A host reflects on navigating thick smoke, rain and busy schedules while exploring how external factors can force choices, and discusses community-building, the June theme of balance, and making groups outward-facing to welcome others.
In a world like I'm in today, it's really hard to kind of breathe in the world. Air quality is really bad because of the smoke and it's also just really thick outside. What happens when the factors of the world force your hand?
Cadre has a monthly theme of balance. For the month of June, you'll see a lot of specklings of balance throughout throughout the month in prerecorded in live streams, in communities here, there and everywhere.
Sometimes the best way to be impactful is to follow. This is the big week when we do our big shows. The factors, the tiredness, the air quality, the rain, the busy schedule. You let the factors guide you to where you can be doing what you actually set out to do.
Hey there, Cadre. How are we doing today? Can you hear the rain falling down? Yeah, we got the rain happening in Minnesota, but also we have the fire smoke coming from the Canada fires up in Saskatchewan. So it's a really thick morning outside today. What about for you? Where are you? How is the world in which you are in today? I hope it's good. I hope you're able to navigate it, I hope you're able to breathe in it. But literally, in a world like I'm in today, it's really hard to kind of breathe in the world.
Air quality is really bad because of the smoke and it's also just really thick outside. And that's kind of what we're going to talk about today. What happens when the factors of the world force your hand. But first, let me go ahead and say, good morning, Jules. And I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those 17 words are how we kick off Cadre today, each and every day. Because that's the way that I think that's a little bit of the formula for how we can be better, how we can navigate the highs and the lows, the things we know, the things we don't know, and end up in a place where we go, yeah, I'm moving in the right direction.
So on Tuesdays, we quite often talk about this idea of forming relationships or building community. But also make sure you check your email boxes, everybody, because the Cadre newsletter came out and hit the mail, hit the, hit the presses yesterday. So check your, your email and you'll see the Cadre newsletter and in there you'll see that we have this monthly theme also of balance. So for the month of June, you'll see a lot of specklings of balance throughout throughout the month in prerecorded in live streams, in communities here, there and everywhere.
Beezy bits. Good morning, my friend. So, as I mentioned, we got air quality issues today, we got rain today. It's all happening. I often talk about this idea of boldly following in a world that says, hey, how do we lead? Sometimes the best way to be impactful is to follow. That's what I talk about on Mondays. On Tuesdays, I talk about this, this idea of the outward facing click. So when something becomes really, really important to you and you're really a part of a thing for a long time and, and you're an activist for the community, for the group, the thing that you're part of, best thing you can do if you want that group to grow, is to make it less about you and to make it more about those people that have yet to be a part of it, which sometimes is really hard.
But I'll tell you, sometimes the factors that force your hand are the best things to follow. Tying a little bit of Monday into how we lead and build community on Tuesdays. So I got a really, really long week happening, y' all. I'm the artistic director of a. Of a. Of an ensemble of 3362 to 90 year olds who sing rock music. And these people are also living life and, you know, at a. At a. At a older age. So there's health stuff and there's exhaustion and there's frustration, and then you add the air, and then you add the long days.
This is the big week when we do our big shows. I was at the theater for 16 hours yesterday and then came home and got to work on my other work. It's one of those weeks. Yet this morning I knew that I needed to move a little bit. I was at the piano a lot. I was stuck a lot. I have some health stuff going on myself, which makes sitting still for a long time really painful. So I knew I needed to get up and move a little bit before I get to the theater again in about an hour here I was tired. I have the air quality thing going on.
I got a lot of my mind. And yet for me to go ahead and make today a about the people, the thousands of people are gonna come into the audience and experience the show. I need to make sure I'm ready in order to get our cast ready, in order for them to be the outward facing click and serve those people who come in to experience their music and their stories. But guess what? My movement this morning was pretty minimal. It didn't feel that great. But I could either go into my head and go, ah, I needed more.
It didn't go the way I thought it should. Then I acknowledge the factors, the tiredness, the air quality, the rain, the busy schedule. And I go, yeah, you know what? The factors forced me to be within the space that I could be in. You know, I'm always the presence guy. I'm always the be in the moment guy, the enoughness guy, Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. But I'm working harder and harder on going, how do I make these. These ideas have steps and pathways towards. Let's say your goal is to run the marathon, but you have factors that force your hand that maybe you can't run the marathon in the way that you were going to run the marathon.
So what do you do? You let the factors guide you to where you can be doing what you actually set out to do.
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