Cadre Today - Thin Space

Good morning, Cadre. How are you doing today? I am down to one more piece of gum in my car. Gum. Are you a gum chewer? If you are a gum chewer, are you a blue or a green or a pink or a red? You can never remember which one is which. Morning, Mel. I'm a green. I'm a green gum guy. And there's something very sacramental, which we've talked about this past week, about putting a piece of gum in your mouth before whatever's happening next. Hey, Jules, nice to see you. Nice to see you. Update. How are we all doing today?

Good morning to you, too. So if you are a gum chewer, yes or no, what color gum chewer are you? I feel like it's. It's a. It's like a Coke and Pepsi thing. It's not. People are like, oh, I drink Coke, duh. I drink Pepsi, duh. I feel like some people are, I chew blue gum, duh, or I drink. I chew green gum, duh. I feel like the blue and the green are the. Are the polarized. And there's the people who, who chew the red gum. They're the. They're the. They walk their own path type of people. But, hey, I am glad that I'm here.

I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. And that is true today. It was true yesterday. I'm going to assume it's going to be true tomorrow. But on Sundays, we always talk about thin space, this idea that we are pulled as people to. To spend a lot of our time in the past, to spend a lot of our time in the future, and to spend very little of our time right now. So this is your invitation to spend some time right now. I have a body that likes to throw curveballs and not do what I wanted to do.

So planning is really hard. So when I. When my body says, hey, let's move right now, like, let's exercise. Let's, let's. Let's feel it out. I often take those moments if I have the energy to do so. And this morning I did. Before work, I moved my body and then got back in my car. And now I'm with you for a little thin space. But I'll tell you, it is. It feels like 23 degrees where I am right now. When I walked out of my house to walk into my car to go move my body, it was 23 degrees outside. When I walked out of the place of movement back into my car, I was like, ooh, 23 degrees.

And I didn't put on, on sleeves because the 23 felt different. Different. 23 degrees one hour later felt very different than it did one hour earlier. That's a great example of thin space. I bet there are people here right now who would go, it's only 23 degrees outside. Wear your gloves and your coats and your scarfs and your how dare you be outside without layers on. And other people would be like, yeah, you know, unless it's, unless it's snowing and rainy and windy and negative 90 degrees. Like, wear your booty shorts outside.

And I would say both of you may be probably true at various moments of your life. Morning, y'. All. Nice to see you. But thin space invites us to go, huh? Where am I right now? Now you may go. We had jc. Obviously it felt better outside after you kind of warmed up and woke up. So yeah, it would make sense that maybe you wouldn't need a coat on in the second chapter of the story. Like he did the first chapter of the story. Yes, I agree. It's incredibly rational. Just like every other parallel and paradigm that we exist within in life.

If you know what you're going to need tomorrow, I'm gonna go, yeah, you may be right. You also may be wrong. If you go, well, in the past I've always needed to. I'd go, yeah, in the past you've always needed to, but right now you may need something else. So to the point, right? At 5:45 this morning, 23 degrees outside felt very cold. At 7:20 this morning, 23 degrees outside felt warm and crisp and, and invigorating. If I would have walked out into the world with the same armor of coat and glove in both those situations, I wouldn't have been serving myself.

I wouldn't have been setting myself up for optimal performance and clarity and presence. That's what ThinSpace invites us to do. So anytime you go, I know exactly what I'm going to need tomorrow. I know exactly what my three month big goal is. I'm going to do this every day and then I'm going to get there. I'm going to say, you may be right. And also I'm going to say there's a good chance that you may be wrong. But at the end of the day, I also remind you that you listening to where you are right now and what you need right now is absolutely always going to be the right way to do life.

And here's why. Because that's how we're designed to be. We are designed to say, here's where I am. Here's where my power is. Here's where my potency is. If we do that, every single microsecond of our lives, which none of us ever will, we will go ahead and live the most opportune life possible. So does that mean don't plan? Does that mean don't look back and learn? No, it means do those things knowing that it will make your path more calibrated to where you're going. But if you hold on to what those two truths are, that are never going to change, that's when you're going to run into some trouble.

So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, how does that 23 degrees feel to you right now? That proverbial 23 degrees? You may be in the 90 degrees and you want to put on the scarf because it makes you feel warm and cozy. You may be in the five degrees and go, I need to go ahead and take all of my clothes off and run around in the backyard and take the deepest breath I've ever taken. And both those things may be the thing that make you go, this is where I am. This is what I have. This is the opportunity at hand, and I'm going to be in the midst of it.

That's your average, y'. All. See you tomorrow.