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Season 4 - Episode 229 - What are the conditions? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. I don't know if you're like me,
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  but every morning when I get up, the first thing I want to do is
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  look at the weather. You know, my entire life I was
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  surrounded by people who always check the weather first.
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  My mother was adamant about checking the weather every
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  single day. My dad was always checking the
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  weather. It was just one of those things
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  where I grew up in a place where people always check the weather.
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  And I used to laugh about it when I was younger and be like,
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  why is everyone so concerned with what the weather is?
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  But I recognized that as I got older, I paid attention to it
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  more and more and more. I mean, I cared about it when I
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  was a kid because I wanted to go to the beach or I wanted to do
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  something outside. But beyond that, it was not
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  like, is it going to Get Me Out of school?
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  OK, great. If it didn't, then whatever.
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  But as I grew up, I recognized that the weather became a very
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  important thing to pay attention to, especially where I live now,
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  because you never know what's coming up with flooding, you
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  know, and having hurricanes, storms, it's always a big deal.
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  So why am I talking about the weather?
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  Well, as I recognized this past weekend, the weather actually
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  was fantastic. We had wonderful weather.
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  It cooled down. The humidity went down for the
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  first time in so long and I can't even tell you it wasn't
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  raining, even though the ground is still saturated and wet.
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  It was, it was actually really wonderful.
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  And I, I got it got me to thinking about how every day I,
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  the first thing this morning, I was like, OK, what's the weather
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  today going to be like? And I, I recognized in that
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  second how much I pay attention to the conditions of the day and
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  how much that is a parallel to our psychology and our mindset
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  that we go into the day with. So if you have a problem that
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  has happened, it's bothering you, a situation, something
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  that's going on in your life, that is a condition just like
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  the weather and which you're operating and that you're taking
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  that with you wherever you go. So it's, it's like knowing that
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  I have to plan my day around the rain on Friday.
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  I think it was was it? I think it was Friday.
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  It absolutely poured. Maybe it was Saturday.
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  Absolutely poured, poured, poured, poured, poured, poured.
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  And it was one of those things where the conditions kept me
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  from doing what I wanted to do because I was going to go out
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  and do some filming for the YouTube channel, but I couldn't
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  because it was pouring. And those conditions caused me
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  to change my approach. It got me frustrated because I
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  really did want to go out and get it done and I had to deal
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  with those conditions. Well, how is that any different?
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  How is the weather situation any different from the weather
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  that's going on In our mind with our mindset, if we've got an
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  issue going on and that's changing how we feel about
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  things now we're operating in conditions that are not ideal.
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  And it's such a, a powerful parallel to take into your, into
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  your thought process and say, OK, what are the conditions I'm
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  operating in today? Am I operating in optimal
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  conditions? So when you start your day off,
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  you check in and you say, am I operating in optimal conditions
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  today? Am I putting out the best thing
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  I possibly could? Is that where my head is going?
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  Or am I just in a place where I'm like, oh, you know, I didn't
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  even check the weather and I'm just running around and if, if
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  it's cold, I'll be cold and if it's hot, I, I won't be dressed
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  appropriately or whatever it might be.
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  We have to pay attention to conditions because those
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  conditions will affect us for our entire time we are awake and
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  when we go to sleep because we take those with us wherever we
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  go. Those conditions are constantly
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  with us wherever we go. And we just can't shut them off
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  because they are in the back. They're always part of that.
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  That's what your, your, your emotions are driving in.
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  And, you know, the question always comes back to me.
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  Well, do the emotions create the conditions or do the conditions
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  create the emotions? And isn't that the $24 million
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  question, right? Because it's a, it's a catch 22.
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  Some people will say it's the thought that takes the emotion,
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  and some people say it's the emotion that takes the thought.
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  I've heard it argued a 100 different ways from different
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  very intelligent people and everybody has different ways to
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  say it. And for me, it's like, listen,
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  we deal with practicality here in my world.
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  We deal in the everyday. We deal.
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  We don't, we don't like to deal in the things that are ethereal
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  and that we have to intellectualize it because we're
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  dealing with it in the moment. So in the moment, does it really
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  matter where it came from as much as dealing with what you're
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  knowing and fixing it? I don't know.
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  For me, it does not. What I, I focus on with my
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  clients is the constant and never ending.
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  What are we dealing with? What are your emotions?
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  What are your thoughts? Give me it all so that we can
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  figure out how to move you through it as quickly as
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  possible. So today, focus on what are the
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  conditions I'm taking into my world?
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  What are the conditions I'm operating in?
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  And maybe start to fold that in for all of September and see how
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  that affects you because it's going to be a big one.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.