Nick The Poet explores the vast world of creativity and motivates you to use it in your career, while sharing some poetry along the way!
What's your theme for this month? What are you going to be focusing on? What is the April theme? I hope your April is off to a great start.
Chris: Life has a way of firing you up and tiring you down and building you up. One concept that may help with this is wabi sabi. It's a japanese concept that centers on the acceptance and appreciation of imperfection. The quicker you recognize that, the quicker you can do something about it.
Hey, folks, how you doing? Nick the poet. Thank you for taking a walk with me today. I hope your April is off to a great start. What's your theme for this month? What are you going to be focusing on? What is the April theme? So I heard that mercury also started retrograde today, which is an interesting combo with April Fool's day as well. So hope you're doing okay out there. So life has a way of firing you up and tiring you down and building you up. And on it goes. A beautiful journey, especially when we learn to ride these waves with ease and grace, which can be exceedingly difficult at times, especially in challenging work situations.
So one concept that may help with this is wabi sabi. Okay, go with me on this. Wabi sabi can help. It is a japanese concept. Hey, Chris, good to see you, too. Just talking about wabi sabi. It's a japanese concept that centers on the acceptance and appreciation of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. It celebrates the flaws and quirks that arise from the process of making something, whether it's pottery or poetry or anything in between. So if we can embrace these imperfections and kind of roll with them, it's going to help us at work, it's going to help us with our art, it's going to help us with really get caught up in this boondoggle of thinking, and we're already 20 minutes down the road before we really recognize, like, hey, this is happening.
It could be a work situation. You know, you get a slack message, and you found out that you've totally missed a deadline, you know, and the mind starts kind of spinning out. But the quicker that you can recognize that, the quicker then that you can do something about it. So after you recognize, then let's observe. O is observed. So observe these thoughts without attaching to them. So this is a big one. So, you know, if I get one of these thoughts, it'll kind of oftentimes take me in a rollercoaster ride.
But if we can right away take it and just observe it, observe the thought and get some level of detachment from it. Doesn't even have to be a big detachment. Even if it's just a little bit of a detachment, just get away, you know, a little bit of distance from that thought. We observe it, and then a, we accept it, right? We accept the feelings that come with this thought. You know, I like to try to run away from the feelings a lot of the times, you know, and that could maybe help to go for a run, you know, or to do something like that.
But whatever way, we have to accept, we have to accept what we have just observed. And then, number four, we have to respond in.
