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Season 4 - Episode 132 - Happy Lessons from the frogs · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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.
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  From the porch. Can you hear it?
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  It is extremely early. It is pitch dark.
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  Nobody's out of the coop at all, but guess who's awake?
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  Oh my gosh, can you hear it in the background?
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  This is like one of my favorite times of the year.
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  All the trilling that's going on out there with all of the frogs
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  and toads. If you listen closely, you can
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  hear so many pieces going on, so many little different sounds
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  happening out here. And it's the most thrilling time
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  for me in the spring hearing this happen.
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  One, because it represents something tremendous to me that
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  every night it hadn't rained, it hadn't rained, it hadn't rained.
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  We weren't having any of this. It was very quiet.
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  They were all sitting and waiting for their grand
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  appearance. And then it has been non-stop
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  raining for since Friday and all of a sudden it kicked into gear
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  and you can hear it. Why is this important?
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  It's important one. Well, because it brings me joy
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  and having think little things like this.
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  You know, I'm always going to use this as an example because
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  it brings joy when you can find these little things and you can
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  hang on to them. And just coming out here and
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  meditating in this and listening to the cacophony of sounds that
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  are happening, it pulls you right into the moment and says,
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  look at this. This is here to pay attention to
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  and to be grateful for it. Now, secondary, what this does
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  is reminds us that these little creatures have been waiting
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  patiently without question, without worry.
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  They have just been waiting patiently for their time and
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  doing whatever they do while they have had like very little
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  rain and it we were in a severe drought and it was just they
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  were waiting and I was getting, I was getting worried about
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  them. I was thinking to myself, what
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  is going on? When is this going to kick in?
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  Oh my gosh, I wonder if they're there.
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  I wonder if they've died. I've wondered what happened.
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  I, my brain goes off in different directions.
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  Why? Because I'm human and, you know,
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  I worry about my creatures around me that I love to
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  cultivate and make sure they're all taken care of so they can go
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  off and thrive. Well, I was getting concerned
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  because of the, the, the problem with the rain.
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  But guess what? Did I really need to worry about
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  them? No, because listen, there's
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  thousands of them out there. And it just it, I'm laughing.
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  When I woke up this morning and opened the door to the bedroom
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  very early like 4:30 AM and came out here, I was like, holy cow.
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  The sounds are incredible. Like you could just hear it
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  intensely open the door and just could not believe how many of
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  them I could hear. And, and it's deafening.
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  Like you can't hear anything but this.
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  And it reminds you how small and insignificant we can be.
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  And our worries can. Because no matter how much I
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  worried, they were all set. They were ready to go.
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  I didn't need to worry about a darn thing.
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  All I needed to do was focus on me and being excited about when
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  it would happen. But guess what?
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  I forget and then I worry. And then I remember and then I
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  forget and then I worry and the cycle continues, blah blah blah.
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  So our job, our big job is to always remember we have options,
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  we have choices and we can always do something to make it
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  better. We can always give ourselves the
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  opportunity to, to stop the worry, to change the outcome, to
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  just say, hey, enough is enough. I'm not doing that to myself and
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  shift out of it. But will we have to do it 100
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  times? Sure, absolutely.
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  I know I do. If you figured out a different
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  way, please share because it's just a constant course
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  correction when you're a human being.
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  And what I love about these simple little things that I get
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  all the time from being out here on this farm is they didn't
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  worry. They just waited and they knew
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  it was coming. They knew it would be here.
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  They knew something would show up and voila, they were ready.
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  And they give us this beautiful chorus of their sounds and their
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  effort and their trilling that just makes us feel so full of
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  awareness, like you can't ignore this sound when you walk
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  outside. You're just like, wow.
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  And even I'm talking as normal as I can.
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  It does not interrupt it. They don't stop it, they're just
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  on their mission, being themselves.
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  And isn't that a good lesson to go into on this Monday morning
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  for you to go out and just be yourself?
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  No worries. Be in the moment.
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  And remember, listen to that. It's all around us when you can
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  stop and pause. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.