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Overwhelm, emotions, and an iPhone · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the Poop. So today, I'd like to talk to
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  you about how we have a random thought or we have random
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  feeling or moment and we end up making that something that we
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  believe and stay stuck in it for maybe much longer than we needed
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  to. So, let me give you an example
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  of what I'm talking about. I'm going to use the word
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  overwhelmed because I've heard that so much from people in the
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  last week, two weeks, I think the, with the holiday Coming, I
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  think with the fact that we just had all kinds of Elections, the
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  fact that people are still feeling all the repercussions of
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  not knowing how some of those turned out.
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  I think that some people are wrapped up very tightly in that,
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  I think, when we look at what the economy is doing and how
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  things are shifting, a lot of people are feeling the word
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  overwhelm and let me be very clear about Emotions are meant
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  to come and go and you can have an emotion like overwhelm and
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  you are not screwed up because you have an emotion like that,
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  trust me, we all have it myself included.
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  The challenge that I want to bring up is when we stay stuck
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  in the emotion when we keep the emotion for too long when that
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  emotion becomes our Primary Emotion and we are thinking
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  about it, thinking about it, thinking about it and we keep
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  responding to it as opposed to To saying, well I'm having
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  overwhelmed for this moment. I'm having overwhelm in this way
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  as opposed to just saying you know I'm going to let this run
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  amok and keep with me all day long because most of us don't
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  have that cognitive thought to say, hey wait I don't want to
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  keep this all day and that's what I'm talking about.
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  It is, okay to have a thought for a moment it is okay to have
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  something for To moments or five moments.
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  But when you start keeping them for all the moments of your day
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  that's when we start to have a real issue because those moments
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  of fact, how you show up those moments affect how you interact
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  with everybody, those moments affect how your biology and your
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  body is working. Everything about those moments
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  is dictated by what's going on in your head because of the
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  electrical impulses that they put through you to get down to
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  the nitty-gritty. Rudy of it.
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  So if you are in a state of overwhelm, there are different
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  electrical impulses that go along with being in overwhelm
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  and those affect everything. They, I can't stress this enough
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  and when you stay in them too long, it's like you start to
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  burn hot. You start to have all these
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  issues other issues show up. There's no, you know, cooling
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  Downs, just so to speak. So think of it in terms of your
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  phone because we all just love to Take such great care of our
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  phones because they're important to us for our daily work and
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  living. I mean, look, I do everything on
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  my phone with my clients. In fact, I record my podcast
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  with my phone so if I didn't have my little handy dandy
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  iPhone, I would not be able to do all of this for you at least
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  in the simple way that I do it. So let's think about that.
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  Like I would never let my phone just sit open and running
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  without darkening. The screen because I'll be like,
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  oh, I don't want my battery to get hot or I wouldn't leave it
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  sitting in the sun because I would sit there and say, well, I
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  don't want my battery to get hot or if I feel my battery getting
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  hot. I'm all like, oh, what's going
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  on? Because we have this wiring to
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  protect our phones. We know we should protect the
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  phone, we worship protect the battery, we have certain things,
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  we put a screen protector on it. We put a case on it.
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  So if we drop it, we do an excellent job, taking care of
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  our phones because it's like right there.
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  Are in our world all the time. Well guess what?
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  We are right there in our world all the time and we do a
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  terrible job taking care of ourselves and we do a terrible
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  job paying attention to these little things that we need to
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  for ourselves like just protecting ourselves.
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  If we did half of a good of his job, taking care of our emotions
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  and our thoughts, the way we do our phones, we would not nearly
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  have the challenges we do. So I want you to really pay
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  attention to this piece because especially as we get closer to
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  the holidays coming up, Up. You don't want to stay stuck in
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  dread about seeing people. You can have a moment of it,
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  like, oh God just don't want to sit with him.
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  He's just so god-awful to talk to.
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  You can have that moment, totally have it, but don't stay
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  in it. Tell yourself.
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  Hey, that's my battery. Getting hot.
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  I got to shut this down and move over.
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  I'm not going to allow myself to go.
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  There have the awareness, which is the key to everything to pull
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  yourself away from that. And say I'm going to change
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  that. Thought so that I don't overheat
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  like the iPhone. Okay.
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  Have that awareness of it. So hopefully, this is helpful.
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  Hopefully, you treat yourself a little bit better than you treat
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  your phone. I'm going to shoot for that
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  today and I will see you all tomorrow have a blessed day.
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  Goodbye.