Monday Motivation

Good afternoon, Cadre crew. It's amazing day here in northern Minnesota, as you can see. Got the ice, the lake, you see the ice houses. Pretty crazy northern Minnesota. Here we are. I'll just give it one more second till everybody hops on here. But say my message today is really short and sweet. Number one, I hope everybody had a great weekend, coming back on a Monday and just ready to rock life. But my message is pretty short and sweet today, and it's about putting people on pedestals. And I want to encourage you to think about the way you view some of those individuals that you put on pedestals.

And I'm going to give an example. I remember exactly where I was in 2018 when I heard David Goggins for the first time. It was almost five years ago. I'll never forget listening to him on the Rogan podcast and diving more into it. And then immediately, I had to listen to all this other stuff and follow him on social media. You know, I really just. I put him on a pedestal and I just started, you know, reading it, you know, as his book, when his book came out and, you know, just bought into, you know, that kind of lifestyle and, you know, figured out what that was and what that meant for me, you know, and such like that.

Hi. Si, sushio. Let's go. Great day to be alive. But, you know, when I put those individuals on pedestals and what that did for me is it kind of set the tone for where I was in my life. And once you realize that putting individuals on a pedestal is basically comparing where you are to where they are, is where you need to really separate yourself. And what I found this time around is he just put out a new book again, I'm still talking about David Goggins, but he put a new book out called never finished, you know, and I listened to it already once, and I'm rolling through it, you know, chapter 123456 and doing the same thing again.

And what I'll tell you is it just doesn't have the same meaning for me. Right. I mean, I kind of, like, pet, I put him on the pedestal that he was here, you know, and I was so low, right? Like, I'm down here. Like, I haven't even got my workout exercise routine together. I haven't done this. I have so much more to give to the world and all those other things. And as I look, you know, five years into this journey, you know, and I know this might sound narcissistic or arrogant, and that's okay, but I shut it off.

You know, I shut off that message and, you know, I don't. I don't want to put anybody on a pedestal. I want to achieve my own goals and dreams and. And I don't want to follow a David Goggins. I don't want to have those individuals that I need for inspiration or motivation. I want to be enough. Like, I want to be just enough that I'm doing it all, that I'm leading the charge of making change, that I'm the inspiration for myself, that I don't listen to the podcasts and the books and book after book after book and podcast after podcast and be inspired by, you know, so many individuals, but.

But inspire yourself, right? Be. Be the person that, you know, instead of, you know, individuals looking up to XYZ, like, be that human being. You know, be that human being today that can go out and start a company. Be that individual out today that can. That can go out and start running. Be that individual today that's gonna go out and, you know, stress out themselves just a little bit in life, too. Go out. Go out and be that person that changes the game on wellness. Go. Go out and be that person.

Because at the bottom line, like, you are, you are a hundred percent that human being. Well, what's. What's different from anybody listening to this than David Goggins? Honestly, David Goggins just made a conscious decision and a choice. That's it. He just made a choice to be that person. And I'm telling you, you can, too. So if there's somebody out there that wants to lose 50 pounds, if there's somebody that wants to go and become a CEO of XYZ organization, I'm telling you, you can do it. And if there's somebody that wants to go out and run a half marathon, I'm telling you, you can do it.

There's no doubt about it. You know, when the rubber meets the road, you can do whatever you want in this life. Sure. Are there some individuals that have God given talents, comparatively speaking, to other individuals? Probably right. You know, the tiger woods of the world, the LeBron James's. I get that. But for the most part, we're all usually right in that bell curve of the 80, 85%. What separates those individuals in the 80, 85%? I'm telling you, it's just how much they're willing to work for it, how much they're willing to put it on the line, how much they're willing to go after it, how much they're ready to go after their goals and dreams in order to achieve those things.

So, again, I'm going to reiterate to you, go inspire yourself. Write your own story. Be your own book. Be your own author, because I'm telling you, your story is just as powerful as anybody else's out there. In fact, I'm going to end with this. There was an individual that I met yesterday when I was, you know, again, you know, every weekend I do my. My big run, and so I was visiting my father in law in northern Minnesota and had to hit the gym, right? So just got, you know, got done with the football game.

And I'm like, this is just enough time to, you know, bang out some miles here before the next game that we watched together, because my father in law loves sports, and there's an individual there that was working out, and we kind of just became fast friends. And, you know, he told me that he lost 50 some pounds, and he's getting himself ready to go before he takes his trip to cabo. And I was like, how inspiring. How inspiring. Like, he just wrote his own story. Like, that man, that individual just wrote his own story, and he's back out working again.

But yet he was still vulnerable enough to ask different questions and what works for you and what doesn't work for me and all the other things. And again, so I'm just so proud of him of writing his own story. And you can, too. So, again, I just want to share. Don't put people on pedestals if you're reading a book. You know, my wife is a classic example of this, right? She follows Nedra Tlaib. She follows all these individuals, Glenn and Doyle and all the other things. And I'm like, the only thing that separates my wife, to be honest, in those individuals right now is they have a platform.

My wife is five x some of those women. And you are, too. I'm telling you. You are, too. So go out and write your story. Go out and write your story now. Inspire yourself. Do the things that you know you need to do. Make the changes in your life to be the inspiration, the story that all this world needs to hear about you. Go do it. Make it happen. All right? Take care of yourselves. Have an amazing week. Don't put people on a pedestal. Put yourself on the pedestal and inspire yourself. Have an amazing week.

Cadre, let's go. It's time to get rocking.