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Season 3 - Episode 256 - Living with mysteries · 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 chicken coop.
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  So today I want to give you a Mary Oliver quote from one of
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  her poems, and it's from mysteries.
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  Yes, and it's the first line of the poem.
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  Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.
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  And boy, isn't that the truth. Because I think this universe is
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  filled with magic and wonder and mysteries, and we will never
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  understand even a portion of them.
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  You know, we hear news every day that science is discovering new
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  things. We hear all kinds of what we
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  would deem good news, bad news. We don't understand why it
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  happens. We have religion that helps us
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  guide some of it. We have religion that makes us
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  feel like we wonder, how could this possibly be if we, you
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  know, look deeply into the meanings of religion, how could
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  we have anger and all of this in the world?
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  So many people have questions and they don't have answers to
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  them and that is because we are not meant to understand them.
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  In my opinion, I think we have to learn to live with the
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  mysteries and learn to function with the mysteries and learn to
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  carry ourselves with the mysteries and be patient with it
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  all. And you know, human beings
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  aren't the most patient things in the whole world.
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  I think we try to work towards it.
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  I use the term lightly because really I don't.
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  I have a really hard time with patience for myself, not for
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  other things. Like I have tons of patience
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  with my animals, with my gardens, with everything that I
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  grow, but I don't have tons of patience with myself per SE.
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  It's a ongoing battle to be patient and learn to be slower
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  and and bring myself down from those things that seem so
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  daunting sometimes. But as we all know, human being
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  human is a work in progress. And you have to really put your
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  intent on being a better human overall.
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  Not just in one area, but overall, because we all have
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  spots that we can do this in. And even when we are really
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  strong in certain things, we can still do a better job.
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  We just have to work towards doing that, put our intentions
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  there and really focus on bringing that into our world.
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  So for me, one of the most important things that I know
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  about this, when I start thinking about all of this
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  really comes down to the mysteries that we have and we
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  get hung up on not understanding them.
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  We're doing ourself a disservice when we start focusing on trying
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  to solve the mystery as opposed to just being in wonder about
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  it. Just being in that state of awe,
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  just looking at it and going, geez, I don't even need to know
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  because it's so incredible. I don't, I don't.
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  I am always in awe a seed, because you put a seed in the
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  ground and boom, you next thing you know you have a plant.
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  And I have every read everything about it.
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  I understand quote UN quote how it happens, but I still don't
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  know what makes it all happen. Because isn't it funny that
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  this, what seems to be this very inert object you can put in the
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  ground and all of a sudden it turns into something that's
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  alive. And it baffles my mind every
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  time I see it happen. I'm I'm utterly in awe of
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  watching seeds turn into something.
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  It's I, I wait, I patiently wait.
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  And I am that person that wants to go and dig in the ground and
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  say, is it coming up? Even when I start them in the,
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  you know, the little green cells, I get very like, oh, I'm
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  going to go in there and I'm going to see.
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  But see, that's one of those mysteries that I have to let go
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  of so that I can just say, OK, this is something I'm going to
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  put aside and I'm just going to stay in a state of awe about it.
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  Because if I stay in that state and I really work towards that
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  state, you know, magic happens because it attracts more things
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  that are joyous, wondrous, putting you in a state of awe,
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  and then it's full circle. And then you feel great about it
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  because it is a full circle kind of thing.
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  So you have to ask yourself what mysteries surround you that
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  taunt you, and what mysteries surround you that you're willing
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  to just stay in a state of awe with because that's where the
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  beauty lies. My friends, when we can do that,
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  that's our power. So go out there and be in awe
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  today. Have a great day, make it a
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  great day. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.