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Season 3 - Episode 57 - Neglect is a silent killer · 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 chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about neglect.
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  And what do I mean by neglect? Well, it can be anything really.
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  It can be neglecting another human, neglecting relationships,
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  neglecting your animals, neglecting your things that
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  you're supposed to be paying attention to anywhere across the
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  board. However, today I'm using it in
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  the context of how much a silent killer it is because we don't
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  necessarily think about these things.
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  So if you neglect something in your life, whatever it may be,
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  it is a silent killer. It takes away this, It's
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  insidious. It just takes away from your
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  knowledge base of what is really happening.
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  First and foremost. When you're do, when you're
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  neglecting something is very limited and you kind of forget
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  about it. You kind of forget to see what's
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  happening. But when you it, it starts off
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  as a very simple thing. It's just like, oh, I've let it
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  go. Whether it's your health,
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  whether it's, you know, something that's major or not is
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  irrelevant. It's just it starts off and it's
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  small and it's tiny and it might just be one day, two days that
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  you neglect something and before you know it, it has gotten so
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  out of hand that it has grown and festered into something.
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  So, you know, let's talk about it.
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  This in the simple context of a little tiny scratch.
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  You get a scratch on your hand. This happens to me here on the
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  farm a lot. I get a scratch on my hand and I
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  don't pay attention to it because I'm busy.
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  I'm outside, I'm working with all my animals.
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  I'm not paying attention to it and I don't clean it up.
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  And the next thing you know, I have this scratch that's
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  infected. And maybe it's just a couple
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  days, maybe it's longer. Whatever it is, I neglected to
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  take care of it when it happened.
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  And before you know it, now it hurts.
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  And I have to go. And I have to say to my husband,
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  I have an infection in my finger.
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  Can you help me with this? Because it's not feeling good.
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  And he's like, it's because you neglected to take care of it the
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  moment it happened. And I was like, Yep, that's
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  probably very true. I did neglect to take care of it
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  the moment it happened. And what it does, such a great
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  representation is then I have to stop.
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  And then it pulls all my attention over to it.
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  It pulls it and it creates this issue.
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  That's a bigger thing where it puts all my attention on it.
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  Now I'm using the scratches, a small example, but what if this
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  was your health? What if this was something that
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  you were neglecting regularly and all of a sudden when
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  something happens, you have a heart attack.
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  It's like a wake up call. Boom, Now you have no choice.
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  You have to pay attention to it. Or in many cases it's not
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  something as dramatic as that, but it's something else.
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  Like you don't change the oil in your car or your truck or your
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  vehicle, which I am very guilty of.
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  Unless the truck tells me it's time to go, I don't pay
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  attention to it. And I know some of my listeners
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  right now who are very into their vehicles are going to say,
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  Oh my gosh, please do not tell me you do not regularly change
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  the oil. That I don't regularly change
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  the oil. It's that I wait till the car
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  tells me I'm not. So on top of it, the way some
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  people are and this can cause a problem because I neglect it.
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  See Roosters yelling at me today about it.
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  So the point of this is when you start to look at things you
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  avoid neglect. So this came up because I am
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  actually working on a list for maintenance for the house this
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  year. And the farm things that have to
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  be done, the fireplace has to be cleaned.
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  You know, the chimneys need to be swept.
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  Do we need to have power washing done?
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  Do we need to have anything repaired?
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  What are the seasonal things? And this came about because I
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  saw a Martha Stewart list of like all the things that she
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  takes care of. Now obviously she is Uber
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  organized, and I'm not even close to that when it comes to
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  this, but I love the idea of it. And then when I started thinking
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  about neglect and how it shows up everywhere, it can show up in
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  neglect in your relationships where you're just not showing
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  somebody else that you care about them and love them enough.
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  You're not doing the little things.
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  And you know, Valentine's Day comes around and boom, before
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  you know it, here we are having the conversation about like, oh,
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  we need a company to tell us to pay attention to the people we
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  love. And that just seems absurd to
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  me. So neglect is something that
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  happens very, very slowly. Typically, it happens slowly,
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  starts off. It's just a simple thing.
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  And before you know it, it's become a bigger thing.
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  So I'm going to give you guys a challenge and I'm going to say
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  where are you neglecting things that, you know you need to look
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  at that you really want to be better at moving forward?
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  And before we get through this first part of the year, it is
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  important to say I'm going to correct this.
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  I'm going to course correct my behavior immediately so this
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  doesn't happen and I don't have this taking place.
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  OK, my friends, go look at it, do some digging, figure it out.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.