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Season 4 - Episode 23 - The ‘Take-Away’ Lessons · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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. At least from the farm, not from
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  the chicken coop, the garage, because it is so cold, so frozen
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  dark, and the girls aren't even coming out.
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  They are terrified of the snow. Apparently they are just staying
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  inside. They don't want to step in it.
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  They keep looking at it and they're just hanging out in
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  their coop and under their coop. Won't come in the run, won't go
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  in the yard. So today is the day it's
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  supposed to warm up. So we're hopeful, very hopeful
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  that that will straighten out a big part of how they feel and
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  we'll be able to get back to some business as usual.
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  But OK, so let's talk about I finally made it home.
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  Long drive and lots of crazy roads to drive on.
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  You know, the South is not prepared for this weather at
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  all. And I have to say, this was a
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  true testament to me being focused on the fact that I had
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  to manage my state because there were many things I encountered
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  on this journey that constantly had the ability to throw me in a
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  tailspin. And driving back in all those
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  hours very slowly, you know, ended up being quite a long
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  journey and many hours of just staying focused on managing my
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  state. So when I say managing my state,
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  what I'm really saying is I have to manage anyone who's driving
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  the bus in my head, constantly switching back to a more
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  resourceful driver over and over and over and over and over and
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  over. And it, it's exhausting when
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  you're in those intense situations to keep doing it.
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  And even for me, the person who is like teaching this, doing
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  this, it is exhausting my friends.
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  So the one thing that I really took away from this, what's the
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  lesson, 'cause I always want to sit down and say to myself, OK,
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  well, what did I learn? What were the things that I can
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  really take away as a solid learning in this that will make
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  me feel more empowered, make me feel good about it?
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  And the biggest thing I can tell you, the biggest thing that I
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  can tell you for sure that really helped me out was I have
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  the ability to get into very tough situations and get wound
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  up still. That is a big thing that I
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  recognized because panic happens and when it happens, it comes at
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  you all at once. So the thought of not getting
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  home, the thought of then having to find a place to stay, the
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  thought of then having to drive all those hours it by yourself
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  in bad weather is just, it was overwhelming to me because it's
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  not. Those are not favorite things of
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  mine, of course, and some people can handle those pressures.
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  It's just not one of the things that I I can handle it, yes, but
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  it's not one of the things I like to do.
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  And when they present themselves to me, I will do it.
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  It's just that I feel uneasy about it.
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  So it was a big distinction for me.
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  Another big distinction. The lesson to walk away was I, I
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  have a really strong skill set in being able to switch out of
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  it and it still keeps knocking repeatedly.
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  So I have to really remain in it and set myself up to win.
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  So, you know, stupid little things like making sure that I
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  had snacks so that I did not have to stop because I did not
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  want to stop. I didn't want to stop and get
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  gas. I didn't want to stop and do
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  anything. I just wanted to come right
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  straight through. And that's what I ended up doing
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  driving right straight through because it was, I didn't want to
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  have to get off an exit and get into even worse driving
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  conditions. It was just one of those things
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  where being prepared for those things really made a difference.
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  So my certainty girl was very happy that the preparation
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  worked out really well. And you know, we were able to
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  make it and make it safely and get through and felt very
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  blessed with all of that. Now in the final analysis of all
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  of this, somebody asked me yesterday, so are you sorry you
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  went? And hell no, I'm not sorry I
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  went at all. I had such an amazing time
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  meeting so many great people going out shaking hands, giving
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  hugs and feeling like, you know, you're there to change lives.
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  You're there to teach people things that you know and you use
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  all the time, just like what I did over the last couple days
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  and be able to help them change their life.
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  Because there is a time when I would not have done what I did.
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  There is a time many, many years ago where if this had happened,
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  I would have frozen in panic and I would have said somebody come
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  get me. I would have whoever I was with
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  at that time, I would have been like, OK, I need to just hire
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  car service to drive me. And I would rather trust a
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  complete stranger than myself, which is really strange because
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  I want to be able to rely on myself.
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  It's not that I can't take help, but geez, you know, I want to be
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  able to rely on myself. And I'm I'm so happy I went.
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  Was it the ideal conditions? No.
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  But am I still thrilled that I went?
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  Yes. Will I go again?
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  Absolutely. So the point of this today is
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  figuring out what your lessons are, really honing in on them
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  and then feeling good about them, all of them, the good, the
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  bad, the ugly, because they really help you.
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  So it gives me that ability to go back and say, OK, look, you
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  have evidence now that you can, in a tough, panicky situation,
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  still get panicked. And that's good because it it
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  makes you pay attention and guess what?
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  You still got through it, so I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day. It's going to warm up here
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  today, so I'm hoping the snow is gone because there's a lot of it
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  here. And I'm hoping that you know, it
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  is going to see the girls come outside today and we're going to
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  get back to some normalcy. So I hope you all have a blessed
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  day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.