, life's hard and we're doing okay. Love that intent. But here's the deal. If you're at home going, oh my gosh, I need to make my mental health stuff go away or I need to hide my mental health stuff because it's innately bad and people will think it's bad or that I'm bad or that I'm not capable or that I'm not trustworthy. No, actually if you look at most, and I don't, if you look at a lot of successful people in this world or highly creative people in this world, or people who accomplish a lot of, guess what?

Some of the things that are driving that, that success are things like high performing ADHD or you know, different, different conditions and realities in how their mental, emotional, spiritual health exists. So my response is like, yeah, of course, of course we got mental health stuff. Everybody does. And hey, it is really cool that we've accomplished Some pretty successful things, but at the same time saying that those successful things happened in spite of our mental health realities or that success is the goal in the first place.

Because I know a lot of people who are very successful who are very unhealthy, unhappy people. So if we're focusing on, it's like, well, at least we're successful, so we don't actually have to think about all those other things. There's a lot of things that go into how we look at our mental health, and that's the headline today, every day here in the Cadre sphere. What are we doing here? We are saying that there are many ways to be well, and we're going to invite as many voices as possible, professionals and peers from different perspectives, different lifestyles, to go ahead and say, hey, maybe think about it this way today and see how it expands your horizon.

So, as I often say, words are vessels. This is a bottle. The only reason we call it a water bottle right now is because there's water in it. Think about the words you use and the meanings you place in them and see how it empowers you to walk clearly through this life. Y' all, back to our song of the day and fight the break of dawn come tomorrow. The song title is Sa Tonight. Did anybody come up with the artist? Best part's coming up. I guess it's one more verse. It's one more verse. When it breaks down, Listen to it.

Saved tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry. Y' all have a good day. I'll see you tomorrow night.