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Season 3 - Episode 168 - Shaking off the emotion · 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 today.
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  We have some rain going on. Very dark morning, girls aren't
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  even out yet. Off in the distance and you can
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  hear all of the little tiny bugs going off out here.
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  It's like a cacophony of sounds going on as the morning is so
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  wet. So this morning I want to talk
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  to you guys about the next moment.
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  Often times when things start to go astray and sometimes when you
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  get to the midpoint of the year, you start to take inventory of
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  what you've accomplished. You start to look at things and
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  you get a little frustrated. And you're like, Oh my gosh, you
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  feel the pressure, like I have to hurry up and get things done.
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  And yet it's summer and you don't want to do things.
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  And you feel, look, this is awful.
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  I'll wait till tomorrow. I'll wait till next week and we
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  start putting the barriers of time.
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  We start talking about how we have to wait.
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  You know, I'll, I'll wait till here or for me, what tends to be
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  my little button pusher with this is all of a sudden there's
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  this little series of events that take place that are just
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  irritating. And I'll give you a great
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  example of that that happened this morning.
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  I came out, we have a water cooler in our house that's like
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  one of those five gallon jug ones that you put up above.
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  And it's for water bottles and cooking.
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  We use it for that. And it's in the corner of our
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  mud room. And I came out and it was making
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  a weird noise yesterday. And I said to my husband, hey,
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  that thing is making a weird noise.
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  Sounds like it's not getting the air to go through it.
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  And he's like, well, it's not leaking.
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  So, you know, I looked at it, it's it's not leaking.
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  I said OK, went to bed, woke up this morning, guess what?
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  It was all over the floor. And I walked around the corner
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  and in true fashion of a girl who was raised in Massachusetts,
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  I lost my temper with it. And I was like, and I was so
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  frustrated. And there was this steady stream
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  of obscenities coming out of my mouth at that moment because I
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  was basically looking at about two gallons of water that was
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  all over the mud room floor and the rug that comes in to wipe
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  your feet on and the shoes. And it was just, and the dogs
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  were looking at me like, what do we do?
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  Do we walk through it? Do we walk across it?
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  What happens? So I had a chance in that moment
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  to say, OK, what am I going to do?
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  I cleaned it all up. And then I basically took all
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  the wet towels, hauled them into the laundry room and said to
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  myself, in that moment, I got to shake this off.
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  This can't be with me all day. I've got a full day of coaching.
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  I don't want to take this with me all day long.
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  So I first of all, I acknowledge that I got upset and I
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  acknowledged that I didn't want to keep it really important.
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  You don't want to keep things with you.
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  The next moment is a new beginning.
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  So I shook it off. I got the dogs back inside from
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  taking them out to go to the bathroom and basically gave them
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  each a hug, gave them each a cookie, got their breakfast
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  straightened out and said to myself, OK, done.
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  That's behind me. Just because it did happen
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  doesn't mean I have to hang on to it.
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  Boom. Then I walked over, went to go
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  finish what I was doing, making tea, and I said you know what,
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  let me just check something quickly to make sure that
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  something went into my bank account.
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  And of course, the Internet is down.
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  And at that moment I just started laughing and I was like,
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  OK, I know this pattern. And when I get into it, I have
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  to just, I don't want to be frustrated.
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  It's probably, it was probably down because of the rain or
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  whatever. The weather is crazy.
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  The heat is insane. And I had to pause.
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  And I said, you know what, I'm just going to reboot the system,
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  go pour my tea, not let let it get to me.
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  And you know what? When I turned around, it was
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  back on. So did I do that with changing
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  my energy? Possibly.
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  Would it have happened anyway? Maybe.
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  But the truth is I felt better about it.
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  And that's the bottom line of all of this.
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  It's about what we feel better about in those moments.
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  It's not about the other stuff. It's about how we feel.
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  It's about everything with our energy and can we shift out of
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  it. So I want to remind everybody
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  that as you go through this half of the year, you know, we as we
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  enter into it, remember the gift is in the fact that the next
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  beginning is a new beginning. The next moment starts over.
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  It doesn't matter. It can be one minute, it can be
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  two seconds later, it's done. It's behind you.
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  Everything is behind you. So it's all about how you choose
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  to show up, how you choose to interpret that moment, and how
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  you choose to move on with it, you know?
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  And since those two incidences, I haven't had anything other
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  than the fact that I'm recording on the porch, which can be
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  delightful some days when you're listening to all the birds
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  sitting in the trees and the drizzle is coming down and it's
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  pretty dark. It's nice.
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  And I can say, while it's not exactly what we planned, I
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  certainly can welcome it. So hopefully this was helpful
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  and I hope you guys turn over a leaf in the next moment and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Have a very blessed day.
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  Bye.