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Season 4 - Episode 110 - The Uncomfortable aspect of growth · 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 be
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  a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every. Day to record a podcast.
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  To teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy into the world, so welcome
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  to the coop. And let's start your day off in
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  a fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning from
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  the porch. As you can hear, the girls are
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  already out. Everybody's out doing their
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  thing. And it's a beautiful, beautiful
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  morning, just glorious. The weather is really great.
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  So we're talking about growth and the lack of certainty there
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  is in growth within ourselves, well, within anything really.
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  I mean, here I am out here walking around looking again.
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  Every morning I come out and I look and I see how things did
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  overnight and there is no certainty that when I get out
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  here in the morning that everything that I saw there is
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  still going to be there. There's just no certainty in it.
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  I have this desire to believe every night that I have
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  everything secure and wrapped up and everything did well.
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  But when I come out every morning, it's my habit to go and
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  look and say, OK, how's everything around here doing?
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  Because there's no certainty leaving them out there to grow.
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  Well, it's the same thing within us.
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  There's no certainty in growth. And it's weird and wonky and it
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  and it's sometimes it's going to be good and sometimes it's going
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  to be difficult. It's just the way it works.
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  Yesterday I bought a bunch of plants that I'm going to be
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  using in the center of our a circle coming into the house and
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  up the driveway. And some of them look absolutely
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  like textbook how they should look.
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  It's like the tractor seat plants terrible at remembering
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  the names, the actual names of them so but they look perfect.
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  And then others of them are wonky because maybe it was the
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  growing conditions, maybe it was because they were all tilted
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  over, maybe it was because they were crammed too close to, to
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  another, who knows. But whatever it is, they're
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  wonky, But that doesn't mean that they can't come back to it.
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  And what's important to remember is so can we.
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  So if you're feeling off in your growth and you're saying, wow,
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  this growth is uncomfortable, I don't like this or I, I feel
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  like I'm not comfortable in my own skin because of this growth.
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  That's very normal and probably going to happen a lot more.
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  You might say, oh, I feel really comfortable in this skin night
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  right now, but it still is it, it's who I am, but it still
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  feels strange to be doing this. Well, guess what?
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  That's also very normal. And the more you recognize this
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  about yourself, the more you see that that is actually normal,
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  the more you're able to handle how it feels when it shows up.
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  I I know 100% that when I am pushing myself, when I am really
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  diving in and growing in different directions, it is
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  uncomfortable. Let me just say that it's
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  uncomfortable. I'm not a fan of it because I
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  know it's going to be uncomfortable.
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  And I like certainty. I've said that before.
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  Everybody knows that about me. I am a certainty freak.
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  And in certainty, I'm always looking for something that I can
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  dig into and say, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is, I know this
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  because I'm looking for that. Just that feeling that I got
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  covered. Well, guess what?
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  When you're growing, you don't. As we get ready to launch the
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  YouTube channel and I have to surrender all of my videos that
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  I just raw shot videos because I'm out here on the farm by
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  myself to my team that's going to be editing them.
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  I don't know what they're going to come back with.
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  I just have to trust it. If I trust them, then I have to
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  trust the process and and that's hard like that process that's
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  hard. My friends.
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  Let me just tell you that is a hard, hard process.
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  So when I think about it, it's it's not something that I I can
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  say I quote UN quote welcome I but I, I know I have to go
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  through it because my certainty girl is just so driven with that
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  that need to know. I have to just quell it by
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  telling her, yes, this is part of the process.
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  Yes, this is what we're doing. Yes, this is how this works.
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  And I can't I can't get hung up and beat up by the by the
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  process. So you have to talk to yourself.
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  You have to tell yourself this is what happens.
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  This is how it goes. Growth is uncomfortable.
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  And the best metaphor I love to think about for myself is the
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  butterfly, because the Caterpillar does not question
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  the fact that it's going to go through the process it goes
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  through. It just does it.
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  It knows it's part of it and knows that it's going to have to
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  find a, you know, a way to stay alive until it's time to go and
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  hang upside down and make its transformation.
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  It's got to go into a chrysalis. It's got to hang upside down and
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  go into this chrysalis and turn into goo.
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  It's got to it's got to do that. And and is that a comfortable
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  process? Well, I don't think that the
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  Caterpillar questions is it comfortable or uncomfortable.
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  It just says as something I have to do if I want my wings, this
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  is how I gain them. So it goes and it just does it.
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  And I, I like to imagine that the Caterpillar is very grateful
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  for the fact that it gets to that point where it can do it
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  because so many of them don't, because other things eat them.
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  Everything eats them. And then guess what?
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  When it comes out, it has wings and it's gorgeous.
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  And it went from being the scary little creature to something
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  extraordinary. So what I'm telling you is don't
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  be afraid of the process of gaining your wings.
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  Just know it's a process and say, yeah, it's going to be
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  uncomfortable. Yeah, it's going to be scary.
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  Yep. It's going to have all these
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  different aspects to it, but I still want my wings.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.