Take A Walk With Nick

Hey, folks, how you doing? Nick, the poet from Cadre here. Welcome to my live stream. Take a walk with Nick. Thank you for joining me today. I hope you've been having an awesome week. And yeah, just gonna throw a bunch of different ideas and concepts at you today and just see if anything sticks. Like I had a friend who used to say, you know, catch it if you can. So I'm gonna just send some of this stuff your way. And I'm going to start with, you know, an old poem of mine which goes, the thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop.

But the fact is we can stop our mind. Right? Hey, Katie, how you doing? Good to see you. Thank you for hopping on the live stream. I'm just telling the audience that I'm going to share a bunch of different ideas today and I hope that one of them, you know, changes your day a little bit because I find what I do take the time to, to hear new ideas, to meditate, to do things differently, that it's a seed that's planted and my whole day does change. Right. It adds a new tenor, a new flavor, a new possibility that day.

Right. And so here we go. The first thought is to just solve the moment, right? All we have to do is right now and we get this reminder constantly and it's just a way to keep practicing. Wayne, Lair's on the call. Wayne, great to see you, man. I've been so enjoying your daily dose of inspiration emails. If you want to get on Wayne's email list, Wayne, put your email in the chat if you can. Those have been. And that's kind of what I'm trying to say here is that these little nuggets, these little pieces of information that we get can really, really change our day.

And so I'm always taking in new stuff. And so this is just kind of what I've heard in the last week and I want to share some with you and see if it resonates with you. Doctor Carey, good to see you too. Thanks for hopping on. I'm glad I was able to figure out some technical difficulties on my end. So, yeah, so I'm talking about just solve the moment. You know, we can think about just solving the day, but for me it's oftentimes easier. Like I've just gotta, I just gotta solve right now. I just have to be here right now.

The second one is to say yes to the universe. This is a really powerful concept. You know, for me, I am really oftentimes fearful and anxious. And so I'm oftentimes saying, no, no, I'm scared. And my mind is always playing defense, right? My heart will play offense, and that's really exciting. My mind is always playing defense, looking for possible fears and all of that kind of thing. So just practice saying yes. And it is a practice. So like, sometimes we're still going to revert into that zone of fear.

Whatever our kind of thing is, we all have our things that block us and get in the way. Whatever it is, we can practice doing something different and have a lot of patience with ourselves when we probably keep doing the same thing a lot of the time. The other concept that I heard this week is the uninvited guest. And Rumi has this poem about the uninvited guest. And when we wake up in the morning, we have, we might be hit with these different emotions and thoughts and where did these come from? You know, I wasn't worried about that yesterday.

And today I am. And usually, you know, I will fight those things, you know, in my head. But Rumi's saying welcome these emotions in, you know, welcome these things in, you know, they may have something to teach you even if it's uncomfortable. So welcome. Welcome those in. I already talked about the mind playing defense, the heart plane offense. So another thing is reach for a better thought. And this is a big one. This was shared by my friend, and I think he heard it from someone else. And all these things, when we start studying and practicing in a different ways, we start hearing a lot of the similar things.

And so to reach for a better thought, like my first thought, like I've shared, is oftentimes it's probably negative, you know, it's probably fearful. But I can start reaching for a better thought right away and not get stuck in that mind grind and get bogged down. So this helps us practice allowing, just allowing things to happen, you know, and so we're not playing defense. We're letting it happen. We are allowing. And so we're not always trying to figure things out with our mind, because if we're trying to figure things out with our mind all the time, we don't give the universe a chance to help us out.

So let's let the universe, or whatever you want to call it, you know, the radiant is let that help us out, you know? And if the. If those types of concepts, you know, like the universe and stuff don't vibe with you, that's totally cool. It could be anything. It could be your higher self. It could just be yourself, you know? I think we all realize that we have that, that something in us, that part of us that is, you know, I'm just going to call it the universe. But whatever works for you, let that be your guide.

And so also, don't make something a problem before it is a problem. I love to do that. I love to just create problems that don't exist and then solve them all day. I'm a great problem solver, you know, let's see what we can, you know, create here. And so it's oftentimes a waste of time and it can be frustrating. But once again, have patience with yourself when you realize this type of stuff and be like, oh, that's me creating a problem again, just so I could. Just so I could solve it. Ideally, we're solving problems that, you know, are really part of our purpose.

So that one, you know, and sometimes we just have to laugh at ourselves because we are just human and we are just kind of fumbling through things a lot of the time. And that's okay. That is okay. So another one is choosing peace or right? And so it's whatever, it's like you or peace or fear, peace or worry, peace or resentment, peace or whatever it is, we can choose peace right in that moment. Which brings me to the power of now. And once again, all these concepts that I'm sending your way, these are things that I practice but are very difficult to do.

And so it's not like something that is just, you know, that just happens in a day. These are, in my opinion, a very slow practice. But sometimes you might get a flash of insight that really makes a huge difference. And just remember that in this power of now, the whole universe is at our disposal to help us out right now. It happens right now. And so ask yourself, how would you show up if you knew everything was going to be okay? My mind will usually say, okay, it's not going to be okay. How could I make sure that it is okay?

That's playing defense. That's creating problems before they exist. And so the power of action is that we can take different actions that help us to practice these things, right? Because if I just keep thinking about it, I end up down all these rabbit holes. But if I take some kind of action, whether that's going live here for a little bit, calling a friend, doing some writing, whatever it is, you know, to do, because lack of expression can lead us into depression. So those are my thoughts for today.

Those are kind of some of the things. And truthfully, there's many more, right? Because we all, like Walt Whitman said, we all contain multitudes. So we all have all of this stuff going on, you know, and we just keep taking a step forward at a time, and we could do this together. And speaking of taking a step forward at a time, shout out to Luke Wendlett, the founder of Cadre, who is running a hundred miler this Saturday. Godspeed to you, Luke. We'll be thinking about you out on that course, running ten laps around White Bear Lake.

So I'm wishing you a peaceful, positive, and prosperous week while remembering that we all have a lot of work to do, but we can do it together. Okay, signing off. Bye.