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Season 2 - Episode 35 - The next choice · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Whoop. So not going to lie to you this
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  past week has been a tough one. We've had in the last seven
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  days, we've lost two chickens and I have really had to work on
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  re framing my brain getting myself back in gear.
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  Recognizing that no matter what anyone tells me, I'm going to
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  free-range my chickens because it is the way that they have the
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  happiest life and I am not going to allow myself to get taken out
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  so to speak along with the chickens.
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  So, Today, I wanted to talk to you about how I did that because
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  granted it it's not easy to always just kick yourself back
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  into gear, especially when you have sad moments and believe me.
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  I was a sad moment and days of it right there.
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  So it doesn't matter what the situation is or what happened,
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  but you have to make a choice about what you want to do,
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  moving forward, you have to make a choice about how you want to
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  hit that button. That says, okay, I'm going to
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  reset myself. And I'm not going to stay in a
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  state. State of despair or anger or
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  frustration, whatever it might be because you are ultimately in
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  control. Now does that mean that you give
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  up the feeling of sadness completely?
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  No I mean I'm still sad that they're gone but I'm not focused
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  on that and I'm not focused on the fact that it could happen
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  again at any moment because it's attacks from the sky and there's
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  nothing we can do about that. But what I do put my energy to
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  and I do put my attention on is the fact that I need Cultivate
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  and sculpt. I love to use those that word
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  cultivate because it really is, you have to cultivate that
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  feeling of being able to say I can shake this off and not just
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  shake it off but I can hit the reset button to move to
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  something better. And that's what I wanted to talk
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  to you about the something better.
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  The something better that is in your mind.
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  It's we have imaginations for a reason.
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  We have imagination creativity, all that stuff.
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  Those are gifts from God and how you has them is definitely a
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  gift back and instead of using them to tear yourself apart, and
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  blame yourself which I was very upset about because I just miss
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  being able to save one of them. And so I had no choice.
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  I had to really like, get myself in that place of saying, Hey,
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  listen, it was meant to be because I would have been there
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  otherwise and I've been there before where I've been able to
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  save them in this time I couldn't.
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  But when I started to really think about What I wanted to
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  talk to you guys about because it had been kind of a
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  challenging week for sure. I was like, you know what, I
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  want to talk to them about that. That way of saying, I can still
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  have that feeling of sadness, but I am not going to let that
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  be the defining emotion. That takes me forward.
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  I'm going to set into myself that there's a, there's a choice
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  in this always and there's a direction that you can take
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  yourself and you can reshape it, you could decide to move in a
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  different direction. Now, again, you have to do this
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  multiple times, because if you don't do it, multiple times, you
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  will slip backwards and you will find yourself, right?
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  Back to feeling the crappy way that you were.
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  But when you start making these choices and you get in the habit
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  of making the choices and saying, what is going to Define
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  me right now and who do I choose to be in this moment?
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  And how do I choose to look at this situation?
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  For me? The most important thing is, I I
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  want to focus my attention on going to the place that I want
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  to be and then seeing it as if it's already done and then
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  focusing my emotion on it, that way.
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  That is, that is the essence of the shift.
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  And when you start feeling it, as if it's done, you can start
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  to feel good again. So you're now, actually in this
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  new state, you're in this new place, your you have cultivated
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  that to a point where it's it can hold its own.
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  Now, it doesn't mean again that you're past the sadness but you
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  have to go on no matter what's going on, you have to go on no
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  matter how crappy your week was, no matter how crappy the news
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  was, no matter how crappy the day was, the goal is to have you
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  go on and to learn from it and grow from it and process it and
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  move through it and become better on the other side and
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  come becoming better on the other side.
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  Choice giving up is a choice. Everything comes down to the
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  choices. We have, and everything comes
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  down to how we make a decision about that choice and how we're
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  going to see it. So I choose to say that, you
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  know, yeah, this was a tough week.
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  Yes. I lost two of my girls.
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  And, you know, I don't think of them as just chickens.
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  They are not just chickens to me.
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  They are Pat's. They all have their own unique
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  personalities. They're all super, you know,
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  just original Little beings. And what's So important to
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  remember about that is that, you know, I feel like that about a
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  lot of things. I feel like that about all, you
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  know, animals plants trees, and I'm going to do the best I can,
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  to always give them the best life and if something happens, I
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  know that they have had a kick-ass life up until this
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  point, and I'm not going to make them suffer because of one or
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  two incidents. So I choose to move in a
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  different direction. I put myself on that reboot
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  path. And I am, I am refocused and I
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  work towards the emotion that I want as if it's done.
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  Because remember it's your gift back.
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  This is a gift and what you do with it is your gift back.
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  So I hope you guys have a very blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.