JC reflects on welcoming outsiders into familiar groups, exploring the idea of an outward-facing clique and how giving permission—through words and actions—helps bring new people into a community.
Well, hey there. Good morning, cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you're doing great. I really do. If you're not doing great, here is your daily reminder that you still have some astounding capacity, even if you are feeling a little bit less than or a little on the outside or a little unfocused on this Tuesday morning. My name is JC. If you've never shared time spaced together before, either right here in the cadre sphere, Alana Ban ana, or in real life, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now.
Thank you for letting me within the click of cadre. SM Zobs, Jules, nice to see you all. On Tuesdays, I love talking about the idea of the outward facing click. If you 've been a part of this cadre, this special group of people with a special intention, that's what cadre means for a while, you may feel really comfortable here. You may feel like this place is safe or this place is familiar. The more that you feel that, this is the weird things about how our species works, the more that you feel that on the inside, quite often the more that people on the outside feel like there's difficulty getting into it.
That's not necessarily because anything that you're doing, but because we're set up to feel and think that we're always the one who doesn 't know what's going on. We're always the one who isn't, as I love saying on Saturdays, isn't enough to be a part of. How often do people love being the new person? It's like, "Oh, I love being the beginner. I love being the person with no idea what's going on. I love being the person who has to ask all the questions. I love being the person on the first day of school in the lunchroom ."
All these things, no one's over like, "I love that. I'm not going to say no one. Some people do. I kind of do." But we're trained to think that that's not the thing that we should really love . So the idea of the outward-facing click invites us to go, "Hey, the longer that we're a part of something, the less it is about us and the more it is about the people who have yet to be a part of it." And we become those who can open the door and welcome in and answer the question and ask four questions that can be answered.
Today, I want to invite you to think about the idea of permission. How can you give permission to others? You may go and say, "Well, I could say it. I could say, "Hey, if you need help, here's your permission to go and ask for help or ask for questions." Sometimes verbalizing it is a really powerful way. But also say sometimes actions speak louder than words. How do you live - I'll use cadre as an example - how do you live cadre in a way that people see that they're important? How do you respond to questions or opportunities where people go, "Oh, that's a different way to respond.
That's a different way to act than I see in other parts of the world." Giving permission is not only something that we can do with our words, but with our actions, and the way that we show up for ourselves and for others. So my invitation for you today is to consider how do you become a part of that outward-facing click? You're already a part of the click. You're already on the inside. What do you need to do to show others that there is space, there's opportunity, there's the things that you find, and maybe there's things that you don't find that they will find within the same space.
Something to think about for your Tuesday is you get ready to go out in the world, and there will be moments where you feel on the inside, and there will be moments that you feel on the outside. And here's a reminder that you have an opportunity to influence those feelings for other people in a really positive life-giving way. Y'all, have a good one. Craig is coming up at 745. If you need a second scoop of cadre to kick off your day, you got 23 minutes, y'all. We'll talk to you later.
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