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Finding your way back to the moment · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens, Hey everybody. Good morning from the very busy
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  Chicken Coop. So this morning we are talking
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  about being in the moment and this is probably a subject that
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  you are going to hear me talk about an awful lot over the time
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  that you spend with me. Because it's one of my biggest
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  most difficult things that I personally have to deal with.
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  So in me recognizing in myself, I can sit here and have a
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  conversation with all of you about it because I can tell you
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  it is By far my Achilles heel being in the moment.
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  I am a mad future Pacer. I love to constantly, be
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  thinking about, what's next? I love to be physically doing
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  things that are, you know, on task, so to speak.
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  But I forever and in my head, I forever and doing other things
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  in my head, and that's that is a, is it an asset?
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  Yes. Is it a liability?
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  Yes, and I have had this, my whole life.
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  This is just been something where I mean, obviously, I was a
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  kid that, you know, grew up during the 70's and I will tell
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  you I would have if I had grown up in the 90s or 2000s, I no
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  doubt would have been medicated because somebody would have
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  said, well, she has ADHD or add. However, I was brought up with
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  the understanding that you had to figure out how to deal with
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  it, just like anxiety, and a lot of other things at that time I
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  had Quote unquote, figure it out.
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  So I always had workarounds I always had things that I learned
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  that could help me and they still do to this day.
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  But I have to say one of the most interesting things for me
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  and studying Buddhism and mindfulness and meditation.
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  And all of it is that you have to be painfully aware of where
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  your thoughts are going. And when you are painfully aware
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  of where your thoughts are going, you are a pain.
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  Fully aware of where they are, not because we are so good at
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  criticizing ourselves. So I can instantly tell you
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  where my thoughts are not going, which is where they're supposed
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  to be. So I'm going to give you an
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  example. Because today, today's the
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  perfect situation, it is a Sunday morning, it's very
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  relaxing. I don't have clients.
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  I am going to spend, you know, the day, with my family.
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  I'm always up early and I'm getting ready to come out and
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  You know, take care of the chickens and beforehand.
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  I was like, all right, I'm going to make muffins this morning and
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  I wanted to make pumpkin muffins.
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  So I knew I was going to come out and talk to you.
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  I had a plan of something different that I was going to
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  talk to you about but then I realized, as I was going through
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  my morning and I was working on getting outside to the chickens
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  and whatnot that I had this overwhelming sense of what was
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  going on in my head, and what was going on in my head, was I
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  Not concentrating on the muffins.
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  You see, I needed a recipe for the muffins because the one I
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  had I don't love it for a pumpkin muffin.
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  So I was like, all right, I'm going to go online and look for
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  it but while I'm doing that I'm thinking about other things that
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  I need to get at the grocery store and then I start
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  realizing, okay, I need to get the dog his pill because my dog
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  has to take a pack will because he has constant itching and it's
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  a major pain in the butt for him.
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  So I have to make sure I get it to him right at the right.
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  Time. And then I'm going through and
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  I'm like, okay well at least I have all the things that I need
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  to for the muffins but I should probably fold that laundry too
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  and I'm going in my head and my whole peaceful morning was
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  turning into chaos because my brain was running through a
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  whole bunch of other stuff that was going on.
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  And so I stopped and I was like, no, I'm going to concentrate on
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  getting the recipe. So pull myself back.
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  Walk over to my computer, go to start looking at recipes and I
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  see that a client sent me an email and she's hiring somebody,
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  and she wants to put the ad up on indeed today, because today
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  is a Sunday. So, apparently overnight, she
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  sent me the list of stuff that was in it, and I was going to
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  read through it and approve it and help her add to it.
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  So of course, immediately I stopped what I was doing and I
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  turned around and I started focusing on her ad and I was no
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  longer Hang on the muffins then before, you know, it not only.
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  Am I doing that, but I'm looking at.
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  Oh, I got an email. That says, I have the 30 percent
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  off, coupon it some food. So, anybody who knows?
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  Me knows. I love buying things that son
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  food, because they have absolutely great proteins and
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  powders it. All kinds of wonderful mixes and
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  you don't often get a thirty percent off coupon.
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  So before you know it now I'm on there and I realized that I
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  never even made coffee so I stopped I go walking over to
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  make coffee and I'm like wow. What am I doing?
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  I am all over the place again. My lack of mindfulness is huge
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  in this moment, so I keep pulling myself back and pulling
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  myself back now, I'm telling you all this and I know you're
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  probably laughing about it because it is funny.
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  But the truth is, I'm telling you this because I want you to
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  know, the struggle is real, for all of us.
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  Even those of us who know it and practice it and work it daily.
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  It is hard for anybody. It is hard for anybody, not an
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  easy process. So I'm You all of this so that
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  you can understand how to help yourself.
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  So, this morning alone, I had to hit my reset button.
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  At least that I can cognitively tell you, I counted about 32
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  times to pull myself back because, you know, the Saga
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  continued every week at goes out.
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  I have to remember to get the cat back in.
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  I'm like oh you don't want to leave her outside on the porch,
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  got to get her back in and got to make sure I check that
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  because we were having an issue. Issue with our hot water and I
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  was like, okay let me test the hot water to get this stuff
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  done. I know I need to get tickets for
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  this show that my son wants to go see.
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  Oh my God, my head was on fire. So do yourself a favor, spend
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  the time that you need to to hone in and see are you being
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  present where you need to be present?
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  What is going on? Are you pulling yourself back
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  when you need to? It's okay to go astray.
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  It's not okay to stay astray. So mindfulness today, You know,
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  be in the moment focus on it. Stay in the moment you know I
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  when I went to go make the coffee, just to tell you a
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  little quick reset when I went to reset, I was like, okay, I'm
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  getting coffee, he's a French press.
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  So I'm taking the coffee grinds and I'm putting the Scoops in
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  and rather than thinking about something else.
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  I'm like, no smell the coffee, put it in one, two, three
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  scoops, put the coffee down. Now, walk the coffee back in,
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  put the coffee away, as soon as I start doing the task and
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  staying in the moment. Head comes right back to piece.
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  You know, in, Sunday's are supposed to be about that.
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  Some of these are supposed to be about peace.
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  So, work on that today. See how much you can stay in the
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  moment. I know.
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  I will be. I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.