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Season 4 - Episode 328 - My anxiety took over! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the good
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  morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermind, set coach,
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  creative strategist and. Also happened.
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  To be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here. Every day to record a podcast
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  to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some.
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  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. And this is the first podcast
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  from my new phone. My other iPhone ran out of
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  memory, was giving me all kinds of grief.
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  The last four days has been nightmarish with it.
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  It has just had so many issues. It started just before Christmas
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  and it has just been not inconsistent, can't do what I
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  want it to do because it doesn't have enough memory available,
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  whatever it is that you need. But I ended up getting a new
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  one. And here's the crazy part of
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  this. And this is what this is about
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  today. I'm very tech savvy.
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  Like when I sit down my laptop, I can like just do incredible
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  things because I love being a nerd in the laptop.
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  This iPhone, though, was making me unbelievably nervous when I
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  was putting it all together. And my son actually pointed out
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  to me, he's like, mom, why are you getting so nervous about
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  this? And I was like, I don't know,
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  because at the same time, because you know how when you
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  upgrade a phone, right, you have anyone who's on your plan, you,
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  they push you to upgrade, they give you better deals.
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  So of course that was my son and my daughter.
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  My husband had just had to upgrade his phone like a month
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  ago because he dropped it and smashed it.
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  So this one had these had to get upgraded like all at the same
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  time to get a great deal. So here I was.
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  I had to do it anyway because mine was absolutely the cause of
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  all the problems. And here he was getting this new
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  iPhone, super excited that I was going to get to have this liquid
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  glass, like such a big deal. And I was a nervous wreck
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  standing at the counter trying to put it all together.
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  And my son was so funny about it because he's like, what is going
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  on? You don't get uptight about
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  techie things, What is going on? And I said, you know, I don't
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  know. And like, I couldn't understand
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  what was going on. Right down to putting the glass
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  screen on to make sure it was OK.
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  Every little thing, it's asking me all these questions about
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  transfers this and that and do I want to turn this on?
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  And then having to log back in. And I was just, I, I felt
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  elevated. Like if you had to say where my
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  anxiety was on a scale of zero to 10, I was probably at an 8.
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  And I don't get like that anymore.
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  Like I really, unless it's like life or death, literally
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  something to do with us, the chickens, the animals, something
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  I don't get like that. And to feel my anxiety that
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  high, I, I had to do this exploration.
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  I was sitting there and I was like, what is happening?
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  So when it was all finished, I sat and I just was going through
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  the phone like letting opening each app to make sure that I
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  could log in and it was all set and whatnot.
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  And I and I sat there and I said what happened?
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  Why? Why did this take place this
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  way? What was it that was going on?
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  Because I couldn't identify it. Now, the point of this is this
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  happens to all of us. So we have these moments that we
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  cannot identify. We're just like what is
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  happening? I have no idea what's happening.
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  I don't understand and what's happening, what is happening and
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  we have to go back and look. If we're curious, like if we
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  really want to know, we have to go back and look.
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  So it took me a couple hours and all of a sudden as I was
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  brushing my teeth, it hit me. I felt so anxious because this
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  phone is such an extension of everything that I do to make my
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  life work the way that it does. Being able to be out here in a
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  rural area, to be able to have a farm, to be able to do what I
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  do. I rely on some big heavy tech
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  like, OK, I have Starlink. It's the only way we can get
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  Internet where we are. And literally we cannot get
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  Internet through any other way. We did Verizon Hotspots.
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  Can you imagine running a house off Verizon Hotspots for a very,
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  very long time until we were able to get Starlink here and
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  when it opened up in this area, it changed everything because
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  now we don't have to panic about how much how much gig did you
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  use for that? You can't watch that movie.
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  Don't waste it. Shut it off.
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  You know, couldn't upload videos every single time I had to go to
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  sit in a grocery store in a cafe to try to get Internet so I
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  could upload and do the things I wanted to do.
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  And, and this iPhone has, has become such a tool for my
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  business, not only to connect with my clients, but to
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  FaceTime, to be able to hold zooms, to be able to record
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  videos for whatever I'm working on.
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  If I don't have my other camera with me, the photography with
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  these iPhones is off the chart. And as you all know, I shoot
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  pictures nearly every single day.
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  I mean, I say nearly because I don't want to exaggerate, but
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  I'm telling you it is pretty much every day.
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  And around the farm I have, I think we're up to, I think my
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  son told me when he was putting everything together with me,
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  he's like, you have over 150,000 photos in iPhoto and, and I'm,
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  I'm sure I do in the cloud. I mean, it's just insane the
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  number of photos that are here, the podcast, everything gets
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  done here. So to feel like checking emails,
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  you do it. Everything's on the fly.
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  So without this tool, I would be subjected to sitting at the desk
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  and I would have to stay stationary.
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  And for me, that is the worst thought that could possibly ever
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  happen. I don't want to do that.
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  So I got nervous about sitting there and doing it.
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  How crazy is that? But it's a little tiny trigger.
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  And I want you to think about this as you're going into the
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  last few days of the year and getting ready to start the new
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  year because so many other triggers come up for us.
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  Like today I was like, okay, I. Got to make sure I get this done
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  and I got to make sure I get this done.
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  And I am amped up about stuff I want to get done before January
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  1st. And it's that looming deadline
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  again. So don't let the deadline take
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  you out. I'm slowing myself down.
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  I'm chunking it all out. I'm putting things past the
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  first because I don't even go back to coaching until the 5th.
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  But I have to do it because otherwise I'm going to feel
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  overwhelmed. So watch it.
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  Watch the anxiety, watch the overwhelm, and don't let it take
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  over. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.