Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks. How you doing? My name is Nick the poet. Thank you for taking a walk with me. If you've never been to a take a walk with Nick livestream before, I usually share some light hearted thoughts, some poetry, some actions that you can take into your day. So I look forward to spending the next few minutes with you. You know, maybe you want to take a walk around the kitchen. Maybe you want to take a walk around the block. Maybe you want to just do a few jumping jacks. Maybe you're sitting comfortably and just want to chill out.

It's all good in the neighborhood of your heart from the start. So I wanted to open with this quote from Betty Smith. She says, look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Luke, how you doing? Welcome to the live stream. Welcome to the live stream. I was watching the greatest showman last night and thought of you and the awesome team that you put together here at Cadre, and I'm just sharing a Betty Smith quote.

So listen to this one, Luke. Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, that's so tough to do. And I think even if we have a few moments a day where we can do that, that's huge. And we can build on those. Cause we've all got things to take care of, things to do, right? But if we can look at the world like that, even for a few moments a day, that's a big deal. And maybe if you can do it all day, that is amazing, too.

Maybe we can all get there. So the next is to. This is a thought that I have is to celebrate the minute winds. You know, they may lead to momentous wins down the line. And even if they don't, they're still worth celebrating. So a lot of us, including myself, wait to celebrate until we have that really big win. But why not celebrate that tiny progress that you're making every single day of the week? And then another one is find balance on the bike ride of life. You know, we're all just riding our bikes together.

Let's balance. Let's chill out a little bit. That always helps me out. Even when working really hard, the more I can kind of have that sense of ease about it, it always does better because I can get wound up way too easily. So there's something about this alliteration. Balancing on the bike ride of life thank you for taking a walk with me this morning, Luke. And then another one here is active, no pressure, positivity zone. Take that for what you will, but active, no pressure, positivity zone. So we're staying active, we're staying positive, but we're not putting that undue pressure on ourselves.

So I can't remember where I heard that one. Some words of wisdom from chat GPT so I've got some more chat GPT words of wisdom. This one's pretty good. Bob Proctor once eloquently stated, the only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. How true. That's me adding that, not chat GPT so these self imposed barriers often stem from resistance. Resistance to change, to new experiences, to vulnerability. But imagine what could happen if we replace this resistance with surrender. Talk about the, you know, the surrender experiment, right?

So anything that comes up, what if we just surrender to it instead of fighting to it? How often are our internal responses? Uh oh, I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like this. You know, but what if we kind of think in a different way and have that surrender to the moment? Because the moment is all we have, and it is a lot more joyful if we have that surrender. And keep in mind, everything I'm sharing with you is really a reminder to myself. I do not practice this perfectly. It's just something to work on and to make, you know, small improvements and maybe sometimes big jumps on.

So I'm going to close with if you're feeling gloomy, my weekly segment. If you're feeling gloomy, here's some roomy. So Rumi says, you are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. That's a mind bender. That's a mind bender. But take it for what it is and just keep on walking. Brave soldiers of the night, your dream shall loft into flight as we become one with the light. Wishing you a lot of peace, positivity and prosperity today while remembering that we all have a lot of work to do, but we're going to do it together.