Monday Motivation

Happy Monday, Cadre crew. I'm just waiting for the little beep to go off to make sure that we're live here and we're all together as a family. So let's wait till a little blinking notification comes on that from Cadre here. And there it goes. Gosh, what a great day to be alive. Today, I want to share two stories. I wanted to share two stories with you over the last, let's call it five days. That had a great impact on my life in these two lessons that I hope that you can take with you ultimately and maybe transcend a moment for you or have an opportunity to view a different mindset or growth mindset for your own self.

Right. So, one thing I love to do when I'm kind of stressed, and I'm kind of stressed at work. Good morning, Dan. It's always good to see you, bud. I love your stuff. Anytime that your stuff comes. Comes on and comes through the app, I always look forward to seeing that, that's for sure. But. Good morning, Risa. But so, again, going back to these two stories that I really wanted to share, number one, whenever I'm really stressed, one place that I like to go is the sauna, right? We have a beautiful YMCA right, in White Bear Lake, and I always like to go in the sauna, and I push myself 30, 45 minutes, if not an hour, right.

And I. And I just. I just sit in that sauna and I take it in and I get my breathing, right. And it's just my meditation time. And I'm usually just so quiet, right. I'm usually just so quiet. But today, for whatever reason, it was different. I don't know why, but it was. It was different, right. And so the. The first individual that came in with me, it was about a mid to late sixties, right. And he just had this energy to him. And the very first thing he draw, he dropped, you know, a terrible dad joke, something about, you know, Mount Rushmore.

I kind of was in and out at that point. I was 20 minutes into this. But, you know, the next thing you know that he. That he talked about was his. His gimp. His gimp leg and how it's, you know, caused him to walk a different way. And he was funny about it and laughter and, you know, he had two jobs, and he just loved those two jobs. One of them was a janitorial worker at the University of Minnesota, and the passion and energy he had for his labor and his work, second to none. And he wrapped up. So he had two jobs in an entire career.

He's happily retired and he's in this sauna just smiling in the energy that he had. And he's like, I just get in here a little bit before I get my workout on and I'm going to come back out. I'll finish up a little bit more. You know, he just had so much charisma and energy. Like I said, it was just, it was just awesome talking to him. And like I said, I'm usually very, very quiet. So I was the first 1st person that walked in, filled up the room. I mean, the sauna filled up. Literally filled up sauna.

He kept me going. It was great. Okay. He left to go do his workout because he always sauna, as he says before, to warm up his body. He's like, I'm older than you, I got to warm up my body and blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? So next person that comes in walks in and he's like, oh, it's hot in here. It's hot. This is about as terrible as some of the employees that I have right now. They're just all entitled. They're all entitled employees. I mean, I can't even get people to work anymore. This is terrible.

And that's the vibe that he had. And it was like five to seven minutes. I just left. I walked out like, have a good day. I left. Right? So again, that lesson of like, are you filling up the room? Are you, are you putting air in the room or are you taking it out? And man, I witnessed it within literally three minutes as the most air filling individual. That was, it just got me smiling and laughing and, you know, dad jokes and all the other things. Right? And then on the next person that came in sucked it all out.

So I would encourage you to think about as you go through this week, are you sucking air out of the room or are you putting air in it? Okay. Always fill up the room. Bring that into energy. Bring that positive flow with you. It's just going to help and people are going to remember you for that and that energy rather than being remembered for negative, right. Negative. Nelli, Karen, all the other things that people like to say. Next. I woke up on Thursday and in Minnesota we've had unseasonably hot weather.

It's been high sixties. Heck, even I think we set a record at like mid seventies or something like that. It's like 75 degrees. Hey, digital flagship, let's go. Brennan. Great day to be alive. Great day to be alive. So I woke up on Thursday and I said, tomorrow's the day. Tomorrow I'm going to go big, right. So I've been preparing and practicing, not for days, not for weeks, not for months, but years, which is going to be a really, really big event for me coming May 27, 2023, which is I'm going to run 100 miles and just straight.

