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Season 2 - Episode 356 - Working with a quote from Rumi · 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 mastermind set
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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'm going to share a quote from Rumi with you, who is
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  a Sufi poet. Absolutely.
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  Just a mind boggling how great his quotes are.
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  They run all over the Internet and memes, but this one happens
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  to be about the garden in winter and it goes as follows.
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  And don't think that the garden loses its ecstasy in the winter.
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  It's quiet, but the roots are down there.
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  Riotous. Isn't that awesome?
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  Because that's exactly what's happening.
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  I walk by things right now and I look at them and they're all
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  brown on the top. They all look like they're just
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  not doing anything. But in fact, in all that dead
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  looking material are seeds. There's all that, this beautiful
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  potential sitting there in what looks to be not good at all.
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  And it got me really thinking about how this time of the year
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  can be. So for me, it's very
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  invigorating to be outside and actually doing gardening work.
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  Now for some of you, just like when I lived in New England, you
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  can't really garden at all, but you still have these pockets of
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  time where you can actually winter garden where you're
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  cleaning up, you're putting, you know, new plants.
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  Sometimes you can actually plant in the garden this time of the
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  year and get things started if it's the right kind of
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  vegetables or what not. But for me, going around and
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  just planning and the potential of everything then that you
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  could do, there is quite a riotous thought in my head.
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  It overtakes me. It becomes something that I
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  can't stop thinking about. It becomes something that just
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  wakes my soul up because I'm thinking about Oh my gosh, what
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  am I going to do for next year? How am I going to have this work
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  out. And it's part of all of my
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  planning for the next phase. And and what I find that makes
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  me so exhilarated about the process is dwelling in the
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  potential of it. Dwelling in what do I want to
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  see, how do I want it to look And going and actually vision
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  boarding it, pulling out different styles of how people
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  grow, things like I'm going to try a completely different
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  method for tomatoes this year and I think it's going to
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  hopefully be astonishingly great because this, the heat down
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  South is always a lot to deal with.
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  But I want to make sure that I can continue to set myself up
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  for, you know, more success and more success.
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  So when you start thinking about the what's going on under the
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  surface and you think, oh, the winter is quiet, this is a time
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  for collecting and healing. And it's that's all very true.
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  But there's a part of us that's that creative portion, that
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  that's the potential going to the potential place that you
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  cannot deny is still happening. It's happening in the world
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  around us. It's happening it within us.
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  And when you pay attention and you start to think of it that
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  way, you become so much more attuned to having it light your
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  fire for setting yourself up to win for the next year.
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  And that's what this is kind of about like lighting your fire,
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  living in that riotous thought in your head and saying, wow,
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  OK, I'm really going to, like, get excited about this.
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  It's about allowing the excitement to take place, and
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  for me, allowing it is just glorious.
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  So start thinking for yourself, Well, what do I want to put
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  together that I could use the word that it's riotous going on
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  in my head. It's like having this abundant
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  joy. Just take off.
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  And that's the part that gets so exciting.
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  So I know whenever I grow things and I'm using air quotes when I
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  say the word things, it could be plants, it could be humans, it
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  could be anything. When I'm working with people, it
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  all makes me feel like I'm on that growth path.
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  And for me, that's what lights me up.
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  So what lights you up? What are the things that you
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  want to light up within yourself?
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  What are the parts of yourself that you want to take from
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  looking like it's all nothing to it's something.
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  What do you want to potentially put out there?
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  And this is all the best part of this is we are all pre actually
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  saying this is a goal. We're all just putting it on the
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  table and saying what's the potential, what are the
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  possibilities? What are the things that make me
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  just get excited? So before I started recording
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  this today, my 2 cochins, I have two white Cochin chickens and
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  they look like marshmallows. They're just so puffy and so
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  beautiful and so gentle. They're some of the sweetest
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  chickens you could ever have. And I thought to myself, you
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  know, I only got two of them because when I didn't, when I
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  started off this project with the chickens, I didn't realize
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  the personalities would be so profound in them.
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  I thought, you know what, I really want to have some more of
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  them. So this year I'm making it a
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  point that that's on the possibilities list to say, OK, I
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  want more coachings because they're really beautiful natured
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  birds. But it's not just about the
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  chickens. It could be anything that you
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  want. All the potential that you have
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  is right at your fingertips. So figure it out and remember
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  his words. It's quiet, but the roots down
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  there are riotous. So go figure out your roots.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.