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Season 3 - Episode 205 - The moments and emotions · 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 mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the porch because it's raining
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  again, which we're very grateful for.
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  The rain has not been enough, but I wanted you guys to be able
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  to hear out here. It's pitch dark and I wanted you
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  to be able to hear all these frogs and just our just going
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  crazy trilling because they are thrilled with all the rain.
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  And it's it is truly a cacophony of what is happening out here.
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  And I'm hoping that the mic is picking it up because it sounds
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  incredible. So this is what this is about
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  today, by the way. This is about being in a state
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  of awe. And what I love about these
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  moments that nature provides all the time is being able to be in
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  a state of awe over something so seemingly trivial to so many
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  people because they don't even notice it or it becomes
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  annoying. But think about this.
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  If you just pause and you listen to what's happening, all these
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  frogs are calling each other right now, and they're making
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  this noise to attract each other, mating sounds, all of it.
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  Like just this is what they do. And it sounds so intense and so
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  loud, so incredible. And you have a choice of what
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  you want to believe about it. Do you want to believe it's
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  annoying? Do you want to believe it's
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  incredible? Do you want to believe you're
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  just like, wow, this is like rain.
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  Something simple as rain triggers this for me.
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  I go to that state of art in nature quite a bit.
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  But this specifically because there are nights where you
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  barely hear things. It's dry, it's hot, you barely
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  hear things. And then you have a rainstorm
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  and sound explodes. Everything is like having a
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  party. It's like a frog party out
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  there. And they're just so beyond
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  thrilled that this is happening and this wet, damp, humid, but
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  really wet, lots of water. And they just rejoice almost in
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  it. And I love that.
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  And I think to myself, this is what we need to do more often as
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  humans. We need to find that state of
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  awe over, you know, the water anything and just be like frogs
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  and rejoice in it and have this celebration.
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  Instead. We often get annoyed even with
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  the sound that the frogs are making.
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  I, I've heard somebody say that the other day when we had rain
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  and this happened, somebody said it's too noisy And I was like,
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  too noisy. Now, I will admit, sometimes
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  it's hard when it's so much to have a moment where you're like,
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  wow, that is loud. But I wouldn't say I'm annoyed
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  by it by any stretch of the means.
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  If if it means you have to cover your head to sleep because it's
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  so loud, OK, so be it. But not to be annoyed by it and
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  recognize that there's so many cool things about what's
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  happening in the moment instead of getting annoyed.
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  So when you take your time and you start to pause and you start
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  to recognize the the ability to be able to shift it, you start
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  to look for other things where this shows up.
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  So for me, these are interesting things just like putting out
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  bird feeders and having birds all of a sudden just show up.
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  Like how the hell do they know that the bird feeder is there?
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  But they do, you put it, they show up.
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  It's like they spend their whole day looking for food.
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  So when you do something, they just show up.
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  And I think that's incredible. It's cool they have this built
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  in wiring to look for things. Another state of awe, finding
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  these little moments that you can revel in and say, OK, I'm
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  out of my head. I'm out of worrying about all
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  the other crap in the world that's going on, on whatever
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  side you're on. Finding those little things to
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  pull you back into the moment that you are in, in nature,
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  which is right in front of you and saying, OK, this moment is
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  where I'm going to stay. This moment is where I'm going
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  to be because that's where the power moment is.
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  So when you start to think about those power moments, hearing the
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  frogs, watching the birds, looking at small things that you
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  find around you, looking at anything that you find around
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  you, it puts you back into a state where you can calm down.
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  And that's really what this whole thing is about.
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  The celebrations, the calmness, the emotions that we want to
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  spend most of our time in, not the ones that we seem to be
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  forced into spending most of our time with.
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  So this is a little bit of a weaving path this morning, not
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  just about one thing. Because yes, celebrate the
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  sound. Celebrate the state of awe that
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  they're having the the party over the water.
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  Celebrate the moment that you're in because you can hear the
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  birds off in the background happy, I mean, still dark, but
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  they're up making sound and they're happy doing what they're
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  they're doing fate, you know, focusing on what they're looking
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  for. And then you have that ability
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  to be able to say, OK, I'm going to stay in these moments.
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  I'm going to choose these emotions and I'm not going to
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  float out and worry about things that don't have anything to the
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  ability to affect me in this moment, In this moment, right
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  where I am, right where I'm standing, sitting, drinking
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  coffee, doing whatever I am, OK? And in this moment, I'm going to
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  stay happy and I'm going to stay focused.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.