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Season 3 - Episode 25 - Drinking and dripping! · 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 porch.
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  And sitting next to me is Beaufort.
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  And there's a reason for this today.
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  So we are going to talk about something that big, huge lesson
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  that Beaufort taught me. And I Again, these things show
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  up over and over in your life and you just don't realize how
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  much your emotions take over. But this is a doozy.
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  So Beaufort is an American bulldog and he's about 110 lbs
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  of love. As I always like to say.
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  He's solid muscle and a big goofball, but super protective
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  of me. He's my shadow.
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  He's with me all the time. If I am gardening, he is leaning
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  against me. If I am working in the chicken
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  coop, he sits guard at the door like wherever I am.
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  When I walk all day long talking to all my clients on our, you
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  know, I've got a path, a trail around the property and I can
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  walk the property all, all the time.
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  He's with me and it never fails. He'll go no matter what the
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  weather is. If I said to him right now it's
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  raining, but if I said to him we're going to go for a walk
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  around, he'd walk with me in the rain.
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  My other dog, Lucy, she's just not interested in that and she's
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  a Princess and she doesn't leave.
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  But Beaufort, he's a different kind of soul and he's and he's
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  very expressive. He's got big expressions on his
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  face and you know what he's thinking.
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  You can just tell. And for those of you who are on
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  this podcast, I'm quite sure the majority of you are animal
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  lovers because we tend to attract what we are in this
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  case. And I am a huge animal lover as
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  all of you know, hence the chicken coop.
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  So Beaufort is a drooler. When he has breakfast, he's
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  without fail he will eat his breakfast, eat it or whatever.
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  He eats his dinner or whenever he drinks.
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  Actually, he's always got water coming out of his mouth.
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  It's like he doesn't stop. He just walks away.
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  And it makes me crazy. Like I can't even express the
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  level of crazy that it makes me so crazy that we have a term for
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  it called drinking and dripping in our house, Beaver.
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  It's drinking and dripping and it's just everywhere, and he'll
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  walk and it's just down this path.
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  Now, why is this so important and why are we talking about
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  this? Because here's the situation.
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  It shouldn't make me crazy. He's a dog.
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  He's allowed to drink out of a bowl.
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  Clearly he is allowed to go ahead and drink out of a bowl of
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  water and have it go wherever because he's my dog.
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  I picked him. I knew the risk of what the dog
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  was when I got him because I had one before.
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  Now he didn't have quite the same face because there are
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  different types of American Bulldogs.
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  Mine has. Beaufort has a little bit more
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  of a squished in face to my first one.
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  Bishop did. But it's just it's just part of
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  having that big face. So I know that and it it got to
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  the point I was I have a stack of rags.
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  I bought a big bag of rags at Costco so that they're just dog
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  rags and I keep them in my laundry room and I use them and
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  next to his, you come to my house to visit, you've got a
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  bowl of water, the bowl of food. It's on their tray and there's a
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  stack probably of three or four white rags at any given time
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  that are sitting there so that I can grab a rag and wipe his
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  face. It reminded me of having still
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  reminds me of having like a baby when you have that little wipe
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  the burp up wipe all the time with you.
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  It's that's what it was and still is and so about probably a
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  month or so ago. Maybe two months ago.
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  I can't remember the exact time frame of it, but I started to
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  get like, I noticed that it was making me crazy and I really had
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  to like say, OK, what is going on here?
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  I've got to rewire this. This is, this is not OK because
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  I could feel my anxiety. Like if I was doing anything,
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  anything, I would hear him and I would go nuts trying to get to
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  him. I've gotten up out of bed
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  because I could hear him drinking and I would run down to
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  wipe it up before he made a mess on the floor.
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  That's how it was getting to me. So I had to do something.
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  So I said, OK, I'm going to rewire this and I'm going to
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  recognize that this is a ridiculous response.
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  My Certainty girl is freaking out because of her cleanliness
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  needs. So we're going to rewire this
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  for myself. And every time I hear him doing
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  that, yes, I'm going to go wipe it up.
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  Yes, I'm still going to go wipe it up if I hear it.
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  But what I'm going to do, instead of just wiping his face
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  quickly because I know it annoys him, he gives me the look.
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  I can see the look on his face. I'm going to kiss him on the top
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  of the head while I do it too. So I'm going to rewire it for
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  myself and I'm going to rewire it for him and I'm going to tell
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  him I love him every single time I do it.
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  In no short order, it has diffused and it does not bother
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  me the way that it did. And he's clearly not bothered by
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  it anymore because he puts his he picks his head up.
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  Before he used to hang his head low and try to get away from me,
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  but now he knows I'm going to give him a hug and a kiss and he
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  feels like, OK, this is good. So the reason I'm sharing this
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  all with you is because I want you to know you can rewire
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  things now. Am I still wiping up the water?
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  You betcha. Because it doesn't look good on
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  the floor, and it makes me nuts because of that one little thing
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  of like, oh, I don't want to step in the wet water, but it
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  doesn't make me nuts at the level it was.
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  It's not like I'm running for it.
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  If I miss it and I see it afterwards, I'm OK and I can
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  clean it up. But it's a point that I want to
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  make to you guys, because sometimes these things are
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  insidious. These little weird quirks of our
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  anxiety, of our uncertainty, girls of our frustrations, they
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  they're insidious. They're everywhere.
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  And you have to look for them. And no one would have ever
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  thought that I had one in a bowl of water and hearing water being
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  sloshed up by a dog. But I did, So I had to rewire
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  it. So think about where are yours
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  and start that rewiring. Come up with a good reframe like
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  I did. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.