Monday Motivation. I Hate Mondays! Kidding. I Love Then So Much, That I Have To Check Myself.

Don't worry. Happy Monday. Hopefully everybody had a phenomenal fourth of July. It's Luke here. Happy Monday to you and yours. Let's make it a great day. I should be seeing that little notification, the little C pop up. And once it does, I always like to get rocking and get moving. I hope everybody had a phenomenal fourth of July weekend. Good morning to you and yours. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday. Cheers. Cheers to you and yours. Good morning, Amar. Good morning, Carrie. Good morning. Good morning.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning to you all. Happy Monday. After a long weekend. I hope everybody had a phenomenal weekend with their family. Hopefully everybody was safe. And here we are, back to Monday. I can't wait for Mondays. As you see, the title was I hate Mondays. The reality is 67% of individuals are coming to work on Monday actively looking for a new job. Let me say that again. Almost 7 of 10 individuals that go to work on Mondays are looking for a new job. So what about those three of 10?

What about those three of 10? So I'm. I'm one of those, for sure. Like, I personally, when it gets to Saturday, Sunday night, like, I'm. I'm. I'm jacked. Like, I can't wait to get back on Monday. I love it. Like, I love what I get the privilege to do. I love what I get the opportunity to do. This is my passion. This is my purpose. This is my dream. This is everything that I want to be a part of. These are the people that I want to be a part of. These are the individuals that inspire me. Those are the individuals that I hope to inspire.

So I'm definitely in that 30 percentile. When I look at the greater whole of Cadre, I would say, like, I hope. And I. And I haven't, like, asked recently, and it's a survey I most certainly could do, but I have a feeling most of those individuals are in the 30 percentile as well that can't wait for Mondays, that love Mondays, that love what they get the privilege and opportunity to do. So my question to you is, if you are one of those 60% of those individuals that are actively pursuing new work and it's Sunday, and Sunday you wake up and you have this dread to go in to go back into work.

And Sunday night it becomes tough to sleep, and Monday you just kind of like hide your way through to finally getting to work on Monday. My question, and I mean this in the most loving way, what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for to switch your life around? Because that, I mean, just Think about this Saturday going into Sunday, Monday, that's. That's 48 hours. You know, our topic for the month is freedom, but that's 48 plus hours of like, stress. And I mean, it's the least amount of freedom from work.

It's the least amount of freedom from stress. If you don't, like, change it. Create a life you don't need a vacation from. I love it. Heidi, you're absolutely right on the Money. And hello. M. zobitz. Hello from Lake Vermilion. I love it. I'm with you both. But, Heidi, it's not that simple. People are like, okay walking the plank, and they're also okay, like, kind of being negative on the plank, but rarely will they jump off. And my question to you is, and I mean this in the most loving way, there's this survey from Harvard, if you guys want to look at the study.

I want to say the numbers like $68,000 a year, which is a lot of money. I think the numbers like $68,000 a year, where the equilibrium of happiness and freedom and work and all of it basically collide, right? It's. It collides right there. It's like $68,000 of like the happy happiness meter of work and financial, and all of it's like peak and right at that point. So if there is a point in your life where you're not happy with coming to work and you do not like the individuals that you're working with and you do not love us, I mean, it's all relative, right?

But I mean, yes, there's probably one out of 52 Sunday nights I don't like, but those other 51 of 52, I do. Right? And so if you're at that point where maybe the tables are switched, where there's one out of 52 you're looking forward to and it's. Maybe it's your vacation week. And so those other 51 of 52 are really hard for you to show up to. You're not making the environment most likely better for everybody else. Odds are your maybe your attitude might not be the best. So you do have the freedom to choose, and you have the freedom to choose your next work environment.

And I'd encourage you all to look at yourself. I mean, this is Cadre too, right? I mean, I'm not just saying it's because I own it and, you know, lead it, etc, if there's individuals that are not happy at Cadre, which I do not believe to be true, but if there are, you know, I really hope that they on Sunday nights would look at themselves and say, like, it's time for a change, you know? But I do not believe that to be true. I do not believe that to be true. But regardless, what I'm trying to say is if you are showing up to work and you're not your best self, you're anxious and you're stressed, you're trying to figure out what the h*** you're going to do on a Monday to hide and get away and find your little hole at whatever organization and say the least amount and participate as least as possible while getting a paycheck.

Like, you're not really doing anybody any favors, but most importantly yourself, there's a lots and lots of opportunities in this world. Go seek them out and I guarantee you're going to be able to find some place that you make just about the same amount of money doing something invariably different that you're going to love and that you can go to sleep to on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and get legitimately excited to work on a Monday morning. Like me, I know I'm probably in the lower percentile.

Like, I can't wait for Sundays to go through my planner, to go through my planner and look at the week ahead, who I get the privilege to work with when our leadership opportunities are. When's the opportunity that I get to work with our intern? I get to do all these things. I get the opportunity to share the story of Cadre this week on Friday, I get the opportunity to share the story of Northstar Behavioral Health this week. I get those opportunities. We have a contributor coming in this week. Like, we get this.

This is such a privilege coming in from California that we're having a lunch with on Wednesday. Like, these are all, like, privileged moments for us, which is so great. And you can see the smile on my face. And then when you love what you do so much, well, h***, forget this week. I'm going into the next one and the next one. So, you know, I have all of July wrapped up, all through August because, like, I just couldn't wait to figure out what's next. Like, on my schedule, on my calendar, sometimes I just go a week ahead.

But I just got in the groove last night and like, all right, let's keep going. Let's keep going. So I'm pushing you today to say, let me check myself. Let me check myself. I'm privileged to have this job. There's no doubt about it. Wherever I'm working. Privileged to be able to do that. Honored to have this Role honored to have this opportunity. But am I fulfilled there? Am I giving it my all? Do I legitimately get excited for Monday morning when I'm coming into work, working remote, whatever that might be?

Am I actively not pursuing opportunities? And if the answer is to a lot of those, like, I don't know, this isn't for me. Mondays, this isn't great, I'll get through it with coffee. You know, maybe, maybe think and take Heidi's, Heidi's advice here. If you don't like it, change it. Create a life you don't need a vacation from. That's right on the money for me. Make a decision. That's what Amar says. It's making decision when it comes to planning and sticking to one thing that can be tough for anybody.

And junk food junkie says good morning. Good morning to you all. I hope you really, really take this message with the utmost level of sincerity and think about yourself. You're going, you know, through the weekend, rolling into a Monday. We spend a lot, a lot of time at work. You know, eight hours a day for some might be a 10 hours a day, some might be 12 hour stretches. I really encourage you to think about, is this for me? Okay? Think about it. Move on if it's not. Dive deeper if it is. Or check yourself about the why.

So have a wonderful week. I hope this brings up some just kind of maybe thoughts in your brain about you have the freedom to choose what it is that you actually want to do in this life. All right, you guys take care. Take care. Have a wonderful week. Lift somebody up. I get to do some amazing things this week. Junk food junk. See Junk food junkie. I want to read this beforehand, before I'm done. Before retiring, I always gave my best every day when I wasn't 100% by the weeks. And I always felt I accomplished stuff.

Well, good for you, man. That's awesome. I'm happy to hear that. All right, you guys take care. Have a wonderful week. Lift somebody up. Be good to everybody, okay? The world needs it. And I'm looking forward to all the live streams this week and what's to come. It's going to be a great week. Bye. Bye. Take care, everybody.