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Lessons 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop.
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  Along with all her chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop so 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 water nothing
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  happens you end up with nothing in your hands but when you put
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  your hands into a cup form and put your palms together and cut
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  them, you end up with a handful of two handfuls of water a cup.
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  If you will, now, is it leaking? Some of you will say, well, it's
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  still leaking. Yes it is.
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  But you end up with water that you can take a drink from when
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  you squeeze it. You can't get anything from it.
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  The lesson in this as Bruce Lee famously said the water, right?
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  Everybody's like, wow, these water.
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  Well, the essence of water is that it's very, very fluid and
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  it always takes the path of least resistance.
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  That's what's so funny about it. People think well, you know, you
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  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 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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  most gorgeous, you know, natural resources that we have Grand
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  Canyon. What not?
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  We look at at all the beautiful features of rocks around the
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  world and they have been shaped by water.
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  And then not to mention what happens when you get down to
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  Frozen water, glaciers and whatnot, Moving.
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  Look at the power of glaciers. Well, guess what?
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  That's frozen water. 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? How do we be like water during
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  the day? How do we, how do we have?
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  What we know this show up in our everyday life?
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  Well, notice that when you are doing, let's say you doing your
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  dishes water flows, right over your hands water just moves it
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  Allow the barriers to impede it so much, even if you have a cup
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  in your filling it up, eventually it overruns.
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  It, it just always finds the path of least resistance.
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  It always looks for the way to just keep itself flowing and
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  stagnant water. As we know we, none of us want
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  to go near will say, oh, that's stagnant water.
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  That's dangerous. We don't want to go near that.
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  So, there's so much Enlightenment and understanding
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  water and just the promise of Of it and how it flows through life
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  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.
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  And most of the time where it's just consistently able to move
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  and flow and what that does for us.
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  So when you remain fluid and you're not rigid, you have the
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  capability to actually go ahead and and and adapt in any You're
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  put into because you realize the power is in the fluidity.
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  The power is in this. The state of saying, okay, I can
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  be fluid, I can continuously move.
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  I can shape-shift into whatever I need to around me and not be
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  so rigid, 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. And what I'm saying is, allow
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  yourself to be flexible. Allow yourself to be that that
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  learner that can look at a situation, say, what's the path
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  of least resistance right now, especially if there are things
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  that are being presented to you, that you don't like when your
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  fluid and you stop resisting and you stop being rigid, oftentimes
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  the solution is clearly right in front of you.
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  You know, it's funny, we just didn't escape room yesterday and
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  there was so Times in the escape room because the clock is
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  ticking and you're seeing the clock tick and you're trying to
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  figure your way out and you're trying to figure the puzzles out
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  and there's so many times that are triggered in there with the
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  pressure of time where you become like panicked and you go.
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  Okay, I got to get this. I got to get this.
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  I got to get this and you're trying to force something and
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  instead of just stopping and pausing and becoming more fluid.
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  What's another way to look at this?
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  Another great way to go back. What's another way to look at
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  this? This and then all of a sudden
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  you see it. We had at least three puzzles
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  that we were able to solve because we were stopped and
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  paused and said, okay what's another way to look at this?
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  Let's take this from a different perspective but it was like
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  being like water being fluid. I have to be able to not get so
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  rigid in this 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 zero Clues.
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  We don't we don't want any so that we can just know.
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  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.
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  Not allow your emotions to take over.
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  It was absolutely thrilling, exciting fun.
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  And you know what, we didn't finish the room, we were within
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  five minutes of fishing. The room, finishing the room.
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  We only had. We took one clue and the last
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  five minutes just so we could figure out if we were close and
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  we own, there were only two things that we hadn't done, but
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  it was Thrilling to know how far we got with zero Clues until
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  that last 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.
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  The girl was amazed. She's like, how did you get this
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  one without this other one? Because it was, but it was our
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  ability to be able to just stay fluid as we went through it.
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  So again, this is one of those times where when you start to
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  use have all these little metaphors in yourself and like,
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  am I being like water right now? Am I Like water would ask, am I
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  looking for the path of least resistance?
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  Am I putting myself in the, you know, in the state of rigidity?
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  Or can I loosen my grip and can I become less rigid about
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  everything and just be like water.
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  So hopefully today, you will find some time to be like water
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  and I will see you tomorrow. My friends have a blessed day.
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  Bye.