Cadre Today: Enoughness

Have you ever felt like nobody was there? Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere? Have you ever felt like you could disappear? Like you could fall? No one would hear? Hey, Nettie. Hey, Kelly. How's everybody doing this morning? Marisa. Happy Saturday. Well, let that lonely feeling wash away, nephew. Maybe there's a reason to believe you'll be okay. Cause when you don't feel strong enough to say, nice to see you 1% better. Nice to see you. How's everybody? I'll hit pause right there.

This is a song called you will be found from a musical called Dear Evan Hansen. The story is intense and. And rich, but the music lives by itself. Song called you will Be found. Luke. Good morning, my friend. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, everybody, we hope that you are well. We hope that even if you're not well, that you remember you still have great, great capacity. And yeah, Mafi, sad, musical. But also, like every story, if it seems innately happy or innately sad.

In the world of enoughness, which is what we often talk about here on Saturday, I always say it's the chance to go ahead and expand our aperture. It's the chance to go. Here's where we go. So if a story seems sad, look a little bit earlier, wait a little bit longer, go ahead and see if there's some balance, some energy that. That, that. That provides you a different direction. Coming up a little bit later this morning, you can see Ms. Shannon Paul's in the room right now, everybody. Ms. Shannon Paul will be jumping on with parent Parent, the parenting edition of a little comedy and chaos.

Coming from Crystal, Minnesota, where I'm coming from tropical St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Actually not tropical at all. It's been kind of rainy and dark, so the yard's kind of mucky and leafy, but it dries up today. I'll go give the grass a little bit of cut. So I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. So does Ms. Shannon Paul. So does Luke. So does every other person who ever jumps onto this screen. One percent better. We all go ahead and say, you know what?

Something happens when people share of their fiber, of their experience, of their lens of the resonation of the world on their hearts and heads and says, now you do the same thing in your very unique way. So I love writing things down in journals. I buy lots of journals, use probably about 17% of the pages, and never with any great purpose or any great follow through. But it feels right to put things down that are that residue that I mentioned before that we all have. This is something I wrote sometime to elevate an experience.

Bring more of yourself, to blow your mind, to strengthen your body. Use all of yourself to inspire those around you. Show them yourself. It is uncomfortable and is always hard because you are brought into close proximity with you, with your current habits and capacity, your areas of growth, with sweat and shortness of breath. But just like the campfire doesn't draw a crowd until it is burning, your brightest colors only come out after that spark. And that spark is you being aware of all the things.

Like the things that other people may not be aware of, the things that are incomplete, the things that are uncomfortable, the things that you wish were maybe different. If in those spaces we can go, huh? If I use what I currently have, things that could happen start to happen. On the page next to it, there's just a bunch of things written down on the page next to it. It says, be where you are, do what you can. That's enoughness. Yeah, that's my motivation today. Be who you are, do what you can. No, it said with the wrong inflection.

It's like, be who you are because you don't have a choice. Do what you can because you don't have a choice. That doesn't mean a month from now, a year from now, or a day from now, a minute from now, you can be somebody else. But enoughness says you are currently who you are. And all of a sudden I started to sound like Dr. Seuss. But if you ever want to go ahead and be incredibly impactful, successful, be who you are right now. Last night I got to hang out with a gentleman named Otis Williams. Otis Williams is 83 years old and Otis Williams has had the same job for about 63.

This is Otis Williams job. And so does William's job to go and be a temptation. He's the last surviving temptation, which is getting ready to release their 60th anniversary album. Otis called up Smokey Robinson, said, hey Smokey, will you produce that record? Hey Smokey, will you go and sing with us? And Smokey's like, yeah. Not a lot of people would say, and not a lot of people could get Smokey Robinson to go ahead and say, yeah, I'll go ahead and jump on your album, do the thing. But OTIS Williams for 60 plus years has done the thing that Otis can do in the moment, that Otis can do it with the people that he can do.

It with. There's been lots of temptations and yet Otis is continuing to do what Otis can do. You know, my mom said, wow, they sound great, they're just amazing. And I go, tell me more. It's like, well, the best. He's the best voice, the best moving. And I go, I don't think Otis has the best voice. Then definitely can't move with temptations. After every song they bow. And his bow isn't a very good bow, but it's the best right now. And that's why 83 year old Lotus can still make people go, wow, I saw Willie Nelson 92 month ago.

Can't sing, can't do what he does. Previous versions of himself, but he can do what he can do now. And brings 37,000 people to Huntington Bank Field. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, be where you are, do what you can. Because you don't have a choice. And even though you don't have a choice, really, really great things happen when people do what they can. Less wonderful things happen when people do things that they hope that one day they're going to be able to do. So lock on in, y' all have a great morning for a couple of hours and then come on back right here to the Cadre Sphere to hang out with the one and only Ms.

Shannon Paul. Y' all have a good one. We'll play out with a little I Wish It Would Rain, another really good Temptations tune. It's kind of one of those sad, slow, easy, peaceful mornings. So we'll go. Here, have a good one with her. With my future my life is filled with gloom so day after day.