Cadre Today - Candles And Mirrors

Foreign. They said that these are not the best of times. They're the only times I've ever known. Your sound's working. I'm just melting Meditation. Good morning, Carrie. Nice to see you, my friend. SMS a little Billy Joel for your morning. There's something about hearing someone sit at the piano and go, the dooba, dude. Just the rolling. Just the rolling eighth notes. It's so beautiful. And I love that, right? Billy Joel kind of speaks a little Cadre truth at the beginning here. Billy Joel says, they are not.

They say that these are not the best of times, but these are the only times that I've ever known. That is enoughness. That is thin space. That is being in a space where there's many ways to being well. And if someone says, here's the three steps to your. Your success, run. If they say, here are the three steps to my success today. Lean in and listen because there may be something you can glean. But by golly, I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know and I care about you 1% better.

Nice to see you as well. I love technology, and the reason why is because it gives us lots of stuff that we didn't have before. That's number one. But even more, I love technology because someone out there created it. Someone was like, huh, what if I tried to create something and that something became this? So those are two reasons I love technology. The third reason I love technology is that technology breaks. Technology doesn't work the way that we want it to all of the time. In those moments, we're reminded of those other two things that, number one, technology gives us stuff.

And we know that because once we don't have that stuff, we realize that we had it because of technology. And number two, it reminds us that someone created this and everything that's created by us is to some degree fallible, is going to fail. And in those moments we go, you know what they say? That these are not the best of times, but these are the only times we've ever known. Billy Joel weaves right on in to this opportunity. We get right here to be in the Cadre sphere. I have two favorite quotes, and I used both of them yesterday.

The first one is a Bertolt Brecht quote where Bertolt, good old Bernie, said, hey, will there be music in the dark times? Yes, there'll be music about the dark times. That's the quote. My second favorite quote is by Edith Wharton, and it's about candles and mirrors. Hence the title of today's live stream. And Edith, good old Edie. Edie and Bernie getting the quote drops today. Edith said, hey, light is shared in two ways. From the candle and from the mirror. I love that because sometimes we're told that we need to be the light.

Every day we need to shine, and tomorrow we need to shine better and brighter. And then the next day we need to do that again, then again and again and again. And I go, cool. I still have never met the person who's capable of doing that. I've met people who try to show the world that they're doing that. And when they don't have the light, they, they transplant grit and grind and guts and, and commitment and Teflon habits, habits. And you know, so and so forth. I go, but behind that is them going, you know what?

I'm. I'm actually not as good as I was yesterday for a moment. And I go, yeah, and you know what? I still think you're just as rad now as you were yesterday. I think you're rad if you're succeeding in the way you think you're supposed to be successful. And I think you're rad if you're not. And that actually p***** a lot of people off. A lot of people want me to not like them as much when they don't like themselves. And I go, well, you're just gonna have to fight me on that one. Because if I have to go ahead and base how much I like you off of how well you're doing, that sounds exhausting.

Sometimes we are the candle. Sometimes we are that source of light for everybody. And other times we get to go, wow, look, you're shining. Look over there. That thing is shining. Isn't that great? Isn't that cool? Or doesn't that make you uncomfortable? Or doesn't that make you think? Or doesn't that motivate you? I love this Edith Wharton quote because it's it, it answers a question that I never knew I was always asking. It's like, well, what can I do if I can't do anything? You can reflect what you're seeing others doing.

What can you do when you feel like you can't do anything? You can reflect the good stuff that other people are doing in this world. That, my friends, is a really good way to spend any day. Whether you're on top of the world, you're down in the dumps, shine that light if you got it, or point and reflect others light when you get the chance. Have a good one, so.