Cadre Today - Move Slower

Hey there, Cadre. How are we doing on this Friday morning? I hope you're doing really, really great. I really, really do. And if you've been here before and you hear me say it every day, you go, is that just like a script? Does JC Say the stuff he says? Because it's what he's supposed to say? No. And actually, every single time I hit that little button to go live, the things that come into my mind and into my gut are, gosh, I hope that people know that they are apprec. Speak. Wonder. I hope you know that you are appreciated.

And number two, I hope you remember that even though it may not always feel like it, you're capable of doing stuff. And sometimes that stuff is really beautifully active, passive stuff, like resting on purpose or derivating from the pathway you think you're supposed to be on. Hey, Chris Fortman. Happy Friday, my friend. So when I say things like, hey, I'm glad that I'm here, I'm glad that you're here, I know what I know, and I care about you. It's not automated. It's not. Here's the thing I'm supposed to say, but it's the thing that wells up inside me to say, here is what we're doing here in the Cadre sphere every single darn day.

Emily8770, how are you, my friend? I hope the obligations that you're carrying today are just as heavy as they are. I hope you feel the work and the excitement and the love and the things that come out of those obligations that you have, the opportunities that you have, the lump in your stomach that they create because you feel like you're a part of something special. I hope all of these feelings, all of these things invite you, invite you to go. This is life. This is the opportunity. It is Friday, and it is a time of year where the days are shorter in the Northern Hemisphere.

So naturally, the amount of energy we're getting from the universe and light and sun and all those things is less. So if you have a regular work week, regular meaning what most people see as Monday through Friday as the work week, Friday may be the day that you go, oof, I'm working for the weekend. Or I can't wait for the break, or I can't wait for the rest. So you may be in a space where you're going, huh? I'm trying to run, I'm trying to fight, I'm trying to do everything that I normally do, but I can't.

Here's where success lives. It's not in stronger, harder, faster, deeper. It is in doing what you can do in the moment that you can do it. Think about if you are. If you've ever been on like a treadmill or you've ever been encouraged, think back to elementary school to go as hard as you can for as long as you can. It's a really bad way to train the human spirit, the human body to go until you can't. Because then what do we end up doing exactly that? We go 100% hard. And then once we can't go 100% hard, what's the next number we go to?

What's the next number we go to? If we can't do 100 anymore, what's the next number that we are trained to go to? Is it 99? That would maybe be rational. That would be a do what you can do mindset. But I'll tell you, I'm an observer by nature, and I spend a lot of time wallflowering and watching people go, and here's what they do. They go 120, and then Emily, exactly. They go zero. That seems incredibly irrational and incredibly irresponsible and also incredibly not satiating. Here's the pathway to, I think, happiness and success and all those beautiful things.

It's you do what you can do when you can do it. So if all of a sudden this morning it was hard for you to get out of bed, it was hard for you to go ahead and do all the things you had to do before you had to do the next thing. Now, I'm not saying it's like, oh, well, just slough on the responsibilities that you have. It's like, no, because I know a lot of you care for other people. You care for things that you have to push through. The great thing is if you are in a mindset of doing what you can do when you can do it holistically, 24, 7, 365, your body gets better at pushing and grinding through when you need to.

But if you are always in this space of going, go, go, go now I can't. Go, go, go now I can't, you lose the ability to do the thing when you need to do it. You lose the ability to fight flight. So today, if you have the space to move slower, to go 99, 98, 73, 33, 12, 6, 4, 1, rather than 100, 0, do it. And if you can't do that today, let this exist in your mind as the ooh, here's one of those opportunities where I can do less, where I can go slower. If you are a go to the gym in the morning person, and all of a sudden this morning, you couldn't get yourself to the gym when you normally get there.

So all of a sudden you were there for less. You're there or you're there with less. Do what you can do, and you can do it, and then see how that changes how you show up in the moments when you need to, when you want to, when you can, when you should, when you would. It's a little way to go ahead and build a little bit of savings in the bank to have a little dividends in the future. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, remember that you are capable. Remember that you are worthy.

I will see you tomorrow. Bye. Golly. Have a good one.