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Good morning, Cadre. Life is a wasted time look inside your eyes and I look inside mine Things look so bad everywhere T North. Good morning, Nikki. How you doing today? T Brown. Nice to see you, my friend. Hey, Speak Wonder Smzobbs Everybody give me a higher love oh, oh hey, Speak Wonder, how you doing this morning out on the lake? Amar. Hello. Hello. All right, we'll hit it there. How are we doing, Cadre? I hope you are doing great. I really, really do. Anila, nice to see you, my friend. Dream big, y' all.

How are things going? It's always nice to kick off the day right here at Cadre today. Same 17 words always start us out. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know. I care about you. It's a really good formula for doing things together. Gratitude that we're all here. Us risking to think that our experience, our knowledge, our perception of the world that we live in and our perception of what our bodies are telling us and how we use that to guide us, matched with a little bit of care, that most powerful element that we have as human beings to say, hey, I care about how you're doing.

So you can see in tunes, right? Or you can see in the chat. Right now everybody's saying, hey, right? We got SM zobs on the vermillion, we have Speak Wonder on the eerie, and we got T North down in the great state of Iowa, right? We have people all over the place. Jules, heading back up north today. Nikki, nice to see you too, my friend. Well, hey, on Wednesdays you end up seeing within the live streams a lot of people who are in the professional mental health space. So a lot of the conversations that start are in that big bucket, that big great lake of mental health.

But all throughout June, we're putting on our goggles to look at things with a lens of balance. I do a lot of coaching in my world and I always say this. I don't say nice things. I say honest things. So if I say something that sounds nice, I mean it. And one of the times I always have to say that is when I'm using a specific personality assessment tool. It's called Hogan's. Hogan's is a pretty wonderful tool. It's really messy in the way that pumps out data to you, so that's kind of frustrating.

But here's the thing I love about Hogan's. Hogan's assessments don't tell you if you're good or if you're bad. They don't say here's what you need to change, here's where you're weak. Because first of all, those types of assessments kind of make us feel like there's an easy answer or that there's a clear pathway or the hey, if I only do this, then everything will be good. As I always love saying binary sounding solutions to complex problems. Like, your life never leads you to very many good places.

We're complex beings, therefore we need to go ahead and nuzzle into the complexity and go, huh, so what do I do with this reality? So here's what Hogan does. Hogan is kind of an orienteering exercise. What's orienteering? It's like the X marks the spot on the map at the mall or the airport. All of a sudden simply tells you, here is where you are, here is what's going on. And then you have to consider, wow, I am successful, I am loved, I have a personality. I have space and opportunity and dreams.

This X marks who I am and how I operate. I want you to consider today all that you are. The good, the bad, the ugly, the clear, the muddy, the things you love, the things you don't love. Consider all those things with a big scoop of balance and go. All these things are true because here's how we begin to make scalable, sizable changes or, you know, how we, how we galvanize who we are so we can move forward. We get to ready position, we say, here is what I know is true about myself and I'm going to operate from that place.

Here is what I know that I need, and I'm going to give myself that. Here are the voices that I need to listen to in and outside my head. And here are the voices that I know that are going to be there, but I need to take with a grain of salt. When you put all of these pieces of the puzzle together, you can begin to move in a direction. So often we're led to believe that we need to break ourselves down and build ourselves up again. When in reality, I like to think of it more so as we need to go ahead and give ourselves a really big squeeze.

Yeah, there may be some broken parts laying on the ground. Pick those up and squeeze those too. But just like my Mazda that has a broken front fender and a big scratch on the side and just went over a hundred thousand miles, I know how it works. I trust it, I feel comfortable in it. And part of the reason I love it, I know it, it's going to get me to where I need it to get me to, is because I understand how it works. Understand how you work and see what happens. That's our connection to ourselves.

That's our connection to others. That's our connection to the universe, y' all. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, take some time to do a little orienteering on yourself. X marks the spot. Understand who you are, and see where you can go, y' all. You know you'll see me every single morning whether you want to or not. So I'll be back tomorrow. But in the meantime, reach out. Do what you need to do. Be within the space that you are living in. And if you go, ah, I need something.

Jump into the Cadre sphere. Check out some live streams, check out some prerecorded content. Hey, check out the community feed. Or if you're like, gosh, I'm really dealing with this very specific thing today, scroll down through the three lines in the upper corner and find a community that kind of fits your craving right now, enjoying that community, and you'll see more content coming from that pool of idea, thought, care, and human. Y' all, have a good one. Back to Whitney and Kygo. Have a good one.