Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks. How you doing? My name is Nick the poet. Welcome to this weekly installment of take a walk with Nick. I'm a creativity coach here at Cadre and just going to share some musing thoughts and a little bit of poetry from some things I've been thinking about over the past week. So maybe you want to take a walk with me. Maybe you want to, you know, go around the block. Maybe you want to walk around your kitchen. Maybe you're sitting down and you just want to enjoy that. So I hope some of this resonates with you and you can practice some of these things in your life.

So I heard this interesting question from Tim Ferriss this week. What if I let it be easy? And so I was moving yesterday and I was dreading it, but it ended up being a really pleasant experience. As pleasant as an experience as moving can be. So sometimes our expectation of things isn't necessarily what they turn out to be. Alec, how you doing? Welcome to the live stream and congratulations on finishing a marathon recently. That's absolutely amazing. I'm just sharing some. Hey, junk food chunky.

It's so good to see you. It's been a while. Thanks for hopping on. I just was asking the question that I've heard Tim Ferriss ask. What if I let it be easy and we can apply this to all kinds of different tasks that we're doing, maybe a work task that we're dreading. You know, I was talking about moving yesterday, but what if we let it be easy? What if we bring that mindset to it? Even though we're working hard, we take a little bit of that tension out. So while I was moving, I was carrying this really heavy box.

Luke, welcome. Great to see you. So I was carrying this really heavy box and it broke open. And this book that my friend wrote called break out of your box, incidentally, was the book that was on top. It's by my friend Darrell Fusaro, who was on the podcast last year. And so I wanted to share a couple of quotes because I read from this book all the time. I found it to be really, really powerful. Powerful. And Darrell's known for saying lead with the heart instead of the chin, which I love that quote, if we're leading from the heart instead of, and I would even say lead from the heart instead of the mind.

But he says treating ourselves with the kindness that a loving grandmother would give makes us feel good. And feeling good always attracts more to feel good about. And so he says when he wakes up in the morning, he's a little grumpy. You know, when I wake up in the morning, Fusaro is a total legend, Luke. He absolutely is. And so when I wake up in the morning, you know, I might be a little fearful, a little anxious. And so this trick of talking to myself like a grandmother really works, you know, hey, it's going to be okay, Nick.

Just, you know, put 1ft in front of the other, just, you know, do this next thing, drink a glass of water, and we can bring this into all the different things that we do. Because my inner voice is oftentimes not that kind, loving grandmother. It's you fool, Nick, why did you say that? Or, you know, what the heck? You got to get this done, you know? But if we could bring that loving voice, you know, I think it's really, really helpful. And he shares this quote from Neville Goddard that says a change of feeling is a change of destiny.

And I think that's so true. So also, just wanted to check in. I had mentioned that I quit drinking coffee and caffeine about ten days ago. It's going well. I still have plenty of energy, maybe more energy. It was really brutal for, like, I don't want to discourage you and say that it was super brutal, but it was like, for three or four days, I mean, it was, it was pretty tough. But if you're thinking about doing it, and I'm not telling you to quit drinking coffee, I drink coffee for a long time and it's amazing and it actually has a lot of health benefits, but, you know, it was hurting my stomach and so I decided to quit.

And so if you, if you do do that, just know that, that after that first three or four days, at least for me. Thanks, Luke. I know you're on the decaf train and it's, you know, it's just, it's been a really positive experience for me. So just wanted to share that with you also. Just wanted to check in. We're a little bit all over the map today on the AI revolution. Are you using AI? We're using chat GPT at work a lot. I feel like it's, it's. Thanks, Alec. I know you've done the coffee quit before as well, so.

Yeah. Are you using AI? You know, are you using it at work? We're using chat GPT a lot. You know, I found in my role as a creative, it's helped me with emails, it's helped me with copywriting, it's helped me with, for some things, for work I have to do spreadsheets. It's helped me with that a lot. So I just wanted to see, you know, if you're using it. There's also some really cool video AI stuff. So yeah, just just checking in on that. It's definitely something I've been into and have found to be really beneficial.

So maybe, you know, check it out, keep an open mind about it. And yes, hopefully the robots do not take over. So I also wanted to share a little bit. This very short poem came to me this morning. Thank you, junk food junkie. Yeah, it was a tough one. Hey, guys. So this little poem came to me. It says if you're feeling gloomy, read some roomie. And Rumi is a great poet. Love you too, Luke. Rumi is a great poet, and just he can always just kind of shift my perspective. Alex shares yes. Chat GPT Miss journey and notion Google AI.

Okay, I've never heard of Miss journey. I've heard a notion is notion connected to Google AI, something to look into. And so now we're jumping this is take a walk with Nick. We're now jumping from chat GPT we're going back about, I don't know, 800 years to roomy, this awesome persian poet. And so if you're feeling gloomy, read some roomy. So he says just these three fun Rumi quotes. You are not meant for crawling. So don't you have wings? Learn to use them and fly mid journey. Okay? Mid journey.

Well, we're mid journey through this live and I'm gonna keep sharing the roomy quotes. So it's work. Keep digging. Your well water is there somewhere. And so I think this is a great reminder for Rumi. Like, oftentimes if I'm worrying the solution is to do some work, you know, is to work on it, to take some action. I love to just spin the wheels, but if I get in there and do some work, I'm going to find the answer. And he says, also, whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.

And so if we're seeking this, you know, if you're on this platform, you're seeking wellness, and I really believe you're going to find it, you know, because what we seek, we ultimately do find, you know, it just might take us a long time, but sometimes it might come, you know, a little bit faster. So we just have to be patient. Which brings me to this next point. Don't hurry or worry. That's from Abbott Fox. So yesterday I was absolutely hurrying and I was carrying this big suitcase up the stairs and I hit my head on this wooden beam really hard, and it hurt.

And it was a reminder, like, nick, just slow down. There's no need to hurry or worry. And most of the time, I am hurrying and worrying. So when I'm sharing this stuff with you, it's really a reminder to myself. And, you know, even though I know that it just takes a lot of practice. And if you are worrying about something, you know, talk to someone about it, write about it, you know, don't just hold that worry in, because lack of expression can lead to depression. And what we resist persists. So also, just want to check in, you know, take a moment.

Take three deep breaths. What is your, you know, feeling with the present moment? Hey, Katie, check into that present moment and just see, you know, how you're feeling about it. Because I'm oftentimes hurried and worried in that present moment. But we can take those deep breaths and we can get back to the present moment. Alec, I'm glad you were able to take a walk, too. Tune into some awesome lives later today from Evan the counselor and Luke Wendlett. And I'm going to be signing off here, wishing you a great deal of peace, positivity and prosperity, while remembering that we all have a lot of work to do, but we're going to do it together.