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Season 4 - Episode 222 - Pivot Moments · 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.
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  To teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way, hey? Everybody good morning from the
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  very very very wet farm. We had over 10 inches of rain in
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  a day and that is crazy. The water is finally is not
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  raining. The water is everywhere.
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  I mean at the end of our dirt Rd. it turned into an absolute
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  like running river of water and I have never personally seen it
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  do that before. I haven't seen it get wet.
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  My neighbor neighbors pond has actually gone over out of its
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  banks as well but into the entire property.
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  So it looks like his house is on stilts in the middle of the
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  property. Never saw that before.
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  It is just crazy how much water we got.
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  That being said, that changes plans because this weekend I had
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  had plans. I'm air quoting, I'd had plans
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  to shoot some videos. I've got all kinds of milkweed
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  blooming. I've got butterfly pee bushes
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  blooming. And so I wanted to make a
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  butterfly PT and I had been waiting for that and waiting for
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  that and could not, you know, perfect timing.
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  And then the rain came and, you know, we go through this all the
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  time where we have our best laid plans and then something
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  happens. Something will take us out.
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  Something will say, hey, you know what?
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  You thought this was what was going to happen.
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  And here you go. It's a pivot moment.
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  I look at these things all the time as a pivot moment.
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  I could sit here, I could be annoyed, I could be upset.
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  I could go through and say this is not on my schedule.
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  But what good does that do me? It doesn't do me any good at
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  all. You know, there are massive ways
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  to get aggravated with everything and I'm just not
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  choosing to do that because again, I get to manage my
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  emotions. And the cool part about being
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  able to choose your emotion is when it shows up and it doesn't
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  feel good, you get to change it. So I could sit here and as I'm
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  looking out, I'm saying, Oh my God, what's so cool about this
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  morning is that the Ibis are everywhere.
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  So Ibis are a fat water bird and they are, they're everywhere.
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  And they like to fish in the water, like in the the the mushy
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  parts of like the creeks or the edges of the Martian area in the
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  woods. When the woods all fill up with
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  water, they'll fly in. And they are everywhere.
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  We have hundreds of them, much to Beaufort's dismay.
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  He's like, what is that? And should I chase it?
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  And we're discussing that as he sits beside me and now licking
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  my face because I'm like, nobody, they're friends.
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  We're not going to go out and and get rid of them.
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  So they're everywhere. And that's a treat that we
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  normally don't have because we're not normally that wet out
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  here. I mean, some mornings, if it's,
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  you know, been a little rainy and we've got some puddles,
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  they'll fly in and check and see what's there.
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  But for the most part, they're really not here that much.
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  So now they're here in droves and I'm loving it.
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  So I'm sitting here saying to myself, OK, this is a pivot
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  moment. So what things do I need to work
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  on other than this while it's, you know, drying out before I
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  can get out there and actually do some filming and do some
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  stuff? What can I do?
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  Well, the truth is I need to go and fix my LinkedIn because my
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  LinkedIn is not completed and it's not done the right way.
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  And when you have a coaching client who's an expert in
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  LinkedIn, you need to have that fixed.
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  So I am actually going to be sitting down and I'm going to be
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  doing that and I'm going to be cleaning up a bunch of other
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  things too that are just like paperwork stuff until I can get
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  this area where I can go back outside and say, OK, now, I
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  mean, I there are spots where I literally, if I go walking, I'm
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  going to be up to my knees in water.
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  So it's not like I can just go out and start gardening.
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  I mean, although pulling weeds in this is really good because
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  if they just pop right out and that may be on the agenda,
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  especially as it cools off this week.
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  Today is really humid. But again, all of these are
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  pivot moments. So I always think of it in terms
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  of, OK, this is a pivot and the universe is clearly looking for
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  me to do something different, clearly looking for me to get
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  out there and and work on something.
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  I should clearly getting, you know, me focused on something
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  else. I choose not to get upset about
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  it long term in the moment. Do I get aggravated?
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  I would be lying if I said no. Of course I do.
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  I get aggravated sometimes and often when it comes to this
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  stuff like for instance, I normally love to go to Costco on
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  the weekends get all my stuff done early so I have the whole
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  weekend open. Well, that couldn't happen
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  because it started pouring like a Friday afternoon and it didn't
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  quit until this morning. So it was it was pretty crazy
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  and I didn't want to go you know, out there on these flooded
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  roads everywhere around us is flooded.
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  So pivot moment we had to go eat dinner last night because didn't
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  go shopping to get stuff. So we ended up going out as a
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  family, going to dinner and then running into Costco quickly and
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  grabbing what we need and come home.
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  So with the the chore was ended up it ended up being done just
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  not on the time frame that I normally do it.
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  So that throws my certainty girl off.
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  But I'm like, no, we're not doing that.
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  We're not having that moment. We're doing something different.
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  Instead, we're having a different moment.
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  So the point is I'm trying to manage my emotions through it.
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  I'm choosing better emotions through it by just making
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  distinctions about no, this is just a pivot.
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  This is a way to go and I highly recommend it because it really,
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  really helps. 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.