Me Time ✨ The Magic Of 9

Happy Sunday! Hey everybody. Gene Nijels here poppin' in fast and furious. I'm excited to be here today. It's a gorgeous, gorgeous Sunday. Wherever you're coming in from. Just happy to have you here. So if you're new to me, welcome. If you're new to cadre, welcome. I'm just gonna hang out for a hot second. I know I popped in and I'm knit it late. Hey, Andy Mag, twice in my day I get to see you. Hey, hey. First time I'm all hot and sweaty a second time. Still hot and sweaty. It's perfect. Coming to you guys on a Sunday, me time.

It's probably one of my favorite days. I mean, I have a few favorite days, but I would say that this is one of my favorite days. So I'm gonna just pop in here and I put in my title, "Nine is a Magic Number." Hey, Jules, how's it going? Nice to see you today. When you're popping here, my first question, my first invitation, hey, speak, wonder, is to just type in the chat. How do you feel right now? What are you feeling? I'm gonna launch right in. I'm still on a little bit of a post-class high. And I'm gonna just say I feel grateful.

Grateful for community. Grateful for all of you. Grateful I got to see Andy this morning. If it sounds windy, let me know. I'll move to a wall versus sitting on a little bench. Hello, new beginnings. Speak wonders that she's tired. I always invite everybody to just type in the chat how you feel right now in this moment. Sometimes there's just, I don't know, it's freeing to just recognize how we feel in a moment because each moment that feeling can change moment by moment. So right now I mentioned I feel so much gratitude.

My heart is so full of gratitude. And I'll tell you why. Jules says she's doing great. Got the walls up on her shed. She shed yesterday. I want to know more about it. She shed. I want one of those . So here's why nine. Nine is a magic number. So if you look up nine, it makes sense. Speak wonder. I feel that. And I can share that with you. I understand what that feels like. So nine is a magic number. Here's why. When you look up, if you go online and you Google, so we can Google anything now, who knows what we're gonna come up with, but if you go out and look at the spirit number of nine, you're gonna find words such as abundance, magic, change, the peak.

So the number nine. Here's this clever. When you add up 2025, you get the number nine. So numerology, nine has significant meaning. It's the top. It's the end. It's the end of a cycle. When you think of like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, right, you get to the very top of the pyramid. You have achieved enlightenment. So nine is magical for a lot of different reasons. We're in the month of September. It's a nine number. We had nine nine September ninth just recently. And for me personally, it is and for a community at cycle bar, which is where I 'm sitting in front of right now cycle bar up to Minneapolis.

It's our nine year anniversary. So we've made it for nine years. And we're an indoor cycling studio. And this is why I'm grateful. Nine years ago, I sat out here looking at a wall that had windows that had paper on them saying coming soon. We had hopes that people would show up. Nine months for justice and a baby. Yeah, exactly. Speak, wonder new beginnings as part of a community. And she just left church. So feeling that. So nine is like a pinnacle in my mind. It's a pinnacle of transition. It's a pinnacle of arrival.

So when we think about the year 2025, 2025 can have all kinds of things, ups and downs, highs and lows. But it's a very transitioning transformative year. So when I think about that fact that our studio is just hitting a nine year anniversary today. And I celebrate that with gratitude today with a team of people who I could not be more proud of. I could not be more grateful for our team. But yesterday I sent videos to a lot of people. And why videos? I felt like a text message or a voice memo just wasn't enough.

So I sent videos to a variety of people who had ridden in our psychobar community over the last nine years that maybe they don't ride here anymore. Or friends of mine that I got because of this nine year peak. I send videos to people that used to work on our team that have moved to different states and moved on with their lives. And just sending so much gratitude because nine years it's an achievement of anything. Nine is the year of abundance. So we think about it in just a variety of different ways.

So when I say this to all of us out here, I'm an energy person. I do Reiki. I study a lot of energy work. I'm total left brain, right brain. So it's got to feel logical. But also I have to feel it. There has to be meaning to it as well. Hey Luke, how's it going today? So when I think about the number nine, the number nine has been my favorite number since I was a kid. Like I would get upset if I was on a sports team. And I played every sports softball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, whatever. If I couldn't have the number nine for my jersey, I was like, then I needed to have a combination of that.

I have like 33 or three as you can multiply a three and get to nine. Or I would come up with something so that it would be nine related or feel like nine. So when you look at the spirit number nine or you look at the meaning of the number nine, abundance. So I'm going to ask you guys this. Where in your life do you feel abundant right now? Because we can feel a whole bunch of things. We can feel a lot of different things. But when we start to focus on gratitude, science wise, science tells us when we focus on gratitude, we can feel it in our body.

