Take A Walk With Nick

Hey, folks, how you doing? Nick the poet from Cadre. I'm a creativity coach here, loving life today. We got some major sunshine happening. And so, yeah, I just wanted to talk to you about a few different things that are on my mind. As you take a walk with me here, maybe you want to take your phone and head outside and go for a walk with me. Maybe you want to just, you know, take a little walk around the room, do a few jumping jacks, you know, anything to get a little bit of that movement going. Because if you're anything like me, that movement helps a lot.

It calms the mind. All of a sudden, we get outside of our stream of thoughts, and we see, oh, there's a bird, there's a tree. You know, there's all these different things going on that are outside of my, you know, thought patterns. So just something to think about. And then I wanted to just share some thoughts with you that I've been thinking about that might be helpful to you. And so one of them is that there's no need to hurry or to worry. Now, if you're anything like me, then you love to hurry.

You love to worry. I'm a hurrier and a worrier Cadre. I love walking this journey of life with you, too. Thanks so much for hopping on. I'm just talking about hurrying and worrying and how we about don't have to do it right. And so when I become aware of that fact that I don't need to hurry or worry, it doesn't mean that I'm going to stop all hurrying or worrying like anything. Once I have that awareness, I can begin to practice it right. And so when I find myself hurrying or worrying, I could take a deep breath, calm down, and do the next task that I need to do.

So that's one thing to think about. No need to hurry or worry. The next one is between expansiveness and despair. There is a middle road that I walk. So if you're anything like me, we get excited, we get down, and we don't have to be doing that yo yoing necessarily. We can try to keep ourselves as centered as possible and walk down the middle road. Take it easy. Even when we're going really hard, we can still take it easy. So we can be working hard and giving it our all, but we can maybe take away a little bit of that emotional intensity and just, you know, kind of be in the moment.

I love the expression try easy instead of try hard. This is from Victor Wooten, who's maybe the greatest bass player of all time for Bella and the Flecktones and many other things. I read his book called the Music lesson, and he talked about trying easy. So we're putting in the effort, but we're kind of letting our natural self take over and do it instead of really trying to make it happen. So much edge. Welcome. You're the original Og. Thanks for hopping on. So, yeah, and I've got this poem that I wrote long ago that starts the thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop, right?

And that's how I used to feel. You know, there was nothing to do with all these thoughts, these fears, these anxieties that can weigh so heavily upon us. The thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop. But the fact is that we can stop it, right? We can break that pattern of fear and worry. And once again, it's a lot of practice. And so they say if you've had a fear or anxiety for 24 hours, you should talk to someone about it. You know, you should write a poem about it.

You should. You, you know, talk to that trusted person about it. Like, make sure that you're not living with those just inside of your head. We need to express them in some way because lack of expression can lead us to depression and block us off. Right. From others. So we need to express that in some way. So that's how we stop that mind grind. And you might find new creative ways to do it. The way that you did it yesterday doesn't have to be the way that you do it today. But just make sure that you're talking to somebody about these things that are going on, because you don't have to do anything alone.

Right. We have to walk this path together. Another question that you can ask yourself is, what would my higher self do next? I know what Nick would do next. In a lot of situations, he would go into the worrying and the hurrying. But what would my higher self do, you know, take a moment to pause and reflect, and we can have a lot of fun as we take new actions. These might take us outside of our comfort zone and might be uncomfortable, but that's going to lead us to growth. So I'm going to leave you with this poem.

Lavish gifts await us all when we realize the universe constantly provides. Life is mysterious, serious, curious. Cheer yourself up. You're always on the cusp of greatness because you are, in fact, great. It's not too late, at any rate. The time is always now. So that's what I have for you today. Thanks for tuning into my live stream. I would love to hear what you think in the comments. If you're going to take any of these actions, please let me know in the comments. Okay. And tell your friends about Cadre.

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