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Season 4 - Episode 296 - Chasing the cat! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  So I have a funny story to tell you that just happened and it
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  was not what I was going to record for today, but it just is
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  so appropriate. So I had a fraud on my credit
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  card. I had to get a new one sent to
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  me. And you know, they come in and
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  they have the little sticker on them that says, you know, please
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  activate your card or this one happened to say your card is all
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  ready to use because it was a business card and I could
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  activate it a different way. So I was like, OK, so I get the
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  card and I'm sitting there and I have to go on.
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  And of course, when you have credit card fraud, you have to
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  go and change all the things that are on auto pay on that
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  credit card. So one of my bills that was
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  overnight got an e-mail saying hey, this is due.
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  It didn't pass. Please update your information.
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  So I go to do it and I pick up the card.
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  It's sitting on my on my top of my computer.
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  I knew I had to do it today. And I pull off the sticky tab
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  and when you pull it off it rounds into it like a little
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  tube, but the sticky stuff is on the outside.
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  Now it's important to realize I have pets everywhere as many of
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  you know. And the cat is always with me in
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  the morning, always with me in the morning.
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  She sits on my lap. She sits staring at the
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  computer. She loves to watch what I'm
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  doing on the computer. So she sees this little round
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  thing stick sticking there. And of course she can't not
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  touch it because it's like that old like, oh, I'm going to touch
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  it. And then it sticks to her.
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  And then she gets mad and she can't get it off.
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  So I go to reach for it and she swats me.
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  Now I'm trying to help her and I'm like, Belle, stop.
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  And I'm trying to take it off of her and she runs.
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  And then I hear her like I thought she got it off because
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  she took off. Well, no, now it's stuck on her
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  back leg and she's running. And I'm like, Belle, come here
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  and I'm chasing the cat in the house trying to be quiet because
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  everyone else is sleeping because it's 4:30 in the morning
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  when this is all happening. And I'm like Belle, belle,
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  belle, belle, Belle. And I'm trying to help her and
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  she just is resistant over and over and over again.
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  So finally she runs into the guest bathroom and I, I have to
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  tackle her to get the sticky thing off the back over a leg.
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  And then I take it off and she swats me because she's mad.
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  And it got me thinking so much. I'm like, because I'm talking to
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  her out loud. Of course.
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  I'm like, I'm trying to help you, I'm trying to help you, I'm
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  trying to help you. And I thought, how many times do
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  we as people go through this in our life where we are trying to
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  help somebody and we have the best intentions, but they think
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  we are being too pushy. Now she clearly needed the help.
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  She doesn't have thumbs. She can't just pull it off.
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  And here I am running around chasing her, trying to figure
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  out how I'm going to get her to stop long enough so that I can
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  take this thing off of her. And I'm saying I'm trying to
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  help you. I'm trying to help you.
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  But she didn't want the help. She wanted the outcome, but she
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  didn't want the help. She just wanted it off of her.
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  And she certainly didn't like that I was chasing her, so I was
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  making it worse. But I know I wasn't going to get
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  it off of her unless I was able to track her down because maybe
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  she didn't understand. How many times does this show up
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  in our life with the humans we're dealing with?
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  Forget about the fact that she's a cat.
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  How many times does this show up in the world of humans?
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  You've got somebody, they're trying to help you or you're
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  trying to help somebody and you're just showing up in a way.
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  They're showing up in a way and you, you're just not jiving.
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  You're not like clicking. You're not In Sync.
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  This happens so much, so much. So this is just a friendly
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  reminder that if you were going to offer help, it is critical.
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  It is critical that you make sure that the person understands
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  you want to help and they want the help.
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  You want to help and they want the help.
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  But you have to start off by saying I would like to help you.
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  Would you be OK with that? Would you allow me to help you
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  and then see where they are? Because you don't want to be
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  like me, like a foolish nut running around all this time
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  chasing a cat down a hall trying to get her to help and saying
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  I'm trying to help you, I'm trying to help you.
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  And she does not care a hoot about my help.
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  What she cared about was get this off me.
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  And she was shaking herself trying to get it off, but it
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  wasn't going to work. And eventually because I tackled
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  her, which she clearly didn't like, that was it.
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  But where else does that show up?
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  Because sometimes we just ram stuff down people's throat and
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  it only makes it worth. So I'm just reminding everybody
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  today, don't chase the cat and ask the questions.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.