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Season 5 - Episode 101 - It just snuck up on me · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning.
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  When's the last time you did an inventory of your language
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  patterns? Now, I know this sounds like a
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  strange exercise, but I do this regularly for myself, and I
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  start looking at what I repeatedly say to myself.
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  So a pattern is nothing more than something you do over and
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  over again. We recognize it in sewing.
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  We recognize it when we see it on a print, like of a rug or
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  fabrics. But in our minds, it's something
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  that repeats over and over again.
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  So language repeats over and over again.
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  And yesterday late in the day and when I finished coaching, I
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  had time to be able to go out and do some more plantings.
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  Cause I've got lots and lots of flowers that I'm still trying to
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  get in the ground. I, I did a big thing where I
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  planted a ton of stuff and flowers were way ahead of, you
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  know, normally when I would be doing this, I would be buying
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  some flowers, planting them, but I decided to grow everything
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  that I could from seed to push myself.
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  And I have so many cool flowers. I, the ones I was growing, I
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  intended to put in the cut flower garden.
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  And then I said, screw it. I'm putting them out into the
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  main garden where I'm not going to cut them.
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  And in my, my whole like around the pond garden, my rambling
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  garden. And it was a great decision, but
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  it takes a lot more work than just planting them in a straight
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  row. And plus I had to go in there
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  and clean out some of that garden And doing it with
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  chickens is always complicated. So it slows me down.
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  So I'm out there and I'm digging, I'm cleaning, I'm
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  planting and I notice that I'm picking up this pattern in my
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  head of, uh, more, still more to go, still more to go, still more
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  to go. And I caught myself last night
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  saying that, Oh, I still have more to go.
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  And I, because I came around the corner, I thought I had a
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  smaller pile. I thought I was down to about 30
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  plants. And I came around the corner at
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  the front of the garage and I forgot that I'd separated out a
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  bunch there. And lo and behold, I had two
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  trays, another 36 plants, and I went.
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  And I was like so many more to go.
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  And I stopped and I went. What the hell was that?
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  I mean, how fortunate are you that you got to grow all that?
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  So in my head, I start having a conversation with myself where
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  I'm forcing myself to listen. What the hell was that?
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  And I, I, I, I don't know, I I just have more to go.
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  Yeah, of course. Isn't that lucky?
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  Isn't that fortunate? Isn't that what you wanted?
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  Didn't you want to be able to do this?
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  This is what you wanted? A year filled of flowers and
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  doing it yourself and taking the time and not worrying about how
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  many steps you got or anything else on the days when you could
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  do it, it was like, just just do it.
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  Just do it. And I had to stop myself.
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  And I said, wow, that is an unresourceful pattern.
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  So I stopped. I looked and I was like, no, I
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  get to do all of these. I'm so lucky that they all grew.
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  And as soon as I took myself back to I'm so lucky that they
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  all grew, that I was able to make it happen.
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  I interrupted the pattern in a big way.
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  Then I was able to go, OK, now let me be very clear about this.
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  I am blessed that they are all here.
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  And I paused and I looked at them and I all said to them all,
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  I'm so lucky you're here. I'm so lucky you chose to be a
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  part of my garden, to be with my garden friends and my chicken
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  friends and my bird friends and my family and everybody else.
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  So I will get you in the ground and I will do it all over the
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  course of the next couple days and it will be slow and steady
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  wins the race. So I immediately chose to go to
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  that tortoise pattern of slow and steady wins the race, Slow
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  and steady wins the race. And as soon as I did that, I
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  felt better. I took the pressure off myself
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  from thinking I had to just get it done to OK, I have to slow
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  down. I have to slow down.
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  I just have to stop thinking of this as a mission.
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  I have to change that thought process and more importantly
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  than anything, change the language.
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  So, my friends, the lesson of the day is what are those
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  language patterns that are sneaking up on you because they
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  happen to all of us? So do an inventory of it, catch
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  yourself and change it. It matters.
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  All right, everybody, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.