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Season 4 - Episode 269 - How quickly can you pivot? · 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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So how quickly can you pivot? Like how quickly can you know
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  that your plans got completely screwed up and you can pivot?
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  I'm going to tell you a little story.
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  So I had plans, bought tickets way ahead of time to go to the
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  State Fair. Like I'm talking six months
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  ahead of time. Get them at a huge discount.
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  Bought them, said, all right, we're going to make the trip.
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  We've never been able to make the trip to the State Fair.
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  So I was like, OK, it's like 2 1/2 hours away from us, we're
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  going to do it. So here we are.
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  It's over the course of, I don't know, 10 days, 11 days,
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  something like that. For the 1st 8 days of this or
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  6-7 days of it, it rains and it just doesn't rain a little.
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  It rains like torrential downpours and we ended up with
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  10 inches of rain. So it was like it was messy, it
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  was gross, and there was no way anybody was going to make it to
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  go outside to the fair and feel enthusiastic about that because
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  it was so gross. So obviously didn't go to the
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  fair. Just see that like, OK, this
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  weekend we're going to make it to go to the fair.
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  Could have gone today, but it was open today.
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  However, I had clients in town and we had had plans for a long
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  time that they were going to come out to the farm and I was
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  going to have them, as you know, lunch guests and my family was
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  attending. I was really looking forward to
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  it. So no fair today and the weather
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  is gorgeous. Super nice weekend coming up and
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  I was like, OK, tomorrow we're going to go to the fair.
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  We had it all worked out. The whole plan was set in place.
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  And then I go to look at how far the fair is calculating the
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  time, what time does it open, all of this.
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  And there's a notice on there that says game day, which would
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  be the, you know, today and like, OK, figuring out where,
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  where are we going to check this out?
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  And game day, I'm not game day. What is game day?
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  There's no game there. Well, across the street from it
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  is where they play college football, and game day in the
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  South is a very big thing. So we start looking and there I
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  do research and I'm like, how quickly does the stadium fill
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  up? The game starts at 12:45.
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  Fairgrounds open at 10:00 AM. What time do people start going?
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  Are they allowed to go in and get set up for game day?
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  Well, that would be 7:00 AM and it says right on the site that
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  expect extreme, not not like heavy extreme traffic delays.
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  I'm like, you have got to be kidding me.
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  So of course I immediately go, I don't want to, I'm not going to
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  put up with that kind of stuff. I don't want to do that.
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  That's not my jam. I don't want to sit in traffic.
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  I don't want to do this. So immediately I'm like, OK,
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  let's pivot. We can go Sunday.
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  Well, can't go Sunday because Sunday's National Football
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  League. And of course, you know, my the
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  person in my life does not want to go because he's got to watch
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  his game. And I'm like, OK, so I am I
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  going to be upset that I bought the tickets way ahead of time?
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  No, I mean, if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.
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  I had them say La Vie, they were not that expensive when you buy
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  them way ahead of time. So I'll chalk it up to a
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  donation to the fair. Now that leaves me like, OK,
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  well, my plans are ruined, So what am I supposed to do?
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  So immediately I'm thinking pivot.
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  OK, it's going to be nice. It's going to be cool.
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  It's a great day for a farmers market.
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  And also there's a whole other art show going on in downtown.
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  So I'm like, OK, I'm just going to go to the art show.
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  And immediately I was just elevated back up to, oh,
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  something exciting, something different, something fun to do,
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  allowing myself to take on the pivot and not get all wound up
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  about the fact that, oh, this sucks, I wanted to go to the
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  fair, blah, blah, blah. You know how it happens.
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  And I mean, I, when I was a kid, I loved the fair and I couldn't
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  wait for it every year. And it was the the actually the
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  fairgrounds, where the fairgrounds were when I was a
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  kid is now completely gone. And I think it's a housing
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  development, which just makes me sad.
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  But it was such a great thing to go to that fair.
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  I loved it every year. And I really wanted to go to
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  this one, but here's the beautiful part.
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  There is another fair that's coming up.
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  It's just not the State Fair, but it's like a version of the
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  State Fair. It's just a little bit smaller.
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  So we'll attend that and I'll allow myself to pivot and I
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  won't get myself upset about it because hey, I apparently I
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  wasn't meant to go. And that's my belief.
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  So where can you show up with that in your life?
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  Where can you use that same mentality?
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  Oh, didn't work out, wasn't meant to go.
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  No big deal. Going to move on.
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  It's a really useful way. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I am off to the art show.
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  I will see you tomorrow. Bye.