Sunday Spark Sessions

And welcome Cadre, to another Sunday Spark session. And today is Sunday Spark session about the power of visualization using our mind power and how. How important it is to visualize and to mentally rehearse things that we know, like manifest things that we want to work towards. Our dreams, our hopes, our aspirations, what we aspire, who we aspire to be, what we aspire to be. And Sunday is a very fitting day for that. So me and my wife just went on an amazing hike earlier today. We went to this island that's like super close to us.

And when you get into nature, it helps you problem solve without problem solving. It helps you visualize better. It helps you. Jules. Welcome to the live. Thanks for tuning in. It helps you reconnect with your loved ones. It helps you, like, build stronger bonds with your loved ones, stronger bonds with your. Your pets as well. We brought our dog with us. Pino. Oh, good evening. Good evening. Thanks for tuning in. Everyone. Speak wonder. Hello. I'm just having a bubbly right now because it was a.

C. and I should have put a little bit more. Should have put on some sunscreen on my arms and everything, but just put it on the face and got. Got pretty dried out. But no, it was a good day. And. Oh, yeah, yeah. Take lots of notes. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, Just like in all the lives I talk about, like, I feel like I've gotten a lot better at learning how to mentally rehearse and like, dream daydream. It's. It's good to just let the mind wander and like, not. I feel like we're always like, you know, maybe we're fixating on being like uber productive on weekends and weeknights and.

And maybe sometimes we're burning the candle at both ends and we're kind of just need to kind of create that space away from being productive, away from just constantly doing things. And it's super important to do. And that's why today was one of those days right where I had the last fizzle, my fourth day off. It's just the way it worked out. Because my work schedule, because I work like six on, one off, four on, three off kind of a thing because I. Because for some reason with my schedule, like when I was doing five days, they just allow me to do just with my work, they wouldn't allow me to, like, it was split days off.

I'm like, I don't want split days off. I'll work longer. I'll work longer throughout the week, more frequent Shifts and then get more time off. So I'm like, I don't mind that. So that's the way it worked out. So it was perfect because it's. We're getting close to summer, and the weather's getting nicer, and it's nicer to get out and about, so. But what I'm getting at is when you get out in nature. I was really reading an article on this. It was mind blowing. So when you get out in nature, it's the equivalent of getting an hour of meditation.

So it does a lot for the. For the mind. It does a lot to help you relax. It does a lot to help you refocus and unwind and not feel like you're, you know, as overwhelmed. And. And that's, like, super helpful because for like, for myself, like, the longest meditation that I've done is an hour. But to sit and meditate for an hour, it's not. It's not as easy as you might think. It's like you have, like, your. Your brain and your body are like, okay, I got stuff to do. It's already been half an hour.

And that's. That's enough. And so it's like your brain and your body, like, fighting against you when you're sitting there for an hour. And. But on the other side of that is bliss, is relaxation, is stress relief, is not fixating on things, not obsessing about things. And so that's why today was so good for that. And that's why this is all about mental rehearsal. Planting in my garden. Excellent, Jules. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Hopefully it was sunny or somewhat sunny to get into the garden because, you know, it's.

It's Zen. Everyone's gotta get in their Zen zone. However you choose to do that, gardening is a great way to do it. It's meditative, just like being in nature, going on a hike. That's what me and my wife did today. We went to a golf course. We had lunch, we went to a cafe, we had coffee, and I had an eggs Benny. My wife had a cinnamon bun. And then we went to a winery, tried that out. So just getting out and doing leisure, building in leisure and pleasurable activities into your routine, I'm telling you, is a game changer.

I'm not gonna lie. I'm feeling. In this live. I'm feeling a little bit lit. I had, you know, I just had one glass of wine and then I had a beer on the patio for. For the golf course. Sunny with lots of smoke. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry about That I know. I'm. C. so it's not. The fires, thank God. Thank goodness. Are not affecting us in the west coast as much right now. But on the east coast, or. Sorry, central. Central Canada, the Prairies, they're getting burnt to a crisp right now, which is not cool.

And my wife's grandma, both her grandmas from her dad's side are in Manitoba where the fires are. Yeah, yeah. Like I would an appointment. Yeah, you. That's exactly it. Speak wonder. You gotta. You gotta bake it into your schedule like it's an appointment with yourself. Right. And when we do that, it's like you get to look forward to it. It's something that you get to look forward to. And then you're like, oh, right, yeah, I got my haircut, I got my date night. I got. Yeah, yeah. It's got to be a priority.

If we don't make leisure and fun a priority, it won't happen. Right. And, like, speaking of fun and leisure, our friends actually just text us today and they're like, oh, we should do a friend's summer bucket list. And we did that actually last year or the year before. I think it was last year. We did that last summer and it worked really well. Because you just cross things off that you want to do doesn't mean you're gonna hit everything in the list, but it's just super beneficial for, like, you know, finding fun activities to do right outside of work and during the work week and on the weekends.

