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Season 2 - Episode 186 - Beginning again in the next 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,
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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 we have
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  some rain going on. Very dark morning.
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  Girls aren't even out yet off in the distance and you can hear
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  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
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  things done. And yet it's summer and you
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  don't want to do things and you feel, look, this is awful.
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  I'll wait till tomorrow. I'll wait till next week.
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  And we 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 wait till here. Or for me, what tends to be my
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  little button pusher with this is all of a sudden there's this
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  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 5 gallon jug ones that you put up above and it's
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  for water bottles and cooking. We use it for that and it's in
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  the corner of our 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, that
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  thing is making a weird noise. Sounds like it's not getting the
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  air to go through it. And he's like, well, it's not
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  leaking. So you know, I looked at it,
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  it's not leaking. I said OK.
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  Went to bed, woke up this morning.
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  Guess what? It was all over the floor and I
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  walked around the corner and in true fashion of a girl who was
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  raised in Massachusetts, I lost my temper with it.
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  And I was like and I was so frustrated and there was a
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  steady stream of obscenities coming out of my mouth at that
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  moment because I was basically looking at about two gallons of
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  water that was all over the mudroom floor.
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  And the rug that comes in to wipe your feet on and the shoes.
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  And it was just, and the dogs were looking at me like, what do
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  we do? Do we walk through it?
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  Do we walk across it? What happens?
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  So I had a chance in that moment to say, OK, what am I going to
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  do? I cleaned it all up and then I
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  basically took all the wet towels, hauled them into the
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  laundry room. And said to myself, in that
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  moment, I got to shake this off. This can't be with me all day.
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  I've got a full day of coaching. I don't want to take this with
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  me all day long. So I first of all, I acknowledge
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  that I got upset and I acknowledged that I didn't want
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  to keep it really important. You don't want to keep things
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  with you. The next moment is a new
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  beginning. So I shook it off.
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  I got the dogs back inside from taking them out to go to the
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  bathroom. And basically gave them each a
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  hug, gave me to Cookie, got their breakfast straightened out
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  and said to myself, OK, done. That's behind me.
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  Just because it did happen doesn't mean I have to hang on
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  to it. Boom.
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  Then I walked over, went to go finish what I was doing, making
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  tea. And I said, you know what, let
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  me just check something quickly to make sure that something went
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  into my bank account. And of course the Internet is
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  down. And at that moment, I just
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  started laughing and I was like, OK, I know this pattern and when
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  I get into it, I have 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, the heat
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  is insane. And I had to pause and I said,
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  you know what, I'm just going to reboot the system, go pour my
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  tea, not let let it get to me. And you know what?
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  When I turned around, it was back on so.
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  Did I do that with changing my energy?
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  Possibly. Would it have happened anyway?
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  Maybe. But the truth is, I felt better
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  about it. And that's the bottom line of
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  all of this. It's about what we feel better
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  about in those moments. It's not about the other stuff,
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  It's about how we feel. It's about everything with our
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  energy and can we shift out of it?
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  So I want to remind everybody that as you go through.
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  This half of the year, you know, we, as we enter into it,
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  remember, the gift is in the fact that the next beginning is
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  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.
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  It's behind you. Everything is behind you.
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  So it's all about how you choose to show up, how you choose to
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  interpret that moment and how you choose to move on with it,
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  you know? And since those two incidences,
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  I haven't had anything other than the fact that I'm recording
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  on the porch, which can be delightful.
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  Some days when you're listening to all the birds sitting in the
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  trees and the drizzle is coming down and it's pretty dark, it's
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  nice. And I can say, while it's not
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  exactly what we planned, I certainly can welcome it.
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  So hopefully this was helpful. And I hope you guys turn over a
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  leaf in the next moment and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Have a very blessed day. Bye.