Positive Attitude, Full Effort, Good Sportmanship

Hi, folks. How are you? Welcome to my live stream today already Thursday. Hard to believe. m. Central time here. I hope that you're having an absolutely awesome week so far. And if you're not having an awesome week, I hope that you're getting the support that you need, and I hope that you just keep on going. We're all figuring this thing out together. There's no question about that. And it's a lot easier when we work together. That's what Cadre is all about. We're a crew. We're a community. We're going to learn together.

We're going to grow together. We're going to take the lessons from the past, bring them into the present, and make a better future. So I've got my tennis racket out again today. I'm still feeling inspired by the Australian Open tennis tournament. I was just watching an amazing point by Andy Murray. He was shuffling around. He was throwing it up. We got junk food junkies back. So good to see you. Welcome. Just talking a little bit of tennis. We had Australian Open happening and some really inspiring play out of there.

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Welcome to the live today. And I was just talking about how the Australian opened tennis tournament is going on. And there's this great new Netflix series called Breakpoint about tennis. And it reminded me of my college tennis coach. So I played tennis at this place called Gustavus College in southern Minnesota. We were a really good division three program, and we had this awesome coach named Steve Wilkinson. And Steve passed away a few years ago, but he was just an amazing guy. He was the most winning coach in NCAA history.

And he had this great philosophy where he didn't cut anybody, he made no cuts. So we had a huge team, which is very uncommon in college, and it created this awesome community. And, you know, he would have us meditate before practice. He was very into, you know, spirituality. And at Gustavus, there was three crowns, like, on our logo. And so he made up these three crowns for our team. And Sean says a black sweatshirt with white letters would be good for me. Yeah, that's a good call. I like that. I like that.

We need to welcome from Minneapolis shot. We're hoping to get all kinds of swag. We're getting that figured out. So we're going to get these shirts available for everyone. So just stay tuned for that. But I wanted to talk. So the three crowns are positive attitude, full effort, and good sportsmanship. And so those are the three crowns. Positive attitude, full effort, and good sportsmanship. Now, when I'm in college and hearing this every day, I'm taking it in. Yeah, yeah. You know, but it's only after, you know, being out of college and living in the real world that I find that these ideas are really still something that we can work on and build on and are super important for today.

So the first one I'm going to talk about is positive attitude. Right? And so I think, all things being equal, if we can bring that positive attitude into the day, we're going to have better results. Now, I don't want to preach toxic positivity. I don't want to say that we don't need to acknowledge the things that we need to work on. We don't need to acknowledge what you might call the shadow self and our weaknesses and all these kind of things, because we definitely do want to, you know, take that stuff on as well.

But I think if we can err on the side of positivity and bring it as much of that into our life as we can, we're going to have better results. Now, I'm a big quote guy, so I pulled out a few quotes on positive attitude for you. So here they go. Having a positive attitude isn't wishy washy. It's a concrete and intelligent way to view problems, challenges, and obstacles. And so when those problems, challenges, and obstacles come up, if we can instantly bring that optimism to it, bring that positivity to it, we're going to be able to use our problem solving and our solutions to get a better outcome.

So that quote is from Jeff Moore, and I have another one from Maya Angelou. And it goes like this. Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. And so I think if we have that positive attitude, we're gonna have that learning attitude, that beginner's mind. So when we have this thing come up, maybe we reacted a certain way in the past. We don't need to react that way today. We can react in a brand new way. You know, with that positive attitude.

And then Frank Sonneberg says, changing your mindset is a game changer. And I found that to be absolutely true. And you know what? It's really difficult to change our mindsets. And I think the easiest way that I found to do that is to take different actions. I can't necessarily think my way into better thinking, you know? Cause it just goes and goes. But if I take a certain action, you know, I try meditation, I try that exercise. I reach out to someone, I help someone. That action then can change my thinking.

So I think that's an important thing to remember. So that's just some positive attitude stuff, you know? And on different days, our positive attitude is gonna look, you know, different. Sometimes we're gonna be able to maintain that positive attitude all day. Sometimes it might disappear for a moment, and we've gotta fight to get it back, or maybe we just wait until it comes back. But whatever it is, I think as much as we can cultivate that positive attitude, we're gonna have better results. So the next one is full effort.

And so this is one of the four agreements as well. If you've ever read Don Miguel Ruiz's awesome book on the four agreements, I would definitely check that out. But to give our full effort, to give our best, now, that's gonna look different on different days. Some days you might be tired, some days it might be gray outside, and you're not feeling it. But if we can give our best effort on that day, that is really, really going to help us. So I got this quote from Jesse Owens, and he says, we all have dreams, but in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes a lot of determination, dedication, self discipline, and effort.

So if we combine that positive attitude that we were talking about with this full effort, I think that combination is absolutely amazing and can get us to where we want to go now, when we have this, you know, this full effort. And I think this is one of the things that Cadre is about. If we're part of a community, if we're part of a crew, if we're part of a team, we're gonna have such a better chance at, you know, merging all of that together and becoming successful. If it's just us, if it's just little d***, I can't do it by myself.

I can't. You know? But if I have this. This feeling of community, then anything is possible. You know, no man or woman or person is an island. We're all in this together, right? And so that brings me to the last point, which is sportsmanship. So I've got this quote from Ty Siriwenaki. It says, tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes, to hit every ball that comes to me, no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. And so we need to give it our best shot. And I think to do that, we need good sportsmanship.

When I was a tennis player growing up, I used to challenge people's challenge line calls. You know, I would hit a ball, they would call it out. I said, no, that's in. That's in. You cheated me, you know, and I would then sometimes cheat, you know, and call a ball out, or that was close, you know, or, you know, to retaliate and to try to win the match. You know, it's kind of that John McEnroe attitude of, you know, win at all costs. And I've learned through the years and, you know, through coach Wilkinson that that's not the way to go, that that's gonna make me play worse.

You know, that's gonna end. So if I bring that into life today, if I bring that into the business world, you know, if I bring that into friendships, I need to have good sportsmanship, you know, good ethics. I need to bring love into what I'm doing. And if it is something competitive, I'm gonna have a lot better chance if I have that attitude. As compared to kind of the scarcity mindset. I need to. I need to get, you know, I need to take, you know, if I move into that, I need to give. I need to give.

And I don't always do this. It's hard to do, but when I'm in that mindset, I feel so much better. And junk food junkie says, if you have a positive attitude, it will be contagious to others. To be positive. That's so, so true. You know, if it is contagious, and we never know the cause that we're having on people, you know, if we bring that positive attitude, you never know the ripple effects that that has. When you go in to get a coffee and you have a positive attitude, you know, or this or the barista does, and then you get that positive attitude, and it ripples to someone else and to someone else and to someone else.

It's really amazing when you think about it, you know, and it's the same thing with. With effort and with sportsmanship. So those are the messages that I want to give you today. We have some other absolutely amazing lives coming up this week. I forgot to pull them up on my screen. But I know Doctor David Everett, who is an amazing speaker, is going live later today. We have so many awesome speakers on the platform. We're building this community. We want you to be part of it. We want you to give us feedback.

This isn't like any other app. We're building something that we believe is really special and we want to help people and we want to change the world. So that's where we're at. I hope you have an awesome day. Thank you so much for joining my live and I'll catch you on the flip side. Okay, bye bye.