Q&A Anything Goes

What's going down, Cadre crew? This is Luke here. I'm in my happy place. My happy place is the treadmill. I love this spot where my mind gets right, my mind gets strong. I physically get to the good spot. All those things are super important to me. But this is my think tank time, and so I'm on think tank time. What I just want to say is if. If there's any questions or Q and a that you have going on, maybe it's goals, maybe it's whatever. Like, I'd love to address those with you today. So I got my ring all set up.

I got everything here ready to go right by the treadmill, which I can't wait to have any q and a go with it. So I'll just kind of go for a little bit here today and just see if anybody's got anything kind of on their mind. Questions, whether it's goals, things to be prepared for for next year. Maybe you want to start a company, start a business. You know, the first step is always the hardest one, but anyway, it's way around it here for you today. So I'm just going to be on here. If anybody wants to fire anything in, I'm all ears.

Can't wait. But, no, it's a great day to be alive today. Exciting day to be alive. This is where I go and just think. I just meditate. I just get to a place where I just feel so one with myself, with my steps. I just got. It's basically like heel toe, heel toe, heel toe. Get into this rhythm of everything going and how it's going that you just. You're so locked in just this beautiful, beautiful moment. So I'd encourage you to find your beautiful moments a place that you go that are your happy place.

That's your spot to be. But this one's mine, and I live for it. Absolutely live for it. What, what are the top three things you do in a day? Great question. So, number one, for me, always is going to be my routine. I am. My wife is the most routine driven human being that I've ever met in my life, and she's really moved me to that routine of my structure. So the number one thing that I have to do in the morning is, like, number one, get my kids off all those other things, but after I get my kids off, I go have my cup of coffee.

What used to be my cup of coffee used to be regular caffeine, but now it's decaf. And I love that decaf so much. So that's number one. Number two is my gratitude journal. I write down my three things that I'm really, really grateful for. So those are three things that I need to do. And then last but not least is this. We all got things, family, kids, whatever. I have to do one thing for myself every day. One thing for myself every single day, no matter what, could be hopping on the treadmill. It could be meeting for somebody for a cup of coffee.

It could be going on a dinner with my wife, whatever it is. But I gotta do one thing for myself to keep my sanity through this life. That's just important to me. Oh, to have a great day. What would I do? Well, that makes my day great. You know, doing those three things. I love to have my cup of coffee set the tone, set my gratitude tone with those three things. And then naturally, of course, do my one thing for me. My sauna and my cold plunge have like really taken my game to the next level. Regardless of stress.

It just feels, feels so good for me to reset there. But, yeah, I'm having an amazing day. Absolutely amazing day. Treadmill is going to take me up a notch. So we'll crank her up a little bit. So I just start out of five just in case we have any Q and A's or otherwise coming in. Doesn't it feel good? It does. I love it. Absolutely love it. For someone struggling to have a routine, how do you start? I think the very first thing you have to do is this. If you do not start and you don't win the day, you gotta win the day.

There's a reason why in the Navy Seals they always talk about, you gotta make your bed. Like, you gotta make your bed. You gotta make your bed right out the gates. Because you start with a win. I think that's the number one thing that's so important is finding that first win of the day. Whatever the win is for you. It could be having that cup of coffee, it could be writing in your journal, could be calling somebody that matters to you or means something to you. It could be checking off a box on your to do list.

But win the day right away. Win the day right away, that's for sure. Number one, win the day right away. Don't wait till three or four or five to win the day. That's just wasting time. Which wasting time is your wasting life. I mean, think about it. We're down to like 16 days left in the year. Just insane to think about that. 1617 days, which is like 400 hours. It's nuts. Any suggestions on how to make a healthy balance between work and my recovery. That's a great question. You know what I would.

What I would encourage you to do is this. In your recovery, that's the number one thing, and nothing else can get in the way of it, period. Whether it is work, whether it's anything, do I understand that? We all need to make money, and we need to be able to support ourselves, and we feel, yes, 100%. But if you don't have recovery, you don't have anything, like, literally anything. So you have to start there. You've got to start with your recovery and make sure your recovery is rock solid, because if you go off to work and the working environment becomes difficult, stressful, etcetera, how are you going to end up coping with those things to maintain your recovery and your sobriety and all that?

So what I would do is this. I would ask for help. There's so many people out there that want to help you, but we're so not willing to ask for it. So what I encourage you to do is to ask the right people at the right time, right action for help, to make sure that you can get through it, because recovery is everything. You gotta have your recovery so you can have that job. You gotta have recovery so you can be the best parent, that you could be the best father, you be the best friend, you be the best mother.

