Cadre Today: The Outward Facing Clique

Well, hey. Hey. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing? How is your Tuesday starting off? I hope it is divine. If it's not, that's okay too. Not okay as in I don't wish that things were better for you, but okay as in you are still capable, you are still worthy, you still have some control and power. And you can do things, as I love to say, you can do little things often that can shift you. You and the day you're living. K. Pepper McKean. Oh, Carrie. Pepper McKean. There we go. It's always fun to try to read.

Read the names and go, where are the spaces? Carrie or Kari. Nice to see you this morning. I hope you're doing well. Junk Food Junkie. Nice to see you too. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. It is truly an honor to spend time with you. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. That being said, Junk Food Junkie knows me too and knows that I am a fan of the taco.

Especially the Taco Bell. What's going on? It's still June. It is officially. Summer days are getting shorter. Here comes winter. Not yet, but it's on its way. And all month long in June, we've been talking about this idea of balance. I am the biggest proponent of removing the idea that the world is binary, that there's right or wrong or good or bad, or do this, don't do this. That's a really easy way to attempt to shape the world. But we also know the world doesn't exist in this or that either or so balance is all my jam.

Thank you, Cadre, for throwing the. Throwing the. The idea of balance our way all month long. I'll let you know. This may be an announcement for you coming up next month, kind of the big over overarching topic and thread is going to be being free. What does freedom look like? But in the scope of balance, there are really good things in the world that if we have too much or too little of, they kind of lose their goodness. They lose their magic. So one of those things is something I'll talk about today.

If you spend time with me often, you know that on Tuesdays I talk about the idea of the outward facing click. What is a click? Normally a group of people who have a shared interest who really love that thing and then they make it really hard for other People to become a part of it. But at the heart of their love is, wow, we love this thing, we think it's important and we really want it to be the center of our interactions. So by nature you think you'd want more people involved. But again, humans are wonderfully imperfect and wonderfully irrational and sometimes take really good things and make them not that great.

So the outward facing click is saying, how do we allow people who find a shared interest and passion in something, how do we allow them to be liberated from closing off the world, from sharing in that thing? The headline of the outward facing click is this. The longer that you're a part of something, the less it is about you and the more it is about the people who have yet to be a part of it. That's how you grow community. And that's what we often talk about on Tuesdays, building community. Here's what I want you to think about today.

Think about the people who are in the clique, the inward facing clique. Where is their joy? Where is their future and where is their day to day interaction? How do they present normally? Their joy is in maintaining their future, is in maintaining their day to day is telling people. Here is the concrete, here is the real people in the outward facing click. What is their their joy? It is in seeing other people fall in love with the thing that they've already fallen in love with. What is their future?

It's dreaming, it is planning, it is strategizing, it's bringing to life what could be and what is their day to day? It is, and this is a distinction I often make. It is letting the thing they care about be a verb and not a noun, an evolution, not a thing. Think about the things that you are a part of. Would you rather be in the clique, the maintain and fight to keep what is? Or would you rather be in the evolving and supporting and watching and experiencing this thing you love? Be free. Right now you may go.

It's like, yeah, but there are the times when I need to like have the thing be for me. Yeah, there is. It's all about balance. But if we look at the spectrum of inward facing or outward facing, sometimes we want to be in the middle. I think it's more we want to be here. We want to make sure we give ourselves what we need and remind ourselves why we're committed and connected in the first place. But then we get back to work and going, how do we invite people to be a part of the thing? Junk food junkie says speaking of summer, if you Think about it.

Mother Nature has a balance of her own with the four seasons, summer, fall, winter, spring, that each have a purpose for nature. Exactly. Junk food junkie. What a great thing to bring up. You know, I live in Minnesota, where we really. Well, we have at least four seasons. A lot of times we have kind of bridge seasons, but it invites us to always be experiencing the fullness of the journey. And we appreciate. Sometimes we roll our eyes. That's how we show the appreciation with the hot, with the cold, with the wet, with the dry, with the green, with the brown.

But think about people who live in parts of the world where the weather stays kind of the same all year round. They don't experience or they struggle to experience the joy of the things because they're not experiencing the balance of the seasons. It's a great connection point. Junk food junkie. Thank you for sharing. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, always remember you got the Cadre right here to go ahead and tap into, win and however you need. I'll be back tomorrow morning.

It'll be Wednesday. We'll talk a little bit of mental health, and then I'll be here every single day after that. Have a good one, y' all. Talk to you later. Bye. It.