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Season 4 - Episode 86 - Living in undiscovered territory · 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.
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  Hey everybody, good morning standing here overlooking all
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  the seedlings that are getting ready to go out into the main
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  garden. And I could not be more excited
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  for them because it is getting warmer and they're going to be
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  able to go out with these overnight temperatures soon.
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  And oh, it's just fantastic. Now with that being said, I
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  today's conversation is all about the fact that we are
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  constantly confronted with the undiscovered territory of every
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  single day, meaning we don't know what we're going to run
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  into. We have no idea.
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  The uncertainty each day brings us is often something that is it
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  plagues us is the best word to say.
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  There is a constant and never ending plague of uncertainty
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  that comes over us. And as I stand here and start to
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  contemplate, OK, when are they going to go out?
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  Where are they going to go? How is it going to go?
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  I have that overwhelming excitement that can show up in
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  this process. At the same time, I'm
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  overwhelmed with the nervousness of like, oh, I'm going to put
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  them out there. And you know, what if I miss the
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  time? What if I miss it by a week?
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  What if I'm early and all of a sudden I put them out and
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  something happens? And every year this happens.
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  Not to mention throughout, you know, the course of the spring
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  and into the summer, here I am growing and you are constantly
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  watching the weather. You have you, you become a
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  meteorologist. You're looking at things and
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  trying to judge, is this going to be wind damage?
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  Am I going to have this? So you know, am I going to be
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  able to harvest? I don't know what will happen
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  with all of the vegetables. Like what happened last year
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  when we had literally had a plague with the tomatoes and
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  they were dying. Each day another plant would
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  just die perfectly healthy the night before and then die.
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  And the level of certainty that human beings need is confronted
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  with this uncertainty every single day.
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  You, you start to find yourself going down a rabbit hole of
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  nervousness. You're, you used to start to not
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  enjoy the thing that you enjoy the most, which is doing
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  something like growing. And I'm speaking for myself
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  here. Maybe you're having this exact
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  same thing happen in something else.
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  And, and it doesn't matter because we all have it.
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  Living life is learning that this is part of the path and
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  accepting that no matter how much you plan, no matter how
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  much you set things up, there will be drama that will show up
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  in every situation and you will have to deal with it.
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  And it it has to be part of your knowing, but it doesn't have to
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  steal your joy. And the hard part is not letting
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  it steal your joy. The hard part is saying, OK,
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  once I have that thought and I know what I'm going to do to
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  prepare for it, then I'm going to live in the present moment
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  and I'm going to enjoy my reality that I've created.
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  Like how much of your reality right now are you enjoying?
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  No, your future pacing just like me.
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  And you have to pull yourself back.
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  The only thing that I am, I have conditioned myself for that you
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  may not have yet, is that I can pull myself back from that edge
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  quicker. I don't want to stay out there
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  expecting the worst case scenario to happen, having to
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  deal with it over and over when it hasn't happened because I
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  keep struggling in my head. Crisis to crisis to crisis to
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  crisis. And it's not fair.
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  Not only is it not fair to your to your emotional intelligence
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  and everything that you're going through, but it's not fair to
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  your soul. It beats your soul up.
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  It gives your soul this feeling of despair overall.
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  And it doesn't have to be because in the present moment,
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  as I stand here and as I look at all of these tomatoes that are
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  getting ready to go out first, really I'm keeping the Peppers
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  in longer just because they, I can control them a little bit
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  more. I can give them the right heat,
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  get them a lot taller. The tomatoes right now are
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  probably, I'm going to guess about 1314 inches tall.
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  They're big enough to go out. The Peppers are like 4 inches
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  tall. I'm not sending them out yet.
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  So I've got a lot of things that could go out.
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  I've got cilantro that can go out.
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  I'm looking at them all and I want them to live their best
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  lives. Like I want them to live their
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  best lives. I want them to be able to do
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  everything that they were meant to do.
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  And in that process, I have to not catastrophize what could
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  happen. I have to say, OK, I'm, I'm so
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  grateful and I do, I talk to my plants and I'm blessing them.
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  And I can't wait for them to go out and be all that they're
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  supposed to be and can be. And at the same time, I have to
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  recognize, you know what? I've got to let go of the fear.
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  I've got to let go of the fear and I've got to stay in the
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  moment. And whatever happens, you know
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  what, I'm going to move through it.
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  I believe in myself and I believe in my skills, and I will
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  find a way through it. Just like this year, we're not
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  planting the tomatoes in the ground, we're doing the bags
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  because that will make it easier on the plant to not have to have
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  the virus right there in the soil.
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  Now, the bigger part of this is pulling yourself back into the
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  joy. So when you find yourself living
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  in the future and you find yourself catastrophizing and you
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  find yourself thinking of the worst case scenario, say, Yep,
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  I'm well aware of that. Now I'm going to go back to the
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  present moment and I'm going to go into that state of joy.
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  I'm going to enjoy every bit of it, just like I'm going to enjoy
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  setting up the garden in the next couple of days for them.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you in the present moment tomorrow.
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  Bye.