Monday Motivation: Put Yourself Out There

Fair share of the meals. You can't always get what you want. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hope everybody had a fantastic, wonderful, dynamic weekend. Good morning to you and yours. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Little Rolling Stones to start. Can never go wrong. Alexa, let's pause that bad boy. Good morning, everybody. It's so good to be here. I'm going to go over some housekeeping things. I actually have five things that I that I want to cover. Good morning, Jules.

Good morning, Jean. Good morning, Jen. Happiest of birthdays to you, belated over this last weekend. Maria. Good morning. Good morning. So I have a bunch of housekeeping things that I want to cover right out the gates. So let's start with those. Number one, we have our first ever group coaching session tonight at Cadre. So if you go in the feed and if you look in the feed, I want to say it's like post two or three down for our director of coaching, Nikki Malay. It's amazing. I can't wait for you all.

It's 7pm Central, so West Coasters 5 East Coasters, 8, 7pm Central. Hope to see you all there. I'm. I'm super excited. Like, any opportunity that I ever get to like, get to do something like that, I always feel like I take away one or two things no matter what. So I encourage you to participate. Go make it happen. That's number one. Guess what's next? The new episode of the Mental wealth podcast drops today with the one and only JC Lippold. I love jc. JC is somebody who I've grown so close to. I also wanna celebrate his two years.

Big two, big two for JC. JC's been with Cadre now for two years. My gosh. Like you can just see like the sm. I just kind of light up. And it is so exciting to have JC participate with us. So two years. Looks like Maria said, Luke, you went kaput on me. I'm still going here. I don't know if it's something on your end, but so far so good. I am here. Rocking. So at any rate, JC has been with us for two years. The new Mental wealth podcast drops and I am telling you, I am telling you, you will learn a lot from this one.

He just challenges me in so many different ways. So that's that. Next. The newsletter is dropping tomorrow, so the newsletter will be rolling tomorrow. I'm excited to share the theme for July. I can just break it. Why not? So it is going to be about freedom. It might be financial freedom, it might be freedom from Food. It might be freedom from feeling the way you felt. It might be freedom from a promotion at work. It might be freedom from a relationship. Freedom, freedom, freedom. I think freedom can take a lot of different shapes and sizes.

And then of course, with it being, you know, fourth of July, I think freedom just, you know, works perfectly for who we are, what we are. So be on the lookout for the newsletter. That's going to be amazing. Again, group. The group coaching tonight, JC with the Mental wealth podcast. Oh, lot going on. Freedom from alcohol. Thank you, Jen. Yes. Freedom, freedom, freedom. There's so much freedom. But okay, so the two things I always wanted to share after all the housekeeping things was I feel so far this summer, it's June 30th today.

It's crazy to say good morning, Amar. June 30th, uh, and I feel like my whole summer thus far has just been running, running, running. I made a post about this in the community feed, but I just feel like I. I have not stopped with kids stuff. You know, you basically go to work and it's like, all right, honey, you go do baseball. I got soccer, you take golf. I got this. And it's just been like all. It's just non stop. And then all weekend long, we always have tournaments and all these things. And so I just, I really needed a reframe and boy, did I ever, like, my mindset was getting a little fishy with and I was almost feeling like, selfishly, like I just don't have any time for myself and so I just need to reframe.

I was like, okay, someday I will look back and think, this is one of the best days of my life. This is one of the best stretches of my life to be able to run these, my amazing children around all summer long. So you might need a reframe in something in your life too. I encourage you to think about what it is that maybe you think it's depleting you of energy, but it could ultimately expedite you to a better mindset. So think about what those things are. You know, really go deep in your brain, even journal about it.

Like, what's causing me to be depleted from energy. But the things that you have to do, like I have to do this, but it takes energy from me. And then changing your mindset. Is everything still this weekend? I think it's important to note our winds. I still went for a walk around the lake. I should say a ruck around the lake. I had my backpack put some weight in there and I just went the entire lake which was a nice 10 mile walk. And I got absolutely downpoured with rain. It was crazy. So right around White Bear Lake was about halfway around and I just got throttled with rain.

So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna take off my shoes, I'm gonna take off my socks and I'm just gonna go jump in the lake. And I did right there. And so there's like this area which is the beach. So I left everything there. It was kind of an interesting last 5 mile walk with your socks completely soaked and everything. But that's okay. And it felt really great. So that's that. Okay. Here's actually my story for the day. So again, we covered a lot again, the group coaching, the newsletter dropping mental wealth podcast dropping.

Right. So covered all those things. Good morning, Sherry. Good morning. And happy Monday to you too. Amazing. Okay, so if anybody knows me now, over the last year, two years, three years, you guys know I'm kind of a Timberwolves dork. So I've traveled for the away games. I've done all these things right? So this last Friday, I had a big meeting at 3 o' clock. Super excited about this meeting at 3 o' clock. Met with an amazing person prior. I had a little stretch where I'm like, what should I do during this stretch?

