Take A Walk With Nick

Hey, folks, how you doing? My name is Nick the poet, and I am a creativity coach here at Cadre. Thank you for joining. Take a walk with Nick. If you're able to. Maybe take this phone outside, go for a little walk around the block, maybe a walk around the kitchen. Maybe you just want to do a little dance, you know? Maybe you just want to sit there and have a cup of coffee, you know, whatever you're feeling. But I am outside and just wanted to share a few things with you. So I have some questions today, and we all know about the power of questions, and so here are the questions for you.

So ask yourself this. Do my thoughts build me up or beat me up? So, oftentimes, my thoughts beat me up, you know? But I think if we can shift that and try to build ourselves up, become our own best friends, and encourage ourselves, it can be really positive. So we can say this. Right now, I choose a thought that. That builds me up. Right now, I choose a thought that builds me up. Okay, so that's your first one. The second one is, can I let go of a worry that has been bothering me? So, can I let go of that worry?

And oftentimes, I can only let go of it right now, in this moment. So, right now, I choose to let go. Right now. Can't do it later, but right now, I can. Hey, Cadre. And so the second one is, actually, this is the third one. How often do I practice positive self talk? So, a lot of the times, the self talk can be negative, and I think, in some ways, we're wired for that. We're wired to look for problems because it helps us to adapt. But if I can practice some of that positive self talk, you know, that can really shift my mindset.

Hey, Evan. Thank you. Yeah, keeping it. Keeping it simple with some of these. So, here's some affirmations that you can use to practice this positive self talk. Every day, in every way, I am becoming stronger, wiser, and more fulfilled. Every day, in every way, I am becoming stronger, wiser, and more fulfilled. Now, sometimes it might feel like every day, I'm getting worried, I've got to do this. I've got to do that. But if we can just kind of start shifting this in that direction, and once again, it's just right now, we can only have.

Right now, we're always in creation of who we are right now. And so another affirmation that you can use is, I am resilient and capable of overcoming any challenge that comes my way. Look at all the things you've been through in your life, and you've walked through every single one of them, and you're still here. So what is not? How can we not believe that whatever challenge has arisen that we're going to be able to face it? And that's where that faith comes into play. And, you know, when a challenge comes my way, I still have those.

Those fears and those doubts. But like my friend Fuzzaro says, don't worry about your doubts. What you want to happen can still come about. So even with all of these, maybe these worries and these thoughts we have, like, look how often things go just so incredibly right. And I think we can have some level of control, not always on what happens externally, but we can control that inner landscape, that inner monologue that we're having. You know what? And I think if we can bring a little bit of a sense of humor to it, it could be really beneficial as well.

Like, the more serious I try to get, like, okay, I've gotta, you know, I've gotta do this or I've gotta do that, then I run into troubles. But if I just let go and I just try to practice. Luke, thank you. I know the beard is muddy, but it's getting a little unkempt. So I actually have a beard trim scheduled for today. But thank you. Just gonna, you know, shape it up a little bit and go from there. So, anyways, my next question is, what assumptions or beliefs do I hold that may be limiting my potential?

Right? So I may have these different beliefs that limit my potential without even knowing about them. And I think the way that we can figure out what these beliefs are is writing them down and talking to other people about them and meditating and all of this stuff that we know that really helps. And so what beliefs am I holding that are limiting my potential? What belief can I let go of right now in this moment? What action can I take that's going to unlock some of that potential? And, guys, trust me, I'm just giving you this information as a practice.

Like, I know all the stuff, but for me, it's a lifetime practice. And some days are a lot better than others. Someday my self talk is positive. Some days it's negative, right? But we're all in this together. And so we just keep on sharing. We keep on caring about ourselves and others to the best of our ability. You know, we try not to beat ourselves to up, and we just keep figuring it out. So I'm feeling pretty sunshiny today, but if you're feeling gloomy, here's a poem from Rumi. Raise your words, not your voice.

It is rain that grows flower, not thunder. And I just, I ran across this quote today. I really like it. Right? We don't have to yell and shout. Especially we don't have to yell and shout at ourselves, because we might not be yelling and shouting at the outside world, but inside we might be yelling at ourselves. And I say raise the level of consciousness that we're communicating with ourselves, and because that's going to help us communicate better with the world, with others. And I think we're going to get more positive results from it.

So that is my share with you today. Wishing you so much peace, positivity, prosperity and happiness, while all remembering that we have a lot of work to do, but we're going to do it together. Okay? Have an awesome day.