Make Your Dreams Come True!

We are live. It is a beautiful day in Arizona. I'm gonna give you guys a second to jump on here. I'm in my, like, business chic today. Business cash. I love going live on Fridays. I love. I love every day of the week. I love Mondays, and I love Fridays because I feel like you can. It's almost like a Friday is a Monday for me. I don't know how to describe that, but, like, it still feels like an energetic, exciting day. Even though I do work on the weekends, I try to take Sundays off. But anyway, we are live.

I'm gonna give anybody a sec to jump in. I know Fridays are a hard time for people to jump on lives. Hopefully, you guys are catching these on the app if you can't catch them in the moment. But today I'm continuing the series of making your dreams come true. This is, like, one of my favorite subjects to talk about, and it just makes sense that Katie had asked me to talk about it last week, and then it was like a light bulb moment. Like, oh, this is something I need to talk about every week because I feel like, oh, yeah, def Leppard.

You know it. You know it. I feel like this is something that just has a special place in my heart. Like, my whole life has been about dreaming big and writing things down and manifesting, and how am I going to make my dreams come true? It's not, are my dreams going to come true? It's like, how am I working toward making that happen? What am I doing in order to see that through? Right? So I'm going to tell you guys a little story. Last week, I ran a half marathon. And let me just tell you, I'm not a runner like Luke.

If you are Nick the Cadre running club, like, these guys are runners. They run every single day. They put tons of miles on their legs. They're runners. Right? Like, I have never been a runner. I've never been an endurance trainer. I like to jog. I like to do maybe, like, a five k or 5 miles, seven k, something along those lines. But you don't often catch me doing a long endurance race. And I was a sprinter in junior high. I did the 100 meters dash. I did short distances. Like, I like things to be zippy.

So asking me to run a marathon sometimes feels like asking me to write a novel. But nobody really had to push me into this one, and let me tell you why. What I've realized is putting these difficult things on your calendar, running these almost seemingly impossible races, this is only my second one. Feels like, it's a natural step toward making my bigger dreams come true. So my big dream is not to be an endurance runner. My big dream is not to be a marathon New York City marathoner. I don't want to be Ken Rideout.

I don't want to be worried about my time in the New York City marathon or Boston Marathon or any of these big, long endurance races. I don't. I don't care about the end result in terms of time or how many of them I'm putting on my calendar. I want to just reiterate that. Like, I don't. I don't want to be a distance runner. I don't want to be known for that. However, when somebody asked me last year, while I was running my first half marathon ever up 6000 foot elevation gain, I will tell you, somebody else said, hey, I'm going to be in Phoenix running the rock and roll half in 2023.

Will you join me? I immediately said yes. I knew that I had to put that on my calendar at the beginning of 2023 because that is a stepping stone to completing my bigger dreams. If I can put these really difficult things that don't feel comfortable to me, that I know are going to leave me in agonizing pain because I could not walk the next day. Good morning, Katie. I knew that if I could put this difficult thing and know what to expect on the calendar, that that is a stepping stone for my bigger, more grand dreams in my life.

So the point I'm trying to make here is if you can chip away and you can put really hard things on your calendar and in your life and complete them, these big dreams are just going to be a piece of cake. All of these little baby steps are just little pebbles along the way toward getting to the big rock farm. Right? We've used that metaphor before here at Cadre. Consistent, difficult things. That's life. That's right. Luke. What's up, Barb? I honestly think that if you can do all of these small, little difficult things when it comes to manifesting the biggest things that you want to do, whether it's launch a podcast, write a book, have a family, buy a house, like things that seem seemingly daunting, if you are in life along the way, chipping away and doing really difficult things that might seem impossible, I feel like your big dreams are just going to be a walk in the park.

You're going to be so conditioned to. To do hard things, all of a sudden you're going to be ticking off those massive things that you thought were so out of reach hard is a state of mind. I could not agree more. I could not agree more, Barb. It's so true. I mean, I think that people said to me after my race, oh, my gosh, I could never do that. And I looked at them and said, yeah, you could. I didn't even train for this race. I did not train. I did not get enough miles on my legs. I will say that I was in so much pain the next day, but I knew what to expect because I had done it before.

I knew it was going to be hard. I knew that every time I saw a different mile marker that I was one step closer and 1 mile closer to crossing that finish line. I knew exactly what to expect. Now, you don't always know what to expect when you're taking on a hard thing, right? When I first did my first half marathon, I had no idea what to expect. I was a week and a half post COVID, and it was incredibly uncomfortable for me. What's up, Alec? It was incredibly uncomfortable, and I had no clue how I was gonna feel the next day.

And I will say, when I couldn't walk that next day and was ricing my leg, icing my leg, I had no idea that I was not gonna be able to walk. So that was a really tough hurdle to get over. But now, for the second one, it was a breeze. I didn't even have to think twice about it. I knew exactly what to expect, and I knew that the pain was gonna come, and I knew the feeling that I was gonna have in my heart after finishing that. That feeling of emotion and just gratification. Like, I knew it was coming, too.

So I knew the pain was coming. But I also knew that the feeling that I was gonna have when I finished was just gonna be so incredibly sweet. It was, like, the sweetest pain ever. So, you know, when you're working toward making your big dreams happen, I, you know, it's not like you just, like, go out and I'm just gonna launch podcasts and do nothing else in between. Like, putting these hard things on your calendar are going to help prep you. They're gonna help prepare you. They're gonna help make the biggest, biggest, biggest things seem not that bad.

