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Season 4 - Episode 181 - This won’t last forever · 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 happen 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 let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. And it is very early morning
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  when I'm recording this. So today I want to talk to you
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  as just a reminder. This is not going to be a long
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  thing. This is just going to be a quick
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  reminder today because I recognize how we get so caught
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  up as human beings when things shift and change and we have to
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  do stuff and it's all the burdens on us and, you know,
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  getting our kids to school, doing whatever for the families.
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  We all have these different things and it doesn't matter who
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  you are, they show up somehow. Whether it's caring for dogs,
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  kids, whatever it might be, we all have it.
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  Now, with that being said, this is a quick reminder, a public
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  service announcement, if you will, that this won't last
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  forever. And today is a very hectic day
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  on my schedule, and most of my days are very hectic, but
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  they're very manageable because I can do stuff and be up early,
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  get things organized and it's all good.
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  Like I can get it all done way ahead of time.
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  And I feel very good about that. But there are days now with my
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  son who when he's dry, he has to be driven somewhere or, you
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  know, working for his apprenticeship and doing all
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  this stuff that it affects me because I have to get up early
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  and get him somewhere. I mean, like, I have to get out
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  earlier. And so getting up even earlier,
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  like, no joke, there are days when I have so much to do.
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  Now I'm up at 3:00 instead of four because I know I'm not
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  going to get it all done if I don't.
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  So yes, I go to bed early. I do all those things, but this
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  isn't about that. What this is about is
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  recognizing that we as human beings don't have the pleasure
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  of having all of this stuff forever.
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  People grow up and people move on.
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  And this morning when I was packing his lunch and I was
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  running around trying to figure out, OK, I did, I run out of
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  this. Where is this?
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  I need to put this in his lunch because he's going to be gone
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  all day working at his apprenticeship and I won't be
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  able to make him lunch during the day.
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  I was like, holy cow, OK, I'm not going to pack lunches
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  forever. And then I, my phone chimed and
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  I grabbed it and I looked at it and it was one of my clients
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  saying, hey, you know, her mom was rushed to the hospital.
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  And I'm like, huh, OK, this is just another reminder.
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  So today in a very quick podcast today, while you can clearly
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  hear in the background that I'm running around, I'm running
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  around happy and I'm running around grateful that I get to
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  pack a lunch. Because someday I will be
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  sitting somewhere and I will be thinking about how I wish I was
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  packing lunches, how I wish I could do all the things that I
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  was doing now, how everything now that looks like it's a
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  problem then I will wish for. And I know it because I hear it
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  from clients day after day after day.
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  And I watch what happened in my own family with my mother and
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  how she would say, oh, I wish those days were were here when I
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  could go and grab, you know, my daughter at the time when she
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  was little and take her out for a Greek salad because they loved
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  Greek salads together. And I, I look at this and I can
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  really say with all the confidence in the world that we
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  will all be in that spot someday.
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  So if you're having that kind of a day, we're running around and
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  it's crazy, Just stop and pause and remember someday you'll wish
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  you had that back because it does mean something to us and it
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  does feel good. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow when I am not
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  standing on the porch, I will be out of the chicken coop.
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  All right, my friends, take care.
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  Bye.