Enoughness 101

Oh, hey, hey. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I will remind you on this, I think Saturday. Yeah, it's Saturday, right? That there's a lot of people hoping that you are doing well. And all those people are in the Cadre sphere. That's. That's kind of the. That's the price of entry. That's the admission ticket to get into this wonderful community at Cadre, that is to hope that others are doing great. That if they're not doing great, to remind them that that's okay too. Speak, Wonder. Christina.

Nice to see y'all. Come on into the room this morning. And there's a couple other who ticker taped right on in. There's Jules, there's Shannon. How's everybody doing today? We hope it's great. And also we remind you that it's pretty okay to not be great as well. On Saturdays, we really lean into the natural flow of how our western society is set up. And that is work, work, work, work, work, work, work. And then the weekend. Now again, your weekend may be in the middle of the week. Your ups may be downs, your lefts may be rights, your nights may be days, your goods may be bads.

But there's a flow that we're supposed to work hard and then we're supposed to play hard. We're supposed to give what we got and then refuel. So on Saturdays, in that flow, we talk a lot about the play, a lot about the refuel, a lot about the exhale to the inhale. The self care stuff, right? The personal development stuff. So self care, we talk tomorrow. Today we talk about how do we develop who we are, not what we do. That's Mondays, right? Professional development. Like, let's talk about our work and how we do that.

But Saturdays we talk about who we are as people. Jules says, just lighting out of bed and get my coffee made. That's the perfect way to kick off that week. And yeah, speak Wonder. Tough week. And tribe of encouragement, tribe of reflection, tribe of reminder, tribe of kick you in the b***, try to give you the hug, try about what you need when you need it. So on Saturdays, I often speak about this concept of enoughness. And what is enoughness? I like using a physical representation. This is where you are and this is the pathway towards the future.

We often think we need to get this good before we are capable of doing amazing things. So we always exist in the state of not enoughness. Once I prove myself, then things will be good. Once I accomplish this task, then I will be good. Once I learn how to do this skill better, then I will be good. And enoughness says no. Actually, if we get rid of this made up line, we are currently capable, we are currently enough to accomplish something that's good, that's progressive, that is moving us in the direction that we want to be moving in.

Let me tell you, last night I was at rehearsal and I have a young, wonderful, very gifted new storyteller in a very large role in a show that I'm directing. And in early rehearsals, this, this young actor was flying. And as we get closer to opening, they've been tightening up, they've been questioning themselves, they've been losing that spark and that magic. And in a very short amount of time. Last night we spoke about what's going on. There's a lot of impostoriness and a lot of. I need to prove to people that I deserve to be where I am.

And in this moment of conversation and reflection, this person liberated themselves from the weight that they were carrying. Being I have to be this good before I'm good. And working from this place. The rest of the production staff was like, what just happened? You know? And again, it's not the. Here's this magical three step process to loving yourself. It's like. No, it's. It's a little bit of perspective shift. So a little song this morning it's called. It's Just about right. And it's about this, this person who has a friend who is an artist.

I'll leave it there. He sings about his friend. My old friend lives up in the mountains. He flew up there to paint the world, he says. Even though interpretation's what I count on. This little picture to me seems blurred, hard lines and the shadows come easy. I see it all just as clear as a bell. I just can't seem to set my easel to please me. I paint my heaven, but it looks like h***. Your blue might be gray, your less might be more. Your window to the world might be your own front door. Your shiniest day might come in the middle of the night.

That's just about right. I love that chorus. Your blue might be gray, your less might be more. Your window to the world might be your own front door. Your shiniest days, they come in the middle of the night. Yeah, that's just about right. That's just about right. And I don't like the word just because there's nothing just about this. That's right. If you look at the world in a way that's very different than everybody else around You. Yeah, that's right. That's absolutely right. You may want some of that situation to go, yeah, you're wrong.

You're messed up. You need to change. You need to grow. You need to fix your perspective. Or like my young actor last night, you need to go the way you do the things that you do. That's the way you do them. So lean into it. The song goes on, and the man's been up in the mountains doing their art. And now the man's gonna come down. My old friend came down from the mountain without even looking. He found a little truth. You can go through life with the greatest intentions, but you do what you do, what you just gotta do.

Let me hear it again. Your blue might be gray. Your less might be more. Your window to the world might be your own front door. Your shiniest day might come in the middle of the night. That's just about right. So if it's been a tough week, a good week, an energizing week, a draining week, whether you accomplish the things you're supposed to accomplish or whether you didn't, maybe the work to do today is to settle in to going, huh? The way that I do the things that I do, or the way that I do the things that I do, and the good things that you have fostered in this life have come from you doing the things that you do in the way that you do them.

That sounds about right. Have a good rest of your Saturday, everybody. Coming up next, I hand the baton to my friend Kristin Grimes in Colorado, who dives into chatting about all the. All the ways that we nourish and sustain ourselves in a really, really beautiful way. Our next Cadre Today interview is coming up on Monday morning. It'll be In Luke's regular 8am Central Standard Time slot. And it's with Luke, we're gonna be talking about values. So 8:00am Central Standard Time Monday, you'll see me on this side of the screen, Luke on that side of the screen.

But, y'all, whatever you need in this Cadre sphere, shout it, and we will get working on putting another brick down in this beautiful space that we're creating together. Y'all have a good one. Bye.