Enoughness 101

Hey there. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing? How are we doing? How are we doing? How we doing? It is Saturday. The sun is shining, and I hope that you are doing great. Jules. Jules, what's this weekend look like for you? Weekend for me is I got some stuff. I wish I had less stuff. But also it feels good to be on the other side of a really busy week. And also, isn't that weird that we start by going, what have we done? Versus how have we been? So along with busy week, I've also just had stuff that's been going on with body and so on and so forth, which of course changes your output, Right?

So I hope you're doing great. As we hit a weekend, I have people in my life who go, I hate the weekends, or Saturday is my least favorite day of the week. And if that is one of you, or if you're someone who the weekend is not your weekend. It's not your time off, it's not your different time. Whatever today holds for you, I hope things are in the moment enough for you to go and be like, yep, I see my purpose, I see my work, I see my direction, and I see that on the other side of it is, is balance.

So hope you're great. If not, that's okay too. On Saturdays, what do we Talk about? At 8:00am Central Standard Time, we talk about the idea of enoughness. What is enoughness? Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already in this moment, indeed enough and capable of doing something that's pretty great. Maybe small great, or maybe big great, but it's great. The opposite of enoughness is thinking. And this is kind of what the world, like the current world, leads us this way. You're here, and if you get here, then you'll be enough and capable of doing awesome things.

We exist with kind of an automated mindset that's been given to us that we never are actually capable of doing really awesome stuff. That's where we work from. So how do we get closer to saying, you know, right now I can do something. Right now, the thing I can do has worth. There's four tenets, right? One deals with our words, one deals with our feelings, one deals with our thoughts, and one deals with us being present. In other words, saying, I know where I am and what's going on, and I can work from there.

Today I want to offer a little context for the tenant that has to deal with our thoughts. The tenant is, your thoughts are enough. That all has to deal with your curiosity I've been chatting with a lot of people lately on how they're navigating the world, like this current world, and you get to go, well, what does he mean? I mean, if you think of your world, how do you navigate it? Whatever's going on in your life, how do you navigate it? And so often in the last handful of months, my encouragement to others and also people have said this too, that they enter into conversations or into moments or into opportunities or challenges, and they lead with curiosity.

In other words, if they have to ask questions or they don't understand something, rather than going, I don't understand this, they go, so why this and what's happening there and where is this going to? And who's involved? Asking questions like this removes you from the, the feeling part of it for a moment and allows you to go, I'm going to try to understand why we are where we are. How often in the world do we go, the world's gone crazy, or I don't understand anything. And that's the, that's the end of the, of the conversation.

Think about that enoughness game, right? Not enoughness says, I'm here. Once I get to this point, then I will be enough. I don't understand this. The world's gotten crazy. That's this. We're here and saying, I don't understand. I can't understand. The world is crazy and helpless and hopeless, as opposed to going, hey, now, I am enough. I'm going to seek to understand. I'm going to ask the question. I'm going to do the. Not necessarily the benefit of the doubt. Like I'm going to assume that they're that.

That they, whoever the they is, the conflict, the person, the reality, the group. Assuming that they're wacky or assuming that they're. They're dealing with something that you don't. You don't see or understand. Asking the questions is a really great way to give yourself what you're nourishing in that moment. Because you may be right. It may be something you can't understand. But to go, I can't understand this without going, hey, Speak Wonder. Why? Why this? And then if Speak Wonder offers an answer back, guess what?

Now you have more than you had a moment ago because you're acknowledging that you already had the power, the agency, the perspective, the desire to ask the question. Curiosity is the moving mechanism of the third tenet of enoughness. My thoughts are enough. But curiosity pairs with another fuel in the tank, and that fuel is courage. Sometimes we don't activate Our curiosity because we need a little scoop of courage to ask the question. Why? Well, what do we normally want to do? Anytime we have to ask a question, we feel like having to ask the question means we're stupid or that we're slow or that we have to pry.

So now we move into the first tenet of enoughness. And that is your words are enough. This is normally the way that the humans ask questions. I know this may be stupid, but. Or I may be the only one but. Or hey. And all of a sudden, we start by going, oh, I need to lower my own status to ask the question, as opposed to asking the question is you investing in someone else's reality. That feels good. You having. What do they say? The best leaders have the best questions, not the best answers. We see how all this starts tying together.

So my invitation for you today. You know, speak. One of you just said it. Be curious. Ask the question, and then take whatever fruit comes from that. And again, like. Like the. Without judgment. Now, you know what? I. I'm not always aware of when I'm judging. Sometimes I am. But even if you do judge in the moment of receiving the answer or why the question comes to your mind in the first place, that's a really. That's. That's a really good thing to know. That's the fourth tenet of enoughness. Presence.

Yeah. Speak. Wonder. You. You caught a good sound bite, right? Invest in someone's reality. Get into the place of going. Huh? I'm going to attempt to understand you, not for their sake, but for your sake. The more that you understand, the more clarity, the further your flashlight reaches. So, thoughts for today? I hope you're great, but if you're not, that's okay, too. And number two, let your curiosity out of the cage every once in a while. Or if you're like me all the time, because at the end of the day, that's when the brain knows that you're on its side, that the brain that is going to be curious and courageous and conscientious and all those C words that it can run when it sees the opportunity to run.

Y'all have a great day. I'll see you tomorrow morning from my Mazda. And then another week is waiting for us. Have a good one.