Let’s Get Our 2023 Purpose Going

Hi, folks. How are you today? My name is Nick the poet. Welcome to 2023. I hope that your year is off to a good start, and we here at Cadre are really excited to walk this path with you this year. You see my background there? I got my Cadre sweatshirt. So, yeah, we're really excited about this year and making wellness our purpose. And, you know, that's really my 2023 purpose, is to be well and keep walking this path, you know, of healing, and we're all on the journey together. I've got some big goals, you know, for 2023, some ambitions, but I really just want to focus on living my purpose.

And for me this year, you know, it's. I've gone with this eat pray love, or eat play love, and I'm on a new nutritional journey with the awesome Cadre coach, Troy Rawlings. And so, yeah, for me, I am working on gaining some weight early in the year. I'm pretty tall. I'm six'three or six'four, and currently weighing in at about 165. Now I'm up to, like, 166, 67 pounds. So I'm looking to become 185 pounds by St. Patrick's day. It's just a healthier weight, and so that's, you know, one thing that I'm working on and just incorporating that into my overall purpose.

So I want to inspire you to, you know, really think about your purpose. And last week, I gave some tips on how to come up with that purpose, and so I wanted to just recap some of those. And if you didn't have the chance last week to think about your purpose, maybe you have some time. This, and here are some questions that you can ask yourself. So, one is to do a self assessment. So one of the keys to finding your purpose is this self assessment. We need to discover what we are good at, what really makes us come alive.

So get a sheet of paper and just start writing, you know, what am I good at? What am I passionate about? You might be surprised when you give yourself the chance to sit down and spend some quality time, even if it's ten minutes. Just write about what you want to happen this year. What is this purpose? What is this. This thing that's been calling out to you to do? So, see if you can tap into that and get that assessment, and it might help to ask others, what do you think my skills are? Sometimes our skills are things that we're really good at, and we're so good at them that we think they're easy, but they might just be easy for us because they're right within our passion.

So these are things to think about. Ask, ask your friends, ask your family, ask co workers, you know, what do you think are my strengths? You know, and just as importantly, and a more difficult question is, what are my weaknesses? Right. And that's a, that's a really tough one to ask. So now that you, after you've done that, you can begin taking action. So once you've identified these areas of strength or interest, you can start taking these micro actions in that direction. Say it's something like this where you want to share, you know, tips and share with an audience on a platform.

Maybe you could make a social media account and try to get one post out and just see how it goes. You know, no pressure, no perfectionism. Just, you know, put it out there. Maybe it's. You want to become a cook. I'd recommend following our collaborator, Dan Cunningham, our Cadre creator, Dan Cunningham, and, you know, learning from his cooking channel, Evan Lieberman, who's another Cadre creator, also has these awesome, you know, cooking channels. So there's these little micro actions that you can take to start putting yourself in a position to live your purpose.

And I believe when we're experimenting and experiencing, that's where we discover, you know, the magic of what our purpose might be. So then we want to create goals around this, right? We want to write down, and if we write it down, something magic happens. I'm not always good at this, you know, but I have discovered in my life, when I write these goals down, they're so much more likely to occur in my life. So write those goals down. And once again, I really recommend, don't get perfectionistic, just start the process.

Start moving in that direction. Even if you can just write one line down, even if you just have 1 minute to consider your purpose. Start there. Start there, and then seek out inspiration from others. So by, you know, no person is an island. We are all connected. And so whether it's through social media or mentorship, start getting that inspiration from others. Maybe if, you know, say you're a filmmaker, try to emulate your favorite film, you know, with the short film, you know, if you're a poet like I am, just write that one poem.

Just get those first few lines down. You know, it doesn't have to be good. The beautiful part is that the doing of it, the process of it, and, you know, the external validation may or may not come. That's largely outside of our control. But how does it make you feel when we do it? Because I think that's connected to our purpose as well. And so, you know, my purpose really, the past couple years has been to connect, create and collaborate. It's led to some really interesting opportunities. And another purpose has been to aspire, to inspire.

And I want to keep those going in 2023. And this mission with Cadre, where we're seeking wellness in the workplace, in our lives, and we're doing it together. And that's the big thing. If I'm off on Nick island on my own, doing my own thing, I just. It's not good for me. I need to be with a group, and this Cadre crew is that group that you can be a part of. Right? And so, as Luke says, the team, the team, the team. So we're on the team together. Let's keep getting better. Let's stay peaceful. Let's stay positive.

Let's work on our prosperity and acknowledge that we all have a lot of work to do, but we're going to do it together. And you can check out these awesome lives the rest of the week. Tomorrow, we've got organized goal planning with Dan Cunningham. On Thursday, we have the sober job. Do I really have to work at Starbucks with Chris Edrington? And also on Thursday, we have amateur stand up comedian. I'm looking forward to hearing what that's all about from doctor Carrie Manke. And then on Friday, we have Friday live with Risa.

You don't want to miss that. And on Saturday, breathing in the new you breath work for new beginnings with Jay Brennan. Matthew, I may. I may not be saying that last day, right? But I had the awesome opportunity to spend time with B yesterday, and he's just an amazing creator. And we were able to film some content and it was so cool. And then on Sunday, we have Sunday dinner with coach Dan. Another one that you don't want to miss. So we have a really great week coming up here. We have a great year coming up.

Let's just keep going. Let's keep going. We can do it. Okay. I'll talk to you later. Bye.