Yeah. From Northern Minnesota right on the Canadian border. Yeah. It's not so good right now. Absolutely. It's the. And it's way hotter in the prairies right now. Like, it's actually quite mild right here right now. It's only, like, I don't know what it is because I know US is Fahrenheit. So here's Celsius. So today is like 20 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Celsius. So I think that's 70 Fahrenheit. 70. Where you guys are in Minnesota, maybe 75. Yeah. If my math's correct. The math doesn't always line up so for Fahrenheit.

But. But man. Yeah. Just super grateful, Cadre. Super grateful to be able to create content for this platform. Super, super grateful that everyone tunes into my lives on Sunday spark sessions. And then wealth wins on Wednesdays. And again, like I said in my last. Because I missed the Wednesday, anytime I miss Alive, I like if there's a time slot because Again, I don't want to overlap on someone else's live because that's rude. But if I miss Alive, I want to make up for the very next day or maybe even that evening, even if no one tunes in because I know it's late for you guys are when.

When I like, you know, I think it's two hours ahead in Minnesota. Right. Think something like that. Because it's quarter to seven the west here, so Pacific. So. But it seems to be the best time that works. I know I don't always get to hit this time just because I might have a family dinner or friends dinner or date night with my wife. But as much as possible, I like to. This is like super consistent for me. It works the best. So. But. But it was nice to do it on the Thursday the other day for Wealth Wisdom Wednesday and to.

Yeah. Just every idea that I have, everything that I want to share, I just like to just let it out. So it. It's. It's medit. It's therapeutic. Therapeutics. The word. To be able to speak with you guys and let you guys know, you know, things that are working for me, things that are not working, things that might be challenging. I'll probably talk. Speak to that in like, other lives as well. Be even more vulnerable and even more authentic and more Alex. More me. But I think I'm pretty much vulnerable and authentic all the time, so.

But I don't know if you guys have tried these. They're absolutely amazing. I don't know if they have them in the US but they probably have them in the US too. They're AHAs. They're sparkling water. This is. What is this? Oh, honey peach. Honey peach flavor. And then we usually me and my wife have the watermelon lime flavor too. And then there's bubblies or bubles. Michael Blue Bl, the singer made them. They're awesome. They're flavor, you know, flavored sparkling water too. But like I said, mental rehearsal, building an amazing mindset.

It works a lot. So the way that we work our body in the gym, when we do a workout, mental rehearsal, building a better mindset works also. Like, we're like, we're working out our mind. So like when we're in the gym, when we're lifted, when we're lifting heavy reps, when we're doing those reps, when we're doing those curls, when we're doing the chest press, that's working our body. But when we meditate, when we. When we create like I'm creating right now, I'm creating a piece of content for you guys that's also a form of mental work, of mental exercise.

Right. Excuse me. So it's super important to train the mind like we train the body too, right. And so helpful for so many things, like for these lives. It helps me show up better. I haven't got my meditation in yet today because we pretty much took the ferry to get to this island, like right away, first thing this morning. But I'm gonna get my meditation after this live. But I'll get a little more content prepared and scheduled for the rest of this week on all the platforms there. But just, you know, my best piece of advice is treat.

Treat your mind like you treat your body like both, both in tandem. Both need to be worked the same. They're both muscles. The brain's a muscle, the body's got muscles. And you want to treat them as such. Like train them regularly, train them daily. And you will reap the rewards. You will bear the fruits of your labor soon enough. And it's a journey and it's all about refining your process and building the best you that you can build. So thank you for tuning into this live. I know someone else has got a library after me, so I think I.

Yeah, it's been 15 or 13 minutes, so I'm going to leave it there, but tune in for additional content on my at mind sep. That's @m I n d CEP mindset YouTube channel. I'm posting on there, posting again on TikTok. I'm posting on Instagram. I'm just repurposing all the same content I create on all the platforms and I've been posting the meditation challenge on the Cadre app. So if you go under my name, Alex Muir or at Amir 757, you'll see that I've been posting and uploading all of my. All of my meditation challenge content.

So I'm going to start doing that. All of my challenges that I'm posting YouTube, I want to post to Cadre and I want to let my YouTube community know as well to get onto Cadre, to tune into these lives, to glean the wisdom from all these amazing creators on here. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for tuning into this live and for being an amazing listener and contributor to the. To my lives, the con, the Cadre community and the Cadre platform. Because it's amazing what we're doing for everyone that as a creator on here, the tools that we have access to to build amazing content, the amazing people that are behind the app.

Thank you to Luke, thank you to Dr. Charisse who I, who I've interviewed them both on my podcasts and amazing people and getting to know everyone in the Cadre community and yeah, amazing place to be and even each and every week that you tune in, we build. We build. We're building the Cadre community. We're building a connection together. And you're getting to know me, I'm getting to know you. And yeah, I love it. I love every minute of it. So thank you. Love you guys. And have an amazing Sunday.

Practice that mental rehearsal, carve out some leisure time for you and your family, carve out some pleasure time, some R and R, and I promise you you'll be well rested for the week ahead. So stay happy, stay healthy and to health, wealth and prosperity. Cheers, Cadre fam. Have a great Sunday. Take care.