Cadre Today- The Outward Facing Clique

Hey, Kadri. People seem to find and how they're in a hurry to complicate their minds by chasing after money and dreams that can't come true I'm glad that we are different with better things to do May others plan their future Name the band, y'. All. Who do we got here? 1, 2, 3, 4. La la la la la la. Good morning, Jules. Good morning, Andy. Mack Sushu. I know it's S. Shuft, but it's fun to say. How y' all doing, Matt? Band. Who is that Band? I'll tell you in a moment. But, hey, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here.

I know what I know and I care about you. Good morning, sunshine. Good morning, Nikki. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, I hope you are well. And if you're not, that's okay too. That was a song by the Grassroots, the Grassroots, featuring Creed Bratton. Creed Bratton from the Office. If you watched the television show the Office and Creed, the. The quality assurance manager, he played himself. Creed Bratton played Creed Bratton, who was a guitarist in the band the Grassroots. Marisa, nice to see you.

The Grassroots is one of those great, like 60s 70s protest bands saying, hey, let's look at the world in which we live in and consider the impact that we have. What a beautiful thing to do. T. North, nice to see you, my friend. What a beautiful thing to consider the impact we have on the world in which we live. On Tuesdays, I talk about this idea of the outward facing clique. What is the outward facing clique? Well, a clique is normally perceived as being an inward facing group, right? A group that has a shared interest, passion, affinity for one another.

So they focus on one another. And it's really hard to get into the clique. But at the end of the day, if we look at what they're surrounding this group of people, it's a group of people who loves something, that believes in something together. And wouldn't it be great if that thing could grow? Most people want the thing that they care about to be nourished and supported and to be able to navigate life's realities. But so often those things die because they suffocate them. They protect them from the things that are actually good for them.

So here hence lies the birth of the outward facing clique. The number one tenet of the outward facing clique is this. The longer that you're a part of something, the less it is about you and the more that it is about the people who have yet to be a part of it. So we think about a band like the Grassroots who are looking at, you know, a Western society and saying, hey, who are we doing? What are we doing? How do we live for today? I'll read the lyrics of the first verse of let's Live for Today. When I think of all the worries that people seem to find and how they're in a hurry to complicate their minds by chasing after money and dreams that can't come true.

I'm glad that we are different. We're better, we have better things to do when others plan their future. I'm busy loving you Sha Lalala live for today Shalalala live for today and don't worry about tomorrow Shalalala live for today how many belief structures are built on that idea? Tomorrow has worries of their own. Live in the moment Care for the things that are here to be cared for today Fast forward to this morning, 4am I was on a call in London time. So they were all in the middle of their morning.

There's a couple Austrians, so kind of lunchtime. And I was sitting here getting. Getting the sleep dust out of my eyes, going, ugh. But here's the deal. This call that I was on is for a program, an idea of thought that I've been working through called Systemic Team Ideology or coaching. Working with not groups of people like the people, but the connections in between them. And a colleague of mine shared this today, it's called the Lore of Requisite Conflict. Sounds British, doesn't it? The Law of Requisite Conflict.

And they said this. Their goal, anytime they support a group of people, whether from the inside or the outside, as they say this, I want to give no more or no less conflict than what the emerging world holds. I'll say that again. This person says, whenever they're supporting a community, whether they're on the inside or the outside, whether they're leading or following, I say this. I want to give no more or less conflict than what the emerging world holds. In other words, in their seat of influence on the people around them, they don't want to downplay or upplay the conflict that exists around the thing they're creating.

I love this idea, this idea that our opportunity, our role, our responsibility in any group that we are a part of is not to make the glass half full or half empty, to tell people that everything is fine or that the world is blowing up and burning down, but to reflect back, to say, here is the world in which we currently exist. How do we exist in it? How do we, as the grassroots would say, how do we live for today? We all have influence in this culture of having influencers, all of a sudden you have people who will call themselves leaders or experts or coaches or consultants or yada, yada, yada, as if they are the person or the people or the group that has the solution or the source.

I invite you to be incredibly prudent with those people, Indigo. Are they attempting to draw me away, to say I am not the holder of the truth, the answer, the pathway, the power? Or are they attempting to go, I'm going to reflect back to you what you have, and I'm going to invite you to turn out and influence the world around you, because the thing you care about is intended to have impact as the grassroots invite you to live in the moment. As my Austrian friend this morning invited me to go, hey, don't downplay or upplay the amount of stress or conflict existing in the world.

But to be incredibly precise with saying, here's the world in which we exist. How will you influence it today? And in that space, we find our purpose, we find our potential, we find the thing we can do that will move the thing we care about in a direction of sustainability, of growth. So no matter what you have going on today, the Cadre Sphere is a really great place to find support or challenge, to find someone who agrees with or offers some positive dissonance to where you are and your perspective in the world.

Cadre is always going to be that place for you to find many pathways to walk with the intent of inviting you to feel better, to be better, to do better, better, better, better, better, better, y'. All. As we get a little moody grassroots in the background, I'll play a different track. They got a lot of good ones. Let's go. Oh, let's go. Sooner or later, sooner or later, y'. All. I'll be back. But, hey, I'm not gonna be here tomorrow morning. I'm gonna be in the midst of some surgery, so send me some good well wishes and I will be back later on today.

Oh, Andy Mack, Shala. La la la, la la. Let's live for today, my brother. Have a good one, y'. All. We'll talk to you later.