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Season 5 - Episode 8 - Surrounded by fog · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to. Record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning from a very foggy foggy
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  outside of on my farm. It is glorious how the fog
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  changes things and you walk outside, you hear I heard it
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  first. I opened my app, I listened to
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  what was happening for weather and I was like, oh, fog walked
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  outside and the sky is bright because of the moon and the fog
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  is just, I can't even explain it.
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  It's so cool how you can still see, but you have this different
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  perspective and it really just made me stop and go.
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  This is one of those awe moments of beauty and it makes me again
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  remember how we need those throughout our days all the
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  time. And that's the first part of
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  this. Remember, find an awe moment
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  today. Go and seek an awe moment out
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  whether and it's all around us in nature.
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  You just have to find it and look and it, it's in the small
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  things. So look down, really look down
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  because I'm telling you, sometimes you see the most
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  amazing things. And, and here we are in January
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  and I saw dandelions blooming and I was just like, wow, look
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  at that. The resilience of blooming after
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  the frost and all the other things that have been going on
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  here and they're blooming. Another odd moment.
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  Now let's take this one step further.
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  Let's use this fog as a really interesting lesson.
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  I can look at the same view that I'm looking at right now every
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  day and it doesn't look the same.
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  And the fog comes in and people tend to be very, very
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  uncomfortable in fog because you can't see where you're going.
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  You can't see how far ahead. We hear the weatherman say
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  there's only X amount of visibility.
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  And if you're not driving, it really is something to behold
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  how it shifts our entire environment.
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  And it made me really concentrate and think about the
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  fact that where else do these things show up in our lives?
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  Something comes in and it could be deemed terrible, but then it
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  makes us stop and pause and go, huh.
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  I just recently was talking to a client who came down with a very
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  intense stomach situation and has to have tests on it and all
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  this stuff. And this is a person who never
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  stops. She's one of the most incredible
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  people I have ever had the privilege of meeting coaching.
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  Just adore this person. And this whole thing made her
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  slow down right? Like the fog coming in.
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  But the good part of it is it it because of the concentration of
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  it, because it was so intense, it stopped her from constantly
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  spinning. It changed her pattern.
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  It shifted her, and she is relaxed.
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  She actually relaxed, which is the exact opposite you think
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  would happen to somebody who's in this situation.
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  You think maybe she'd speed up, maybe she'd panic just like
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  somebody might in fog. But guess what?
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  She didn't, she slowed down and she's starting to heal her.
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  Things are starting to get back to normal.
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  And what's crazy about this? It's like the sun coming up, you
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  know, it's it, it's really bad when it's foggy and it's dark,
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  like right now it's really dark and it's foggy.
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  So it can be double scary. But when the sun comes up, oh,
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  that lighting. Oh, the shifts, oh, the change.
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  So you have to remember, sometimes these foggy situations
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  are really here to help us slow down, take account, look at
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  things differently, see how things can be observed from a
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  different angle, from a different perspective, in a
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  completely different way. Isn't that fascinating?
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  To me, that's just one of the most beautiful aspects of
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  noticing things around you. So it, it isn't just about
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  powering through it all the time.
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  You know, we're going to have to drive in this this morning to
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  take my son to work. He has his permit.
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  My initial thing is like, OK, I am not going to let him drive
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  today. And then I was like, why?
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  He has to learn to drive in it. Like we have to learn to let him
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  drive in it. I have to release that.
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  So I have to come out of my fog of saying protect, protect,
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  protect and let him drive in it. And isn't it funny how we use
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  that phrase, oh, you got to come out of the fog, you're in the
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  fog. You know, we, we use everything
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  around us, but we don't notice everything around us.
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  So I am, you know, I am going to let him drive today.
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  I'm going to give him the opportunity to drive in the fog
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  and see how he does. I'm going to be patient with it.
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  And I'm going to be in awe of how nature consistently provides
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  us these opportunities to recognize and cross pollinate
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  these beliefs and ideas and thoughts over from it.
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  And if we just take the time to notice, if we just have the
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  ability and the wherewithal to just slow down enough to take a
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  quick notice, boy, can it help us and change us.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.