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Season 3 - Episode 306 - Learning patience with our Rabbit! · 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 mastermindset
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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're talking about our ability to be patient.
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  And here's the crazy thing about this.
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  Sometimes in order to be able to do something, you have to be
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  really patient with something else, not just yourself, but
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  with something else. And so I have, I'm actually not
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  right in the chicken coop yet because it's very, very early
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  and dark. What I'm what I'm talking about
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  is being patient with something else.
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  And that's a rabbit. Now this is a metaphor,
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  obviously. So we have some free range
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  rabbits that we have now and we're letting them go all over
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  the farm. And here's the crazy part.
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  Rabbits don't trust you much. You have to earn their trust
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  because they're prey items just like the chickens.
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  And it takes time and being able to have build up trust with the
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  rabbits is a really big deal. So I have worked diligently
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  morning after morning after morning, to try to get this
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  little rabbit, one of them, to be very friends with me and
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  coming over and staying with it, having treats for it and trying
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  to get it to come over. And finally now when I call
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  Honey Bunny, she comes and she knows that I'm going to have a
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  treat for her. But even when she comes, she's
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  still cautious. She's still watching me, but
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  she's building trust. Building trust.
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  I can just barely touch her. Like I can put my hand out flat
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  with my palm up and then she will come over and eat off of my
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  palm. And maybe if I'm lucky, a finger
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  brushes her, but it's still a little bit there.
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  Now, why is this so important? Well, it's important because
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  here's the thing, We as human beings want to get things
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  quickly. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
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  boom. We want to just have it happen.
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  And this is taking me weeks to get to this point.
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  And as I thought about it this morning, I was thinking about,
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  you know, setting going into that end of the year, setting
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  goals, doing all this, like, wow, OK, This is all requiring
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  such a high level of patience with myself and with everything
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  else. It's really tricky for most
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  people. It really is tricky to be
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  patient, be willing to allow it to build on itself, not just get
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  discouraged along the way and give up and say, well, I'm going
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  to throw in the towel. And with the rabbit, I've had to
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  be very patient. It's a quick little visual to
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  remind me what is it trying to teach me?
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  And I love that about being on the farm and being able to bring
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  that to you. Because this little thing with
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  the rabbit is helping me bridge the gap with my own stuff and
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  being patient. I don't have a lot of patience.
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  I'm not by my nature patient with myself.
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  I'm I'm patient with my clients. I'm patient with processes
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  outside of me. However, inside of me I'm like,
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  no, no, no, I can do this. I can.
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  I want to get things done quickly and on point and do them
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  well. Don't have a high level of
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  patience. This rabbit has really brought
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  to the forefront my need to be patient with things and let them
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  build. So every day I'm like, is it a
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  little bit better than it was the day before?
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  Is it the same? So I asked those questions so I
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  can see if I'm making progress with her.
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  Am I making progress? And you know, things will throw
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  you back. Like I have a very big dog.
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  You all know, you've heard about him.
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  Beaufort, he comes out sometimes and he scares her.
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  And it's not when I'm trying to give her a treat.
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  It's just other times during the day.
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  And as soon as she gets scared, now there's a level of trust
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  that's been broken. That's how it works in the world
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  as well. So the point of this, my
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  friends, is to say, where else is this showing up that I can
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  bridge that over for myself? How if I look at this and I say,
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  where is this showing up in my life and where am I not being
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  patient, but where am I being patient?
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  And can I pull those over? This rabbit is teaching me to be
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  patient with other things and ask different questions with
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  other things so that I can be better across the board.
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  So think about that. Like, do you have something in
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  your world that's like your rabbit that you're testing it
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  with? That you're saying, OK, what can
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  I build my trust with? Maybe it's a project, a personal
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  art project. Maybe you're learning to knit or
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  paint or Weld or do whatever. Maybe you're thinking in terms
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  of writing or patient when you start the process and then you
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  become massively impatient and you just want to have it done
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  and you're sick of doing it and you're just rushing through it.
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  Those kind of things need you to come back to patients because
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  it's the key to having yourself stay emotionally regulated in
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  the sense that you're aware of what your emotions are.
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  And you're asking, are they serving me?
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  And if they're not serving you, then you move away from it.
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  So think about that in this rabbit metaphor that I've given
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  you today and see how it can help you.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed
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  day. Bye.