Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks. How you doing today? My name is Nick the poet. Welcome to take a walk with Nick. Thank you so much for joining me. Today in my livestream, I talk about creativity, collaboration, connection, and share some thoughts and ideas that I've been thinking about or working on in the past week. So the first thing that I want to share with you is this thing from a book that I saw someone post about called the Mind of the Buddha. The mind of the Buddha. And it says, all joy comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering comes from wanting only oneself to be happy.

Hey, Alec, how you doing? Thanks for hopping on. I'm just sharing about this book that I saw someone post about called the Mind of the Buddha. Hey, Luke, how you doing? And these guys both know this very well, that all joy comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering comes from wanting only oneself to be happy. And I think that's a big part of what Cadre is doing, is wanting others, you know, to get better and to experience happiness and to work together, you know, to overcome and to go to the next level, because.

Thank you so much, Luke and Alec. And, yeah, so it's like, I know that when I'm just focused on myself, you know, and my own thinking and worries, that's when it's really difficult, you know, and we can get bogged down, and you can almost feel that kind of shrinking feeling inside. Right? Like, oh, my goodness, you know, I'm worried about this. I'm worried about that. But the most fail safe thing that we can do is try to think of others, you know, to try to be helpful in some way, and that's going to take us out of that.

So that's. That's one thing I wanted to share with you. Another one is that my friend Thomas Edwards shared was he said, the best decision you can make is look in the mirror, say to yourself, I'm awesome, and choose to be in a good mood. And I thought that was. Was really interesting, you know, because oftentimes it's the opposite. Right? We're. We're self critical, you know, and we're doing all these things, but why don't we just err on the side of thinking like, hey, I can be awesome today, you know, I can do this.

It's this. It's the self talk, right, Luke? It's that, you know, just changing that thing. And it doesn't have to be a major change. It just might be a small. A subtle shift, a slight edge, as they say, you know, and just look at yourself at the beer and say, I'm. I'm awesome, you know? And you don't even have to fully believe it, you know, because it's. It's all about just making that progress. Progress, right. Moving from one place, you know, to another, within our mind, within our emotions, and within ourselves.

So I. And to build on that, another friend sent me this quote. It said, live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. Rumi the poet said this, and I love that, too, because it's like, even if a seeming challenge comes up, we can thank that challenge, right? Because oftentimes we look at, you know, whatever's happened, maybe we have a work issue come up and we're like, oh, my goodness, this is. This is terrible. Why did this have to happen today? But what if we. What if we kind of blessed that challenge and said, hey, this is good.

This. This is good. Thank goodness for this challenge. I'm gonna learn something here. You know? I'm gonna. Something is gonna come from this that wouldn't otherwise. That wouldn't otherwise happen. You know, we look for that opportunity. Yeah. Rumi is amazing. Alec. Another one that he has is about the guest house and how when we wake up in the morning, we have these guests, essentially, that visit us. And it could be emotions, it could be gratitude, it could be fear, it could be different things on different days.

And a lot of times we don't have control over what that thing is, right? That comes up. But if we welcome it instead of fighting against it and say, okay, I'm feeling this, you know, I'm feeling whatever this is, I'm just gonna feel it. I'm gonna learn from it, experience it, and let it pass through me. You know, like Michael singer talks about in the untethered soul, keeping that open heart, right, and living from there and not letting things get stuck. And it's difficult to do every day, you know, I get stuck in the mind grind in different ways.

Welcome, junk food junkie. Thanks for hopping on, you know, like, we all can experience that mind grind, but there is a way out of the mind grind. And it's through helping others. It's through meditating, it's through journaling. It's through all of these different types of things that we can do. So I hope some of this resonated with you. I encourage you to follow your bliss today. And it doesn't mean that you have to quit your job or anything like that. Take that bliss into your job. Maybe you're working on some spreadsheets and you turn on some great music.

And you do the spreadsheets with the music. Maybe you're driving to work, you go a slightly different route. You roll the window down. You know, maybe, you know, you had a sandwich yesterday, you have a salad today. Maybe you had a salad yesterday, you have a sandwich today. Whatever it is, maybe just that slight shift in perception. Let us know how it goes. I wishing you peace, positivity and prosperity while remembering that we all have a lot of work to do, but we're going to do it together. Okay?

That's nick the poet here, signing off. I'll catch you on the flip side.