Monday Motivation

Okay. What's up, Cadre crew? We are live. So good to be here on an incredible Monday. My wife and kids are home today. There's Martin Luther King day today. What a trailblazer. What an amazing human being that's changed the trajectory and lives of so many Martin Luther King. I think there's all those different quotes that people have that they'll never forget. Mine personally, is, if you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, do whatever, but just keep moving forward, right? Or if you can't.

Excuse me. You can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, let's keep moving forward. But that's my favorite Martin Luther King quote. It just talks about that progression to just keep going and keep going and keep going. So, I think the other thing, too, is inequality and racial diversity, and all the things that are still happening in our countries still exist. We stepped foot here, 2 miles, 3 miles away from where I'm filming right now is where philando Castillo died, literally, just a little bit from here.

And then George Floyd. We've kind of been a hotbed here in Minnesota for some racial inequalities that have happened, ultimately leading to loss of life. And so, you know, what he preached about 40 some years ago is still obviously very relevant life today. So take this day, take it in for what it's really worth, and help change in people's lives. That's number one. Number two, I want to share a story today with you that forever resonated with me, and I think it will forever resonate with you. So when you hear the song by sir mix a lot, think sir lines a lot.

Okay? So this is really, really important. There's an individual, very, very smart human being. I think he was a Rhodes scholar, worked out east. Out east. And graduated from an amazing college, went out east to work on the trade floors, received his securities. What is it? 663. 66. All the things. And worked in a highly stressful environment, selling penny stocks, and then worked his way up into different equity firms and all the things, right? And, you know, he thought he had what he wanted, right?

He thought he had what he wanted. He had, you know, the lifestyle. Living in 45th street and park, living the high rise Manhattan apartment, doing all those things that he thought would bring him happiness, joy, satisfaction, love, all the other things. Money, success, success. And at the end of the day, what he found, unfortunately, was it was anything but. He had very little time with his wife and kids. The money was great, all those things. But everything else in his lifestyle, his mental health, burnout, stress, anxiety, all those things.

So after a short three, four, five years, he made more money than, you know, what to do with it. But quit, quit those roles, quit those, quit that job, you know, on Wall street and moved back to Minnesota and started a company. And I have to tell you about the story of the company. So again, what you're trying to go after sometimes this big shiny ball of what you think is success, what people think is success for you, and those expectations of, I need to do this, or I think I should be doing this.

If it's not your passion, it's not your love, and it's not your drive, it doesn't matter, right? And so ultimately what he did is he moved back home here to Minnesota, and he talked to his wife for like, three months and tried to figure out exactly what he was going to do, what was going to be his next thing. And his wife said, well, don't you love to paint? And he's like, I do. I love to paint. Right? So it gets me up. I love to do it. It's therapeutic for me. It's amazing. He's like, and you love business.

Well, what can you do both of those with? Like, how can you run a business that's rather mindless, that can be super fun and it can be energizing for you, and it could be something that you can do with your gratification of painting. So he started this company, and this is an absolute, true story. And he started painting lines. This is true. Like paving lines, highway lines, parking lot lines, all the things. And he put his heart and soul into being the best line painter in the world, having the best lines.

And he started a company called sir lines a lot. Right? Sir lines a lot. So it was him and a couple other people. They started with a couple different parking lots and start getting to bigger parking lots. Today, 20 years later, not only did he sold this company that he actually loved and loved working for and building up the most amazing thing, that was just his talents, his energy, his focus, his love, his passion, right? He, if you ever see some of the big, big parking lot striping going on in large areas and large cities, I promise you it's probably sirlines a lot.

This is an absolute true story. So, like, the United Postal Service, their parking lots, the airports, right? All the different airports that have, you know, the line striping and everything that's going on for the airports, if there's a new airport going up, if there's a new three, four five star high rise at parking lots with all the different lines. That's odds are, it's sirlines a lot. And it's all because somebody left, right? Somebody left what their expectations on them, their self imposed expectations of what they thought, thought they should be doing versus what they really love to do.

So again, sir lines a lot. An unbelievable story. Yes. So when you think about sir mix a lot, think about sir lines a lot, and think about this individual's passion and energy for what he loved to do. And all I encourage you to do is find your love, find your passion. And trust me when I tell you, I've been doing this for eight years. You'll never work a day in your life if you really, really love doing what you do right, give up some things, forget about some other things, do what you gotta do.

Find what you love, and we find what you love and what you're passionate about. Go all in and I'm telling you, everything else will follow. Manifest your dreams, find your passion, find your drive, find your love, and just do exactly what sir lines a lot guy did right. He left all the other stuff, the glamorous life, to do what he loved. And he built an amazing company doing some amazing things and helping so many people. So, yeah, Google the story if you want to. Sir lines a lot. I think it's really one of those stories that you should have with you.

And anytime you think, like, am I doing the right thing, think sir lines a lot. Have an amazing day. Was there anybody that commented or connected? Nick the poet says, hi. Hi, Nick. Alex says, amazing. Yeah, it's a true story. Kelsey says, the second mountain is a good book. The second mountain is about the same topic. Success, progression. That's right. And then Nick the poetic gen said, wow. Yeah, true story. Chris says, this is what drinking only decaf looks like in the morning. Or morning. Luke, that, that's.

This is decaf only. This is decaf only. But so again, when you're, when you're always wondering yourself, like, am I doing it for me? The expectations for me versus what I really, really want and love to do. Right. Everybody has, like, these self imposed expectations from others because it's like they think I should be doing XYZ, or I was the valedictorian of my class, so I should go off to med school. If you don't love that, if you don't love providing medicine or you don't want to be in surgery, it's not going to make your life any better, or the people that you work with or the people that you serve.

So again, I just want to really push. Do what you love. Do what you're passionate about. Stop today. If you wake up today and you're not going, I love what I do. Do something different. Like, honestly, do something different. The paychecks will come. Everything else will come. You'll be just fine. Do what you love. Follow sir lines a lot. Have an amazing day. Thank you so much, everybody. Bye.