Latest / Just For Today / 141. Always a base
Transcript
- Jessica Figueroa: Good morning. Where are my retired cheerleaders out there? Where are you guys? Dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, shoot, shoot. Put that ball through the hoop hoop. That was a basketball one. All right. So I spent some years in junior high school and high school cheering, and I wouldn't say I was amazing, but there were some life lessons I learned from cheering as we do everything. Now I am five foot six. I was never mistaken for being a scrawny or lanky girl. I was, you know, had some meat on my bones. So I was always something called a base. I was a base, meaning I held the smaller girls up in the air. And it was a really important job, right? It is. It doesn't get all that fame and all that attention of being the ones in the air are called flyers and they get all the attention and the fame for being up there flying. And it's so great. And but we're just not all made to fly. I did have some flying experience, but for the most part, in most of my cheering years, I was something called a base. And the other girls would have to rely on my foundation in order to do their job successfully. And it was a very important job. How you put your feet, where you put your stance, how you shifted your body weight, how you held your hands. It was so important. And we were trained because we were responsible for this person that was flying through the air as a base. We were the foundation. That they could rely upon. There are people in our lives that we are a base for. You're a cheerleading base, whether you like it or not, you don't have to wear the uniform, but you are a cheerleading base. For example, if you're a mother or a father, you are a base in your child's life. They should be able to fly with you as their foundation. Are you sturdy? Are you steady? Can they rely on you? Are you predictable? Do they know what you're gonna do next? Do you have the right call signs in cheer? You have the right call signs. One, two, down, up, so they knew what was coming next. And maybe it's not your children. Maybe there's other people in your life. Maybe it's your staff or your coworkers. There are people in your life that you are the base. And how great of a base are you? How great? Can someone climb on you? Can they climb on your shoulders? Have you heard the expression standing on the shoulders of giants? Can they stand on your shoulders? There's a cheerleading move called a shoulder stand. It's a single move. One girl on the bottom, one girl standing on her shoulders. Can you support someone? Can you be that foundation and that base for them? And who are the people relying on you to be their base? Little rah-rah shish kumbah, cheering today, guys. I'm cheering for you as you're listening to this every day. You guys have a great day today.