Take A Walk With Nick

Hey, folks, how you doing? This is Nick the poet. Welcome to my live stream. Take a walk with Nick. I hope that you're having an awesome week so far. How's it already? Thursday. My goodness. So, how are you? Check in with yourself. You know, sometimes we need just a little bit of movement. There's a saying, move a muscle, change of thought. So, you know, if you're in your apartment or house, you know, take a. Take a walk around. I see. Testing at Cadre IO. Welcome. Testing. So just get a little movement, you know, maybe do a few jumping jack.

A few jumping jacks. Anything to kind of get going. Maybe you're even feeling inspired to take your phone, take this live stream for a walk outside with me. So, yeah, that's. That's what we're doing today. And I wanted to share with you some. Just some. Some inspirations that I've had through the years. Some different things and different authors and. And people that I found to be, you know, really inspirational and. Yeah. So I wanted to start with this guy named Tony Robbins. You've probably heard of him, and he has many books.

One of them that I read was awaken the giant within. And I would definitely recommend that. And one thing that Tony talks a lot about is massive action, right? And so he's saying, you know, we've got to take action. We've gotta. If we want things to change, we need to take action. And it's very difficult for us to try to think our way into, you know, better actions. But if we can take those actions, then our mindset and our behavior can change. There's the saying, also act as if. So sometimes we need to act as if, you know, the way we want to feel.

Sometimes we need to act better than we feel, you know, to get us there. And this doesn't mean that we want to be, you know, practicing toxic positivity. You know, we want to acknowledge when we have things that we need to work on. Right. But we also want to, you know, can practice taking massive action. So another one that I really like is the untethered soul, and this is from a guy named Michael singer and two concepts that he taught me about that I really enjoy. Junk food. Junkie, how you doing?

Good morning. Thank you for joining. I'm just sharing. Thank you, Alec, so much. Yep, absolutely. It's that interesting line, you know, where we. We have to keep working on our weaknesses, but we also really need to be, I think, as positive as possible, especially in this day and age, you know, and it can help so much to make sure we're communicating with other people, you know, and encouraging them as well. So, edge, how you doing? Good to see you. So I'm going to encourage these guys. Junk food junkie, Alec Edge, you're going to do awesome today.

Let's go. You know, even if we're feeling that little bit of, like, oh, my goodness, I got this to do. I got that to do, you know? We got it. We got it. So, anyways, this other guy that I really like is Michael Singer, and he's got a book called the Untethered Soul, and a couple of concepts that he talks about in there are opening the heart. So we love you. I love you, too, Cadre. So much love. So this open the heart thing really was a huge breakthrough for me, and I read it about three or four years ago.

I was working as a janitor in this awesome film college in Minneapolis called IPR, and so many cool characters. The sound guy there was the best man at Willie Nelson's wedding, and there was another really cool guy who helped build Paisley park. So it was a really interesting place to work. And while I was there on some of my breaks, I was reading this untethered soul, and it was all about opening the heart, right, and tapping into our heart. And I'd really never been introduced to this concept.

You know, I'm so used to trying to live from my mind, as I say, and it's buckets of lost time, right? Or that other poetic line I have. The thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop. But the key is to take our thoughts and bring them into our heart and keep that open, you know, because you can feel when your heart closes off and when you shut down to life, right? But if we can keep that heart open, and you can just. And you can just feel it, you know, you can put your hand on your heart and just.

And just feel it, or ask your heart what it feels about situations. We're so used to asking our mind. And if your mind's anything like mine, it's probably got some fears, some anxieties. You know, it doesn't mean we don't want to use our mind. It just means that there's other tools available to us, and one is the open heart. And so another thing that Michael Singer talks about is the path of unconditional happiness. And so with this one, you know, to summarize a little bit and definitely pick up the book, the untethered soul, to learn more.

But this is kind of tied into the positivity is like, no matter what happens, if we can make that choice to be as happy as we possibly can in that moment, and if we go from that place of happiness instead of, you know, focusing on the external, we don't want this, we don't want that. Just accepting it and saying, I'm gonna be happy, you know, no matter what happens. And it's. It's a really cool way to look. It's. Try to go through a day like it. It's really, really difficult. Alec, I'm glad you like Michael Singer, too.

