Saturday Thoughts: Grateful When It’s Good? Grateful When It’s Bad? Grateful For Both?

Good morning, Cadre family. Good morning. What I meant good afternoon. Good afternoon, everybody. Hope everybody's having a great day. Happy Saturday to you and yours. Let's give it one second here. The little Cadre icon hits. It's always great to see that. And then we know we're live and we're ready to. Ready to roll. For those individuals that don't drink alcohol, this is one of my favorites. It's the Athletic Hazy ipa. It's called the Free Wave. I just absolutely love it. It's called Athletic Brewing Company.

It's just one of my favorites. So if that's something you ever want to try. Oh, I just absolutely love it. But hopefully everybody's having a wonderful Saturday. But I just wanted to share little story that I think is important. Talking about. Alexa, stop. I just wanted to share a little story today about gratitude. And, you know, it's interesting because, you know, a lot of people say write three things in the morning you're grateful for. And I think that's great. I really do. But I think what ultimately is the game changer of life is when you can be really, really grateful for the great things that have happened in your life.

But I think the game changer, and I mean truly, truly the game changer of life is when you can be really, really grateful when things don't go your way. I'll give you an example. So I just had an opportunity to go on a phenomenal road trip. It was amazing. Was kind of gone for a week. Flew back for some work things and then basically was gone for another week and had the opportunity to see western United States from Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, all of it. And it was an amazing experience.

Like, truly amazing experience. But when I was gone, my wife was up at my in laws with the kids. And when she was gone, we had really bad storms. I mean, really bad storms. And a neighbor indicated that a tree fell down. And a tree fell down over by our house area. Right. So get home. Got home yesterday late. And when I came home, the tree had absolutely dented, smashed a vehicle of ours that was in the main driveway. Right? So it was smashed. It's without a doubt gonna require a lot of work. Huge dents, all the things.

Big, big tree. I could. I'll just try to take it for it. Take it for what it's worth. I was going to show you the tree, but it's a huge oak, right. And. But one thing to keep in mind is we had our house that was right by the corner. And then of course there was the tree. So, like, immediately you could be p***** off and frustrated and you got an insurance claim and all these other things you got to deal with and having the car to fix and oh, okay, fine. My mind went to two places. Number one, how lucky are we that it didn't hit our house, right?

So number one, we're lucky that didn't hurt our house. Number two is, you know, I took the pictures, everything that's necessary for insurance, but naturally I was going to get a workout in anyhow, right? So it was Saturday. I always like to do a workout, so I was going to work out anyhow. So I was like, well, why don't I just, you know, kill two birds with one stone? And so what I ended up doing was, you know, cutting up the tree, getting it all set, moving it over to an area so I could have a little fire spot.

And so I churned this, like, miserable opportunity, if you will, to. Well, it didn't hit our house. Very grateful for that. It didn't hit any of us, which is amazing in whatever. Got to deal with the deal with the car. That's fine. We'll get it fixed. But most importantly, I got a workout out of it. Got able to move all the tree edge stuff. I got wood for the sauna, right? So it's like you could be p***** off and frustrated, or you can immediately shift your mindset to say, I am so grateful that it didn't hit our house.

And oh, by the way, now I have wood for the sauna. I have an opportunity to get a workout, to move all these things, get an opportunity to use the chainsaw and feel like a man. I'm just kidding. But it was amazing and it was a great day. So I had three and a half, four hours to move it, and it's like it never happened. But I had the opportunity to take it like that. And so I just think that there's this. These moments in time, you know. I'll give you another example. I started Cadre almost, you know, call it three years ago.

And there is many of things that go wrong when you start a business. And not only many things that go wrong, but many things, especially when you start a tech business. If you. If I started a brick and mortar entity, I could control a lot more, right? But when it is a tech business, I don't know what. I don't know. I'm not a coder. I'm not. I've never coded before, but I'm learning a lot, right? So I'm Working through all of this to be able to figure out and say, like, it doesn't go well. What did you expect?

What did you expect? Like, it's going to take a little bit in order for this thing to figure out, to work, to move forward, right? So like everybody wants the wins immediately, right? And it's like sometimes you gotta be just so grateful that you got an opportunity to sit sing in the mud when it's hard, when it's not going your way, when things aren't progressing the way you wanted it to, when a tree falls on your car. But those are the opportunities where I think there's the great separators of life.

And some people say, oh, that sounds toxic positivity. Well, who gives a s*** what they say, right? Like, they're not gonna change my mindset, that I'm going to use experiences that most people think are negative, that, that fuel me and motivate me and inspire me to bring me to be my better self. Do I feel things? Yes. Like, does it stink that the deductible has to be paid? Yes. Does that hurt? Yes. Does it hurt the pocketbook? Yes. All true, all true. But I can be frustrated and upset and angry about that, or I can say, yeah, that's a fact, I gotta figure that out.

But then from there I'm gonna change my narrative to, to make sure that I can switch my mindset. So I encourage you all to listen to this today and say, what's one thing that I've normally found myself getting p***** off and frustrated with when I can switch that to say, hmm, you know what? I'm actually really lucky. I can actually be really grateful about this. In fact, this is actually going to propel me in this life. What's one thing that can take you there? Think about that. Alexa play. And in the meantime, I just want to share again, I'm not sponsored by Athletic, not even close, but I love them so much.

This one's called the Hazy ipa. It's non alcoholic beer and it tastes good, allows me to enjoy a moment that I can have for myself or with others. And I don't have to feel really weird about having a non alcoholic beer and I enjoy it. So at any rate, everybody have the best Saturday and how can you reframe your perspective today? So, Sarah Joy, Sarah Jo, thank you so much. Rick Cram. Hi, Luke and Kathy. Hi, Rick. Hi, Kathy. You're the best. Ms. Shannon, I admire and respect and look up to you. So everybody have a phenomenal, wonderful Saturday.

Do something special for yourself. Take care, you guys. Peace.