Monday Motivation: Adaptability

Good morning everybody. Good morning it's Luke Wentland. Hopefully everybody caught JC's live. What a great start to the week. Good to have you here. Hopefully everybody had a good weekend and if you saw my post over the weekend you gave somebody you loved a big hug which would be awesome. So good morning everybody. I have my decaf. I have my decaf coffee out for a little walkabout. It's one of my favorite things to do. Hopefully everybody is just walking in to a peaceful strong start to your week on a beautiful Monday.

Beautiful start to your week. That's the goal right. So good morning everybody. I'm seeing all of the names join which is my favorite. That's what I live for on a Monday. So good to see you all. This is fantastic and hopefully like I said everybody had a good weekend and you're stepping into a wonderful Monday. It's kind of light and feeling good okay. So I have a I just want to share a story from the weekend first to kick it off. All right you guys ready for this? So yesterday I met an individual out to eat for a little coffee and brunch and such like that and I was gonna go for a walk by this area in Minnesota Minneapolis area called Lake of the Isles.

So right over by the area there's this little walking stretch and I took off my sweatshirt and I left it down and I had my billfold and all these things right there right. So I had my billfold and everything. I put that over to the side. When I left I grabbed my sweatshirt and I grabbed my hat and I grabbed everything but I left my billfold back there. So imagine downtown Minneapolis, a lot of individuals, a lot of foot track around this bench and after meeting some friends around like new-nish.

So this would be like three hours later right. So three hours later go over to this bench and my billfold is still there. So number one thank you humanity. Thank you for humanity. This is amazing. It's got super lucky. So we'll take that and and run with it. So it's like definitely a time to buy a lottery ticket that my billfold was still sitting there. So that's amazing. Number two I want to talk a little bit about adaptability today. So you know we went through you know the great resignation. We've we've had obviously in our past life the great recession.

We've had a lot of different things that have happened in America and we have another one coming down the pike right. It's AI technology and it's the ability to tweak and change fast and we're just living in I would say like imagine looking out to the lake or looking out to the ocean depending on where you are and you look out and you see this constant whitewater. Okay that constant whitewater it's not the it's not the waves hitting and it's not right outside of it. It's that whitewater zone right there.

We're living in it. We're living in it every day and when you live in that spot every day like it is constant change and there's one word that you need when you're living there and it's adaptability. So if I would if I would look over the last 12 years of managing and leading people I would say the number one thing like the number one thing without a doubt is those individuals that can adapt adapt quickly change on the fly do what they need to do in order to be successful. So I ask you this is the time like in your work life maybe even personal a little bit but this is the time for sure in your work life if you ever hear somebody give one of those like well you know this is how it used to be or you know back in my life in XYZ you know I'll even use my exam myself for example like bringing up what I did in my past 12 years ago there's wisdom there there's knowledge there but the experience of like today and how fast and quick with adaptability is is absolutely everything so I encourage you to think about like when you bring up things like you know this is way we always done it or whatever like that those are those are kind of like demoralizing phrases to begin with but the big part that I I push I encourage you to push your chips in on and to ask yourself this one how can I be a consistent constant learner today not only adaptable but a consistent constant learner that you're changing the game for your life every single day okay so like your adaptability through like T North says relationships that's true but work is just important right working relationships adaptable how adaptable can you be not every time you have to lose in a conversation to be adaptable just so on the same page T North like you don't have to lose like your morals your values your ethics the direction of where you think things should be to be adaptable nope what you need to be is the ability to have these conversations go there to be adaptable is to be able to say like hey I thought it was a but it's actually a dot 3 a dot 7 a dot 10 that's adaptable it's not just be it's not just a or B it's like you know where can we find the middle ground and where can we fit in here so adaptability like I said over the last 12 years if I look at those individuals that are like just killing it in life and at work and they have the best energy they have the most incredible impactful way about them I would say they all have they have that trait and they have the trait to move move fast to be adaptable change on the fly be quick they're not stringent but they're like okay yes the the goal is the same I let's get it done right the goal is the same but the adaptability could be very different and how they're going to adapt and why they're going to adapt and so sometimes you got to know when to give it's like push and pull like when to push when to pull all of the things has that does anybody know somebody that's you know really adaptable at your work and then also know somebody who's like really concrete and it's either A or B my way or the highway we've all had those folks right so again I just I highly highly encourage you right now in the culture in the climate of the world we live in to be able to really reach inside yourself and go deep to say how can I maintain a level of adaptability with everything and and add this to yourself how can I be a consistent constant learner and I know you guys will think I'm crazy when I say this there's not a day goes by that I bet you I don't read four hours and I'm and swear it's all true so within four hours of like the market what is happening what other organizations are doing what's the competition up to it could be research it could be articles it could be newsworthy information I am just constantly reading and updating myself so I can be as adaptable as possible because that knowledge truly is power in the world we live in today especially as we lean heavily more into tech over and over again so I encourage you all to find a way to say you know I'm gonna leave that saying like this is the way we've always done it or this is what it was like five years ago or ten years ago or 20 years ago the wisdom is good but to be adaptable today is so different so that's my message today is how can you reach into your toolbox and become adaptable and if you can do that you are going to be incredible at 2026 and beyond people will want to work with you people will value you not only that you can get things done but that you can shift on the fly so that's my encouragement today have a wonderful week before I go I just want to add this we live in a world today and I know I've told you guys this all before but we live in a world today where there is no greater time and no greater place to go after what you love I'll say it again there's no greater time and no greater place to go after what you love it could be a business if your relationship could be friendships could be whatever but push your chips in go all in really think about like option A option B option A is where I'm going option B doesn't exist and you will find a way and you will figure it out so with that I send you love have a wonderful week lift somebody up give somebody a big hug and thanks for showing up today it's always the best to see you all peace bye bye