Cadre Today

Every time that I look at you, I can see the future that I don't wanna go. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? We doing good? Want to introduce you to Franklin. This is Frankie. Frankie's the new pup in the. You wanted to come on and say hey for a second? Yeah. Okay. We'll go down. Hey, awesome. 20, 25. Nice to see you. Emily. 8770. Good morning. Good morning. Happy Monday. All right. All right, Franklin, I'll put you down. Okay, I'll put you down. Hey, Cadre, how are we? As I mentioned, that was Franklin, the new puppy in the house.

He's going to probably start eating some shoes in my office now. But, hey, it is Monday. I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. On Mondays, quite often, you know, when the week is getting started, there's a tendency to think about what we do with our lives. What do we do for work? What's our call? What's our vocation? What keeps us busy? No, go out that way. Doors on the other side, buddy. Come on. Hey, get over here. There you go. Yeah. So often the tendency is to focus on the things that we do.

So, like the professional stuff, the development stuff within our work life. So that's why I always talk about this idea of boldly following. In a world that says, lead, lead, lead. If we think for two seconds, if everybody's lead, lead, leading, who are they leading? Who's buying into their ideas? Who's a part of their system, a part of their movement, a part of their inspiration? The answer is not a lot of people. If everybody's moving in their own direction, nobody's moving together. So this idea of boldly following is not to say, hey, you should accept less, but that you should acknowledge that you have a lot.

When you go, wow, I love your idea. How can I help? Or, wow, I'm a part of this system. If I do my thing and everybody does their thing, we get very far together. Morning, Maffy. So part of the reason why I had Franklin join Live Stream today, if you're showing up later, make sure you go back and watch the beginning minute because there's a New Puppy alert. New Puppy alert. And Franklin joined the call. But I'll tell you, when you got a new puppy, if you're going to keep your sanity. Being a really good follower is part of the game.

So Franklin's been home for nine days now. And whenever we have a new dog, I'VE had seven, seven rescues in my life. Rather than going, okay, you need to do exactly what I, what I want you to do, puppy, or, okay, this is going to be your planned puppy. I've always taken the pathway of going, what is the puppy teaching us about habits and desires and emotional responses, excitements and fears, likes and dislikes. There have been lots of moments where Franklin has said yes or Franklin has said no.

And when we've been listening to that, we've made great progressions within understanding how to give Franklin the home that Franklin needs. But I always like learning from kids and animals because I think they're quite often a little more attuned to this so called life than us humans are like us big humans. Let me tell you. Franklin learned how to go potty outside in about 12 hours. Why? Because he looked at his big brother Jefferson and his big sister Willow and how they use the doggie door and when they go out and why they go out and he's like, hmm, Yep, okay, this makes sense.

And then check it off the list. Potty training was done not because Franklin decided to care about something that he didn't know, but because he looked around and he found where there was opportunity. So my invitation to you today is as you go, I'm going to look around and see where there's opportunity. Follow that opportunity, ask the questions. Be willing to be the person who knows second, who speaks first by asking the question, hey, so what do we do? Hey, so what's your idea? Hey, what's your advice?

What's your suggestion? In those moments, we end up going a lot further, but even better, we end up going a lot further together. Y' all have a great Monday. We'll see you soon.