Cadre Today: The Power Of Multiple Truths

- Hey, how are we doing today? I hope you're doing great. It is Friday. And cadre today coming to you a little bit later in the morning than normal, 'cause I was hosting a breakfast this morning. And at that breakfast was a lot of our cadre friends. Many of our board members were at the breakfast this morning. It's for an organization called Good Leadership. If you remember contributor Matt Tappy, he works for Good Leadership. Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see y'all. But it's fun to have Luke and John Vicksby and Emily Lake and Steph Todd, a wonderful group of people who advise cadre, they were all at the breakfast this morning.

So that's where I was. But my golly cadre today is every moment. Chris Fortman, nice to see you again. Chris Fortman was also at the breakfast that I was just talking about. Really nice way to kick off a Friday. Amar, nice to see you. It's been a little while. I hope you're doing great. My name's JC. If we've never shared time in space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. It is a gift. I hope you're doing great, but if you're not doing great, that's okay too.

And you don't know what, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those things are the things that weave us together in this cadre sphere. On Fridays, we haven't talked about hard stuff. Hey, Teresa, nice to see you. Jules, gosh, we got a crew here in the midday. We haven't talked about hard stuff like grieving and losing and changing and dissonance and all these things that don't have simple answers. You gotta be sold simple answers. You may be told it's like, here's the thing.

Here's what is true. Here's the thing to hold on to. And although there may be a big scoop of truth in that, there may be a part of you that goes, yeah, but no. There's something else there. So often there are more than one true statements in a situation, I would say. For me, there's always more than one true statement. I can't think of a lot of situations where there's a binary, it's this or it's this. There's always things, there's always things to consider. There's always, you know, like, I'm in Iowa right now.

Let's say I had a passenger, I don't, and they're like, oh, you took the wrong turn or we're going the wrong direction. My wonderful spirit would be like, what makes you think that was the wrong turn? Or what direction do you think we're supposed to be going in? Or maybe this is another path to the same destination. I mean, I'm one of those people. But to the point, there's a lot of truth in that. If you go, ah, we missed our turn. That may lead you to turning off the opportunity that now presents.

If you're sitting in a space where you go, huh, well, this is what was supposed to happen. This is how we always deal in this situation or we should be feeling better by now or that thing that happened should have fixed the problem. Sometimes that's not the case. Those moments, you have an option. You have an opportunity. That option is to go, well, bad, done. Ready to go, huh, what else is true right now? What else is true right now? There are a lot of situations where if you arrive with a, that you may benefit by going, hmm, what else is true right now?

It may slow you down. It may invite you to find a pathway, a consideration, a creativity, a courage, a voice that you didn't know was in you, but it is. So in this world that may sell you on the idea of, here's the truth. Now I always ask you, what else may be true right now? Today's a heavy day for you and you're looking for the light, you're looking for the resolution, you're looking for the ease. Maybe you won't find it.