Thank you for being proud of me. I am. Also, I think we're maybe posting it today, tomorrow. I'm not sure when we're gonna post it, but I did write a blog post. After running this race, I had a lot of emotion, and I think it's really important when you are completing these even smaller hard things or the things that are leading you toward the biggest end goal of your life. Right. For me, it was this half marathon. It's also going to be, I keep saying, launching a podcast, because I am doing that.

I think it's really important to sit with your thoughts, really soak in the moment, soak in the accomplishment. Pat yourself on the back, give yourself a high five, whatever it is that you need to do to congratulate yourself and sit in that moment, reflect, write it down, meditate on it, think about it, be proud of yourself, and live in that moment. And so many people wrote to me and said, you inspired me to dust off my running shoes. You inspired me to sign up for a half marathon February 4 up in Sedona.

You inspired me to, you know, want to bring my daughter down there and see what it's like to accomplish something in the rain and in the elements and, you know, just, like, completely on your own out there on the open road. And so many people wrote to me that felt inspired by me completing that. And I think, so a lot of people look at me on instagram and they're like, oh, she. She dresses people, she does fashion, she does photo shoots, but they don't see me doing some of the really hard stuff in my life in between.

And so I made a conscious choice. You know, I felt like maybe this marathon photo didn't really go with my pretty little feed. What a joke. This is the moment that people needed to see. So I encourage you to run to the blog post after this live and read about the feelings that I had and the realization and aha. Moment that I had when I crossed this really big thing off of my list and a conscious choice that I've made in my life to flip the script and to show up as my most, biggest, baddest, authentic self.

Hey, Jill and Mary. What's up? Barb says I would wear my medal all day, everywhere I went, just bask in the glory. That's a great idea. You know what? I'm gonna wear my medal today. I have a meeting today. I'm gonna wear my medal to that meeting. Like, Luke proudly wears his weighted vest. I'm gonna wear my medal. That is such a great idea. I'm gonna, like, accessorize it up. I'm gonna layer it up with some other necklaces. Barb, that is excellent style advice. I will take that. If you've run a half marathon or maybe what's your version of a half marathon?

Like, if you've done some kind of endurance activity in your life. And I mean, like slowly building a business, working towards something, training for something. I encourage you to reflect on that and write it down. Maybe share it with me here in the chat. What is that big thing that you are doing and, you know, big thing that's like little things leading up to the bigger things. Or maybe it feels really big to you. Maybe that is your big thing. You know, for me, it's putting, you know, once a month trying to tick off these really difficult things.

So I'm in full prep mode when the biggest thing comes around the corner for me and it just feels like a walk in the park. Just a walk in the park. So anyway, that is my motivation for making your big dreams come true. It's continue to chip away, continue to inspire yourself, continue to believe that you can do all of the little things that are going to lead you to the big things that, you know, there is no dream that is too big. And, you know, even if that dream feels like it's not big enough, put it on the calendar.

But I encourage you to dream the biggest daydream. There's science behind daydreaming manifesting. Write it down. Visualize yourself doing it. I visualized myself crossing the finish line at this marathon even though my knee started to hurt at like mile six and I knew it was going to. Thank goodness for the bio freeze station. I knew these things were going to be painful. But when I saw myself doing this race, I saw myself crossing the finish line, wearing the medal, taking the photos, getting emotional, and then patting myself on the back saying, you know what?

Like, I knew you were going to do it, and I'm so proud of you that you did. And the response to people completing hard things and people want to see that. It encourages them. When you put yourself in that position and people see it happening, it gives them the belief in themselves that they can do it, too. And whether it's a road race or something bigger, whatever that means for you, it's your own path, your own journey. But seeing people complete their goals and feeling inspired by that, it gives you that permission to go out and do it for yourself.

So I cannot wait to hear about how you're making your big dreams come true. It's a daily practice for me. Sometimes my biggest dream is to just make my bed in the morning because I just want to walk by my room and see my made bed. And it's something that I work on every single day. That's a big dream of mine. So whatever it may be, I encourage you to just go out there and put it on the calendar, you're never going to be ready. I didn't feel ready for that race, but man, it's going to feel so good when you complete it.

It can be messy, you can, you can be drenched from the rain. Nobody cares. What they care about is that you finished it, you put it on your calendar and you went out there and rocked it. So keep making your big dreams come true. I can't wait to keep bringing you these messages and these stories from my real life that are playing a huge part in making my personal dreams come true. And one of my biggest dreams that I'm living in right now is to have a lasting impact on this world. And I am doing that through Cadre.

So I am so grateful for Cadre, for this platform, to be able to share these moments with you, share your moments, share in your moments. On the community feed, I want to know. Drop into the community feed and tell me what are the big dreams that you're working on. I will comment, I will engage with you, and you're always welcome to shoot me an email. Arcosticeadre IO you can find me on the website, too, if you're not sure how to spell it. And I just, you know, I really appreciate this platform to be able to be vulnerable and share with you guys and feel inspired by you every single day.

So love you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for commenting and engaging. I know Fridays are tough, but I love to see your faces on here. It just makes my whole start to the weekend just incredible. And I know we have some awesome live streams coming down the pipeline. And you know, if you love what we're doing here, we want to hear from you. If there's something you want to tell us, something that you think that we can do better, we want to hear from you in that way, too. We want to hear the good, the bad, the ugly, all of it.

If you see yourself being a personality here, a creator, a collaborator, somebody who is on this platform, we want to hear from you in that way, too. If you visualize yourself at the end of your story, you are a part of a mental health app, you know, a wellness app that focuses on wellness all around the board. And you want to be a part of that, of change that we are encouraging here at Cadre. We want to hear from you, get in touch with us and let us know. We're always looking for amazing people to join our team and be a part of the movement that we are building here.

So I love you guys happy weekend, and I will talk to you soon. I'll see you next Friday.