Cadre Today: Bold Followership

Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are you doing? Sorry, I have to pick off a dog hair from the corner of my phone here. Oh, I got Jefferson hair. That stuck right there. Can you see it? It's Jefferson's hair. Jefferson is my middle dog. Hamilton's my old baby. He's 11. He's got a really bad heart murmur and Cushing's disease. So his belly's really, really uncomfortably full. We're working on that, trying to keep him around as long as possible. Jefferson's the six year old Jack Russell who you just saw a little part of.

And then Willow is baby Willow. She's two and a half and they're wonderful. But apparently Jefferson wanted to make an appearance today, so you saw him hanging on the corner. Good morning, Jules. Jules. Happy 20 year work anniversary, my friend. That's pretty amazing. 20 years. You know, funny enough, I am sitting outside a yoga studio where I walked into for the first time on Labor Day 2000 and 2009. No, I didn't walk in on Labor Day. I broke my back on Labor Day in 2009. About three months later, as part of my rehab, I walked into this studio.

So what is that, 2009? 16 years. 16 years I've been walking into this studio, first as a student and then as a teacher. And then I opened up 33 of these studios around the United States. And then when I came back again to Minnesota, it's a place that I come to every, every once in a while. Right. I don't spend a ton of time here anymore, but it always feels good to be able to come back into this studio and spend some time. Good morning, Speak Wonder. Nice to see you too. Hey. On Mondays we spend a lot of time in the Cadre sphere talking about how we grow professionally.

And I think one of the ways we grow professionally is by finding spaces like this where you have people who say that they're glad that they're here and that they're glad you're here and that they know stuff and that they care about you. You put all of these pieces of the puzzle together and, and all of a sudden people can consider, huh, what can I get out of this experience? What can I get out of this place? And I think on a day like today, you notice there's not a lot of people signing in. Why?

Because for some people, today is a day they would consider a holiday or a different day, a day off or a day different. And others may not consider it that. But I want you to consider in the United States especially how Many holidays happen on Mondays. I always think that that's funny, right? Because Mondays are often in that, like, go get them fight culture. It's like, never miss a Monday and let's get this week and here's a new week. And it's just all the, like the. The he man type of. Type of language.

And yet the holidays so often fall on this day. And I always think about what people who are the never miss a Monday people do on holiday Mondays. It's really important to think that sometimes the best thing we can do is to take the things that we say never and always and throw that in the air, mess it up, mix it up, disagree with ourselves, laugh at ourselves. Because whenever we think we figured out the magic pill or the magic spell or the three steps to success, it normally takes about three seconds of thinking about it too long.

Where you go, yeah, this may make me feel good, this may motivate me, but at the end of the day, it's not magic. And it definitely doesn't hold true all the time. That's how we start to grow professionally. Whenever we think we know exactly the pathway that's going to get us to where we think we need to go is the second we stop growing, the second we stop moving, the day that we stop taking ourselves as if we are the magic spell caster or the one who can read the tea leaves into where exactly we're going.

Whenever we let go of that, everything becomes possible. So as we settle in. Yeah, like Speak Wonders says, it used to be a day different, but not so much anymore. Yeah, I'll tell you, I've never had a day different. The weekend's never been the weekend for me. Holidays have never been the day off for me. Not in a woe is me way, but that's not the life that I've been given the opportunity to live. I have a full day of work today. I had a full day of work yesterday. I had a full day work on Saturday.

And there are some times where in the middle of the afternoon, I lay down and I pass out because I need to, while other people are working and grinding and yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. Everybody gets to where they want to get.