200: Flow
8 Dec 2025 · 9 min
A short podcast episode (Pivot Podcast, host Jenny Blake) focused on the theme of 'Flow' — a mix of motivational prompts, short quotes, mindfulness cues, biomimicry references, and encouragements for personal growth and creative next steps. Includes a brief sponsor message from Charles Michael Davis (Toyota) and repeated aphorisms and guided reflections intended for imaginative listening.
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What's next? This is a question we're all having to ask and answer more frequently. I'm Jenny Blake, your host of the Pivot Podcast and author of Pivot. The only move that matters is your next one.
For show notes from this episode, visit pivotmethod.com podcast if Change is the only constant, then let's get better at it. Here we go.
Flow. Listen with your imagination.
The lotus flower grows in mud.
Mudlarking a person who scavenges for usable or historical debris in the mud of a river.
David Ogilvie we pursue knowledge the way a pig pursues truffles.
Diamonds are formed under pressure. Release the pressure of perfectionism.
Find ease and joy. Create space to think. Be, breathe, move.
Penny Pierce Question and answer arrive together.
Wake up to the whisper inside. What voice in you seeks to be heard?
Find your truth today. What's real right now? Unpack from your future trip.
Biomimicry is a key to innate intelligence. You are an animal. What kind?
Set your watch to divine time. What actually matters?
Be the black sheep. Go your own way.
Naco I believe in the good things coming.
Be the glass that is full as itself, no matter how much water is inside.
Surf the wild waves of change. Surf the void.
Follow your curiosity. What is it pointing toward?
Let it be easy. Let it be fun. Surrender your ideas and attachments. Set them free.
Let go of thoughts that imprison you. Lift them like filters in front of your mind. It's that easy once you realize they're invisible, clouding the truths that will set you free.
Trevor Hall. You can't rush your healing.
Subscribe to the podcast Channel of youf Soul. What's Weighing Heavy on youn Mind? Try writing a Soul Ladder to Self. Live as love. Fighting is forgetting.
Live love, learn, Give. What more is there to do?
Money is energy. Let it flow. Set it free. Be receptive. Be a graceful steward. Receive.
Khalil Gibran Work is love made visible. Work is contribution.
Flow is a figure eight. Rise. Ride. Release, Retreat.
Go. Tiny the tortoise wins the race. What race? Venture off the Tracks what is winning? The human game is yours to play. Don't forget we're all starring in our own movie. Who will you cast in the supporting roles? What is competition? A view of what's possible or what you don't want to be? Tosha Silver Let go of the grocery list. For God. Invite the divine to make you a messenger. Ask to be shown just one next step.
Play serendipity signage. Decode mysteries with clues surrounding you.
Talk to strangers. Strange is that we don't ask for non linear breakthroughs. Who said they're not possible? Ask the angels. Ask your guides to walk alongside you. Miracles are free.
Look to the animals for unconditional love. Every animal is a miracle, including you.
Remember the Zen parable? We'll see.
Who do you admire and why? Notice those qualities already bubbling within you. Just waiting for you to pop the cork.
Cheers for good cheer. The world needs more joy, frivolity and fun. What's that for? Forgive yourself. Speak kindly to the child within.
Notice the awe of innocence, the impeccable perfection of a child's spirit. You were looked upon that way once. Adored and admired and fawned upon by all around. Can you imagine? Can you look upon yourself that way now?
You have always been deserving of love and grace. Nothing has changed other than the stories we inherit and make up about ourselves.
Don't let people plug into you only to drain your energy. Your battery is yours to charge. Unplug the cord. Dissolve your attention. Step out of the sticky story. Drop the guilt.
Light is a birthright. Let it shine.
Wake up. The world is yours. The world is ours. The world is.
I can't. I should. I won't. I don't. Remove these shackles from your soul. Your soul chose you. This body, this life, this time, this family. These wounds, these fears, these dreams, these gifts. Why? What a delightful journey to discover, uncover, unfold, reveal, Heal.
What is possible by being more of who you are.
Grace is in gratitude. Appreciate what is. Acceptance offers freedom. Only you can set yourself free.
Be bold.
Mind like water. Drop into that place where all is quiet, serene.
Be the taproot rooting down into the earth. Leaves expanding up into the sky. Be the lighthouse showing others to the shore. Be the beehive, protect your inner queen bee.
Equanimity exists in silver linings.
Trade tug of war for sacred third solutions.
Loka samasta sukhi no Bhavantu. May all beings everywhere be happy and free. And may the thoughts, words and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and that freedom for all.
May you be peaceful, May you be happy, May you be healthy, May you be free.
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Remember, build first, then your courage will follow. Hasn't it always.
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