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Season 4 - Episode 130 - How conditions make us shift · 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. So we are actually out already.
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  You know, obviously chickens are out.
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  You can hear everything off in the distance, hens laying eggs
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  and it's kind of a drizzly later morning here.
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  And one of the things that I love about these days that are
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  rainy days, Have you ever noticed that when you get a
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  rainy day, all of a sudden you get permission to just kind of
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  do the things that you wouldn't normally do?
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  Like you wouldn't be on that like highly paced, get
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  everything done path that you might normally be on on another
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  day. Well, I can tell you for sure I
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  feel that way. So when it becomes Gray and
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  hazy, one of the greatest things for me is that I can get out and
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  do the things that I couldn't do at certain times of the day,
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  meaning wedding or chores that would in the blazing sun.
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  I just can't do them because it's just too hot here.
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  But on grey days, it makes me feel like, oh wow, I could go do
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  that. Or I could just run to the
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  garden center and spend even more time walking through before
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  it gets too hot looking for the stuff that I really want.
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  Because I've got window boxes to do on the chicken coop.
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  I've got their little hide wagon that I got window boxes put on
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  the sides of and I want to do those and stairs with buckets
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  that have, you know, some caladium in the right now, but I
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  haven't added any other plants to it.
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  I've just, you know, it's been a very, very hectic 6 months,
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  first five months of the year, right?
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  Like it's been very, very hectic even the last month of last
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  year, super hectic. And so the all of a sudden when
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  these days show up, I mean, it's just a day, right?
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  It's just a little bit of a cloudy day.
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  There are three or four of them right in a row right now.
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  But it's this conscious shift that that just takes place.
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  Like I'm conscious it's happening.
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  But I this morning was wondering what, what's the reason it
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  happens? Why does it take place the way
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  it takes place? Because what's really different?
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  And for me as I'm thinking about it this morning saying, well,
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  you know, really what's going on?
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  It's like we had these unwritten rules about when it's a good
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  time to do something for ourselves, and these unwritten
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  rules take over. And when we recognize that we're
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  not thinking about what those rules are, then they have more
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  power than we may want them to. So I recognize that this one, I
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  don't think it has more power than I want it to, but I want to
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  be able to make those decisions on days when, you know, it might
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  not be rainy. I want to be able to say, OK, I
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  can still do those things that I put off quote UN quote until a
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  rainy day or in this case, a cloudy day.
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  You know, why can't I find a way to work those into my schedule
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  in a different way? So it causes us to ask better
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  questions and look at things differently.
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  So that's what this is about. It's like when you recognize
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  something and you see a pattern in yourself, you have every bit,
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  you know, an option to say, I'm going to stop and I'm going to
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  take a look at this and I'm really going to pause and figure
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  out, one, where did this come from?
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  And two, can I shift it into something even more productive?
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  And for me, that's the big thing.
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  It's like shifting into something that's even more
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  productive with it. O I'm going to look at, OK, what
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  is this rainy day feeling I have that I like so much, And I'm
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  really going to debrief that today.
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  I because I have some time, right?
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  I can sit there and say, oh, all right, I'm going to pull aside
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  today. I won't be able to get done the
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  same things I would if it was a, you know, glorious sunny day
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  outside. But I have a different type of
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  time. And what is the reason for that
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  different type of time? What feelings does it give me?
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  What can I walk away from with that?
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  You know, like it's a constant dig in question path to say what
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  is it about that feeling that is so pulling to me.
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  What is it that I was so excited about and ask those what
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  questions and the how questions of shifting it, keeping it
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  moving forward. So I know right now for sure
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  when I think about this, and again, I haven't done this
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  exercise completely myself. It was just an awareness and I
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  was like, oh, let me grab my phone and talk about this and do
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  it live with all of you. For me, one of those very first,
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  what questions is the, you know, what is it about this day that
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  makes me excited? This type of day is a better
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  question. What is it about this type of
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  day that makes me excited? And the first thing I thought of
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  was, well, I could just stay in my, you know, my, my hanging
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  around clothes all day long. And I was like, oh, that feels
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  really good. Even though I'm probably going
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  to go out and I'm not going to walk out in the clothes that I'm
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  wearing. I felt like that was one of
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  those first pulls. Is it that, OK, It gives me
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  permission to just, if it's pouring, do I just say, OK, now
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  I can't go do any yard work at all.
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  So I get to, you know, watch a show.
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  That's a possibility. I can tell you there are some
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  shows on Netflix that I have been putting out there and
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  wanting to see. And you know what?
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  I might just do that if it pours today.
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  What are the other parts of it? It's like, oh, that poking
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  around the garden center, that is like a 10 out of 10 for me.
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  Getting over there and not having the sun beating on your
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  head while you're doing it. Oh, boy, that is just 10 out of
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  10 for me. So look for those things,
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  debrief yourself, figure it out, and then let's see how to work
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  it into the rest of our lives. I know I'm going to.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.