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Season 2 - Episode 201 - The simple lesson from WATER · 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,
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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 chicken
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  coop. So have you ever tried to
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  squeeze water? I'm not talking about in a
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  balloon. I'm talking about in your hand.
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  Have you ever tried to put your hand under a stream of water and
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  actually squeeze water? Well, when you go to squeeze
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  water, nothing happens. You end up with nothing in your
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  hands. But when you put your hands into
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  a cup form and put your palms together and tuck them, you end
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  up with a handful of two handfuls of water.
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  A cup, if you will. Now, is it leaking?
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  Some of you will say, well, it's still leaking.
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  Yes it is. But you end up with water that
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  you can take a drink from. When you squeeze it, you can't
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  get anything from it. The lesson in this, as Bruce Lee
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  famously said, be water, right? Everybody's like, wow.
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  Be water. Well, the essence of water is
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  that it's very, very fluid and it.
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  Always takes the path of least resistance.
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  That's what's so funny about it. People think, well, you know,
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  you say that take the path of least resistance.
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  Does that mean you're not trying?
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  Does that mean you're not putting out enough energy?
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  Well, I want to remind you my friends, water is one of the
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  most powerful forces on this planet.
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  It keeps us all alive. It has the ability to create the
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  the most gorgeous, you know. Natural resources that we have,
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  Grand Canyon, whatnot. We look at at all the beautiful
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  features of rocks around the world and they have been shaped
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  by water. And then not to mention what
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  happens when you get down to frozen water, glaciers and
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  whatnot moving. Look at the power of glaciers.
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  Well guess what? That's frozen water.
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  And water is absolutely a divine.
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  Energy that's out there and being like water will serve us
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  well. And how do we do?
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  How do we be like water during the day?
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  How do we, how do we have what you know, this show up in our
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  everyday life? Well, notice that when you are
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  doing, let's say you're doing your dishes, water flows right
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  over your hands. Water just moves.
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  It doesn't allow the barriers to impede it so much.
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  Even if you have a cup and you're filling it up, eventually
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  it overruns it. It just always finds the path of
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  least resistance. It always looks for the way to
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  just keep itself flowing and stagnant.
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  Water, as we know, we none of us want to go near, we'll say, oh,
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  that's stagnant water, that's dangerous.
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  We don't want to go near that. So there's so much enlightenment
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  and understanding water and just the promise of it and how it
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  flows through life and using that as a metaphor for yourself.
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  And today I want to talk about being fluid, remaining fluid
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  remaining in that state that we see water in most of the time
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  where it's just consistently able to move and flow and what
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  that does for us. So when you remain fluid and
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  you're not rigid, you have the capability to actually go ahead
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  and. And and adapt in any situation
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  that you're put into, because you realize the power is in the
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  fluidity, the power is in this. The state of saying, OK, I can
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  be fluid. I can continuously move, I can
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  shape shift into whatever I need to around me and not be so rigid
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  that I say no. Now I'm not talking about giving
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  up all your personal boundaries and just saying all right, the
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  hell with it. I'm not going to do any of this
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  other stuff that I've set in place because I'm supposed to be
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  fluid. What I'm saying is allow
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  yourself to be flexible. Allow yourself to be.
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  That that learner that can look at a situation and say, what's
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  the path of least resistance right now?
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  Especially if there are things that are being presented to you
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  that you don't like. When you're fluid and you you
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  stop resisting and you stop being rigid, oftentimes the
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  solution is clearly right in front of you.
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  You know, it's funny. We just did an escape room
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  yesterday, and there were so many times in the escape room
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  because the clock is ticking and you're seeing the clock tick and
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  you're trying to figure your way out and you're trying to figure
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  the puzzles out. And there's so many times that
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  are triggered in there with the pressure of time where you
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  become like, panicked and you go, OKI got to get this, I got
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  to get this, I got to get this. And you're trying to force
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  something and instead of just stopping and pausing.
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  And becoming more fluid. What's another way to look at
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  this, Another great way to go back.
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  What's another way to look at this?
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  And then all of a sudden you see it.
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  We had at least three puzzles that we were able to solve
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  because we were stopped and paused and said, okay, what's
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  another way to look at this? Let's take this from a different
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  perspective. But it was like being like.
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  Water being fluid, I have to be able to not get so rigid in this
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  room. There are not going to be
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  instruction books. We didn't want to take the
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  clues. We said give us 0 clues.
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  We don't. We don't want any so that we can
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  just know we did it on our own to see how far we could go.
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  And what was fascinating about that was the ability to be able
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  to just stay fluid in the situation, not allow your
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  emotions to take over it. It was absolutely thrilling,
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  exciting, fun. And you know what?
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  We didn't finish the room. We were within 5 minutes of
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  fishing the room, finishing the room we only had.
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  We took one clue in the last five minutes just so we could
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  figure out if we were close and we only there were only two
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  things that we hadn't done, but it was.
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  Thrilling to know how far we got with 0 clues until that last
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  five minutes. Just one little clue.
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  But we did the whole thing up to that point.
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  And then to say wow, we really got the girl was a maze.
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  She's like how did you get this one without this other one?
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  Because it was, but it was our ability to be able to just stay
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  fluid as we went through it. So again, this is one of those
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  times where. When you start to use, have all
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  these little metaphors in yourself and like, am I being
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  like water right now? Am I acting like water would
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  act? Am I looking for the path of
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  least resistance? Am I putting myself in in the,
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  you know, in the state of rigidity or can I loosen my grip
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  and can I become less rigid about everything and just be
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  like water? So hopefully today you will find
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  some time to be like water and I will see you tomorrow.
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  My friends, have a blessed day. Bye.
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  Show me Akshay song.