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Season 5 - Episode 106 - Learning from pattern interrupts · 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. How often do you wake up and
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  feel like you're already behind? Because I know this time of year
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  it happens to me a lot. I wake up and I'm good until the
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  sun comes up. And as soon as the sun starts
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  coming up, I start to go down this road of, Oh my gosh, I
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  didn't get enough done. I wanted to get more done before
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  the sun came up, before I had to get the chickens out, before I
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  had to care for all the animals. And my brain starts to spin.
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  And when my brain spins, my friends, it spins.
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  Trust me, it is not a pretty sight.
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  And this morning I woke up and it's cool outside.
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  Like it's actually cool outside. I think it's like 55°.
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  A sun is just like just starting to lighten up.
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  You can hear all the birds in the background, and what's
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  fascinating to me is it's actually chilly.
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  It feels like early spring. It's like 50.
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  I think they said it was 54 degrees, 55, something like
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  that. But it's chilly, chilly compared
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  to where we would be. And as soon as I felt that shift
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  when I was in the spin, so I have the spin happening in my
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  head, all of it's taking off. And then I start thinking to
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  myself, you know, I've got to get more done.
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  I've got to get more done. And then all of a sudden I walk
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  out the door to come into the garage to get the girls
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  breakfast ready. And I feel this like burst of
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  air. And I went, oh, it's cool out.
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  Maybe I should do this instead, before it gets hot and my brain
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  starts going in a completely different direction and
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  something physical, mental, emotional, something interrupts
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  your pattern and all of a sudden you're thrown.
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  This is pretty common, and I have to say it's not just common
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  for me, it's common for all of us.
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  So in one felt swoop, all of a sudden now I'm in a completely
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  different direction. My head is going in a different
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  direction. I'm thinking all these different
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  thoughts about what I should be going and doing instead of
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  focusing on what I had intended to do before this all started.
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  When the panic was I got to hurry up and get my stuff done,
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  which wasn't even necessary to begin with.
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  And that's the chaos. I'm talking about controlling
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  the chaos in our brains is such a big deal.
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  It is such a big deal. And for me, I think one thing
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  that I want to share to impart on all of you is when you feel
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  that chaos sneaking in, you have to interrupt your own pattern.
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  Now, I was actually grateful when I walked out the door and I
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  felt the cold air because that totally interrupted my pattern.
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  Now, did it send me down a different direction?
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  Yes. Did I have to stop myself?
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  Yes. But you know what was really
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  cool? I was able to do it.
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  I was actually able to just stop and go.
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  Nope, we're not going to get sidetracked.
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  We know what we have to do. And that's because I have a lot
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  of things to do today. I'm not seeing a lot of clients
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  today. I'm only seeing one or two and
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  then I'm off to go do all the other chores that I know have
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  been waiting to do. So the point is, I don't want to
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  get sidetracked. I want to do what I'm I'm
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  supposed to be doing. I don't want to get allow myself
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  to run down that rabbit hole just because something
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  interrupted my pattern and sent me in the opposite direction.
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  I can feel it, but I don't have to respond to it.
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  And that's the point I want to make to you guys today.
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  Just because you feel something, just because you have a thought,
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  doesn't mean it's true, and it doesn't mean you should respond
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  to it instantaneously. You can.
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  You can hit the pause button. You can hear in your, in your
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  own mind where you're going off the rails and you can say, you
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  know what? I'm going to choose to hit this
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  pause button right now. I'm not going to keep going down
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  this road because it's not going to serve me for the rest of my
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  day. The rest of my day still needs
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  to be in some semblance, in some sort of order.
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  So the best way that you can do this is as soon as you start to
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  feel something come up, you just say to yourself, pause, wait, I
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  have to go through this and see if this is actually the going to
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  serve my end result. So if it's going to serve my end
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  result of the day, I could change my direction.
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  But if it's not going to serve my end result, then what am I
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  doing? So maybe I can swap some things
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  around today and do the things that I want to do in cooler
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  weather now that I didn't expect.
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  Or I could look at my schedule and, and between today and
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  tomorrow where it's definitely going to be warmer and I could
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  swap it around. But I'm not just going to do it
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  haphazardly. I can use the pattern, the
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  interruption and the pattern to correct and consciously do it,
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  which will give you more power. So I'm going to go do that with
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  my schedule. I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day. I hope this was helpful, but
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  really look at the way you can utilize it.
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  Don't just allow it to throw you and take you away like a swift
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  current. Make a choice with it because it
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  becomes way more powerful then. All right everybody, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.