He has the same birthday as me as well. Shout out May 6. So love Michael Singer. And those are two concepts from him, the open heart and the path of unconditional happiness, that have been super beneficial. Luke's asking for haiku. Okay, listen to Michael Singer. You will, it will tinger your. Your mind. I don't think Tinger is a word. It will ping your mind and you will actually become a better golfer because you might get some ping golf clubs as well. So pretty weak haiku there, but I did my best.

Stick around to the end, though. I have a poem for you, so stick around at the end. So another guy, Eckhart Tolle, you've probably heard of him, the power of now, right? A new earth. And he's got the saying, there's a great creative power of being nobody in particular. Or I'll shout out to Luke, you don't owe your past a thing, right? So we can get very tied up in our identities or how we think we should act or who we think we are, right? And if we get stuck in that story, if we get stuck in that story of, like, I'm this or I'm that, we cut out all the amazing possibilities of the moment.

So he's saying, if we can practice being nobody in particular, right? Meaning just that we lose our story and we act in the moment. And it can help if we're doing that with the open heart, right? If we're living in the now, right? If we're being as positive as possible. And life gets a lot more exciting that way. So my other shout out is to Foozaro, who is an awesome. My friend Daryl Fuzzaro, he's been on some Cadre clips. A super cool guy. He has a really awesome book called break out of your box.

And he says, something shifted in me in that instant. It became clear to me that life worked from the inside out. All my life, I had struggled to improve my external circumstances. I was convinced that once I got everything arranged perfectly, then I'd be happy. Living this way was unbearable. I could never get it all together, so I believed I was a loser. What a thrill to discover that this was not the case at all. Life is simpler than I had been imagining it to be. All I had to do was switch from striving to believing.

And so I love this quote from Fuzzaro. This book is so good. I read it. Whatever. I need a pick me up and all these, you know, if you're reading these different authors and learning these different things, and it's so cool, you know, if you're on the Cadre app and you're listening to what everybody's doing, you know, it's. It's like junk food. Junkie says, listen to your heart. It will always lead you in the. In the right direction. I like the mine. It's so true. And, you know, Cadre is a place where we can come and we can share these ideas.

We can take what we've learned out in the world and bring it here and share with each other. And that's what it's all about. It's about that connection, that collaboration, and that creativity. So thank you so much for joining. I'm going to do a poem for you. This one I think I wrote last April. Can you believe we're already coming up on April? It's March 30. I don't know if this was last April or the April before, but it goes like this. It's early April in the north country. Every moment is beautiful if we can see, but that's okay if we miss it most of the time, it almost seems impossible not to.

We're taking care of this and making that happen. I did hear an interesting piece of advice this week, though. If you try to solve it with your ego, you don't give the universe the pleasure of helping you out. Many of us seem good at helping and bad at asking for help. We are oftentimes better givers than receivers. But I think it's important to ask for help and to receive. I think that the universe is always conspiring to help us and heal us. It may just not be the method that my ego prefers. Today, I'm going to try to let go of how I think things should work and feel inspired to see the world anew.

What an exquisite pleasure it is to be alive. Whether I'm in the mode of survive or thrive, I can always look at the sky and realize that happiness comes in the blink of an eye. So that's my poem for you today, you know, if you have a chance, get outside for a little walk. You know, I get very easily, you know, caught up in all of my thoughts. But, you know, notice the burrs, notice the. The trees. You know, go walk by somewhere and notice what people are doing. You know, there's a whole world out here, and it's much bigger than what we sometimes get stuck, you know, in between our ears.

So get out there today, you know, notice things or just. Just, you know, I don't know. Just have an awesome day, Alec. Thanks for the heart. I love all of you. Let's keep it going. Let's be peaceful. Let's be positive. Let's be prosperous. And while all remembering that, we have a lot of work to do together. Okay. Bye, everybody.