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Season 2 - Episode 319 - Impermanence · 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
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  coop. So let's talk about the
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  impermanence of things. You know, nothing.
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  Nothing. Nothing is permanent.
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  No matter how well you do something, no matter how you
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  know strong. You think you've built
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  something, Doesn't matter what it is.
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  Nothing is permanent. Everything is in constant flux
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  and change. One day things seem completely
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  copacetic and everything's running the way we want it to.
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  And the next day there's a shift.
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  Something's not right. Something had to change.
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  And before you know it, we're working on fixing things.
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  And usually that's a trigger because we get upset that things
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  have to change. But what if we just embrace the
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  fact that nothing was permanent? What if we just embrace the fact
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  that, you know, there's always change?
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  And today's another opportunity of how we decide to view it and
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  if we start looking at things like opportunities.
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  To shift and change our approach and how we do things, then we're
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  going to have a much easier time.
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  We don't have to have the suffering.
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  You know, if there's one thing that I can say that I truly
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  believe in is pain is inevitable.
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  But suffering definitely is optional depending upon how much
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  you put. Your attention on the suffering
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  portion of it, because pain will happen.
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  It doesn't matter. We will love people and we will
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  lose people. We will have things that go
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  really well and we will have things that do not go really
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  well. And we have to learn to
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  transcend this, and we have to learn that Part of the process
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  is accepting the impermanence of things in our lives.
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  And it doesn't matter if it's a piece of clothing.
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  One of my favorite pair of pants that I wear out here on the
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  farm, ripped right through the knee.
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  And I was like, oh, no, right. I was like, so upset.
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  They were lightweight jeans. I I found them at Old Navy.
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  I was like, they don't even make these anymore because they're
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  probably like four or five years old.
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  And I was so bummed out, but I had to pause and say to myself,
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  wait, these pants. And I have done so much work out
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  here, I need to celebrate these pants.
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  I'm not going to be mad about it, And I know that sounds
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  silly, but I had to shift my my thought process around it
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  because. This is what happens.
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  You get irritated and those little irritations are like
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  bleeding to death by paper cuts. They don't feel good and they
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  sting and they stay with you. And we've all had paper cuts and
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  they suck. And a cardboard cut is even
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  worse. But that's what we do to
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  ourselves when we don't accept the impermanence of stuff and we
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  just instead of just chalking it up and going, OK, so this is
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  where we are now and staying in the moment.
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  We get all wound up about the other stuff and then make
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  ourselves feel bad about it. So instead of doing that, there
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  are options, my friends. And those options are about
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  recognizing, OK, this is where we are right now.
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  How do I choose to feel now? Who do I want to be now?
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  What's the best way to show up now?
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  So I've had to learn that lesson.
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  Quite a few times with the chickens, as you can imagine,
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  because being out here with them is not easy in the sense that
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  things want to eat them. Pretty much everything wants to
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  eat them. The other day I was out walking
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  around the loop here and I looked up and there was.
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  Giant eagle. I could hear the crows
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  screeching coming in at them, and the chickens were all
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  running One Direction. I was walking in another
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  direction, and I was like, oh boy, I wonder if they had
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  something. And sure enough, the second
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  eagle flew over and it had a squirrel.
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  It had caught a squirrel And the crows were actually alerting,
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  which they do, and I love that because I worked hard to train
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  them for that. But the the truth is it it's
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  impermanent. And I felt so bad that the
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  squirrel got nailed. But in the same moment I was
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  like well. You know, this is Mother Nature.
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  This is where I live. This is what I choose.
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  And I brought myself back to the moment and I said I'm grateful
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  it wasn't one of the girls because it has been one of the
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  girls in the past and it's hard when you lose one of them.
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  And it rather than sitting and dwelling in the fact that I lost
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  one, I sit and tell myself, OK, this chicken had the best
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  chicken life that it possibly could.
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  It was not all cooped up. It was not put into a run.
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  It was not part of a mass egg production.
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  It you know. They have this beautiful house,
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  they have this beautiful run, and then they go out and spend
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  all their time on five acres. There is nothing wrong with
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  their chicken life. And if it has to end that way,
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  there's nothing I can do about that piece of it.
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  I protect them. I do everything I can, but I
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  have to accept the impermanence of it and realize that I've done
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  good work while I was doing good work.
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  So. Incorporate this belief into
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  your system. Start when things are not broken
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  so that you have a better way of looking at it.
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  Give yourself the gift of allowing yourself to expect that
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  you things will be impermanent and that you will transcend it
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  all by choosing a different focus.
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  OK, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.