We can feel it in our heart. And our heart is the mediator between our mind and our bodies. Our heart has the megahertz energy measured from an MRI that has more energy in our body than our brain. So our heart truly has the most energy. Every organ in our body measures at a different megahertz. That's simply science. But when you put the meaning of the heart and you add in the number nine and you think about abundance and you add those together. What do you feel in your heart that feels abundant?

And for me, literally right now in this moment, it's gratitude. Nine years ago, I had no clue what we were doing when we opened up a spin studio. It's not that I didn't know how to run a business. We just had never run a fitness business before. We didn't even know if people would come. And nine years later, we've had thousands of people come through our door. We've raised over $700,000 for local charities in our community and schools in our community by opening up the doors of our studio. Literally have nine of the best instructors I could ever ask for on our team.

And isn't that what it's about? Isn't that when we think about the number nine 2025 and year of abundance? What if in the month of September, which is a nine number, the ninth month of the year? What if we just spent the rest of every day this month thinking about abundance first, waking up in the morning and thinking about that number nine and thinking about the day in terms of abundance? That doesn't mean that the burnout isn't going to happen. It doesn't mean that you're not going to feel sad on a given day.

But what it does mean is that I can start my day thinking abundantly, feeling grateful, finding gratitude. I can allow my heart to take over my mind just in that moment because the only moments we actually have control over are the one that we're in right now. So if you really think about that, right now, I can control this moment. I can focus on my breath. I can consume the words that we're hearing. I can type into the chat, what you're feeling. So here's my invitation to you right now. In the chat, write one thing that feels abundant in your life.

Or write one thing that you are grateful for. Right now, in this moment, what would you write? And if you're not driving your car, riding a bicycle, or one of those little whirly things on two wheels that nobody wears, I don't either. What are you the most grateful for? If you're driving anything, don't type. But what is it? So when we start from that and we look at the number nine, and we think about that, and we think about that nine as a simple reminder that nine is the pinnacle. Because what's going to happen next, we're going to start back over at one, and we're going to work our way up again.

But every number has a very different meaning and a different context, but this year, this is the year we can celebrate abundance. This is the year we can find ways to create new patterns of gratitude to manifest what we want to put out into the world. We can plant all the seeds. So if you think of packet of seeds, I am kind of all over today. But if you take a packet of seeds, you plant it in the ground, and you water that garden. And let's pretend there's a hundred seeds in that little bitty packet.

You're not going to grow a hundred plants. Not all the plants, not all the seeds are going to be strong enough. But let's pretend you have nine of them that do rise up. Think about what had to happen for that seed to grow, for that seed to become abundant, beautiful. That seed had to crack through a really hard shell. It had to have the courage to come out of that shell. It had to have the courage to climb up through the mud, the soil that's packed down over it. It had to have the courage to break through the soil to find the light.

And then it had to have the courage to spread tall and allow its fruits to grow. That's abundance. That's when we celebrate that we crack the nut, that we push through the dirt, we crack through the soil to get to the light, and we stretch abundantly. To be abundant, to feel abundant, to find that magic number in nine, it takes work. But that's what we do. We plant the seeds, we water them, we invest in them. Think about cadre. Cadre was just an idea at some point in time. And then our amazing luke fed it and watered it and found a community of people to help it grow and stretch.

And now we have this beautiful community where we all get to come together. So nine. Nine is a number I've been passionate about all my life. And when I was a kid, I didn't even know what angel numbers were. I just knew that that was my number. But now here we are. And I today get to celebrate nine-year anniversary of our spin studio with hundreds of people. Andy, it was so great to have you in class today. I was so grateful to see you today. So in your own words, in your own terms, what are you the most grateful for?

What do you feel an overflowing abundance of in your life? And let's focus on that for today. Let's focus on that one little bitty seed of abundance and gratitude every day for the rest of the month. And if that sticks, if that works, let's do it every day for the rest of the year because 2025 is a nine year. It's a nine number. Jules puts in there. She's grateful for friends. I feel so much abundance for this community that I've gotten to be a part of. And fun fact, when we opened the doors, I was like, this isn't going to work.

I mean, I didn't really say that, but I also became an instructor just to be a backup person for the team. And I teach five classes a week, sometimes more now, and I love every second of it. So we find those things in our heart. And when we focus on that abundance, we focus on that joy, really cool, magical things can happen. So thanks for joining me today. I mean time. Thanks for celebrating the number nine with me and understanding the magic of abundance. And your homework for today is to go out to Google and dial in and type in spirit meaning of the number nine and go on your own journey.

Discover cool things. Speak wonder, you're grateful, the season of autumn. It's a beautiful season. So I hope you all have a great day. I'll be back on Monday, sending you all love.