Cadre Today- Boldly Follow Banana Ball Style

Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? Hope you're doing good. Fresh start to maybe that traditional work week for you. Monday morning. I am just getting done with some movement, getting my insides happy enough for. For a Monday ahead where I will be in rehearsal for most of the day. Ranfels, Andi, Mack, Jules, how are we doing today? I am inspired by you, each of you, for saying, hey, you know what? Monday morning, when there's lots of things to do, I'm gonna take a few minutes, a few moments, a segment of time to.

To do this. Maffy, nice to see you. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you are here. I know things. I know what I know, and I care about y'. All. If you're like me, I seems. I sometimes talk to screens. So if those words mean something to you, maybe you say them back. Not to. Not to me, but to everybody. The people you know, the people you don't know. And that's what you walk into the world with this week. Have you ever heard of banana ball? Banana ball is a new sport that's entered the world the last couple of years.

It's. It's a cousin of baseball, but it also brings in kind of the big top circus. So it's like baseball plus the best show in town. I was listening to the founder of banana ball this morning while I was getting a gentle little walk in, and the founder of banana ball said some things that I think fit into. Oh, and we have a Savannah native right here, Steph. Of course I talk banana ball when you're here. Steph is our. Is our Savannah sister. But, you know, I always talk about following on Monday.

Hey, 1% better. Nice to see you, my friend. I talk about the power of following, the power of speaking less, the power of not being. The person who has to have the idea. The person who can amplify, can point to something that moves them, that motivates them, that finds, fires them up. And in doing so, becoming a part of that thing of moving it down the road. As someone who I would love to meet someday, Derek Sievers says that first follower is the person who turns a lone nut into a leader. Anyways, banana ball, check it out.

And I would be surprised if any of y' all have not seen banana ball in this world because it's. It's. It's vibration is getting louder and louder. A couple of things to point out. First of all, there is a sports writer being interviewed about his first time going to a Savannah Bananas game. And good morning, Emily. And at the end, the. The host of the. Of the radio show speaking said, so tell me about the game. And he's like, well, the bananas won. And she's like, oh, what was the score? And he's like, I don't remember.

He's like, he's a sports writer and he doesn't remember the end result of the game. So all of a sudden, you know, the conversation is like, well, does. Are they trying to win? Does winning matter? And he's like, yeah, they are. They are out there competing. You can compete without your intention being to be the one who wins. That's a big, bold followership tenet. The second thing that, that stuck in my head was that, you know, the founder was. Was looking at, at the sport of baseball and saying, huh, what are the things that are.

That are incredibly normal but normally not thought about? Anytime that he came on one of those things, him and his wife and their team, they said, okay, we're going to do the opposite. That's how they built their narrative. They looked at something very cherished like baseball and said, okay, people love baseball, but the people who don't love baseball are the people who love baseball but get frustrated at baseball. What are those things and how can we tweak those things? That's a follower's lens.

The leader most of the time is the one going, here's where we're going. And they're looking forward. They're not looking in the moment of or looking back, because their job is to create what isn't created yet. The third thing that he pointed out was how every single day they make so many mistakes. One of their players was on Good Morning America last week and did a backflip on television and didn't land it. Like, literally landed on his head on global television and got up and continued the interview.

And then in the next game they played, he did a backflip, got the ball, did the thing, and went on his way. If we stop when the thing goes wrong, we end up missing what that moment is teaching us and how we can learn from it or how we can follow that moment. He was talking about the founder, about the first time they printed Savannah Bananas T shirts, how they misspelled bananas. They put one too many N in the word banana. They literally misspelled their name the first time they put their name out in the world.

And now they're the Savannah Bananas and the party animals and the firefighters and the. Whatever that fourth team is. The job of a leader to CR is to Create what hasn't been created yet and to do with the help of others. Amen, Anila. Gosh, so many people are bopping in here who I haven't seen in a long time. Y' all are making my Monday. That is a great quote, Anila. And it's. And it's true, right? We look at leadership and management. Leadership is creating what has not been created yet. Management is about taking what currently is and making it as good as possible.

And following is about being excited about what's happening around you and knowing. Not thinking, not feeling, but knowing that you have an opportunity to influence that thing and to help it grow. Anila. It goes to show that I often have no idea what I'm talking about. I didn't know that. I said. I thought. I was like, that's a great quote. Who said it? Okay, this is funny. It's the Monday messiness, y'. All. Y'. All. Check out some Banana Ball or check out some Habit Aware, which is Anila's movement in the world.

Check out 1% better, which is a really lovely podcast and kind of ideology about how we can look at ourselves and our impact in the world. Check out what every single person in this crew right here is doing and follow. Not because you can't lead, because if everybody's leading, everybody's alone. And if everybody's leading, who are they leading? Nobody, y'. All. I'll be back tomorrow, but in the meantime, we got some fresh contributors dropping some content today. Check them out. We'll talk to you tomorrow.

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