Trust The Universe

Hey, Cadre fam, how you doing? Nick the poet here, just on a walkabout in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And I went live yesterday with 35 lessons I learned in 35 years, and I think I got to about number twelve. And then my connection broke up, so I'll have to redo that one at some point, but wanted to talk a little bit today about trusting the universe or trusting yourself or just trust in general. And, you know, like a lot of people, I have different fears and anxieties that, you know, come up as I'm. As I'm going through life.

And I've learned that really, they all dissolve as I, you know, trust. So that could be, you know, just listening to other people and trusting that I'm going to get good advice, you know, from them. It could be, you know, trusting the decision. There's the proverb of the chinese farmer where we. He makes a decision and thinks it might be the right one or the wrong one. You know, he decides to sell all of his horses, and then a war starts and he doesn't have any horses, and then he gets them back.

And then his son goes to war on one of the horses, and they say, well, that's lucky. And then, you know, the son breaks the leg. Breaks his leg in the war, and he says, that's unlucky. But then the rest of the troops die in the war, and they said, he's lucky then. And so it's just to kind of show that we oftentimes don't know, you know, if we're lucky or unlucky. But what we can do is trust the moment and make the right choices, you know, right now and realize that, you know, there is no losing.

There's. Everything can be a win win because you're either going to learn or, you know, you're going to have to make a new decision. So. So a great example of that is just those barking dogs reminded me I was on a run in the crazy mountains in Montana once. And by the way, happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. Big day for them. And this dog, these three pit bulls, two big ones and one little one came running out of this ranch, and the little one bit me really hard on the leg. And I didn't trust the universe at that moment that this dog, you know, didn't have rabies, but ended up meeting some really good people, including a nurse who owned the dog.

And they all had their shots. And I still have the scar, but anyways, neither here nor there. I just want to keep building on this point and trusting the universe. And, you know, these words, you know, that we say have faith. Have trust can mean different things at different times. But I think in a lot of ways that faith is kind of a noun and trust is kind of an action. I can say I have faith, but I can lack that trust that it's going to be okay. So I'm going to keep trusting and pairing that with gratitude, because if I could be grateful for everything that comes my way and stay open and honest and willing, then I think things are going to work out.

So that's my message for you today. Have a good one. Talk to you. Bye bye.