This Time Of Year Can Be TOUGH!

Happy Friday Cadre family. Happy Friday. Hope it's been a great day so far. You're almost to the weekend. This is good news. I think we're all nearing the Friday, Saturday, Sunday moment of our weekend. To be able to take it in a little bit for yourself. And I'm sure you got some things and, and whatnot you got planned and other things going on, which is absolutely fantastic. Let's address the elephant in the room. My hair is a little war wonky over on this side over here. But that's okay. That is just fine.

Hope everybody's having a great day. Here we are, it's Friday. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. I want to share a little something right now. Just a little impromptu live. Everybody knows I go Monday and it's my Monday motivation time. And that's usually when I show up and how I show up through the week. But I just want to share something right now that, you know, it's the end of the school year. It's the end of the school year. The kids are wrapping up school. You know, emotions with the kids are high.

My wife's an educator, right? So my wife is struggling at the end of the year because she's rather emotional with all the kids. She has these 30 beautiful souls that she loves so much. And then imagine like that's one of your kids that are coming and leaving through the school year. And then you have graduation exercises, you have get togethers on the weekends, you have family coming in out of town. You have all of these things that are starting to pick up again here in early June. So what I just want to tell you all is here's my foolproof plan when I know that my wife is struggling and she's becoming a little emotional.

We always do walks, walks, walks, walks. Right now we are, you know, I think I told you all this, but, you know, I'm a heavy, heavy walker and I like to get as many steps in as I possibly can. But right now, one of the big things that we try to do to decompress through this time is to get out and walk together. We talk, we walk, sometimes we go deep, sometimes we don't say a thing. Sometimes it's 30 minutes of silence, sometimes it's 30 minutes of laughing, sometimes it's all of it. But right now, I just want to let you know, again, for a lot of folks gearing up from graduation time to graduation time, to family coming in and out of town, to commencement, to sixth grade, we got it all.

We got it all going on Right now, just like I'm sure you all do, right? So I just want you all to take it in right now and say take a deep breath and go. This will be okay, right? Take a deep breath, this will be okay. But I encourage you to find as much time as you can with your loved ones, people you care about, confidants, you name it. And go, let's go for a walk. Let's do a 20 minute walk. Let's do a 40 minute walk. And I'm telling you, you can just feel your stress and your blood pressure drop.

Sometimes it's just being out in nature, sometimes it's seeing other things that are around in their world that you maybe just even recognize because you haven't taken as much time to go walk. So again, I just want you to. Oh, I love this. Oh my gosh, I just saw this. Carrie said I literally have walk on my to do list today. That makes me so happy. It's what we do. Like so our routine again right now, as soon as it gets a little warmer in Minnesota, we get home, we have dinner, we take the kids for a walk, right?

So we go take the. Not the kids, we take the dogs. We take the dogs for a walk, we have dinner with of course the kids and everything, take the dogs for the walk. And then usually our night starts, right? So it's like, hey, you're off to viola, you're off to this, you're off to this, you're off to this. So wrapping up the school year again, like I said for my wife is difficult. It's hard. This is her very emotional time and I'm sure there's a lot of moms and or dads that are going to feel the strain here quick to summer vacation.

And you're probably stressing about that how I'm, how am I going to do everything, how I'm going to work, how am I going to do this? How am I going to do this? Take the time to get in your walk every single night right now. I encourage you to do it. It will change your life. It is a game changer for my wife and I. It is our connection point. And of course I tell you all about the sauna and all the things, but right now it's Walkville and boy and boy are we walking. So that's what I got for you all today is I just wanted to do this impromptu live to just share.

This is what we're doing. My wife's an educator. You all know that. Sixth grade education. She's got a lot going on right now, wrapping up the year, and we just find ourselves in what used to be lack of connection turning into deep connection through the opportunity to walk together. Have a wonderful weekend, you guys. Get as many steps as you can get outside. Get that walk just like Carrie said. Get that walk on that to do list. Take care of you guys. Thank you so much for showing up. Be good to one another and get those steps in.

Bye. Bye.