Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks. How you doing? My name is Nick the poet. Thank you for taking a walk with me today. Maybe you want to take a walk around the block. Maybe you want to just do some jumping jacks in the kitchen. Maybe you want to stay seated right where you are and take a walk later. Either way, I have some fun stuff for you today. Like Kevin Kelly, who's this awesome author and science writer, says, any advice that I'm going to give you, just treat it like a hat. Maybe you want to wear it for a while, you know, and then maybe you want to take it off and try a new hat.

So just think of this advice as a hat. So I'm going to start with my roomie quote. So if you're feeling gloomy, here's some roomie. So the rumi quote today is really simple. It says, sit, be still and listen. Sit, be still and listen. If you're anything like me, you're running all over the place. You're hurrying. You're worrying. So it's really important for us, especially in this modern hustle culture, to take those moments to just be, hey, good morning, junk food junkie. Thanks for hopping on.

Hey, Luke, how you doing? Thanks for joining. So just sharing a little bit of tips today we're going to treat, hey, Risa, how you doing? We're going to treat the tips like hats. So, like my guy, Kevin Kelly says, treat advice like a hat. Maybe you want to wear it for a while, and then maybe you want to find a new hat. So here's another one. I don't know. I don't know if I'd wear this one in public. It's a training hat of some kind, but. So that was my roomie quote, sit, be still and listen and wait until the end for a wellness hack.

That is going to be pretty surprising. But here's a wellness hack to start right now, and that is before checking your phone in the morning, think of three things that you want to accomplish that day. Think of three things that you want to accomplish that day. Now, I know that if I think that way and I really visualize or write down what I want to accomplish that day magically, then it actually happens. Magically it actually happens. And I'm able to get those things done. So stick around to the end, and I'm going to share another wellness hack with you that's kind of similar to that one.

So if you want to discard that one, get a new hat on, like I'm doing here. You kind of see the metaphor that I'm working through, so I want to share more. I'm kind of on this Kevin Kelly kick, so his is more life advice. He says, efficiency is highly overrated. Goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals, vacations, breaks, aimless walks, and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic. Now, this is a really hard one.

You know, like I said, we're all in the modern hustle culture. It's tough to know when to work, when to rest, when to balance. When is burnout happening? When am I in the pocket and doing really well? You know, these are things that I think we can only slowly learn over time. You know, it helps to have other people to talk to, to balance and to, you know, help with our blind spots. So. But I like this, you know, so maybe even if it's just that five minutes today, you know, take an aimless walk, you know, take three minutes to just be, you know, and ties back to the roomy quote at the beginning.

So, Kevin Kelly also says, over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. So maybe you can bring some of that optimism into today. And I found this old poem that I wrote, a Sunday poem, and I thought it kind of fit today. And it says this. I would have got my last hat of the day here. There we go. So it says, mismanagement is okay. Don't hold on so tight. Let your life float like a kite. Bold, beautiful, no strife. It flies high. Cause it's so light. So this is just a few lines that I wrote.

And when I say mismanagement is okay, it's not to do mismanage your job or do bad there. It's just to say that oftentimes we think we're so in control, you know, but. And we hold on so tight, but just maybe we're not managing things, you know? And to let that, you know, power go to the universe and give the universe a chance to help you out in unexpected ways, you know? And as always, I'm just sharing this advice as something I'm practicing. I don't do it perfectly. Like I said, I'm a big hurrier.

I'm a big worrier. And just trying to get, you know, a little better at this stuff with the slight progress, the slight edge every day. So I'm wishing you a lot of peace, positivity, and prosperity while all remembering that we have a lot of work, but we're going to do it together. Okay? Have an awesome day. Okay, I'm trying to stop the live stream, but my stop button is not working. There it goes. Okay, bye.