Motivation Monday - Bringing It!

For that sweet sound Cadre crew. Gosh, what an amazing week ahead. We have planned nothing like starting with a little Eric Carmen this morning. Make me lose control. Let's go. Gosh, we got a great week ahead. I'm going to turn this down a little bit. We got a great week ahead. Number one with the Cadre commitments. Cadre commitments will be coming out today for November. The month of October was organized October. I hope everybody had an opportunity to organize their life a little bit, organize their physical residence, whatever that looks like.

I know my wife and I took advantage of organized October with our closets, with our dressers and our drawers and our garage, and we did a great job with just moving the needle in our homes moving forward, excuse me, in our home, moving forward to November is gratitude. Gratitude for November. November is the month of gratitude. We have the next commitments that are coming out. So if you go to our website and you go onto Cadre IO and you go under challenges, you will see the Cadre commitments just really amazingly organized five step process where you can add five more steps or commitments that you could have for yourself.

Again, gratitude is November. I cannot wait. It's going to be amazing. We got some individuals beeping in here real quick. So yes, the Cadre commitments, Alec, this month is going to be as good as it gets. I close my browser tabs. Yes, organize those things. Get yourself an order. I love it. And Nick, that's awesome that I'm glad that those things worked for you with helping, getting yourself organized. That's what it's all about, taking those small steps. Our livestream schedule this week is amazing.

We have for the very first time, Dan Cunningham, the organizer man. The organizer man is going to be going live, I believe it is tomorrow. I can't wait to watch his live. Dan, I'm so excited to see what you have to bring and what you have to offer. So again, we got the Cadre commitments. October, hopefully was a great month for you. November going into November, month of gratitude, being grateful for all the things that just matter to us in our lives and follow those challenges. I think you're going to find writing in your journal and waking up each morning to just dig in a little bit about what you are grateful for and find the wins from the previous day or find the wins going into the next day just matter.

We got an amazing blog that's going to be dropping on Friday again, Cadre IO. Every two weeks we try to go at least every two weeks of the blog. This one's going to be special. So I'm looking forward for you all to read that, and hopefully there's some takeaways for you all today. For Monday. Motivation. I wanted to share three stories and I wanted to share three stories with you that are going to all come around to. My question is, why does it take so long? Okay, so remember that. Why does it take so long?

Number one, my grandpa, Melvin Groko. Yes, Melvin. My grandpa Melvin Groko. He. The Rochester Mayo clinic had its first open heart surgery in 1955. And my grandpa, at the tender age of 448, had his first open heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic. Let's call it ten to 15 years after the first open heart surgery ever after the Mayo clinic. He was a farmer, raised on a farm, and I've never seen a human being more dedicated to exactly what they were trying to do and what they were trying to accomplish every day on that farm.

He woke up at 435 in the morning. He went deep all into the nights. That's just what he did. And there was a moment in time where he just completely turned off the light switch and said, I'm going to become a carpenter. And he turned. They sold the farm, they moved into Hutchinson, Minnesota, and he turned into a carpenter. And he turned into the most present grandpa that I believe that this world has ever seen. I remember playing bingo with him, playing cards with him, playing dice with him, watching the birds with him, going fishing with him, going for walks with him, helping me create all these woodworking things that we did together in his basement.

And I just wonder, why do we have to wait till a near death experience to go to the place that you do what you love? You do what you love. You do what you love. You just love spending time as the carpenter. You love spending the time with your grandchildren. You love being present in those moments. And it's like going through this near death experience allowed them to get there. Number two, I had the opportunity and privilege to meet an individual. Her name was Jennifer Drummond. Her name is Jennifer Drummond.

And a few years ago, she got into a horrific car accident. Prior to the horrific car accident, she was in the financial sector and financial space doing very, very, very well for herself. Got into this horrific car accident, and after the car accident, she just basically said, I'm going to go all in on this life in a different way. And she took up hiking, and hiking turned into mountaineering, and mountaineering turned into moving to park City from Michigan, and basically going all in on this endeavor to become with her seven children, single mother, and she was going to climb the seven second summits across our globe, and so far, she's got five of them down.

And, you know, when I asked her, I said, why did you wait so long? She goes, if I could give advice to anybody. You have so much more to give, and you have so much more to offer, and why are you waiting? Why are you waiting? She had to go through again, like my grandpa, that near death experience, like Jennifer going through that near death experience, to go all in on themselves and to reach these epic pinnacles of their lives. And, you know, I just feel like there's a lot of people that should be there, but we just have to, like, get to this point of, like, almost death, almost fatality, to say, now my life is worth it to try.

And there's so much more that each one of us have to offer in this life without getting there. The next one I have to share. I sat down with a cold call with an individual last week, and his name was Kevin Sell. Kevin Sell. So if you are joining the Cadre running club or part of the Cadre running club, you're going to see Kevin is now going to be part of it. And working with Nick Hanson, one of our creators here on Cadre, he went through a near death opiate overdose a little over five years ago.

And through that, he. That is absolutely right, Laney. It is relatable. Think about how many times that we see people getting to the point where it goes to the maximum extreme of life or death before we've got to go all in. So, Kevin, like I said, overdose five years ago. Right? Overdose five years ago. And he was not an endurance athlete. He did not run. He did not do any of those things. Five years later, he has completed 100 miles races. He just completed the Montauk out in Switzerland as a. A 70 miles ultra.

He has taken new leaps and bounds of his life. He set amazing boundaries. He's dedicated to his amazing wife, and they'd love to have a family someday. And, you know, that near death experience has pushed him to the limit of pushing his life and reaching new pinnacles. So, again, I just want to share my grandpa near death experience, open heart surgery, you know, late, late. I don't know exactly the age, but I want to say it was late forties, early fifties. Jennifer Drummond, who went through a near death car accident in Kevin, who had an opioid overdose.

And now these three individuals, or those three individuals my grandpa has now passed, but those three individuals reached, like, their goals and their dreams, and it had to get to that. That cliff moment, right, of my grandpa becoming a carpenter and doing what he loves and being the most present and amazing grandparent that I could ever dream of. Jennifer Drummond climbing these amazing second summits across our globe and going all in on herself with those amazing opportunities. And Kevin sell, you know, having these ultra distant races and things that he's doing to push himself and doing what he loves and finding his joy.

So I hope that you don't have to wait to go all in on yourself. And I hope that you don't have to go through some of these experiences as some of these amazing people that we have the privilege to know here at Cadre. So go all in now. Don't wait. Don't wait till one of those near death experiences for yourself to ultimately change the trajectory of your life. So again, we have an amazing week ahead. We have the Cadre commitments. Look at your October go into November month of gratitude. The month of gratitude is just so important for so many different reasons.

The live schedule. Dan, we're so excited for you, man. And then the upcoming blog is going to be a really, really good one that's going to drop on Friday as well. So I hope that you take this with you today and say, I'm not going to wait anymore. I'm not going to wait anymore. I'm going to go all in right now. Have an amazing day. Yeah, take this one and really soak it in. Take care of y'all.