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Hey there, Cadre. Happy Monday. How are we doing today? This is one of my favorite moments of the week right here. C. how are you doing today? Sometimes I talk about this idea of the midline of being selfish and being selfless. This is a really great example of it. Speak. Wonder. Amar, Nice to see you. This is, for me, a very selfish moment. I get to see my friends like Maffy here coming into the room to say, okay, let's start off this week, T. Brown. Let's do it. So as I slow clap all y', all walking into your Monday cheers.

Cheers to. To this moment and to the moments that follow. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. You. On Mondays, quite often, we talk about the things that we do with our lives, right? What do we do for a living, what we do for work, what we do with purpose and vocation, all of these things. Why? Because for a lot of people, Monday is the. Is the start, right? And quite often we wait until the Friday as the finish, and then we take some time, Jules, and then we get kicking again.

But I want to go ahead and share about that space in the middle today. If you're one of those people who looks at your work as having a start and a finish, like a Monday and a Friday or a project beginning and end, I invite you to go ahead and YouTube this song, halfway down the Stairs. The Muppets. I bring it up quite often, but especially on a Monday, especially in kind of the long part of summer, right? So if you're in the United States, Fourth of July was a couple of days ago. I hope if you intended to have some traditional times, some things that you always do around the 4th of July, I hope you had a great time doing so.

But quite often after the Fourth of July now, we kind of move into summer. And then all of a sudden, Labor Day happens, and it's time for pumpkin spice. You may be going, okay, it's the beginning, and snap, it's the end. In this song, halfway down the Stairs, Robin, this little Muppet, sings about that. Their favorite place as they're climbing up and down the stairs is the middle stair. And they stop and they sit down and they sing this song. There's something magical about being in the middle of our process and in the middle of our capacity that quite often humans are really good at forgetting, right?

We start, we finish, and everything in the middle is kind of the Second place, think about your capacity. I got full tank energy. I got nothing left. We kind of miss everything in the middle of that. Honor the middles. Explore what you have in the middles. There's a lot of really good stuff in the middles. Mondays. I often talk about following because the world loves to raise leading as the. As the thing that everybody's supposed to do. Following again is one of those second place, often forgotten roles that we fill so often in our lives.

I would say we spend a majority of our time in the seat of following. Junk food junkie. Nice to see you, my friend. Just as if we look in the middles. As I invite you today, just take a moment to look at those times when you are not the one giving the speech. Leading the way, coming up with a new idea. You know, I just heard this morning, Mark Zuckerberg, who runs the Facebook world, he's hiring the best. He's looking for the best AI people in the world. Like he offered the founder of OpenAI, you know, $14 billion to come and work for.

For Facebook. Why? Because everybody's trying to be the leader of AI right now. And Mark Zuckerberg, who we look at as the leader, what is he doing? He's attempting to get all of the other leaders to join his team so he can learn from them. Is that leading? Okay, but how is it not following too, hey, I'm gonna go find the people who can help me get to where I want to get to. It's two sides of the same coin, y'. All. It's all in how we perceive where we're going and what we're doing. So for right now, you're giving yourself a hard time because you don't know how to lead.

You don't know how to start. Get over yourself. Like, literally get over that part of your brain that's saying, this is the way it has to be. This is what all of those other people in the world and on LinkedIn and everything is doing. This is how they're doing it. Really? I don't see it that way. What I do see is a bunch of people trying to do their best, and sometimes they try to lie to the rest of us and make it look really easy. I choose to see humanity behind those layers that they put up, and I actually see a lot of people working really hard to try to make sense of everything.

So rather than the beginnings and the ends today, look in the middles, rather than leading today. Follow whenever you need Cadre. We're here. Whenever you need a moment to be free of the expectations. Settle in right here. I'll see you tomorrow. It.