Me Time ✨ - Creating Balance For YOU!

Birthday. Thank you. I'm live streaming and everybody just say hi. Thank you. I appreciate it. I tried to get into that class. I did. I know, I know. We'll do another one. I have a live DJ ride on the the 14th. Come to that one. Happy Sunday, everybody. I first want to apologize for having to move my times back. So if you're joining live, Luke, what's up? Hi. Hi. I am just leaving the North Loop Green for the Lululemon summer series for today. Hello. Hello. Hi, Amar. How are we doing today? Are we doing good?

I am gonna be on a long walk home. Not super long, but it's so fun. So as you're popping in here, I'm also gonna make a really amazing announcement right at the beginning next Sunday morning. If you are in Minneapolis, Twin Cities, if you live in St. Cloud or all the way down in Rochester, get in your vehicles, hop on your bikes, grab your best tennis shoes, and walk on in to Fragment in north Minneapolis. We're gonna do a live in person Cadre meetup. You get to meet some of us. We get to meet you.

We're gonna have a sound bath. It is gonna be epic. Epic. So today on me time, I just wanted to do a little conversation today around balance and finding balance in your day, feeling balance in your life and your bodies. So when I think about that, if I. If I think about balance, for me, I'm going to tell you a little secret. I am not good at it. But here's what's great about it. You get to be a work in progress always. So for me, I like to try to make Sundays as much as possible. Just my day. And here's where that began.

I used to teach spin classes many, many days a week. I still teach a lot of spin classes, but I would teach on Saturday and Sundays, and then I would find that afterwards I would go to brunches with people and next thing you know, all. All my time, whether because I work full time during the week and then all of a sudden on the weekends, I was losing myself. And it wasn't like, destructive, right? I just. I just felt like I didn't have space to read books. And I felt like if I didn't say yes to everybody, because I love saying yes to a lot of things, that somehow I was failing everyone around me.

And so I decided about a year ago that I was going to take Sundays back. I remembered that when I was young, my mom and dad, they would go to church every single Sunday. After church, we lived in St. Cloud at the Time. And when we lived in Iowa when I was a little girl, every single time, they would always drive to their favorite place to go get cinnamon rolls. And sometimes I would go with them, sometimes I wouldn't. Because, you know, hanging out with mom and dad, sometimes you're like, I don't know if I want to do that.

But they carved out that time every single week. Like church was a big thing to them. And sometimes, you know, maybe they didn't go to church, but they always would go on Sundays to this place. There's a truck stop in Clearwater. So if you're from Minnesota and you've ever driven to St. Cloud before, you pass the Clearwater truck stop, they would go to that truck stop. We lived in Startell, Minnesota, every single Sunday to get cinnamon rolls. Because my mom, when I was growing up, would make cinnamon rolls all the time.

And at some point I wouldn't do that, but they would go and they would tell stories and they would laugh. And sometimes I would, as an adult, drive and meet them and I would be like, oh, I'll take you here or here. And they're like, no, let's meet at the truck stop. And so I learned from my mom and dad a long time ago the beauty of carving out time. And I am a Gemini. I am a doer. I am a very much idea to action person. And I had forgotten the art of carving out time for me. And so then I designated Sundays as me time.

Which is why I wanted to be a Cadre contributor on Sundays. Because I wanted to help all of us who were recovering balance individuals, recovering doers. To remind ourselves that when we carve out time for us, we create space for the best part of us to bloom again. And without that, we can become depleted. We can not eat enough. We can eat too much. We can forget what it's like to feel in our bodies, to feel in our hearts, to feel in our minds, because we're so outside of ourselves. And then I decided that if something was really exciting to me, something really was lighting me up and it happened to land on a Sunday, I would say yes.

I would only say yes to the things that were going to light me up. So today I'm walking back from a Lululemon event. I'm one of the ambassadors at the Mall of America for Lululemon. So yes, if you go into couple of Lululemon stores in Minnesota, you will see my photo looking down on you, watching to see what you're purchasing. Kidding. I can't see you guys. It's just a photo, but I got to be with 12 other ambassadors. So there's 12 of us total. And we all showed up today for the first summer series event, which are free workout events or movement events that will happen all summer long.

