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Season 4 - Episode 195 - What is suffocating you? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. I think it's safe to say that
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  most of us don't like problems. I do.
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  I think it's safe to say we just all want everything to be smooth
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  and easy going and quote UN quote perfect.
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  But we have to remember that not all problems are bad and
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  problems help us grow and problems push us in new
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  directions. And the the world is a constant
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  and never ending Petri dish of opportunity to see things
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  differently. And when we remember that, like,
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  you know, not all storms are here just to cause a problem.
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  Sometimes they're here to clear a path.
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  You know, they don't. They disrupt our life in the
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  moment. But sometimes great things come
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  from this. Now, one of those perfect
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  examples I go through all the time here is, well, what happens
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  when you take things away and give other things opportunities
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  to grow? So we go through that with
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  taking trees down. We take a pine tree down and all
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  of a sudden the the oak next to it can spread out.
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  We pull out weeds in a certain area and all of sudden you have
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  things that grow up naturally. Like I do not have any jessamine
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  that we planted anywhere on this farm, yet we're covered in it.
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  When we got rid of the, the brush, the ground, the thick
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  ground stuff that was suffocating it out.
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  And that word suffocating is so true for many things.
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  Sometimes we feel like we're being suffocated by a situation,
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  a person, a, you know, any condition that we might be
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  living in in our lives, life, and we feel like, oh, this is
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  just suffocating me. Now, these can be simple things
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  like a closet. OK, so I am not a clothes
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  person. Anybody who listens regularly
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  knows this. I, I do not like shopping.
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  I find it to be an arduous task. I don't like trying things on.
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  I it's just walking in and looking at the racks and seeing
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  it all there. If it's not like right there and
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  it jumps right out at me, I'm like, I want to run.
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  And the my closet is always an issue for me because I have my
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  favorite things, my comfy things that I love to wear.
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  And then there are those things that are just there.
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  And it's hard for me sometimes to let go of those things
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  because the moment I throw away the pants that have the paint
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  all over them, I'm going to want to paint and I'm going to want
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  those pants out. So I, I tend to hang on to
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  things, but the cause it can be suffocating sometimes.
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  So even simple tasks like that, like saying, okay, let me do
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  laundry, get my clothes folded, put them away and don't just
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  stack them on the top of those things.
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  Really look and see what can I get rid of?
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  This past week, I did just that. I would, I finished coaching for
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  the day and I walked in and I was putting my stuff away from
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  laundry and I looked and I was like, I, I did not wear one of
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  those sweaters all year long or the year before.
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  I'm going to donate them. And I pulled them down and that
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  turned into a let me pull these shirts out.
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  Let me get rid of this. Why am I keeping a shirt that
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  has a stain on it? And here's the funny part.
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  It started off as just a simple like moment.
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  I didn't realize, but the when the closet was clear, I had this
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  OK. I felt like I was not so
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  suffocated in those moments of just looking at it, and I didn't
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  even realize that was the word. But then, you know, you start to
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  think about those conditions and how they spread everywhere.
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  Little tiny things having so much of something can really
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  wipe us out. So like a refrigerator, a simple
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  thing like a refrigerator, you open the refrigerator door and
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  the refrigerator is so stuffed you can't put another thing in
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  it yet. You know, a lot of that stuff
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  that's in there needs to be cleaned out.
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  And what do we do? We just stuff something in the
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  front and shut the door because we're in a hurry or whatever.
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  But it doesn't feel inviting. It doesn't feel inviting to eat
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  healthy food. It doesn't feel inviting to to,
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  to like be excited about going and prepping food.
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  So this condition being suffocated and saying, OK, it
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  does. It shows up from the storms, it
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  shows up from the problems, it shows up from the the lingering
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  things that we have created. But it has to be cleared out, my
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  friends. It has to have that push, that
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  storm that comes through, whether it's the storm of me
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  going into my closet and ripping it all down and putting it up.
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  Great that that was a great storm.
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  I can, I can handle that and getting rid of this stuff.
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  I'm going to be really excited tomorrow to take all of that to
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  Goodwill and give it away and just feel like that.
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  Then I went and did it to my son's closet and that felt
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  fantastic. And I'm like, OK, this feels
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  really good. So think about it.
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  Where in your life have you felt the suffocation and where in
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  your life have you recognized that?
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  You know that the belief is that when the storm comes through, it
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  sometimes clears the path. What is it done?
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  Take out those things that are suffocating you, look for the
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  things that are suffocating and figure it out.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.