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Season 5 - Episode 115 - Straight from Virginia Woolf · 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 happen 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 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. Here are the birds off in the
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  background. I'm on the porch.
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  They're just starting to wake up and they're very excited because
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  I've already filled their bird feeders out there with my
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  flashlights. I want to read you something.
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  That's a quote from Virginia Woolf.
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  Whatever happens, stay alive. Don't die before you're dead.
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  Don't lose yourself. Don't lose hope.
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  Don't lose direction. Stay alive with yourself, with
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  every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.
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  Stay alive. Learn, study, think, rebuild,
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  and then create, speak, write, dream design.
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  Stay alive. Stay alive inside you, stay
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  alive also outside. Fill yourself with colors of the
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  world. Fill yourself with peace.
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  Fill yourself with hope, stay alive with joy.
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  There is only one thing you should not waste in your life
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  and that's life itself. I read that and I was like, wow,
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  that just kind of hits home. When you start thinking about
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  all the things that she said in there.
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  It's like, what part of you are you not paying attention to?
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  That's dying? And when you look at the list of
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  things that she went through, stay alive, learn, study, think,
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  read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
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  All these things are part of what humans were like just meant
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  to do. It's part of we Co create with
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  the universe every single day. And if we're not doing that, if
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  we're not fulfilling that, that's when, in my opinion, we
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  start to feel like we're dying. I can see it in my clients.
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  I see it in myself. When I don't feel like I'm
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  creating something, I feel like I'm dying.
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  So when I'm creating flower gardens, when I'm creating
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  sanctuaries for birds or caring for my chickens and creating
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  like, you know, one of my big projects has been making the
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  porch feel like this really beautiful sanctuary for plants.
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  And now we've added, if you can hear water running in the
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  background, we've added this water garden feature where we
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  have a turtle, our turtle living in there.
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  And it is again, it's like all garden oriented.
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  And there is just something about plants that makes my heart
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  happy. I can't explain it, but I know
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  it's there. And the more plants I have, the
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  more I feel fulfilled. So the more I create things to
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  fulfill that, the more I have all of these these, you know,
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  beings around me. Every little flower matters.
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  That's why in the drought, going around watering them every day
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  matters. Like it takes me, I hand water
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  right now to make sure everybody's getting something
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  and that hand watering takes me like 2 1/2 hours, maybe 2 hours
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  every night. Some nights I'm slower than
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  others, but it takes me that long to do it because I'm making
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  sure I got it. And if I don't finish until, you
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  know, I start at six when I finish coaching and then all of
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  a sudden, and some nights I start at 7 when I finish
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  coaching. And then that's what it does.
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  It it takes me that amount of time because nothing is more
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  important than being able to Co create and and be a part of it
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  because it makes me feel alive. It makes me feel completely
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  alive when I walk out in the morning like I am right now
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  standing on my porch and I'm overlooking this, you know, this
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  just a ray of different flowers that are starting to come up.
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  It it's evidence of all this effort and love and work that
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  I've been putting in for months and that Mother Nature has been
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  putting in because I've got perennials out there that are
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  coming up. And I just look at everything
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  and I'm like, wow, OK, this is tremendous.
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  This is this makes me feel really, really good that this is
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  what's happening. So my point is, don't die
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  reading that you don't die with your music in you, as I've said
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  before. But that list is just
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  incredible. So the question of the day, and
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  this is, you know, from Virginia Woolf, what are you doing?
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  What are you doing? Are you, are you doing those
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  things? And it doesn't have to consume
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  your whole day because yes, we are task oriented.
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  We have to do tasks. That's just part of being human.
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  We have to, but it doesn't mean we give up the other parts.
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  So what are you doing that brings that to you every single
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  day? What are those things that
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  you're doing every single day to bring it in?
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  I hope you have a blessed day, my friends, and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.