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Season 2 - Episode 239 - Living in "The cone of uncertainty" · 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 chicken
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  coop. So this morning I heard
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  something interesting that I wanted to share with you because
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  it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
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  As you know, I'm very, very certainty driven.
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  As I've talked about before, it's something that I work on
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  all the time to try to. I don't want to say mitigate it,
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  but just to manage it is better is a better way to frame it and.
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  Every time we get into this season of the year, it is we're
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  in hurricane season in the zone of the country that I live in.
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  And so this means that they are will use weather terms that
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  instantaneously trigger. And it is the cone of
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  uncertainty as soon as you start hearing that there is a storm in
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  the Atlantic anywhere and it's coming this way and they start
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  projecting weeks in advance, weeks in advance.
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  I'm granted this is a wonderful thing because it gives you time,
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  it lets you figure things out, but they will start talking
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  about it in ways that are. I didn't grow up with those
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  words being used. It just makes me laugh when I
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  hear it because I am so certainty driven by my nature.
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  So when the weatherman this morning and I checked to see
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  what the weather is going to be and he says, well here is our
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  cone of uncertainty and they project out depending upon where
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  the hurricane rate of speed and how it wobbles and where it
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  moves, we are in the cone of uncertainty.
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  And I, as I was getting the girls breakfast, ready to come
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  out here. I thought I started thinking to
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  myself, huh, this is really interesting because aren't we
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  always in the cone of uncertainty?
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  Like we don't want to think about that, but we really are in
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  the cone of uncertainty, pretty much a standard of time that is
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  always and. We never know what's going to
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  happen. We never know.
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  We hear that. We hear don't take things for
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  granted. Take your family, give them a
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  hug. You never know what could
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  happen. Today might be a day where your
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  life changes forever and you can't go back.
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  And we all hear these things and we all know people that it's
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  happened to and it's happened to us, but we still go around like,
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  you know, everything's going to be the same way that it is
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  forever. And the truth is, it won't.
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  That doesn't mean you have to be sad about it.
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  Doesn't mean you have to worry about it, doesn't mean you have
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  to be afraid of it. Just means you have to recognize
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  that having the power to see that things have the ability to
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  go away puts it in perspective to pay attention to it and
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  really appreciate it in a different light in a different
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  way. So.
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  When we talk about having to live in a cone of uncertainty,
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  as the weatherman likes to put it, we are talking about the
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  fact that, you know, there there's no way for them to
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  control anything about where a hurricane goes.
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  They can't, they can't shift it. They can't get, you know, some
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  plane that flies into it to move it in a different direction.
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  There's nothing that they can do.
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  But they can observe it. They can be prepared for it.
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  They can, you know, a warn everybody about it.
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  And essentially that's what you're.
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  Doing when you manage your emotions and you look at your
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  life and you say to yourself, okay, Yes, today might be a day
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  where something happens and today might be a day where
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  nothing happens. But either way, if I approach
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  this from a place of awareness and approach it from a state of
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  really honing in on how I want to show up and be the best
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  version of myself that I can be, then we have an A real
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  opportunity. We have a real opportunity to be
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  able to. Function at a higher level
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  because we are, you know, just dousing ourselves in gratitude,
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  giving ourselves that place of being like, wow, I do appreciate
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  everything that I have now. I can tell you there are days
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  when it's so hot and you just don't want to come out here and
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  deal with cleaning the chicken coop up, getting it all fixed up
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  for the day, watering everything on this farm.
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  Endlessly watering right now because it's so dry.
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  And I stop and I pause and I have to manage myself and say
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  Nope, This is why we have, you know, the morning come up the
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  way that it does, so it's not instantly hot.
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  So we can get out here and do all the chores early, early.
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  This is why we can be grateful for that.
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  This is why we are grateful for clouds.
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  This is why we are grateful for those early morning patches
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  where it's. Kate, you're capable of going
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  out and doing things, and we're grateful for the late afternoon
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  patches where the sun is down and you can do things, can
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  always find little things to be grateful for.
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  To shift your attitude, You can always talk to yourself about is
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  this resourceful? Should I be focused on this
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  right now or should I be focused on something else?
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  Because that is the key, my friends, to changing That is the
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  key. Always awareness.
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  So. Living in the cone of
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  uncertainty, it's normal and we don't have to fear it.
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  We just have to get out and recognize that it's helping us
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  to be appreciative and to be very centered on what we need in
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  order to look at the world through different lenses and be
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  healthier. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.