What You Do Matters

Hey, folks, how you doing? My name is Nick the poet. Welcome to my live stream. It's already Thursday this week. Can you believe it? m. Central time here. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to, you know, listen to me. And today we're going to be talking about what you do matters, right? Every little thing that you do really does matter. And we have a tremendous power to change our lives and to change the lives of those around us. And I want to start by telling you a little story from the movie Rocky.

I was watching Rocky last night, and it's on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend watching it. But there's a scene where Rocky's trainer, Mick. Mick, is this old tough guy who's, who's always been really hard on Rocky. He took his locker away, and then, you know, Rocky gets this big shot at the title to fight Apollo Creed, and Rocky's scared, and, you know, he's trying to do it on his own, like so many of us do. He's trying to go it alone, and, you know, he's not really having a lot of success.

And then Mick comes over and says, you know, rocky, I want to help you. You know, you need a manager. You need somebody to take care, take care of you. You need help. But Rocky's resentful, you know, and he's. He's angry. He says, where were you ten years ago? I needed you ten years ago, you know? And then Mick leaves, and Rocky has a change of heart, right? And he runs out to the street, and they. They shake hands, you know? And then the next morning is the famous scene where Rocky wakes up, he pounds the four raw eggs and then starts running, right?

And I think this is such a powerful scene because we all have people in our lives who try to help us at different times. And, you know, Mick says, at one point, all you had to do was ask. You just had to ask. And so I think, you know, tying this into what we do matters, you know, whether we're the person that is giving that help or whether we're the person that's asking for help, it really, really matters, right? And the ripple effect of our actions, you know, cannot be underestimated. You know, there's people watching, you know, what we're doing, you know, our friends, our family, our coworkers.

Now we have the space of social media, so we never know how we are impacting, you know, those around us, and we can't even comprehend, really, or fathom the ripple effects, you know, that our actions can have on other, other people. And so I think that's just something to really remember. And it doesn't mean we have to be hard on ourselves. We don't have to be perfectionistic. We don't have to not make mistakes. We don't have to be perfect. You know, I don't think that is the point of this. It's just to realize that, like, hey, this really matters.

This is our one life, you know, let's do the best that we can with it. And sometimes, you know, for me, that is thinking in the grandest or the, you know, the big ideas, the big happenings. But I'm discovering more and more that it is in the small stuff, you know? And so I would encourage you, you know, to really focus on that small stuff, you know, smiling, you know, being there for your coworkers, being kind, you know, these are all the actions, you know, that we can take. And I've always had, you know, grand ambitions, and.

But this year, I'm really focusing on eat, play, love is my purpose, you know, for this year, and just keeping it simple, you know, and keeping it healthy, you know, working on the wellness, you know, all this stuff, because at one point, I was really struggling, you know, I had some tough mental health recovery journey, you know, and I'm so happy to be on the other side of that. But the healing continues, you know? And so I would encourage you just, you know, as those fears and anxieties arise, like, because we're human and we all have them that we need to.

It's. It's our duty, really, to face them and to heal them, and we do that together, you know? And so that matters to your healing matters, your journey matters, because the more of us. Big ticket. Luke, thank you so much for hopping on. We're just talking about all the things you love. I opened with a rocky story, but just what you do matters. That's what we're trying to do here at Cadre, is realizing that we need to stay together. We need to help each other. And we can't underestimate the power of the gifts that we give each other because it ripples out.

You know, everything I'm sharing with you right now is just gifts that have been giving to me from the people of my life and the people that I've learned from, you know, so that ties into the power of positive thinking. And so we. I think you want to err on the side of positivity now. It doesn't mean that we want to not acknowledge what people call the shadow self or, like, are, you know, defects, you know, these things that we need to work on, right? But if we could be as positive as we can, that's going to have an effect on others as well.

So I want to focus on being peaceful, positive, prosperous, while also acknowledging I got to keep working, you know, on the things that. That challenge me. And so just living with that purpose, you know, all through this month of January, I've been talking about purpose and finding it. And, like, when Rocky woke up with a renewed sense of purpose that he slammed those eggs and he started running. We can do that at any moment, right? We've all started somewhere. We've all had that first day, like when I quit smoking cigarettes.

It's like there's that first day where we have to make that choice. We have to make that leap, right? And we have to just trust that we're going to be, you know, taken care of. And so I think if you haven't done it yet, just take some. A little bit of time today, ten minutes, and write down what your purpose is, what makes you come alive, you know, what do you want to work on? And it's okay if you go down a road where you think that's your purpose. And Luke says, when is the best time to start? It's right now.

It's always right now. Right? And we keep getting these chances each day, each moment is a new opportunity to, you know, begin that and to make what you do matters. And I just stress, really, that I've been finding so much joy in the small things, you know, like, whatever it is, you know, if it's. If it's striking up a conversation at the. The coffee shop with the barista, you know, if it's, you know, reaching out to a friend that you haven't heard of in a long time, there was a great post that I saw from.

From Jesse Itzler on LinkedIn, where his mom always wanted to go to Europe. And he just was so busy in his twenties, thirties, and forties. Now that he has time in his fifties, he can go. But his mom is no longer alive, so he can't, you know, and that's. These are the things. These are the life things that we all go through. And once again, you know, we can't be perfect, right? This doesn't mean, like, it's because what you do matters. We have to get it right all the time. It almost encourages us to, you know, let go a little bit and just realize we're all doing, you know, the best that we can.

So, in conclusion, you know, I think err on the side of kindness right now, you know, and I really like this now thing, too, because we are constantly creating who we are. So what you do right now, you know, matters. And if you're like me and you're someone who can get caught up in that worry, in that fear, in that anxiety, I really encourage you to name it, to write it down, what you're feeling, and to talk with someone else about it, talk with someone you trust about it, you know, because we don't have to do this thing alone.

We do not have to do this alone. So I hope you have an awesome rest of the day. I'm Nick the poet. This is Cadre. We have so many amazing creators on the platform right now. We have girls mentorship who just joined. Mary and Jill are absolutely amazing. You got to check out their live streams. I believe Doctor David Everett, our DeI specialist and just all around great guy, amazing golfer is going live later today. You never want to miss one of Chris Edgerton's lives. Talking all things recovery, Dr.

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