JC explores the idea of enoughness and describes living with a persistent, non-situational panic he calls his passenger; he reflects on accepting what one has and using those parts of oneself as fuel for presence.
JC: On Saturdays, I talk about my most favorite made up word and that is enoughness. Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already indeed in this moment. The title of this live stream is called My Passenger Panic. JC: I hope this morning offers you some pause and some power to be where you are with what you got.
Mel Missian and Shannon Paul go ahead and have a morning. Those things that maybe the world sees as less than desirable that you carry with you. There may be an opportunity to use those things to affirm that you are indeed already enough.
Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing? A little Colby Calais covering Colby Khaled. You've heard this song. It's called Try. We'll get up to the chorus and I'll echo some lyrics for you. You do you like you. You don't have to try so hard. You don't have to give it all away. You just got to get up, get up, get up, get up. You don't have to change a single thing. You don't have to try. You don't have to try so hard, Cadre. You don't. You can if you want to, you can when you feel like you need to. But you don't need, need to.
You can be exactly who you are, where you are, with what you got. And know that that is always indeed. Say it with me. Enough. My name's JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time right now with you in the Cadre sphere. I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. The sun is starting to poke up outside, so if you are not poking up yet this morning, I'm glad you slept in a little bit. If you've already been up and flying and you're tuning in live, I hope that this morning is offering you some pause and some power and some purpose to be where you are with what you got.
On Saturdays, I talk about my most favorite made up word and that is enoughness. Enoughness is the practice of affirming that you are already indeed in this moment. Enough doesn't mean, hey, don't change, everything's fine. What it means is in this moment, you have something that you can put into the fire to make magic with. It's not. Well, once you accomplish this, then you will be enough to. That's why I like that Colby Calais song. You don't have to try so hard. You don't have to give it all away.
You just gotta get up, get up, get up, get up. Right? It's true. What you got right now has worth, has value. So every Saturday morning I love putting a little morsel of enoughness thought into your noggins. The title of this live stream is called My Passenger Panic. I have always lived with from the earliest moments that I can remember, this little passenger that sits on my shoulder called non situational panic. Nothing causes it, nothing makes it shows up, nothing helps it go away. It does what it wants to do when it wants to do it.
And sometimes it gives me a little pause. Most times it doesn't. So. So irrational thought and worry constant is something I carry with me. And it's so funny, anytime I share this, people go, well, what do you do? Or what helps? Which are questions of not enoughness, questions of care, absolutely. But questions of how do you make it go away so you can do better, be better and you know, um, it's part of who I am. Um, would I be more capable if I didn't have my passenger panic? Um, I don't think so, because I'll say there's times that I attempt to do certain things for my well being.
Um, some things work, some things don't. Um, some things should work. And they actually do work, but they take elements of my self away that make me less who I am. And I get then less joy and less clarity. So the opportunity cost of maybe me living with a little bit more anxiety or maybe with a little less sleep. So like this morning, probably about six hours ago, middle of the night, I woke up and I was freaking out and I couldn't go back to bed. Some people would say, well, how do you make that go away so you can sleep throughout the night?
I go, yeah, there may be something nice about being able to sleep throughout the night, but also I often have some pretty great ideas amidst these moments of restless awakeness. Often in these moments of restless awakenedness, I get to spend moments with my three dogs. There's things that present in these moments of things that may be deemed as less than ideal. And just to be clear, I'm not a glass half full person. I'm not the grass is greener over there. I'm not a make lemonade person. I'm not Emma.
There's something in the glass. Be honest with what's in the glass. The grass over there, if it's green, it's alive, just like the grass over here. And if the grass over there isn't green, it's dead. Grass is green. And if you want lemonade, make lemonade. If you want lemons, have lemons. No matter what, you have the opportunity to go, huh, what do I do with what I got? You have that autonomy and that agency. And if you don't and someone's taking it away from you, take it back. But because there's worth in something doesn't mean you have to use it.
Because something may be innately less than positive. That doesn't mean that there's not worth that you can put into the fire to go ahead and grow you and go you in another direction. So my wonderful little passenger that sits on my shoulder, that is non situational panic. Yeah, there's moments I've tried to make it go away, but in reality it makes me a lot who I am. And a lot of the beautiful things I get to experience in life come from this little passenger, this wonderful little panic space that I live in.
So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, Mel Missian and Paul go ahead and have a morning. A morning with the things that you got, the things that you maybe want to put down but can't. The things that you choose to point down. And then you dance a little bit freer. But here's the deal. Those things that maybe the world sees as less than desirable that you carry with you. Yeah, you may not desire them either. But there may be worth, there may be use, there may be an opportunity to use those things to affirm that you are indeed already enough.
Y' all come on back in a couple of hours. Ms. Shannon Paul will be taking the wonderful Cadre stage to brighten your Saturdays with a little clarity, a little power, a little prowess, and a little bit of passion, a little bit of comedy, too. We'll talk to you soon. Look at the chorus one more time. Do you like you? You don't have to try. Here we go. You don't have to try so hard you don't have to give it all away you just have to get up, get up, get up, get up. You don't have to change a single thing you don't have to try, try, try, try.
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