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Season 2 - Episode 193 - Finding patience within yourself · 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 master mindset
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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 chicken coop.
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  So let's talk about patience today, something that I
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  typically don't have a lot of. This has been one of the lessons
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  that I've had to learn in my life.
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  And I will tell you I am not good with patience.
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  Not good with patience. And it's something that I
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  consistently have to work on. And that's why I think I'm so
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  drawn to doing gardening and things that require me to have
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  more patience because they force me to work with something that
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  I'm typically just not so good at.
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  And I recognize it in myself, and I recognize that I have to
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  do a consistent job with pulling myself together with it because
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  it is not fun to deal with the lack of patience.
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  And these chickens are something that really does.
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  Teach me patience. The garden teaches me patience
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  because I can't plant the seed and run out there and then dig
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  it up to find out what's going on.
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  I have to wait for things like this year I've planted peanuts
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  and Oh my gosh, peanuts, right? You can't see them.
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  They're under the ground. So I I still don't know what's
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  happening until I decide to dig up the peanuts and see.
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  And believe me, there's part of me that just is like, OK, let me
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  dig it up and see what's happening.
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  But that's not resourceful, because you don't want to dig up
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  your plants before they're ready.
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  I just even like at night when I go to put the chickens away,
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  there's inevitably someone who's not moving into the coop.
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  There's inevitably someone who's just being a complete, like,
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  pokey teenager outside. It's always the teenagers.
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  The girls always go in very early, but the teenagers take
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  forever. It drives me crazy, but guess
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  what? It's something that I have to
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  learn patience with. And I.
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  I tend to surround myself by with things that seem to be
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  constantly teaching me patience because I'm just not good at it.
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  So I keep getting these little things that show up to say, hey,
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  you might want to look at this, hey, you might want to look at
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  this, you might want to look at this.
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  And I've learned over the years that the more I take the time to
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  pause and say I'm going to work on this, the more I get out of
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  the benefit of saying I'm going to be patient with this.
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  So I'll give you a great example.
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  I initially thought, OK, I want to attract all kinds of birds to
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  this farm. So I put up these little.
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  Bluebird houses and I expected them to move in right away, like
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  that was my thing. Okay.
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  Why aren't they moving in? And I'd walk outside and I'd be
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  like why aren't they moving in? Do I need to paint them?
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  Do I need to do something with them and.
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  It is required that I waited. I just had to be patient and I
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  couldn't do it. I kept thinking, OK, I should do
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  this. Or maybe I should leave out
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  material that they can use when they want to move in.
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  Or maybe I should move them. Maybe they're not in the right
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  place. I was driving myself crazy just
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  trying to figure out why they weren't moving in to these
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  houses, and I recognize that this is a pattern.
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  That I have my lack of patience, my lack of thing, of of being
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  able to say I can wait for something to work through it or
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  get to a point. Years ago, I wanted to try
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  brewing my own beer. OK, great.
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  I tried it. It was wonderful.
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  I have no patience to wait for it and try it.
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  I had. I would.
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  I'm going to try things again now that I've cultivated this.
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  But this is a process, my friends.
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  This is something that takes time.
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  It's something of really being patient with yourself.
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  And it doesn't matter what you're working on, it always
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  shows up the chicken coop. I put window boxes on the
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  chicken coop and when I planted them, I wanted them to look
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  amazing instantly. And they looked cute, but they
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  didn't look like they do now, where it's 2-3 months later and
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  now they look so full, so robust, so unbelievably like
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  thriving. But guess what?
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  I had to be patient and I don't do that well.
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  So what it This is a constant and never ending reminder that
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  there is a deep, deep process to learning it now.
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  I will tell you one of the easiest ways to do that is
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  actually telling yourself, I'm going to do this and I'm going
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  to be patient. And here are the roadblocks.
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  And here's where I think I'm going to get stuck and here's
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  where I think I can get around it.
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  And this is my strategy of getting around it.
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  So I actually have to tell myself before I go to do
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  something, OK, this is probably going to go this way.
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  And I'm going to have to give myself grace and give myself a
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  break and I'm going to have to be patient.
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  And I tell myself that very thing, I.
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  Ask myself, am I being patient? And I'll just actually ask
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  myself, is there a better way to handle this?
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  And then the impatience at which you're showing up with Yes,
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  always. So when you set yourself up and
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  you ask the right questions and you do it, you can be patient
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  but know yourself going in. I have no problem admitting I
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  don't have a lot of patience. I didn't get in that line
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  multiple times. I I I didn't even get in it
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  once. I don't think so.
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  That's been my thing to learn. And the universe and God just
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  keep giving me examples of where I need to be patient so that I
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  am forced to learn it so. And I wouldn't be happy to say I
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  do have lots of Bluebirds in all the houses now, but I had to be
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  patient and I had to wait. So I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day. I hope you find your patience
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  today and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.