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Season 4 - Episode 213 - It’s not the circumstances it’s what you make them mean · 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 happened 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.
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  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 it's not what we endure, it's
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  not what we put up with. It's not what shows up in our
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  life. It's what we make it mean.
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  And you've all heard me say this before, but today is going to be
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  a reminder of this because I spent the weekend with this funk
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  feeling terrible. And this was a weekend I was
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  supposed to be getting a lot of stuff done.
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  And it started to amp me up because 1, I had been away.
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  I was supposed to come back. I was going to clean out the
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  chicken coop. I was going to, you know, work
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  on the newsletter coming up. I was going to do so many
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  different things that I had. I wanted to go through all my
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  pictures and sort them out so I could post about what we did and
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  just should be able to share them with my son because he
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  hasn't seen all the pictures that I took.
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  Just this whole like, oh, I'll be able to do this and this and
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  this and I had all the best laid plans And then I got the funk
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  and I worked all week, which was totally fine.
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  I, I sound terrible, but I was, I was just, I was slightly tired
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  all week long, but I didn't like, you know, I didn't take me
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  down. And then all of a sudden Friday
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  afternoon, it really started to take me down.
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  Like I felt terrible, like I had a raging sore throat and I
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  started to really get gross. So immediately I make this about
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  what I can't get done, which super frustrates me when that
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  happens because OK, I, I'm a doer.
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  I like to do things, I like to check things off my list.
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  I love to be productive. And just the thought of not
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  being able to get more done over the weekend was making me
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  insane. So here it is Friday afternoon.
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  We always, my son had and my husband and I have this ritual
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  of going out on Friday night for Mexican food.
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  And they're like, do you want to go out for food?
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  And I was like, no, I, I just can't, you guys go.
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  I just felt terrible. And so I laid on the couch and I
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  actually watched TV, which is something that I don't often do.
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  Maybe at night before I go to bed, my husband will say you
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  want to watch a show. And we have shows that are pre
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  approved for me before bed so that I don't have nightmares
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  because some of his shows scare me so I can't watch them.
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  But we have shows that I can watch so we can do that.
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  We have a bunch of Youtubers we watch.
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  I could do that, but this was like, I was just sitting there
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  going on Netflix and seeing what I hadn't seen.
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  And so I, I did that and I was like, OK, I'm going to feel
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  great tomorrow and I'll be able to get all caught up.
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  Well, guess what? That didn't happen when I woke
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  up. I, I coughed all night long.
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  And so you know what happens when you don't sleep?
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  You don't feel well. You start to make things even
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  more dramatic. And I was getting more and more
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  upset that I wasn't going to get things done.
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  And I realized mid Saturday afternoon that I just needed to
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  take the weekend and let it go. Like I was just like, Nope, I've
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  got to just shift this. I've just got to let it go.
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  I've got to be willing to stay on the couch under a blanket for
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  48 hours to feel better. And letting it go was hard
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  because for me, I still wanted to do it for the part of my
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  brain that was still like on fire.
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  She just wanted to go out and do things.
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  She did not want to sit on the couch, wait and do nothing.
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  But it's interesting how things combined to make me go, OK, I'm
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  getting a stronger message because we had rain like we have
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  never had rain. Well, actually, I shouldn't say
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  that. We did have it last year where
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  we got, I don't know, 12 inches in 36 hours or something.
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  It was insane. And our pond has been very low
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  through the through the drought, through the summer and all the
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  fact that we not very much lower, not like a dangerous
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  level of low, but it was low and you could see probably from the
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  edge like where it normally with a water line at the top down, it
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  was probably a good 1314 inches low.
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  And all of a sudden the heavens opened up on that Friday night
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  and it just kept raining and raining and raining.
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  And then Saturday it kept raining and raining and I hadn't
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  even really thought about it. I was so fixated on my what I
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  wanted to get done. Now, even if I was completely
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  healthy, coming out and doing the chicken coop in all that
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  rain is impossible because I have to take everything out.
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  I have to strip it all out. I have to push it out into the
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  yard so it can all break down and turn into dirt that I can
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  use in plants, which is my methodology.
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  I just take everything out, all the straw out.
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  I put it out in their courtyard of their coop and then they can
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  essentially break it all down. We all break it down.
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  It turns into something amazing. And then when I plants put
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  plants put it on top of plants, they go insane because it's all
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  just fertilizer. So.
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  I But I couldn't have been out here doing that.
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  I mean, that would have been nuts.
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  I would have been out in pouring rain and then it rained all day
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  Sunday. And I'm like, Oh my God, look at
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  this. This was all provided at such
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  timing. Everything lined up.
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  So I had to let it go. I had to just say, OK, what this
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  means is I really needed a rest. So lo and behold, I finally got
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  some sleep. I was able to get a little
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  caught up. I still sound terrible.
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  My voice is still cracking. But you know what?
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  I got it done and I got some, I got some good quality Netflix
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  time. So I'm going to make it mean
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  that I must have needed it. And now hopefully this week
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  we're going to kick some cold butt and get this out of my
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  head. But I'm going to make it mean
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  that I'm being very thoughtful about the food I'm putting in my
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  body, the stuff that I'm doing. Not that I'm not doing that a
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  lot. But now I'm going to really
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  streamline it and I'm just going to make sure that I can get this
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  gone as quickly as possible. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.