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Season 5 - Episode 110 - Making tough decisions… · 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 let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning. So I'm going to take you into a
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  little bit of a challenge that I have right now.
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  My cat is not well, and she's the kind of well that you don't
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  get better from. She has some sort of stomach
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  cancer and we opted about two months ago not to treat her
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  since she's about 11 years old. The process is very difficult
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  and I did not want to put her through that.
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  So we said we'll try some alternative things.
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  And they, they have worked where it's, you know, it, it, it is
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  helping her to a certain extent. But they did warn that a certain
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  point, this was going to get to the point where she would not be
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  well enough to like hold food down at all anymore.
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  And she eats and she's hungry. So she's constantly eating, but
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  she's constantly vomiting. So the question comes down to
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  when is it time? And I think we all ask these
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  questions in our life for many things.
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  When is it time? When should I do blank?
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  When should this take place? And the reality is it's very
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  hard to know on any level when anything comes up.
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  When is the right time? I mean, we, we often hear this.
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  When is it the right time to have a baby?
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  When is it the right time to buy a house?
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  When is it the right time to invest in a new project?
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  And I've always said that there's another, that other
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  system inside of us, the, the part of us that's the gut.
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  We, we, I refer to it as my, it's a gut instinct, but it's
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  really my soul having a conversation with my brain and
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  letting me know when something is right.
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  When the move to from, you know, the northeast to the southeast
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  happened. It was one of those moments
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  where my whole life I had resisted moving, resisted
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  moving, resisted it constantly. And then boom, I just had this
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  gut feeling. It was right.
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  I would not have this farm if I hadn't had that gut feeling it
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  over and over and over. I have had times when it it said
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  something to me and, and I had to listen.
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  And a lot of those times come in involving my animals because
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  I've obviously had quite a few animals in my life and they are,
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  they mean the world to me and losing them is very hard.
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  So when you have to make one of these tough, tough decisions,
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  you have to listen to your gut. And my gut said a couple months
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  ago, I think probably close to was the beginning of the year.
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  So maybe like February, give her a chance, like let's see if this
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  put her on slippery Elm. Let's see if it works, Let's see
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  if it helps. And because her she has not
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  changed her personality. We were like, OK, her
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  personality is fine, but her body is not fine.
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  Well, within the last couple days, she's becoming more and
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  more sluggish. And I, and I'm very attuned
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  because of what I do to watching all little tiny signals.
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  So I could wait. I could keep waiting, but I know
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  it's not the right thing to do. I know the right thing to do is
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  to not let her suffer in any way, shape or form and to make a
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  decision, be an adult, make a hard decision.
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  And those are extremely painful and heartbreaking every single
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  time it happens. And I still have to do it.
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  We have to do it. So whether you're making
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  decisions for your greater good or things that are sad, you have
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  to listen to all the information, not just the one
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  that's in your head, not just the one that's playing out
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  behind the scenes. And I feel like, you know, the
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  days are counting down and I'm going to have to say, yes, now
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  is the time. And I say that with a full
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  blessing in my heart for everything that she's brought to
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  me. I'm sorry for the sirens in the
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  background. Must be something going on.
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  It's pitch dark. No idea.
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  I, the birds are just starting to sing Really strange.
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  But anyway, I, I truly have to just take all the information
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  in, sit with the decision and say, yes, this is the right
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  decision. And is it going to be sad?
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  Yes. Is she with me all the time?
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  Pretty much. But I have to do what's right
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  for her. I can't do what's right for me.
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  And that's the part of love sometimes that you have to do.
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  You have to do what's right for someone else, not just what's
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  right for you. So take this information and
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  utilize it when you have to do it.
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  Realize you have to listen to both the systems, the heart, the
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  head. You have to go through that.
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  Listen to your, your mind and your soul.
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  Have the conversation. And the bottom line is we always
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  know. We know what we have to do.
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  We don't like it, but we know it.
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  OK my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.