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Season 4 - Episode 253 - How to handle certainty when it knocks at your door · 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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  It's a little noisy. She's got a lot to say today.
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  In any event, let's talk about this hurricane that keeps making
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  everybody crazy. And the point of this is how
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  much we need to be certain as humans.
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  So we keep looking and watching. And I'm one of these people who
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  is like an avid, oh, I want to see where the storm is going.
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  I want to see what's going on. I want to see what's happening.
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  So I keep checking, checking, checking, checking.
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  And, you know, the spaghetti models, that's the thing for
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  those of you who don't live near where there's hurricanes, they
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  constantly talk about these spaghetti models that will say
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  and track and say it's going to go this way, it could go this
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  way, it could go that way. And it turns out, you know, it's
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  going to do whatever it wants to do.
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  And there's not a heck of a lot we can do about it.
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  It's just going to do what it's going to do.
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  And for the last four days I've been watching it.
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  Now there are two, the others it's, it's not even a hurricane
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  right now. It's it's a tropical disturbance
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  that could turn into one. And there's a major one that's
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  like right off in the Atlantic. But it's not going to turn this
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  way according to what they're saying.
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  Now they're saying it's going to just turn out because of this
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  pressure and they give you all this technical stuff.
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  But this one they were worried about and continue to be like
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  monitoring very closely is in it down somewhere South of Florida.
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  It's still in the islands. It hasn't gotten itself
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  organized. It's got sand in it.
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  There's all kinds of things that they tell you.
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  And here's The funny thing about this information.
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  I will listen to the information over and over and over and over
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  and over, trying to learn more. But why?
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  Why am I doing that? Well, because I want to make
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  sure I'm quote UN quote prepared.
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  Now, any of you who listen to me regularly, do you have any
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  question in your mind that if there was a pop up hurricane, I
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  wouldn't be prepared? I mean, let's just face it, I
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  always have more than enough of everything.
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  Like that's just my belief system.
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  I got very scared by that when I was little with my mom, Like she
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  would always be like, Oh well, we don't have this or we don't
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  have that. And I'm always like, how do we
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  not have these things? And it made me just turn into a
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  person that feels like, OK, I always have to make sure I have
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  myself stocked up. So my house is stocked.
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  There's no question about it. My have enough water based on
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  the fact that we don't drink the city water.
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  I have enough water. I have a generator.
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  There is nothing for me. I have enough chicken food.
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  I have enough of everything. And I don't mean just for a week
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  like I have enough that it could last.
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  Like I've been teased that I might have an apocalypse pantry.
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  I don't have it that bad, but I do have a lot.
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  I could. I could easily say that I would
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  not have to buy food for a month and take care of my family.
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  Now that may sound crazy but it's just the way I'm hardwired.
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  So I don't fight it anymore and I just go with it.
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  But back to the certainty thing. So this, this keeps going on and
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  on all weekend long. And I'm I'm still watching it.
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  And then they're telling us now like most of them like these
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  spaghetti models, so picture pieces of spaghetti and they lay
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  it all out and they show like all these different computer
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  models that are saying it. And the majority of them, like
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  90% of them are all saying, OK, it just turns and it goes out to
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  the east and it doesn't. It skirts the coast, but it does
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  not hit the coast. So I'm like, OK, but there are
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  still three pieces of spaghetti where it's showing.
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  It touches the coast. And I'm like, what if one of
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  them is that way? And the point of all of this is
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  that even when you think you have control over one of your
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  emotions, that's one of your primary emotions.
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  Let me be the first to tell you it is highly unlikely that it's
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  never going to show up repetitively.
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  Mine does and I know it. So I have to stay on top of it.
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  I have to make sure she's not driving me crazy.
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  So for instance, this over the weekend, I was very, very clear
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  with myself about this situation.
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  And I was like, Nope. You know what we're going to do?
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  We are going to work on learning these new programs that we're
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  learning for video production and what not, just learning them
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  so we have some knowledge and that we can put some stuff
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  together on our own. And I was like, OK, I'm full
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  blown going in and I'm doing it. And it occupied my brain and it
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  took me out of worrying about what this damn storm was doing.
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  It took me worrying about like, OK, I got a message from my
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  truck. My truck actually sent me a
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  message on the app for it saying that I had a tire that was going
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  flat. Amazing, right?
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  I was like so excited my truck told me that because I didn't
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  even know it could do that. And then I started to panic and
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  certainty girls like, Oh my God, there's a hurricane coming.
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  It's not even a hurricane, mind you.
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  And and you don't have a tire fixed.
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  How could that possibly be? And it just threw me into a
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  tizzy. Immediately went on the app,
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  tried to book an appointment, couldn't get the app to load the
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  appointment schedule. I'm like, of course not, you
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  know, like I got so frustrated. So anxieties joined the party
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  and we had quite the interesting party.
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  Point being, you have to manage them the whole time.
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  So I spent the weekend retraining myself, putting my
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  focus on something else. Doesn't mean I didn't think
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  about it. I did, but I didn't think about
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  it 100% of the time like I would have if I hadn't given myself a
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  big thing to learn. So figure out when you're having
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  these issues, what do you have to do to snap yourself out of
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  it? For me, it's always going in and
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  learning or being completely consumed with gardening or
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  something. That's what does it.
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  And before you know it, you're out of your own head.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.