So that's number one. Recovery is everything. And then from there, you can take it to the next step on, you know, your work and ever. But there's an amazing individual on our platform named Chris Edrington. So his last name is edrington. E d r I g t o n. He goes live and chats about this stuff, especially in the recovery space. I would highly recommend reaching out to chris, or even chris could even do a video on this, because he is the expert, that's for sure. So I hope that helps. All right, we're gonna crank her up a little bit, get to 6 miles an hour here feels great.

You can't beat this. You can't beat this. Like, you have no idea. I'm on mile 720, 30, 40, whatever it is, and you just. You can't feel any better. Like, even when the pain gets a little bit, you're gonna. You're gonna break through your comfort zone on that treadmill. Maybe you start walking for the first time, right? You start getting to your ten minutes, 20 minutes, and walking, and then you break through that first, next phase, and then maybe you run, and maybe after running, you say, I want to take this thing, and do like a five mile either which way around it.

Just be hungry. Be hungry for it. That's great. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for listening in, man. I'm just so glad to be here. That's what this life is always about. And as soon as you can start giving back in your recovery journey, like, everything changes, like, legitimately, everything changes when you can start giving back in life, like, growing and giving, growing and giving. Grow every day. And you can give, whether it's part of yourself, part of you, financially, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, whatever it is, if you can share and grow and give, you've already won.

You have absolutely already won. What's your number one. What's your number one goal for 2023? Great question. My number one goal for 2023 is that M and I, my wife and I have been together for ten years, and this is going to be the first trip that we take together in March. And you have no idea how excited I am to spend that time with her. We have an amazing family, amazing kids, and to be able to just get away with her over that time. I've been looking forward to it for years and years and years.

So my number one goal was to get away with my wife twice. Away from my family. I know that sounds bad, but away from our children, where it's just my wife and I, and I can't wait for that. I look forward to that time. That's my number one personal, personal goal. My number two personal goal is I'm running 107 miles in May 27, 2023, with the one and only Nick the poet, who's on this platform as a creator with us, a wellness expert. So if you ever want to listen to this amazing stuff, look into my buddy, Nick Hanson.

Nick the poet. He's incredible. But, yeah. Sono reset 107 miler May 27, 2023. And I'm running it for the 107,000 that lost their lives to overdoses last year. We all have been affected. Otherwise, you'd have to basically be living under a rock to not have been affected by the opioid epidemic in our country. And I think that if we can raise awareness for change, that would mean so much to so many families and people. I'm very passionate and inspired about that, and I can't wait. What. What is one thing that you can do right now, in this moment to improve yourself?

I think the obvious thing is right now. The question that you said is, like, what can you do right now in this moment to improve yourself? The answer is literally right now. Like, you have to start. You have to take action, you have to take action, like, literally this second. What are you waiting for? If you want to quit XYZ or you want to do ABC, like, the very first thing you have to do, it's not motivation, it's not inspiration. It's not being driven. It's like starting. You got to start. You got that flagship digital.

You got to start, man. You got to start right now. You can't wait. If you wait, it's just like, life's going to pass you by. We only have so much time. You don't have time to be, you know, feeling sad and feeling pitiful for yourself and feeling away and being devastated, whatever. Like, change your mindset quick. Feel it, breathe it, and go. So the action is like, you gotta take. You gotta move right now, man. You don't have time for that stuff. So go. Go do something now. Why wait? Let's crank her up a little bit faster.

So just like that. You just got a quick, you know, mile and a half in, like, nothing. And we're just doing it, doing our thing, feeling great about life, getting our breathing in, in through our nose, out through our mouth, in through our nose, out through our mouth, over and over and over again. Feels so good. You're just kind of like, floating on air when you get into this space, when you get into your flow, and the flow for me is right here. This is where the magic happens for me. This is where my thinking goes.

This is where my moments of change goes. Problem solving happens, figuring out good solutions, all those things. So I hope you have your spot that you can go to where you feel amazing in moments like this, that you can break out of your shell and number one, kind of push yourself and such like that, but also find your own think. Take time. So I'm going to keep rocking. I'm not stopping. I'm going to go for a little bit here. Today, had a busy day with work. Started. The first call really, really early this morning hasn't stopped.

I'm sure it's going to get busy later, but regardless, you got to get your moments in for you, too. So I'm taking this one in now. Have an amazing day. Crush it.