Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks. How you doing? Thank you for taking a walk with me today. My name is Nick the poet. I'm a creativity coach here at Cadre and Happy Mental Health Awareness Month. Happy may 4, may the fourth, be with you. What do you think of the, the force? Do you believe in it, in the Star wars sense? Is there universal force that we could use? I choose to believe that. I really do, and it helps me. And there was a great quote on the Cadre Instagram page from Glenn Close, and it says, what mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.

I definitely agree. And I like to say I've been through the mental health wringer and became a singer. A mental health singer. Even though I can't sing very well, I do like to talk about it. And I think in ways we've all been through the mental health wringer. Right? COVID Pandemic, fear. Just to be human. We deal with a lot of stuff, and I think everyone is becoming aware that mental health is just as important. Physical health. So, yeah, I just wanted to. Hey, Carrie, how you doing? Hey, Leona.

Thanks so much for hopping on. It's great to see you. And I was just sharing this quote from, from Glenn Close. I'll share it one more time. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation. And then the caption said something about kind of, you know, not taking up a self improvement project and just kind of enjoying life. And I think that is such great advice. I mean, as high performers, we want to constantly get better, you know? But I love this quote. I have it written down here from Anthony DeMelo, and it says, take delight in your imperfections.

We all think we need more self improvement, but what we really need is more self acceptance, right? And we definitely always want to try to get better and better and to, you know, correct our weaknesses. But a lot of times, we just need that self acceptance, and that can be what takes us to the next level or to just having a good day, you know, which is important. And so I've got a couple poems that are just a little more fun and comedic that I'm going to read for you today. And this one goes. It starts with that quote, take delight in your imperfections.

We all think we need more self improvement, but what we really need is more self acceptance. So there's different sections of life and varying degrees of strife or what the Buddhists call suffering. It's easy to get caught in this, like when that spinning circle shows up on the computer and it's buffering. I always want to avoid pain and fear. Two four letter words that can taste like rotten cheese curds. On the flip side is the joyous ride that life can be. It's as easy as riding down a slide coated in the best sicilian olive oil.

So good that even Don Corleone would dunk his bread in it and give you a high five. As you fly past to your amazing destiny, navigating this space between expansiveness and despair, running the race with endurance and losing your cunning and gaining your heart seems to be a great start. Whether you're hopping in a golf cart or eating a pop tart or acting really smart or watching Bart Simpson on tv and life is easy or life is hard, your heart is always there to say it's better than okay. To today.

What do you say? I will listen as the moon glistens. Sorry, I still haven't figured out a great way to walk and read my poetry. As the moon glistens and the loon dives underwater and the baker wins the lottery and the housewife tries pottery, I'm having trouble reading my own writing. Yeah, we'll go with pottery. And the banker buys that charcuterie board that was on sale at TJ Maxx after he started a new diet and bought some kale at Trader Joe's. We're all doing this dance. Let's pop out of the trance whenever we can and say hello to our heart and to each other.

So I hope that you have a really amazing day. I have another poem, but I think I'm going to save it for next time and just see if, you know, you can take a little bit of pressure off yourself today. Still do what you need to do. But maybe take a couple minutes out in the sun, take a walk, call a friend, just let it be a little bit, and see how that treats you. Please leave a message in the comments if you give that a try or if you have any thoughts on this video. Have an amazing day. I'm wishing you a lot of peace, positivity, and prosperity while all remembering that we have a lot of work to do together.

Okay, bye.