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Season 5 - Episode 23 - Are you speaking kindly to yourself? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. This morning I noticed when I
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  woke up and I'm it's dark, it's very early and I'm sitting there
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  and I'm running through the To Do List in my head.
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  And I think most of us start our days this way and we don't start
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  off with kind words, focused, saying things, mantras to
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  ourselves that make us be kind to ourselves right away.
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  I usually do. I would say about maybe 7580% of
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  the time that's what I do. But this morning I woke up and I
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  had this underlying anxiety that showed up with me this morning.
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  That's I, I can't, I mean, you hear me talk about the fact that
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  I've lived my life with anxiety, but it doesn't usually show up
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  first thing in the morning. Except all of us are in the face
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  of that winter storm. And here where I live, we don't
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  have any equipment for this. So we don't know how far it's
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  coming and we don't know where it's going to hit.
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  And I at least last night they were saying it was still
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  evolving. So I woke up feeling like
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  someone had set my hair on fire to get my butt out the door
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  quickly so that I could do all I chores as quickly as I could as
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  soon as I was finished with coaching today, because today's
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  a shorter day. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, I got
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  to do that. And my head was like, and I felt
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  the pressure and I realized that this is one of those things that
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  I have control of in my head. I can do it like my hair's on
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  fire, or I can stop and pause and take a breath and I can
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  focus on I have more than enough time.
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  That is one of my favorite phrases to say to myself.
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  I have more than enough time. As is the phrase of if I'm going
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  to argue for my limitations, I have to argue for my greatness.
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  So I have to see things as I want them to be, but I have to
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  repeat them to myself so that my brain will slow down and calm
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  down. And I wanted to share that with
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  you because I know I'm not the only person that has this
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  happen, but I do know I control it better than most people
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  because of what I do for a living and because I've I've
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  struggled with it for so long. So today is your reminder.
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  Are you being kind to yourself? Are you saying nice things in
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  your head when you get up in the morning?
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  How are you starting that day? So immediately, as soon as I
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  realized what was going on, I ran out here to the garage to
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  record this so that you could all hear it right raw as it
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  happened. And you could say, all right, am
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  I being kind to myself? Am I saying kind things?
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  Or am I setting my hair on fire? So just pause right now.
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  We're going to end quickly. You're going to pause and you're
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  going to think to yourself, OK, how am I going to talk to
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  myself? What are the things I'm going to
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  say? What do I choose?
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  What do I want to focus on? And I think most of us can adopt
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  my little phrase of I have more than enough time, but then also
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  say, I got this, I got this, this is great.
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  I got this, I got this and just keep telling yourself those
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  positive things as much as you're willing to tell yourself
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  those negative things. All right, my friends, I'm off
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  to go beat the storm and hopefully get everything with
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  absolute ease and grace because that's what I'm focused on and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.