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Season 3 - Episode 223 -Our Patterns · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning from the porch.
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  You know why? Guess what?
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  It's still raining. Yes, this rain.
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  You can hear the Roosters off in the distance.
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  And this rain is still going drizzling, pitch dark, way past
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  the time it should be dark still.
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  But it is just this weather, and it is a pattern.
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  And I thought, wow, this is a great time to talk about
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  patterns because we're stuck in one and it's not a resourceful
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  one. At some point, you know, water
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  is a wonderful thing and it can nourish and we all need it.
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  But at a certain point it becomes deadly and it can become
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  deadly quickly for many reasons. One can drown in it, one can
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  over drink it. And you know, it causes toxic
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  reactions in the body. There are lots of things that
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  can happen and in this case, there's just too much of it on
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  the ground. So we are flooded with lots of
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  different things. Even my dragonflies, which
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  control the mosquitoes, are just fat and happy because boy, are
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  there mosquitoes right now. Normally they keep them under
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  control, but right now there are so many of them because of all
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  this water. So it's a pattern and we are
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  waiting for the pattern to dry up.
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  Now. This is supposed to break in the
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  next couple of days, but it's a great time for us to just talk
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  in general about patterns and how they affect us.
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  So stop and pause for a second and think about what patterns am
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  I in that are good patterns? What patterns are the ones that
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  are working for me? And make a list, like
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  legitimately sit down and write it out and make a list so you
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  can see what patterns are working.
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  Whether it's, yes, I'm in a pattern of walking every day.
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  That's one of my patterns. I'm in a pattern of having very
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  healthy drink in the morning instead of coffee.
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  I'm doing an LMNT, which is a very salty packet that has the
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  right amounts of the nutrients and the things that you need in
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  order to keep your body balanced.
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  And so I drink that in the morning and I like that.
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  I gave up drinking coffee in the morning.
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  I felt like I wasn't getting anything from it and my stomach
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  was feeling awful. Switch and boom, I feel much
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  better. So it's a good pattern.
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  What's a bad pattern? A bad pattern can be anything
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  that you know you're doing over and over again that doesn't work
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  for you. And, and it can be anything in
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  excess, like think about that. So for the last month or so, I
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  have been in a very, I'm going to call it a stretched pattern
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  where I've been getting up exceedingly early to work on
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  something very, very early, like anywhere from 3:30 to 4:00 in
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  the morning. So I had extra hours every
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  single day where I could work on this.
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  Now it was very stretched, but it's not something that I can do
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  long term and I know that. So it's something I have to pay
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  attention to. Bad pattern for me eating
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  chocolate every afternoon. I mean, granted, OK, it's
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  organic chocolate, but still, it's sugar and it's not
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  necessarily healthy, but I love chocolate.
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  So I allow myself to have an unhealthy pattern with it.
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  But I have to be under control. I can't eat too much of it.
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  I have to monitor it. One of my clients, and he's a
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  regular listener, so when he hears this, he's going to know
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  I'm talking about him. Mountain Dew, he'll drink
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  Mountain Dew. Unhealthy, right?
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  We've talked about that before. Not a good pattern.
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  So you have to look at them. They show up in the simplest
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  things and they show up in the most complicated things.
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  It can be that, oh, you know, in order my wine down at night, I
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  read and then I end up reading for too many hours.
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  I don't stop myself and then I don't get enough sleep and then
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  I'm grumpy in the morning. So reading is actually a healthy
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  pattern that turns into an unhealthy pattern.
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  You see how this works? It's all twisted.
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  It has these tentacles that come out.
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  So really sit down and and contemplate what are the
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  healthiest of patterns that I'm doing and what are the
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  unhealthiest of patterns that I'm doing?
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  Where are the stretched patterns?
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  Where are the ones that I know I can do it for a short period of
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  time? Like I do that because I know I
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  can do it for a short period of time and I have a time frame
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  that I set and then I can say, OK, there is light at the end of
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  the tunnel supposed to, you know that old saying.
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  And I like that because it gives me something to focus on.
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  It puts my head in the right space.
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  You know it. This is one of the the times
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  that your own awareness and observation is more powerful
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  than ever because you can't have a coach with you all the time
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  saying, well, that's very unhealthy on everything that you
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  do. But you know you, you know, we
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  all know, we all know it. So be honest with yourself.
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  Look at it, find out what are the ones that are unhealthy?
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  What are the ones that are healthy?
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  What are the ones that I'm stretching myself on that I'm
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  going to do only for a short period of time.
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  And then really ask yourself, what can I put in place of it,
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  just like I did with the coffee and any other things that you
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  come up with. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.