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Season 5 - Episode 91 - Gifts in the MOMENT! · 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. So let's talk about the power of
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  being in the moment. To me, this is one of the most
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  magical tools that we have. If we are not in our head and we
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  are not future pacing and we are truly like present, we start to
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  see things differently, we notice things differently.
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  And just yesterday was the perfect example of this out here
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  on the farm. So I was walking, doing coaching
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  sessions, and I'm always very present when I'm doing that.
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  That's why I walk. People always, you know, ask me,
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  well, why do you walk? How do you get so many steps?
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  The trick to this is for me, I can't focus if I'm sitting down
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  like I will, I will sit on the computer if I'm, if I'm talking
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  to somebody and I'm on my computer if I'm doing something
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  with them, like oftentimes when my clients get stuck, like if,
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  if we're they're doing video edits or stuff like that.
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  And I've learned a lot about that.
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  So I'm helping them do it. I'm happy to sit on the phone,
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  you know, FaceTime with them, Zoom, whatever I need to do to
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  help get them to that next level, I'll jump on and I'll do
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  that. And I can be very present for
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  that, but I lose it when I'm talking to them and I'm just
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  sitting. I will start to scroll.
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  I'll start to look at things. So I don't do it in order to
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  stay in the present moment. I walk.
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  So I have this trail that around the property it, it literally is
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  pat down from how many steps I've walked.
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  Like you can see where I go every day and I just walk that
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  trail. But it keeps me in the present
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  moment and I'm always looking. I'm listening to them and I'm
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  looking and scanning the ground because it keeps me focused.
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  And as I'm walking, I see this big beautiful yellow eared
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  slider from our pond has come out and she's laying eggs right
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  on the trail. And I was like, wow, Oh my gosh,
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  she's laying eggs. I was so excited and I, I, it
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  was like a magical moment for me.
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  And I realized if I hadn't been in the moment, I wouldn't have
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  seen her because she they are really dark colored and she was
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  on the wide side of the trail. I was on the right side, she was
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  on the left side. And I just, I, if I hadn't been
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  present, I wouldn't have seen her.
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  So it was a gift from God in the universe to see her in that
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  moment. Got super excited, ran and got
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  my camera. She was almost done by the time
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  I saw it. So she had come out.
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  Usually they come out earlier in the like in the morning, but it
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  was, this was like close to noontime this happened.
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  So it was it was kind of late and I, you know, it was crazy
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  and I had only walked one side that morning because my chickens
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  were on. I noticed the chickens were
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  doing a weird behavior and they were only on the left side of
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  the farm. So I was like, OK, I'm going to
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  just, it's the wooded, really heavily wooded side.
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  So I was like, I'm going to go over there just in case there's
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  some creature that's going to kill them.
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  So I missed when she came out, but I caught the tail end of it
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  and it was so exciting for me. Then a couple hours later Mark
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  calls me, text me actually, and he says hey, come outside.
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  And I was I was literally just grabbing a protein shake.
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  I run out the door and he found one of the little downy
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  woodpeckers had made these perfect holes in a a dead branch
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  on one of our trees. And this is the reason why he
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  likes to leave dead branches on some things.
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  And there were babies in there and the, and the woodpecker was
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  bringing the, the baby's food. And we started, we were just
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  standing there in awe that. And when I started photographing
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  it, I got one of my big lenses and I started photographing it
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  and I noticed that there were two holes.
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  There was like an entrance and an exit, which I thought was
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  crazy and cool. And it was, it was just so it
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  was so magical to see where a woodpecker is actually chosen
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  our farm to have babies because I love the woodpeckers and I'm
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  like, this is amazing. And these little downy
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  woodpeckers are small. They're not the big ones.
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  And they got a little red top on their head.
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  They look like they're wearing hats.
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  They're so adorable. But we would not have caught
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  that if he was not in the moment and had seen that woodpecker.
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  He said, like I was just scanning looking and I caught it
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  out of the corner of my eye. I saw it go up the branch and
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  then it was disappeared. And I was like, wait, is that a
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  hole? And, and it pulled him back and
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  we both had this moment of like, wow, OK, this is cool.
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  Now here's the third one. I was walking around thinking
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  about ferns and how I wanted to use a lot of ferns on the porch
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  this year for my theme of like making it very Zen.
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  And I, I just was thinking of what types of ferns there are,
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  blah, blah, blah. And this was like a thing I've
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  been thinking about for probably the last five days.
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  I've been looking in my books at night for ferns.
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  What do I want? Do I want an Australian tree
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  Fern? They get really big.
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  I don't know. And I'm looking and looking and
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  looking. And then all of a sudden I find
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  this little tiny Fern had started to grow in a spot where
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  it was going to like just get killed if on the edge of the
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  driveway, someone would drive over it.
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  And so I scooped it up and I brought it in and I put it into
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  one of these little cops that I have that have no drainage, put
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  some water in it. And I put it on the shelf where
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  all the plants are under the grow lights.
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  And I'm like, okay, I'm going to put this right on the porch
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  because I manifested finding that little Fern because I've
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  been thinking about them all the time and it's a super cool one.
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  And I just think present moment, present moment.
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  If you weren't in the present moment, you wouldn't see it.
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  So I'm telling you all of this to spend some time in the
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  present moment because the magic you will find will, if you allow
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  it to, it will just astound you. So I'm challenging you.
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  Allow it to astound you, my friends.
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  OK everybody, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.