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Season 4 - Episode 173 - The heat is on! · 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 happened 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.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the very warm, warm self.
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  Oh my gosh, we are baking. And today is an interesting
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  subject because for me, I absolutely love being able to
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  have summer weather because it means flowers, it means
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  everything else. But when the days when they tell
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  me the heat index is going to be 109 and I start to think about,
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  Oh, no, I can feel immediately my anxiety start to run to the
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  front of my bus along with my certainty girl and panic and all
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  of these other emotions that are like my, what I like to refer to
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  as my hover mother. Because I panic over whether or
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  not things are going to be able to survive in this, in in this
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  arena of temperature and how intense it gets.
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  And the first things I think of is, Oh my gosh, what am I going
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  to do to protect the plants? What am I going to do to take
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  care of the animals? How are the chickens going to be
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  able to do this? Now listen, here's the thing.
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  I don't keep my chickens quote UN quote cooped up all day long.
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  They are free ranging. They're able to go and hide.
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  They will dust bathe. They can go under the coops
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  where it's cool in the dirt. There are two main coops, one
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  that's theirs and one that used to be theirs, but they can still
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  go under it. They have water everywhere,
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  trees everywhere, shade everywhere.
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  They get an afternoon snack. Yesterday they had a huge giant
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  watermelon that was cool and they spent the whole day tearing
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  it apart and it was just, it was OK for them.
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  And they had this huge tree that they like to hang out under.
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  Plus they like to go in my flower garden and bury
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  themselves under flowers, which I think is very funny that we
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  battle over where they're sitting if they're sitting on a
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  flower. But the point is 1 condition
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  changes. I wake up, I check my weather
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  app and I see it and all of a sudden all the nuts on the bus
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  are running to the front of the bus trying to panic and figure
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  out what are we going to do? Right down to, well, how are we
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  going to walk outside today while we're coaching?
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  What are we going to do? Because we can't walk outside
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  and that's not good because it's going to be.
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  And so I'm like, no, you can sit inside your studio, you can
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  pace, you can ride the bike. And the reason I'm telling you
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  all of this is because all these motions, if I left them
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  unchecked, would be all over the place.
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  And I can't function when they're all over the place.
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  So the most important thing I can do is to pull them back and
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  control them immediately and get them very, very centered on what
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  is the real outcome, What are we doing?
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  And the real outcome is do everything you can to keep
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  everybody cool and taken care of, including yourself.
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  Work in the studio, sit on the bike and ride the stationary
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  bike if you have to, to keep moving, because that's part of
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  the whole dynamic of what I do. When I coach, I move, move, move
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  and I, I really truly believe that when you have this
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  awareness, you can pull yourself out of the dregs of what's going
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  on in your head, but you have to initiate the plan ahead of time.
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  So as soon as I felt it, I had to say, OK, what is my backup
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  plan? What am I going to do?
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  How am I going to do this now? I initiated part of this last
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  night. I had a feeling today was going
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  to be this way because of what they were talking about and they
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  were going to give their, you know, we'll have a more accurate
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  thing in the morning kind of deal.
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  But I put out all fresh waters. I changed everything.
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  Like, I mean, bird baths are full.
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  Everything is set for this day. And I've got sprinklers running
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  right now to make sure everything has enough water
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  going into the day. Yet I had to stop myself again
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  this morning multiple times from having the panic and having the
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  anxiety of what if. What if they cook?
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  What if something happens? What if somebody gets heat, heat
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  stroke? What if this, what if this?
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  And the truth is, I can catastrophize all I want.
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  I can sit there and think about all the things that could go
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  wrong, or I have an option to circumvent that by thinking in
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  terms of what could be right, what have you done right?
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  What are the protections? What are you looking at?
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  And by doing that, I end up in a much stronger position to keep
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  pulling myself out of it as need be.
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  So first and foremost, once you have the awareness, you set the
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  plan, will you have to keep redirecting?
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  Yes, 100 times, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
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  But you got to keep going back to what the new plan is.
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  You got to keep thinking it through that way so that you
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  have a release of that energy. Because if you don't release
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  that energy, it will take over your day, I promise you.
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  And today it will probably have to be redirected by me multiple
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  times. So the good news is I have a
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  plan. The good news is I'm initiating
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  the plan over and over. I'm checking in with myself and
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  I'm making sure. So I encourage you to do the
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  same. And I hope that your day is not
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  as hot as mine and we will get through this.
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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.