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Season 4 - Episode 95 - What does accepting the circumstances mean to you? · 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. I'm actually in the garden this
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  morning and we are talking about accepting your circumstances.
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  So yesterday late in the day, as I was checking the garden before
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  I go to bed, yes, I put the chickens away and I checked the
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  plants just to make sure. Even though I've looked at them
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  probably 20 times in the day, I always make a pass through and
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  check everything and go to lock it up.
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  And there were two of my tomato plants that were slumped over.
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  And again, this is a big deal for me based on the fact that
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  I've had such a challenge with this virus that's in the ground.
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  But here's the thing. The tomatoes are not in the
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  ground. They're in the grow bags.
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  So they're above the ground. There's a barrier between the
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  grow bag in the ground. So there is no reason for this
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  this, this virus to be present in the soil.
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  And the soil came from off this island, bagged soil.
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  I was very careful about what I got.
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  Organic growers choice, you know, in raised bed soil that
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  was supposed to be premium. So and it is premium.
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  I shouldn't say supposed to be, but it is premium.
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  So I have it all sorted out and I have them, you know, separated
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  and I go in to check on everything and lo and behold,
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  what do we have? We have two slumped plants and
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  they happen to be side by side. Like what are the odds that they
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  would happen to be side by side and slumped over.
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  So immediately my brain goes to oh, no, Oh no, Oh no.
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  And I start to, to have the panic thought of like, what is
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  happening? This is, this is bad.
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  This is something that is from before.
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  And I start to go down that spiral.
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  And you know, you're when you're in that place, sometimes the,
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  the worst thing in the whole world is the unknown.
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  And what you keep saying to yourself, the like, you're just,
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  you're just looping, you're looping, you're looping.
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  And yesterday I heard a phrase, well, actually I read a phrase
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  about accepting the circumstances and I have been
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  loop looping as well in my head on that phrase, accept the
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  circumstances and it the author wrote it.
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  And as a as a tool to say, hey, you know, you, you have to
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  acknowledge where you are and it just accept it.
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  But there was no follow through on it to say yes, you have to
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  know where you start and you still have to be willing to move
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  on from there. So that had been looping in my
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  head as an irritation all night long hearing like I said, after
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  I read it was I was hearing it in my head over and over.
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  And then here I am this morning, standing here in front of these
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  the situation with the tomato and, and saying to myself, OK,
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  so I, I yesterday when this all happened, I did not accept the
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  circumstances that I was dealing with that that was the end of
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  the line. What I did was I took it as a
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  point of here's where I am right now and now I have to fix this.
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  So I took the, I pulled out one of them.
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  I actually pulled back the dirt. I looked at it and I said, OK,
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  something clearly damaged one of these plants and then the other
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  one, I couldn't find any damage. So I pulled the the one that was
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  really damaged out and then the one that was just droopy.
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  I took it, I separated it and I heavily dosed it with water and
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  fertilizer and I said, OK, we're going to see where you are
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  overnight. So as I stand here this morning
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  and I look at it, it is drooping, but it is not as
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  drooping as it was. So it's trying to repair itself.
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  So it's still separated and it will remain separated and I will
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  work on it. But I didn't use that as a like,
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  OK, I'm just going to accept that this is back again and I
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  just, you know, have to give in. It was not a throw the towel in
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  kind of thing for me. It was a marker of saying, OK, I
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  have to use this as a point to move forward with it.
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  And no, yes, this is where I'm starting.
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  Or yes, this may be a hiccup or yes, this may be a current
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  circumstance. But I don't have to accept that
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  as the end of the line. And that's the point of today.
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  Accept the circumstances. I take that with a grain of
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  salt. It's more about understand the
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  circumstances and where they have you in the current moment.
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  But accepting something to me is very much like, OK, I, there's
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  nothing I can do. And rarely do I believe I have
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  to just not do something. Rarely is that the case.
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  I, I always think there's something that can be changed.
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  There's a thought, there's a pattern, there's a, a movement,
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  there's an intention, There is always something that can be
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  done. So we might not know all the
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  answers, but in the moment, but there's always a way to
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  research, there's always a way to do something.
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  So remember that when you hear someone say accept the
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  circumstances, it's more about accepting the current position.
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  Don't accept that you have to stay there.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.