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Season 4 - Episode 186 - If you don’t work on your wellness, you will work on your illness · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy 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 the chicken coop.
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  Yesterday I had the privilege of spending the entire day out in
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  my garden. I literally spent from very
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  early, like I think it was both 745 all the way through until
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  something when I finally decided to call it quits and go in.
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  It was hot, it kept raining. The sun would go in, I would
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  have a nice time, the breeze would pick up, it would go back
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  and forth, and it was just a really awesome time to just
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  spend time in the garden. And for me, I made the decision
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  to do that because I kept telling myself that I had to
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  work on my Wellness because I hadn't been in the garden in
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  weeks where I could just stay and do it because, you know,
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  springtime, I'm in there every day and I'm really working on
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  the garden, but it's working on my mental Wellness at the same
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  time. And the truth is, if you don't
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  make time for your Wellness mentally and physically, you
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  will be forced to make time for your illness.
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  Think about that. If you don't do what's right for
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  to be healthy mentally and physically, you will make time
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  for the illness when you have to be taking the drugs, going to
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  the doctor, having the past, having the surgeries, all of
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  these other things. And I, I pride myself on the
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  fact that I recognize when I get to the tipping point and and
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  say, okay, enough is enough. I have to stop myself now and I
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  need to take a break and I need to pull myself back in and I
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  need to just chill out and do what I need to do in order to
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  feel better. And for me, that is often most
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  of the time gardening really like getting into the garden,
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  digging, spending my time out there doing what I need to do in
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  order to feel really good about, you know, just getting dirty,
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  like being filthy. And when I got like to the end
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  of the day, I was like, God, I like, I am dirty.
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  Everything about me is dirty. My feet are dirty, my hands are
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  dirty, I stink. And I couldn't have been
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  happier. I was just a complete pigpen of
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  a mess. But I was so happy.
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  And those days, those days, whether it's digging in the dirt
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  or you know, binge watching movies on Netflix or doing
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  something that serves your heart in a different way, I could not
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  recommend more. They make you feel different on
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  the other side, they make you feel like encompassed in that
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  love of just the universe feeling you like, all right, I
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  got this like nice, like warm, comfy feeling about myself.
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  And it's important to execute on that.
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  So if you haven't done that recently, you need to put it on
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  your schedule and plan it. Now, this one was not planned
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  for me. It was based on the weather.
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  Like, honestly, I've been looking for a spot where I could
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  just go out there, but it's been hot, hot, hot.
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  We had, you know, too much rain. Then we had no rain and we had
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  all this heat and humidity and it was disgusting.
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  And it was just dragging on and on.
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  So one of the things I had to do was look at it and say, OK, when
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  when this next spot opens up, I'm really going to take
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  advantage of it and I'm going to do something.
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  And all of a sudden, the spot opened up and I took advantage
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  of it. And it was like this grand
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  moment of like, there was a tropical storm off the shore.
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  It was pushing the rain up. We were getting these little
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  bands of rain, but it had cooled off just enough where it wasn't
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  so sticky and gross. And I saw it and I was like,
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  this is it. This is my opportunity and I'm
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  going for it. And it felt brilliant.
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  So I'm going to encourage you to look for that spot, find that
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  spot, see where you can bring it in for yourself.
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  Because if there's one thing I know for sure doing that works,
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  it works every single time. And it doesn't matter what it
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  looks like. It doesn't matter if you want a
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  color for the day, talk for the day, read for the day, watch
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  movies, do what I did. Do something because I promise
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  you, it'll work. 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.