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Season 5 - Episode 25 - Being able to handle the swings · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some 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 afternoon. I'm out here now with the girls
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  getting everything organized because winter is coming big
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  time tonight and we're going to see some really cold weather and
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  you know it. It always amazes me how we can
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  have these massive swings where we are and go from being, you
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  know, T-shirt weather 2 days ago to now I, I feel like I live in
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  Alaska even though I clearly do not.
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  But the point is getting yourself aware of all the swings
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  and being able to handle the swings.
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  This just represents so much more in life.
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  You know, if you can do it on simple things, it's easier to do
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  it on harder things. So for me, this is always just a
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  great reminder when I start to complain and moan and say, oh, I
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  don't want it to be cold or whatever.
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  It's just being able to handle the swings and when you when you
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  look at yourself and you start to think about how you are
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  processing swings when they happen, it gives you some very
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  clear insight as to how you process other things.
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  So really like for me, looking at the cold and sitting here
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  and, and thinking about it because they've been talking
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  about it for days. I recognize that I was like
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  dreading it and I was watching it and I was getting more and
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  more like, Oh no, Oh no. Even though what am I own
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  knowing about? It's just cold weather.
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  I have a roof over my head. I have heat.
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  My animals are very well taken care of.
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  They all have shelters, They all have stuff to be in.
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  All the plants that are outside are capable of being outside.
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  And there's nothing growing out here that's going to be ruined.
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  I mean, potentially we could have some lose some of our
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  citrus trees again, but you know what the the ones that are left
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  are the ones that survived last year's miserable weather.
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  So what am I dreading? What am I?
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  What am I sitting there and putting into that framework of
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  the dread and going, Oh no, Oh no.
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  And not being able to swing and say, okay, here's what I have to
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  do. The lessons that this farm
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  consistently provides me are just astronomical.
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  And as I was lying on the couch this afternoon, taking a break,
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  watching a movie with my son, I was thinking about this.
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  And I was like, Oh no, it's going to be so cold.
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  But I have mittens, I have a hat, I have a jacket, I have
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  boots. I have all the things I need to
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  be OK. So instead of being in dread,
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  I'm going to choose grateful. Instead of not being able to
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  swing and feel happy about it, I'm going to feel happy that
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  tonight when my girls go to bed, they're going to be all warm and
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  toasty with full bellies from free ranging all day and eating
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  all kinds of things, having their afternoon snack of stuff
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  that I give them. And when they go to bed, they're
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  going to be all tucked in and safe.
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  I don't need to feel anything uncomfortable.
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  And I think it's a great reminder to us all that in, in
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  the world, out in the world, when we're out there all the
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  time, what are we processing? What are we looking at?
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  And are we looking at how blessed and how grateful we can
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  be for how we can interpret something different as well as
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  really hunker down in the fact that, guess what, we are OK, and
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  this is just a little tiny inconvenience.
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  This whether we're going to have for the next week is an
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  inconvenience, but it's not the end of the world.
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  And there's nothing that I need to panic about.
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  There's nothing that I need to dread.
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  And controlling that mind shatter is essential to feeling
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  good overall in life. So I'm going to come out here
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  where I am right now, collect eggs, go inside, make some
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  banana bread, sit down and realize that oh wow, you know
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  what? Maybe even light a fire in the
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  fireplace and plan on the fact that it's going to be a great
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  day tomorrow. And you know what?
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  It doesn't matter if it's cold. It doesn't matter about any of
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  that. What matters is what I believe
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  about it. So I'm going to change my
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  belief. I'm going to actually probably
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  even order some seeds and sit there and plan out stuff for
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  when it's much warmer because that always lightens it up.
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  So I hope you guys find something to you that you can
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  dig into and help it when the swings come around so that you
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  don't just let them take you out.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.