So I went for a walk down by the river in Minneapolis. So I walked by for the river just to get a little like steps in feeling good before this meeting cuts out my anxiety, all of it. Right before this, this is how. This is crazy how this all works. Before this, I was texting back and forth with a friend of mine, his name's Justin Juan out of Duluth, and he was sharing back and forth with me his new warehouse that he's purchasing and leasing for his company, Cedar and Stone, this massive sauna company, which is so cool.

Based out of Duluth, Minnesota. Right. So we're texting back and forth and I texted him back and I'm like, hey, man, we're going to run it back with the Wolves. I know this team's gonna like, make it happen. And da, da, da, da, da. And this is, this is all true. And if, if you don't believe it, I can't help you. So walking right by the river and none other than the Bass, the president of basketball operations, guy who runs all the Timberwolves, was walking right next to me on the river. Why this is all true.

And his, his name's Tim Conley. Okay. So I am walking by the side. He's right in front of me and I'm like, why don't I just shoot my shot? Why don't I shoot my shot? So I went up to him, I said, hey, Tim. I shook his hand. I said, I just want to tell you, you bring so much joy to me and my family watching the Timberwolves, and it's, it's been an incredible ride. And I said, don't you ever leave here. And then he's like, I won't, I won't. And he was, whatever. So we, we went back and forth and we were talking about a bunch of things and he was getting calls in meanwhile about free agency, you know, so it was like, there we have a couple big free agents and all this is happening.

And so we walked about 30, 35 minutes together. And he shared so many incredible stories that I'm not going to tell because I think he told me confidence. And so we walked together, we had this amazing walk, got done with it. And he said, you know, why don't you, why don't you send me an email and why don't we get together some time for a beer? And he obviously doesn't know I don't drink. It's been five years for me. Let's go. But he doesn't know I don't drink. But regardless, I shot my shot, right?

And so I sent him an email that night and I said, hey, Tim, awesome running into you in the river. Cool. I'm the, I said, I'm the clown who was out in Denver for game seven, LA, for game five. Da da da da da. The Die Hard fan. And to be frank, which is crazier is I still have these on my wrist. I still have these Timberwolves things on my wrist from the playoff stretch. Yes, I know. I'm a 44 year old dork. That's okay. And I don't care. It's what I enjoy. It's what I love. So anyway, I shoot, shoot him this email and he writes back to me and said, I would love to get together for a beer.

And then I sent him a message back and I said, you know, I don't drink, but if you're up for an NA beverage or a sauna, I would love to treat you. So I will see what his reply says, but we've been going back and forth, back and forth. But this is the guy who runs an entire sports team who I love and who I've loved. For the last guy, I think they came in 1989 to existence in the Timberwolves 44 year old lovable dork. So that's right. Speak, wonder. But what I'm saying is it doesn't matter if it's basketball, it doesn't matter if it's basketball, it doesn't matter if it's something at your work, your boss at your work, just shoot your shot.

I mean, what's the worst that can happen? He wouldn't reply to me via email, right? You know, like he wouldn't reply to me via email and I would never hear from him. Like, who cares? You know, you live this life once you go after it and just shoot your shots and send that email, send that direct message, send something to somebody that, you know, maybe might just be this little bit of like, you know, opportunity for you. So it's opportunistic, no doubt about it. But I think it could be mutually beneficial.

So I encourage you to look through your life today, all of the things in your life and think about those maybe like two or three things that, you know, I want to be more involved in A, I want to be more involved in B, I want to be more involved in C and just go after it. And if you don't hear back, great. And if you do hear back, even better. Right. So I just want you to take that in today and say, I'm going to put myself out there. I am going to put myself out there and I'm going to give it a try.

Because in this particular case, which I just can't believe to be true, you know, we will be doing something together. He's the one who said it, not me. He said, let's grab a beer. And I just flipped it to, well, maybe like an NA beer because, you know, I said I don't drink. Right. But regardless, shoot your shot. Jen says I love it. NA and sauna. That's right. Emily says, shoot your shot. I always do. I try to all the time. I love Cedar North. I did a sound bath in their sauna earlier this year in Duluth.

Best Justin. His team are incredible. Loved. You reached out to him. I did. And what's, you know, I have the receipts to prove it via the email, back and forth. And you know, like I said, like he could also be, you know, maybe like a. Not a. Jerk isn't the right word. But you know, spending that time even on the walk was more than I bargained for, you know, to have that 30, 35 minute walk, whatever it was. And you know, we just talked about a bunch of things and I talked about the mental health of the players and it was amazing.

So I encourage you to push your chips in and go big. So again, I want to circle back here again. First ever group coaching session offered tonight, Cadre, 5pm West Coast, 8pm Eastern. It is in the community feed. Please show up if you can. The newsletter will be dropping tomorrow. There's going to be some amazing things in there. Next, the Mental wealth podcast is actually dropping today. You heard my story of the reframe from the weekends. That's something I've just been working really, really hard on.

And then last but not least is the Timberwolf story and shooting your shot. Don't forget to do that. All right, you guys have a wonderful week. It's always the best for me to be able to share space with you on Mondays. Thanks for coming in. I love you all. Bye. Bye. Alexa, play.