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Season 2 - Episode 361 - Possibilities in sadness · 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 mastermind set
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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 porch because it is pouring
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  again. Days of rain.
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  We have had lots and lots and lots of rain here.
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  So it is dark and I am shooting from the porch this morning and
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  you can hear Raven off in the distance right now It's still
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  dark. They're not even remotely
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  outside. And two things.
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  I know we're talking about possibilities this week, so I
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  thought now would be a time for me to help reframe something for
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  myself as well as sharing some news with you.
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  So we had an accident at the Coop the other day where the UPS
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  driver left the gate open and he didn't probably think about it.
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  He opened it to come in, but he didn't close it on the way out,
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  even though there is a sign that says that he just didn't think
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  about it. And it's obviously it's human
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  error and it's just it happens. But the neighbor's dog came in
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  and he killed four of my chickens and one of them was
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  Dottie. And you know how special she
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  was. So I this happened a week ago, a
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  little over a week ago and I just had been unable to talk
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  about it. And since we're talking about
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  possibilities this week, I wanted to try to reframe this
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  and show you how, no matter what's going on in your life, it
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  is possible. Now, to say that I'm crushed is
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  an understatement. And as I'm recording this tears
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  or streaming down my face, you all know how much she meant to
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  me. Is it sad?
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  Completely. Is it something that just wipes
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  me out? Yes, I just can't even.
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  But at the same time, I have to remember that I can view this in
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  a different way and that I can think of the these things when
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  they happen in a different way. So I know for certain that she
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  had the best chicken life that a chicken could possibly have.
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  I know how much she was loved, and I know how much she gave to
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  me, just hanging out with me all the time.
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  So I can focus on all the good things and I can think about
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  what's possible now moving forward, and I can think about
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  how I can absolutely make sure I have the awareness to handle the
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  gait differently, right? I can.
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  I can certainly fix some of this stuff, but human error I can
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  never fix, and I just have to have grace for people when they
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  make mistakes. I also can recognize that in a
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  world of possibilities that my other chickens clearly know
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  she's gone because some of them have started hanging around with
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  me the way she hung around with me, which I thought was so cool
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  on a such a spiritual level because now I have chickens that
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  would normally not come up to me, which I think because she
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  was probably very dominant now coming up and being like my
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  buddies. So there is possibility in the
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  unknown of what's available to me and I'm going to take it and
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  I'm going to enjoy everybody, not just her.
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  I always have enjoyed everybody but enjoy them in a way that I
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  haven't before and just like thinking about things and
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  framing them differently gives you the idea of there are some
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  things out there that you might be tentative in doing.
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  You know, I I was so upset about this.
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  I was like I'm not getting any more chickens.
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  I'm can't I can't with these dogs.
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  And you know, I went off the rails.
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  Of course I went off the rails. But then I started thinking
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  about the possibilities of ways I can handle this and other
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  things, and I got myself into a better headspace.
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  And it was using my imagination, my creativity, ways to think of
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  things that I can fix it. And it's not just fixing that it
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  happened. It's fixing the way I interact
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  in other ways. So thinking about, you know,
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  there are friends out there that are not toddy and I can make
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  friends with other chickens, as silly as that sounds, but it it
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  really is a big metaphor and that's how I wanted you to think
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  of it. And in the world of
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  possibilities of this week in between, you know, Christmas and
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  New Year's, this week, that's so, I don't know.
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  It's just so filled with electricity to me.
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  My brain is on fire for all the fun things that are going to
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  happen out here on the farm. And that just made me thinking
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  about, OK, well, clearly I'm going to be ordering some eggs,
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  getting some babies and inviting some new little souls to live
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  out here on the farm, and that is filled with possibility
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  because you never know who's going to show up.
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  So just a kind of a way of thinking of it.
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  I wanted to share it with all of you and we'll be back tomorrow
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  with some more good stuff. So I hope you have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.