Cadre Today: Thin Space

Hey there Cadre. How are we on this Sunday morning? I had to look out and see where I was sitting to figure out what day it was. I hope you're doing great and if you're not, that sucks. And I hope that things turn around soon, Emily and I hope that in the meantime you remember that you still have some pretty amazing capabilities and magic flowing through you that can self serve and other serve. Think about how many barriers are in that statement, right? It's like first we have to believe that we still have capacity when we're not doing great and then we have to believe that the capacity can override the cultural normative that taking care of ourselves is a bad thing.

And we have to have the confidence that actually empowers us to think that we can influence other people. There's a lot of barriers there. Emily says hi from my car to just walk the lake. Grateful to get out and move in. Yeah, the air this morning is, is got a special magic in it. It feels, it's one of those it's not fall yet, but feels like fall is happening days in Minnesota. Speak wonder. Nice to see you my friend. Speak wonder. We've been, we've spent so much time together it's going to be funny whenever we meet in person.

It's going to take us some manual energy to remember that we've never met in person before. But no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, thanks for being here. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. I spent yesterday in some pretty loud cool moments. The Minnesota State Fair which is the nation's biggest state fair outside of Texas, which runs the state fair for months and months and months. But the the biggest state fair in the nation that starts goes every single day and then stops 12 days is right here in Minnesota.

It's a special time of the year for Minnesotans. But yesterday I kicked off the day by driving into the State Fairgrounds at 5am to unload a bunch of sound equipment to get set up on the Dan Patch stage to then have alive and kicking Minnesota's senior citizen rock ensemble. Come and rock the state fair. We to a sold out crowd kicked off a really beautiful day at 9am and packed all that up, push it all back to my car, unloaded it back at the site, went home. And then the second half of the day was another day of fighting the good fight for my pup Hamilton.

We ended up at the er, was there for about six hours. Then he was admitted. He's going to be there for the foreseen future. And he's doing all that, like now he's got aspirational ammonia and, um. Yeah, just all the things as an exhausting day. Right. We all have these days, and I would say that we all have these days. Every day. Just we get in the automated routine of going like, oh, I can deal with all of this stuff today versus other days. The curve balls seem heavier. But it brings us as to why Sundays is in the Cadre sphere is.

Is very focused around this idea of how do you take care of yourself? And if we need to, we can go, well, here's why. It's important to take care of yourself, but throw that away. It's important to take care of yourself. The end. Because it feels good, because you want to, because you crave that. And that's why I kick off Sundays with this idea of thin space. You can only take care of yourself now. You can plan to take care of yourself in the future. Yes. You can look back and, you know, see inspiring stories of when you take.

When you've taken care of yourself in the past or times that you didn't take care of yourself in the past. So you go, God, now here's my confidence for doing so now. But even as I finish that statement, it all leads back to this moment. So acknowledging what is true is where that nourishment is. You can't drink yesterday's cup of water. You can't drink tomorrow's cup of water. But that cup of water that you have sitting in front of you can quench your thirst, can nourish your soul. All those things.

So as we often do, this thin space idea is wrapped up in an exercise. Do it in 30 seconds. Okay, ready? Three, two, one, go. Start thinking about everything in the past. Anything and everything. Just let the thought come to the mind and then put in your bag and pick up another thought. All the things that have happened. Think about that for three, two and one. Okay, swing the pendulum. Think about everything in the future, Everything that's going to happen but has not happened yet. What's going to happen as soon as you sign off for this call today?

And what's going to happen for the rest of all time? Think about the future. Go, go, go. Three, two, one. Okay, now think about what is right now. Like, look in front of you. What do you see? Rub your hands together. What do you feel? Grab a hold of something. What do you feel? Breathe in through your nose. What do you smell. Listen. 3, 2, and 1. Stop. Doing that exercise often is powerful. It trains your brain to go, huh? What am I innately doing? What am I naturally doing? Versus what is actually in this moment that I can hold on to?

Speak wonder. I like the way that my brain works, too. It gets me through a lot of stuff. Do this exercise again sometime today and I could give you some prompts, like notice if it was easier to do the past or the future or the present. I'm not going to do that today. Allow the exercise to be the thing that you are paying attention to in the moment. And if there's soliloquies and expositions and ripples from that exercise, great journey with them, because that's what's happening in the moment. But rather than going, and after the exercise, then I'm going to, that's the future.

Rather than doing the exercise and be like, okay, the last time I did this, I that's the past. Do the exercise. Because at the end of the day, the way we get through this life is by living it. Talk to you later.