So I got a day all set, ready to go. I'm really excited, and I do have to take you through this journey. Right. So when I was 19 years old, I played division two tennis. Tennis is a sprint game, right. You know, 15 seconds here, 15 seconds there, 30 seconds there. If you're really, really lucky, you might get a point for a minute, but it is not. It's still an endurance sport, don't get me wrong, but it's really start and stop, start and stop. So we had to do our conditioning when I was 19 at the division two school I played at, and we had to run a mile.

And I will be completely honest, and Craig Gordon, my coach, could attest to this. At 19 years old, I stopped. Let me say that again. 19 years old, I stopped. I didn't even complete my entire mile run 22 years ago. This is an absolute true story. 15 years ago, 2007, I ran my first marathon. Probably went out the night before, probably had many cigarettes, partied with the best of them. But I ran my first marathon 15 years ago, June. I want to say 22nd or 27th of, you know, 2007. That was my first half marathon.

I did another half marathon 15 years later, which was this summer. Right. But running is not something I love. It's not something I love to do. But what I do, do it for is to keep me on point, I. To keep my mental game going, to push myself in ways that I've never pushed myself before. Right. So I said on Thursday, I'm running 50 miles, right? I'm running 50 miles. And so I woke up the next day, the night before I went shopping. I got coconut water, I got steak. I got everything prepared, ready to go for that big run.

So I was going to do a 50 miles run on this last week. Started off great. I got my first ten done. I got my second ten done. I had to take work calls, body slowed up, tightened up a little bit, got the next one done. I learned a lot in that day. I learned a lot in that day. I learned a lot that day about myself. I learned a lot that day about regret. I've learned a lot that day. Like, I will never forget that day, that last week. Right. I will never forget that day. And what that did for me as far as grit is concerned as far as pushing myself mentally, physically, emotionally, I really just went all in.

And unfortunately, I missed my goal. So I didn't make 50. 5. What I'm about to say, you know, may gross some people out here, but the reality is, you know, I did. I did do 43 five. And I was really proud that I. That I got there. But, you know, unfortunately, we have. We have parts. All of us have parts as human beings, and this will allow me to be better next time. But a male part, it, you know, was just hurting. And, you know, and so, unfortunately, I know that might be a little bit too much information, but at the end of the day, I know what I need to do next time, right.

And prepare and how you've got it. If it hurts at mile 40, it's too late. Like, you've got to prepare in advance in mile 1020, 30 40 in order to be right for those larger moments down in the fifties, sixties, seventies. But I did it all alone. There was nobody with me. I didn't have a crew. I didn't have somebody running by me. I didn't have anything. I just went all in by myself. And so when it comes to May 27, when there's more people, I do hope my adrenaline takes me the additional 57 miles with the rest of the team, with the rest of the crew, with the podcast band, being there with all those things.

But what I wanted to explain today through this was this. 19 years old, I could hardly run a g****** mile, right? 2007, I did a half. 15 years later, I did a half. In between all of that, yes, I push myself. I run. I'm building, I'm building, I'm building. But you have to continue to build over and over and over again in order to meet these big ones, right? Like, it just doesn't happen overnight. You've got to prepare for this. And so anything you're doing in this life, whether it's building a business, whether it's taking an entrepreneurial journey, whether it's building videos for content for your own business, whether it's building a coaching curriculum, whatever it is, you've got to put in the work, right?

And every single weekend, you guys have heard me talk about this before. Every single weekend is a half marathon for me, right? Single weekend, h*** or high water. I've missed two in the last three years, right? So you've got to put in the work. You've got to do the work. This stuff just doesn't magically happen, right? And so, you know, you watch your step counters. You watch your effort, you watch your energy. Just keep putting in the work and betting on yourself. In this life, you can do so much more than you've ever dreamed of.