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Season 2 - Episode 285 - Falling leaves · 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 master mindset
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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 chicken
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  coop. So it's very chilly here this
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  morning. It's our first shift of real
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  fall type weather and I thought how appropriate looks like it's
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  gonna be this way all week. So I'm like, OK, let's let's
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  talk some fall stuff. So symbolism is big in my world
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  because all these little things always show up and teach us
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  things. If we look at them, if we don't
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  look at them, then we don't know.
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  But if we look at them and we dig into it, we start to
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  discover things. So if you ever thought about the
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  symbol of leaves falling, is it a symbol?
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  Is it just leaves falling? What could be?
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  Whatever we want to put into it, but in my world.
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  I like to look at it and say OK, leaves symbolize letting go.
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  The tree has absolutely no problem letting go.
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  The tree just lets go. The leaves come in the spring,
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  they pop out and in that symbolism they mean like the
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  rebirth. The tree is still alive.
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  It looked like it was dead all this time, but then it.
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  Pops with all these little buds and then boom, there we go with
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  these beautiful leaves, flowers, whatever it might be.
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  And then we get to the fall and they start turning colors.
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  They start really like brightening up.
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  But really what's happening is that leaf is dying off.
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  That leaf is dying off and it's becoming brighter and brighter
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  and brighter and it's beautiful When they turn those colors,
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  they just, it's electric. It just our eyes just light up
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  with it. But then what happens is they
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  start to let go and we're going to start that phase all over.
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  Ever again of going into that hunkering down piece of it.
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  And so when you see leaves and they're just, you know, letting
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  go or they're falling, the symbolism in that to me is just
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  so tremendous. Because if you think about it,
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  it's the tree just releasing. And preparing for a new phase.
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  It's not hanging on to something, which is what we do
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  so often. We hang on so tight.
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  We don't want to enter phases or new parts of our lives and we
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  just choke out something great to hang on to something that is
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  essentially dying. Boy, that was a big one, wasn't
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  it? But it really is that symbol and
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  at least it is to me. And I think that when you start
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  to think about how this. Can emotionally align with you
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  and say, OK, the earth is telling me there is a way to let
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  go, knowing there is going to be a rebirth coming.
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  Knowing that I have to go through this as part of the
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  renewing process. I have to say I have to let go
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  of things and watch them fall. I can turn, you know, in the
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  process of it. It's all bright and big and
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  wonderful and then something fades out.
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  Like you might have a project that you're working on and it
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  might be coming to its end and it might be fantastic, but then
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  all of a sudden. Sudden.
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  It's like okay. Well now I need something new or
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  you're bored with it. I mean, that's such a big one.
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  You get bored with parts of things that we're doing and we
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  want to do something more. We've realized we have taken
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  this thing as far as it can go, and then we have to try
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  something new. So we have to move into a new
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  direction with it. And for me, it just is such a
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  powerful thing. Because watching a leaf fall, if
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  you've ever stopped and actually watched a leaf fall off a tree
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  and how, it just kind of. Floats effortlessly down.
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  And it it it's there's zero resistance to it.
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  It's done its course, and then there's zero resistance to it.
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  But in the process of not resisting, it's still beautiful
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  on the ground. It still comes back.
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  And when it breaks down, it renews and turns into food for
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  the tree and comes back as more of the tree.
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  So if you can. Take the symbolism of what it's
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  teaching us and what we're looking at in our life.
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  I I promise you one of the things that this does for me is
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  it really gives me this sense of hope.
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  And it gives me this sense of I can.
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  I can have moments of great, great gratitude for all the
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  phases. I can put myself into this
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  mindset that every single phase of my life, every single bit of
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  my life. There's lessons in all of it.
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  There's beauty in all of it, and I can enjoy it instead of having
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  fear for it or having disdain for it or having pain for it.
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  You know, we go through this often in the chicken coop.
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  The girls are so gorgeous and they have all their beautiful
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  feathers and then they go through molding and they look
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  terrible. They look like homeless chickens
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  because they're just, they've lost a bunch of their feathers.
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  They don't look like they're cared for.
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  They've lost their gloss and their shininess and so.
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  All of a sudden they they seem very, very different.
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  But guess what? It's just two weeks away. 3
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  weeks away they're going to look like brand new, beautiful
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  chickens all over again because boom, all their new feathers pop
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  out. This is the same thing.
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  It's just running through the phases.
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  So enjoy the phase. Take the time to look at the
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  leaves changing. If you're in a spot where that
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  take the time where you look at them fall, because watching them
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  fall from a tree is really beautiful and it's just.
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  Fills your heart. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.