Monday Motivation: To Live And Let Die.

What's up everybody? It's Luke Wetlandt. I'm a little bit early. I was gonna do 4A 4pm and here we are at 3:30 and this is fantastic. Gotta start with A little Paul McCartney here today. Coming to you live from downtown Minneapolis. What's up everybody? Hope everybody had a fantastic long Thanksgiving week. If it's ever changing. You guys heard this song before. This is a Live and Let die by Paul McCartney. Such a good track. Happy happy Monday to you and yours. Usually I'm here at eight, eight bells, but unfortunately or fortunately, whichever way you look at it, here we are at 3:30.

So I want to quick take you through our office. So I'm going to quick show you our new office here in downtown Minneapolis. So this is the, this is the Cadre office. So here we go. It's in the little big studio. Right over here is all the different office spaces. We have these little like desk units. And then over there is our art studio. Here's where we do a lot of our meetings. That's my little spot right there. That's where Shannon was working earlier today with some new hires. There's Shannon.

Say what's up. So hello everybody. And then just real quick, this is one of my favorite spots of the downtown office is the Bob Dylan poster. The times, they are a changing. Here's our little spot downtown. And then since I'm a big Timberwolves fan, right over here, if you go up the block one, you'll have the Target Center. Just right up there's the Mayo Clinic Center. So it's one of those nice things for us here as teammates to be able to work out of this beautiful space that we call home. Shannon, have a phenomenal night.

Oh yeah, we gotta wipe off the table first. That's always nice. Leave things even better than we found them. Just quickly taking you through here's office spaces where people will work out of the art gallery back here. Kind of show you the art little studio. This is where people can work and do their art. And we work up there. Here's a little extra cubicle if you want to take a call. That needs to be one of those quiet ones. And then here's a podcast studio. Here's a podcast studio for those individuals that need to record podcasts.

Couple extra office spaces for the team. Look right there. One right here. So it's a beautiful little spot. So thanks for joining me here on Monday. Motivation. I just want to quickly share a story for you all about my mom when she was visiting in town so my mom was visiting in town on Thursday and Friday. She had surgery on her knee. She had a knee replacement. So she's in a much better situation than a couple weeks ago. And the pain will subside, all the things. So that's great, and I'm happy for her.

But mom. My mom and dad were in town, had a fantastic Thanksgiving stretch. It was amazing. Really good stretch together. But she had brought something up that I just want to share. She said, you know, there's a. Some close family friends that, you know, they've struggled with as they've. As they've aged. They're in their. My mom and dad are in their mid-70s now, and their friends are a little bit younger. And, you know, there's a lot of divides happening in our world, and one of the divides is kind of, like, pinched their relationship.

And it's pinched their relationship to a point where they have to, like, make decisions, right? And so, you know, my mom, you know, was telling me all about it, and my dad was talking to me about this, you know, this relationship and what they're dealing with. And, you know, I just. I just asked him, I said, you know, are you willing to. To, you know, kind of give up on your values? Are you willing to kind of give up on your values to save the relationship? And both of them said they weren't. And I said, you know, it sounds to me like you have to, like, let this relationship die.

You might have to let this friendship die. And it's not saying it's easy, you know, 30 years, 20 years, whatever the relationship has been. But sometimes, like, the relationships have to come to a point where, you know, it's just kind of best let them go to live and let die. And, you know, hence the song and hence the, you know, the kind of the message today to basically say, like, not every relationship is going to last forever. Not everyone, you know, like, I was trying to tell my mom and dad, I was saying, you know, my mom, some of my high school friends, I'm still friends with them today.

Many I'm not. Some of my college friends, I'm still friends with a few of them today. Many I'm not my 30s friends. Some of them I'm still friends with today. Many I'm not. Some of the business people that I've been involved in. In business. Some of those relationships may I never talk to again. And some of them are very close. And as you continue to evolve and grow and develop, that's just what happens. And it was a hard message, I think. For her to, like, take in. But I think once she got it and once she received it, I think she realized real quickly she was saying, like, this all makes sense.

Like, I can't just, like, change the way I see the world to make sure that I appease friends, that maybe are they friends, Right? And you know, the definition of relationships, according to Simon Sinek, is two individuals who agree to grow together. And if two individuals agree to grow together, and that is true, then you're either growing together or you're dying together. And I asked my mom, I said, do you think you're growing together or do you think you're dying? She said, well, I think we're dying.

And I said to me, it's one of those relationships that it's time to let go. Are there any relationships in your life that maybe it's time to let go? I think I have a couple that I need to really digest for myself. So I encourage you all to start thinking about relationships that maybe our time to live and let die. Have a wonderful week. I do not want this message to come across as a Debbie Downer. It's not. My message is one of positivity, to create and embrace the boundaries and the energy that you need to be a successful person in this world, whatever that means for you.

So think about that as you continue to move forward and be very cognizant, be very, very cognizant of where you're putting your energy. Is it serving you? And is it time to live and let die? Peace. You all have a wonderful week. It's always my favorite thing in the world to come to this community and to share, speak my truth, share life stories that happened to me that I'm dealing with, real time, family, you name it. So Speak Wonder says some relationships are for a season, rich, meaningful, while they last.

Exactly. Speak Wonder, you're welcome anytime. Anna. I'm loving. I can't wait to see you, Carrie. Banger absolutely was a banger. I love that song. But I went old school. I went the old school one. So that was the Paul McCartney version. There's the new school one if you're looking for it. Guns N Roses, Live and Let Die. Regardless, they're both solid. Have a wonderful, dynamic, amazing, productive, incredible week. Sending love to you and yours. Thanks for being a part of it. Bye. Bye.