Enoughness 101

Good morning, Cadre Hitting the pause button right now. Oh, no. Right now. Good morning, everybody. Amar, Marisa, Carrie, nice to see y' all jumping into the Cadre spear early on a Saturday morning. That was the slow buildup in Betty who's song Big A little announcement if you are a. Oh, a Pequot Lakes. Marisa, I hope it is a beautiful day in the ethereal up north Minnesota. Last weekend I was in the up north of Michigan. As someone who's not spent time outside of Detroit in Michigan, it was nice to spend some time getting to know a neighbor state that lives with a similar kind of flow of the world and then the up north world.

But that song Betty who's Big was the walk up music background music for episode five of Cadre's mental health podcast, which is hosted by Luke and engineered by Anna. And I was their guest this past week. So get ready to watch that episode drop. Soon you get to hear me talk about my why and what in the Cadre world. But hey, it is Saturday, which means in my Cadre world, it's time to talk a little bit about enoughness. Here's what enoughness looks like. So I'm sitting. I'm sitting at my desk. I have to start by.

I'm gonna. I'm gonna walk you around my desk. First of all, these are the socks that I picked out to put on today. They don't match. I did my best. I tried to find matching socks, but didn't work. So get ready. These are socks from, I think, that I wore yesterday. I'm gonna be putting these back on my feet. You may be going, ew, Right? If this was. If I was talking to a bunch of fifth graders, yeah, I'll go, ew. But in reality, socks you got are the socks you're gonna put on. Okay, let's keep walking around the desk.

This is a little keychain that was made by one of my cast members. When I music directed the Lightning Thief, they gave this to me. This is a little keychain that was made from one of my cast members from Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. It's got my name on it. You see, I'm gonna keep going around my desk for a little bit. Don't worry. There's always a point. So these are two articles. One is in the acsm, that's the Academy of the American College of Sports Medicine. And this is an article from Clinical Nutrition Journal.

These are two articles that I was published in. That's pretty cool, right? I'm Going to keep going. Got a couple more here. This is a book called Systemic Team Coaching. I'm taking a course in this this week. That's pretty cool. This is a book written by Paul Botts, who's my boss in my executive coaching world. And I get to kind of do some really cool work there. The point of everything that I'm doing right now is I get to do a lot of really cool stuff in this world. And even if it wasn't really cool stuff, I do a lot.

And yet it's really easy. It's natural, almost culturally natural, not intuitively natural. It's culturally natural to think that you're never doing it right or never doing enough or that the things that you're doing aren't the right things to do. That's why this idea of enoughness comes into the world. Enoughness says, hey, right now you are complete and you are capable. Meaning right now you are whole. And right now there's something you can do that would be awesome and progressive and helpful for.

For you and the things you want to be doing and for the world in which you live in. The headline of enoughness, though, once you get to the end of the journey, is this enoughness most often doesn't feel like it because, like I said, feeling not enough is. Is normal. That's the way the world kind of sets us up. But on the inside, enoughness feels like, yeah, you know what? I did what I was supposed to do today? Yeah, you know what? I did what I was capable of doing by simply doing those things. It's going to isolate you a little bit because the rest of the world is going to be going, really?

You don't go to bed at night and going, gosh, I need to do more. More, more, more, more. I'll tell you one of the things I'm really good at, and it's taken time. I'm really good at going to bed at night and going, all right, it's time to go to bed. And I don't think about the other things that I need to do now. When I wake up and I'm in the middle of the day, yeah, I go right back to it. But here's the point. I bet you are surrounded by evidence of all the things that you do in this world. Amar, Marisa, Carrie, all y' all out there.

I bet if you simply look around where you're at right now and you may be going, no, I'm laying in bed and it's like, yeah, you're laying in bed and you have a body and you have thoughts and you have, you know, warmth right now, and you have rest right now. Those things are power moves. You may be going like, wow, I'm sitting with a cup of coffee. What's the worth of a cup of coffee? It's like for you to go ahead and sip and taste and breathe. All of those things are gifts. And in that coffee, there's caffeine, there's energy, there's flavor, there's memories.

Those are things that you can put to use. Or you may be like me, sitting in the midst of the world in which you do your work. Like, I always got my big white boards out and all the things I'm doing. I always got my piano, and I always got all different things that are going on. There's always evidence, Andrea, of the things you're doing in this world. And it's always going to be quite easy to go, I'm not doing enough. But in reality, this journey of enoughness, it's a calibration exercise, it's a reminder exercise for you to go, oh, yeah, here's the evidence of all I'm doing in this world.

And by golly, it is indeed enough. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, I encourage you to put on the song Betty who, the song Big by Betty who today. Because you're big. Larger than life. You're once in a century, baby. Have a good day. 10ft tall and proud.