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Season 5 - Episode 57 - Lamenting…. · 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 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 from the chicken coop.
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  You know, the weekend coming up has the time change and I often
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  have such opinions on this. You know, I don't I don't love
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  having to change the clock. I, I will the first one to admit
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  it. I wish we would just pick one
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  and stick to it. But I will say I do love that
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  the sun is up earlier because it lets me do more and I can be out
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  here earlier. I can be in the garden earlier,
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  all kinds of wonderful things. And you know, I hear people talk
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  about this often and complain about it.
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  My mother's sister, my aunt used to talk about it all the time
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  and she would lament this time change for weeks ahead of time,
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  talking about how much it annoyed her and how much she
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  couldn't stand it. And it, it like consumed her
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  mind. It consumed her actions.
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  It consumed her words. And I always found it very funny
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  as a kid that she would spend so much time talking about
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  something that we have no self, you know, we have no control
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  over it. It's nothing that ourselves can
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  do about it. It it's just that's the way it
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  is. The time changes and I've
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  noticed through my clients this past week, it's becoming a
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  conversation. Now for some of us, the ones
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  that are in different time zones makes perfect sense because we
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  need to know what time zone we're in and the change will
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  affect the time zone. And so we'll talk.
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  We're like, oh, when do time change, only time change here,
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  blah, blah, blah. I have to make sure I remind
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  everybody because my clients in Europe time change different
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  weeks than we do. So it's reasonable to have that
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  conversation, but when you start thinking about how this effects
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  you and you start complaining about it and lamenting about it,
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  you are making it worse. And I'm having this conversation
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  well ahead of Saturday because I think everybody really needs to
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  know that this is not a something you should be doing.
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  This is something that you should be just saying to
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  yourself, you know what I am. I'm just not going to allow this
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  to affect me. I'm just going to move on.
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  It is what it is. I can't do anything about it.
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  It's like being mad at grass for being green, or being mad at the
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  sky for being blue. You're not.
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  No matter how mad you are, you can't do anything about it.
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  It will change when they decide to change it, and not a moment
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  before. So what are you doing?
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  Wasting the energy? Why are you talking about it?
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  To make it worse for yourself? Why are you bringing all of that
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  energy in? It's not worth it.
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  And this is not the only place we do it.
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  We do it with other things. We'll talk about if it, if it's
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  a parking split, you know, situation, we have to go
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  somewhere. I have to go downtown.
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  It's so crowded. I don't want to go downtown.
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  I can't get a spot. And then we complain about it
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  days before we have to go downtown.
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  We complain about things that are so inconsequential and we
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  spend too much time complaining in general.
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  So I am, I'm going to challenge everybody today as we come up to
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  this time change to eliminate the complaining.
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  Just eliminate the complaining. When you hear yourself
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  complaining, just be like, no, I'm not going to complain
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  because it's going to attract what I don't want.
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  It's a very simple book and it it's a very simple way to think
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  about it and just go, you know what?
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  I'm I'm not going to complain, end of story.
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  I'm just not going to complain. And if I'm complaining, that
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  means I'm attracting it and I don't want to attract things,
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  end of story. And it's hard.
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  Let me just say that it's hard. And if you're not complaining
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  out loud, you may be complaining in your head.
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  So you have to pull yourself together.
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  Stop that pattern in your head by saying no, I choose not to do
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  this. I choose to have something else
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  go on instead of this. I choose to think about how
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  exciting it's going to be. So as I approach this weekend
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  coming up, I'm going to choose to think about how, wow, all of
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  a sudden it's going to be lighter earlier.
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  So when I come out in the morning, I'm it's going to be
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  easier for me to shoot the podcast.
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  I'll be able to have it out earlier.
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  It's going to give the girls more time to, you know, go out
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  and roam around. It's going to make things, you
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  know, the growing season start. Things are going to start to
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  pop, so to speak. So I'm excited about it and I
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  can focus on being excited instead of being irritated.
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  So I'm going to challenge you all to do the same thing, to
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  course correct that garbage that's going on in your head,
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  throw it out the door, Don't take it with you and make a
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  decision to be a non complainer, to be a positive force in the
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  world because it's always better when you do.
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  All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you all tomorrow. Bye.