And I said yes to this knowing that it would be a three hour event. And I am so still on a high because we all love each other and we all coach different fitness modalities, but it was my way to recharge today. I can't say that every Sunday finding balance to me will include a high intensity event with friends. But I can tell you that on Sundays I will do my best to find space. And almost every Sunday I am reminded of those days that my mom and dad would drive to that truck stop. All places they could go, they would go to the truck stop when we lived in Iowa.

They'd drive from Mason City to Waterloo to the Pancake House. Like that was the thing that gave them time to reset, recharge, reconnect. And I'll never forget it. So my invitation to you in the chat, if you feel drawn to or inspired to how do you find balance for yourself? What do you do? What kind of metric do you put in place if you're a planner? Or what activity do you seek out to create that space or balance? Luke, how about for you? Risa, how about for you? I would love to hear. What does that mean for you?

Balance is a funny word because one of the activities here today was yoga. And I'm not bendy. I call all my yoga friends bendy. I'm not bendy, but there is an element in it that requires you to find space, stillness. And it's inside that stillness that you can find your balance. So if you think about any pose that you might see a yoga instructor doing, it requires them to find a certain amount of balance. But before you can just randomly find balance, you have to find calm. You need to find an area inside that allows you to have peace within.

So today, on this beautiful Sunday, it's in Minneapolis. Here it's sunny and 80 plus degrees. My invitation to you is to grab a little notebook or a notepad or. Yeah, I'm gonna ask you to do something physical. Grab a notepad, grab your journal, and my invitation to you is to write down the top three things that will help you find balance in your day, your week. The opposite of that is what causes you to go off balance. So for me, going off balance is when I say yes too much. I love to say yes. And I can tell you Every time I say that one last yes that I'm just trying to sneak in, there's a little bitty piece of me going, that should have been a maybe.

So it gave me time to think about it first instead of just jumping in. So if we take that time to identify, how do we ground, how do we find balance, what are the boundaries that we need to set for ourselves to feel whole? And if we can identify the opposite, what in our lives tilts us, shakes us off that balance when we can be really honest and write those down? It's data. It gives us information, and it gives us permission to move forward, gives us permission to say, yeah, you know, that kind of feels yuck when I do too much.

So instead, I'm gonna go have a cinnamon roll. Now, if you're just dialing in, that metaphor is not gonna make any sense to you. However, it is a reminder that we can take that time, we can designate that time, and it's not going to work. Every week there's gonna be a new challenge, there's gonna be a new diversion. But if we can always come back to this space that says, here's what I need for myself to feel balanced and whole, then we have a strategy for when we start to spiral or we start to feel a little too much.

The other thing that I find that I do often is I take a lot of baths. I take a lot of bubble baths. I go in there, I close the door, I don't take my phone, or maybe sometimes I play a game or listen to Duolingo. But it's a one space and time that I can go in, I can sit in a bubble bath, and I can allow my brain to finally calm down and create some space. So tiny little things, it doesn't have to be big, grandiose events that we create to find that wholeness within. It can be tiny little things that we do often or when we need them.

So I can't wait to see you all next Sunday. If you're just dialing in on replay, I'm going to announce it one more time next Sunday. Mark your calendar. Come to the northeast Minneapolis fragment on St. Anthony, Maine at 9:00am and meet your Cadre family. Meet some of the contributors that are here in Minnesota, meet some of your peers that dial in often, and let's just say hello. We're gonna do some introductions, we're gonna have a fun little connection opportunity. We're gonna have a little sound bath, and we're just gonna celebrate life.

And there's a beautiful walking path. We can have a coffee or a matcha or tea on the house. Yep. Luke's buying. Did he know that? Luke, you're buying, but just come and join us. I can't wait to meet you in person. Whoever can come. And if you're not in Minneapolis, don't worry. We're gonna live stream some of it, so it's gonna feel like you're there, too. Just grab your own coffee from home. So I can't wait to see you. Hope you have the best day. I'll be live tomorrow talking about leading with authenticity and creating balance in your leadership style and creating balance for your teams.

So look forward to talking to you more soon. Have the best rest of your day, and we'll talk again on Monday. See you next Sunday. Love ya.