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Season 2 - Episode 205 - Giving yourself permission to let go · 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,
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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, it is pouring
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  with a rock and thunderstorm happening and I decided not to
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  venture into the chicken coop quite yet.
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  Still dark. I'm like I'm going to do it out
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  on the porch today. So we're talking about the fact
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  that it's okay to disconnect from that outside world.
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  You know, often times I get. Very deep questions from my
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  clients about certain things, whereas is it okay like they're
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  looking for permission for things.
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  And you know, obviously we as human beings have to give
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  ourselves our own permission. Nobody else is going to do it
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  for us. We can look for outsides, you
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  know, guidance or acceptance of what we're doing, but ultimately
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  the decision is always ours, what we're going to do and.
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  Sometimes I think we feel like we're obligated to certain
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  aspects of things because it's what other people are doing and
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  one of those is staying up on current events.
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  One of those is staying engaged in the drama of the outside
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  world and you know, so that you're informed.
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  And I always love it when they say that to me.
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  They're like, well, when you say be mindful, stay focused on the
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  the things around you, stay focused on the immediacy of of
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  your world. And disconnect from the news
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  because it's so negative. I feel like I'm doing a
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  disservice to myself and to other people because I'm quote
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  UN quote uninformed. And to me that is not being
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  uninformed, that's few. That's working towards being
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  informed in a different direction.
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  Because you're being informed about your well-being, you're
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  being informed about what makes you feel good, you're staying
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  informed about certain aspects of your life and you're not
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  tapping into. The quote UN quote news.
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  Now one thing that I really want to point out is there is all
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  types of directions that you can go with this.
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  So there are all types of directions you can go with this.
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  And the the news generally pulls from the negative part of the
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  world. It generally pulls all the
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  things that are wrong. So what is the reason for that?
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  What? What are they trying to go for
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  when they just stay focused on the negative?
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  Well, a big reason for that is because you've heard me say many
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  times before, if you're a regular listener, that human
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  beings are wired for negativity. And there is a big reason for
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  that. It's to protect us.
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  It's to make us Wow, did you hear that Thunder lightning
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  strike? It it's to make us stay safe.
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  That's the reason behind it, because if we know all the
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  negative things, then we can theoretically be safe.
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  But it's just a theory about staying safe.
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  And when you stay in it every single day and you have a
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  healthy dose of negativity every day, does it really help you?
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  And the answer is no, it does not.
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  It actually poisons your system. It actually makes you sick.
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  It actually gets you to start thinking about things you've
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  never thought of before. And because we have a pre, a
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  predisposition to looking at the negative of the world, we accept
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  it. And then we say, oh, I've got to
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  be afraid of that, or oh, I've got to stay focused on that.
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  And we don't. We absolutely do not.
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  Do we have to take information into?
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  You know, for the safety of our life, of course, sure.
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  But when you're doing it at such a level, in such a way as it's
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  an everyday thing, it's an everyday occurrence.
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  You're pouring into that part of it.
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  It is not healthy, my friends. It causes all kinds of problems
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  in your psychology, in your subconscious, everywhere around
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  you, your external world. So the important thing to
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  remember is. It's okay to disconnect and I'm
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  here to tell you I do that a lot.
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  Most of the time I will jump on if I need to hear something,
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  just to say if someone says to me, hey, did you hear this
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  happened, I might jump on and read what it was about, just so
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  I know. But for the most part, I choose
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  to create my world around me and I choose to keep the negativity
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  out of it. I don't choose to do this like I
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  have. OK, I have a weather app.
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  The weather app lets me know what's going on.
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  That's great. I let it give me alerts so I
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  know, hey, there is a hurricane coming or hey, we've got bad
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  lightning. Like I knew this afternoon it
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  was, we were going to have bad lightning.
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  So the next morning I knew there was going to be more lightning
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  coming. So I was ready.
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  I was completely prepared. So I think it's a it.
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  It is a very big. Leap to say to yourself, I give
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  myself permission to just chill out.
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  I give myself permission to not know.
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  I give myself permission to relax about all these details.
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  I give myself permission to not worry about what other people
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  think. I give myself permission to just
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  say, you know what, If I feel crappy about something, then I'm
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  going to do something about it. Regardless of what anybody else
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  thinks, I'm going to do myself a favor.
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  And I'm going to let go of all this other stuff, so work on it.
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  Give yourself permission. I promise it's life changing.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.