Enoughness 101

Hey, hey, Cadre. I love you. How are you doing? It's another Gaga morning. But it's old school Gaga today. Sing it with me. When I was young. Good morning, Dr. Leah. Good morning, Jules. You are all born superstars. Chris Sportman, you are indeed a superstar. In the glass of your boudoir be a bits. Good morning my friend. Everybody. You're on the right track, baby. You were born this way. Thank you, Lady Gaga, for today's sermon. How are we doing, Cadre? I hope you're good. You know, you may have noticed I was one minute late today.

Do you know why? Because there was another Cadre update available and I just had to go ahead and hit update please. I don't know if you know this, but Team Cadre is literally working tirelessly all day, all night, 365 days a year to continue to tweak this wonderful little Cadre sphere that we all get to dance in to together. So always update. Always check things out. Because we are making something. And by we, I mean all of us, something that is changing the world. Hey, I hope you're doing great.

If you're not doing great, I want to remind you that that is a okay as well. May not always feel like it, but. But you're doing it. You're doing this thing that we call life, which is a verb, it is not a noun. It's not this stagnant thing. It is an evolution, it is a change. It's a story being told on Saturdays. We talk a lot about how we live this so called life and how we develop and how we change and how we may be influenced in positive ways. This life that we live, let's call it personal development.

And I talk about this idea that is very near and dear to me. It'll be the word on the COVID of the book that I finally finish writing. And that word is enoughness. Enoughness is this concept that in this moment you are already capable of doing something pretty remarkable and pretty world changing, which is contrary to, I think, how the traditional world is set up. And that is you're here. Once you are here, then you'll be capable of. That model freezes all of us. It's like, well, I'm not there yet, therefore I can't X.

Enoughness says you are here. Here's what you're capable of. Now acknowledge that. Move from that place and then see how life bears fruit. So a few times this week I have the really sometimes makes me smile and giggle. The really unique opportunity to work with young people and Old people. I am the music director of the cast of the Lightning thief, which is 24, 10 through 18 year olds. There's three adults in there as well, like 30 year olds. And then I'm the artistic director of a senior rock ensemble ages 62 to 90.

So every single week I have the opportunity to work with 10 year olds to 90 year olds on creating impactful art through music and story. And what I've invited everybody to think again this week is, hey, are y' all trying to succeed or are you trying to simply not fail? Because those two things are very different. And in a not enoughness living world, most people attempt to not to not lose, right? Succeeding is one thing, not losing is another. Winning. If we try to win, very likely we're going to lose quite a bit.

If we try to not lose, very rarely are we ever going to when. So now imagine how that shows up in music. Now again, you may be like, oh, I don't sing, or I don't play an instrument, or I don't. Like, I'm not a musician. Everybody's a musician. That's another thing that the world's convinced us of, that we don't have the capacity to be musical or that some people do and some people don't. Actually, it's not true. We're all musical beings. But I want you to imagine yourself making music right now.

Imagine yourself trying to make music and in a way that's like prolific and free and, and that envelops every cell of your body. Imagine making music that way versus making music in a. I don't want to play a wrong note or I don't want to forget the word, or I don't want to, you know, misplace a rhythm. How would those two things feel different? Jen Ver here. Nice to see you, my friend. I didn't see a bop on in, but now I see you sitting right there. Good morning. We got a crew this morning. Oh, and Jules, you are.

You're down south in St. Cloud today. I love that. So how would those two things feel different? Or if you're like, okay, like, I don't make music. So how do I bring this analogy to my mind? Well, think about your favorite musician and think about seeing them live in concert. How do they appear to be? Do they appear to be free? Do they appear to be very regimented and focused? Both those things are powerful. Watching someone be in a state of focus is powerful. Watching someone be free is powerful.

You know, maybe you've heard the phrase like, like flow state or being in the zone where it almost seems like both those things are happening. People are very free and at the same time very focused. That's the kind of the point we're getting at. But I'll tell you, the reason why most people don't get to flow state or to the zone is not because they aren't focused and regimented, but it's because they are deathly afraid of being free. My invitation to you this week or to today or this morning is allow yourself to do something in a way that you may end up doing it wrong and see what happens.

See if you start on fire, see if you get thrown in jail. See if people come in the room and start yelling at you. Or see if you have a blast. See if you care less so that it allows you to care more. Because I'll tell you, my 10 year olds are a heck of a lot more capable of being free than my 80 year olds. Why? Because we teach one another to not mess up. And I think that's really dumb. I do. We need to have the opportunity to move to the place where we can maybe do it right, which means that we may end up doing it wrong.

Again, I'm not talking just about music because you may be like, hey, I live in life and death situations like my work is. I go, yep. And think about how you were trained. Were you trained in a way that added stress or were you trained in a way that added the importance of being really good at doing the thing and being responsive and being committed and being courageous and being focused and all of those things? Because those things don't exist in a don't mess up mindset. Those things exist in a understand the importance of you being fully present and fully committed and fully focused mindset.

So my invitation today is that go to the space where you may actually be fully present in an activity where you may literally win. Change the world where you may make people go, whoa, something came over you. And in that moment you were everything. It's a fun state to be in. Speak Wonder says, my all time favorite live concert was Gordon Lightfoot near the end of his life. Focused and also relax. So my favorite concerts, Johnny Mathis, who's now 89, Barry Manilow, who is also very, I mean, Barry's my number one.

I've seen Barry over 30 times. And Frankie Valli, who's also, you know, been a very successful pop musician for over seven decades now. All three of these people are exactly that focused and also relaxed. Johnny Matthews was actually just in town this this. This past week. There's something that happens when we allow ourselves to be in that state. So I use the analogy of music today, but apply it to anything. Apply it, please. I implore you to apply it to everything. Are you actually showing up trying to win?

Are you showing up trying to not lose? There's a big difference between those two things. Y' all have a great Saturday ahead. I'll see you tomorrow morning. That way Baby, you were born this way Born this way okay, go get it, y' all. We'll see you tomorrow. Baby, you were born this way.