The episode opens with Joy Oladokin’s song Look Up, then contrasts simple versus easy using pen and squat examples and leads a brief presence exercise (past, future, now) to explore consistency.
Joy Oladokin singing Look Up. Do you see the sunlight? Look up. There's flowers in your head. Hold on. Cause somebody loves you. You know trouble's always gonna be. I love that song. The invitation to try, the invitation to consider.
How often do we hear the words simple and easy? Something that is simple has few moving parts. Ease is not always associated with simplicity. Finding presence is simple. Yet doing it consistently and finding that space is quite hard.
You tell yourself it's better to jump before you fall again. Before you lose it all again. Look up. Do you see the sunlight? Look up. There's flowers in your head. Hold on. Cause somebody loves you. You know trouble's always gonna be. It's not often I use the same song twice in the same week. Good morning, anna. Good morning, Ms. Merrimack. Ms. Merrimack, how are we doing this morning? That was Joy Oladokin singing Look Up. I'll read the chorus to you again. Look up. Do you see the sunlight? Look up.
Because there's flowers in your hair. Hold on. Somebody loves you. You know trouble's always going to be there. Don't let it bring you to your knees. Look up. Speak, wonder. I love that song. And I love the invitation to do. The invitation to try, the invitation to consider. That's exactly what we're doing here, Andy Mac. Well, however you look at presence, and today I want to bring up a great distinction that helps you get into this living space, but also helps you with anything you try to accomplish that you try to do.
How often do we hear the words simple and easy? I think those two words mean something different. Something that is simple has few moving parts. You know, like in. In my mind, this pen is simple. I hit this button and the pen opens up. I hit the button again, pen goes down. That's a simple task. Meaning that there's not a lot of things they have to do to accomplish it. Let's think of another simple task, Maybe like a squat. Okay. To do a squat, I have to hinge at my hips, then bend my knees, and I have to stand back up again.
It's simple, right? Kind of two steps. Hinge, bend, and then repeat. Now, that's simple. Few moving parts. If I would say, okay, simply use your pen to write 500 words a day. It's easy. Simply do 100 squats a day. It's easy. Ease is not always associated with simplicity. Right? It may be simple to pick up my pen, or it may be simple to pick up a pen. One action. Pick up pen. It may be simple to get my pen ready to write, hit the button. But it definitely isn't easy to go ahead and write that novel.
It may be simple in a body that is capable of doing so, to do a squat. But to go and say, I'm gonna go and work out every day and I'm never gonna miss a Monday, and yada, yada, yada, yada, isn't very easy. Ease is often very hard to find. Ease is often very hard to find. Simplicity is something that we can point to as the doorway for people to consider things that they may want to work hard at. So finding the thin space is quite simple, right? Finding presence is simple. It's place your mind where you are.
You know you can do that in many ways. Like we often do. Take two minutes to think about everything you can from the past. Take the next two minutes to think about everything you can in the future. Then take one minute, think about everything that is right now. The real simple three part exercise. Yet doing it consistently and finding that space is quite hard. So whenever you hear someone say here's three simple tasks to and you go oh my gosh, this is simple and I can't do it. I must be insert bad words.
That's the whole reason I bring this up today. Simplicity does not equal ease. So if you struggle at taking advantage of simple things, welcome to our species and welcome to the time when we have so many ways that we are being pulled that finding ease is one of the hardest things that we have to do. I'll play a little joy ola doken to play out. Remind you that when in doubt, look up. See us people under say worm out there. Hold on, somebody loves you. You know I was gonna be there. Don't let it bring you to your knees.
Look up.
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