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Season 5 - Episode 15 - Are you going to the grocery store hungry? · 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 happened 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 afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  How many times in your life have you heard that you shouldn't go
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  to the grocery store hungry? Well, I used to hear it a lot
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  from my mother, who would say to me when she would send me to do
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  chores and I would go to the grocery store.
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  I remember doing this and when I got my license in high school, I
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  was so excited to do anything, drive my car, I could go
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  anywhere and she would give me $100 and send me to the grocery
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  store, which now $100 doesn't buy you anything at the grocery
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  store. But then it did and she would
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  send me and give me the list and say do not get anything that's
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  not on the list. Please make sure you eat before
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  you go. You should never go to a grocery
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  store hungry. And I used to laugh at it and I
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  would go hungry and I would end up bringing home things that she
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  didn't want me to bring home. But it was a good rule of thumb
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  to not go hungry. And I thought about that because
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  how often do we end up putting ourselves in situations that are
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  very similar to the grocery store when we know we shouldn't
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  be in them and we're hungry Now it's think of it as a metaphor.
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  Don't think of it like it's the real grocery store.
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  Although it is a good thing to not go to the grocery store
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  hungry, it can be a metaphor for other things we do in life.
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  And this is how we get manipulated and advertising.
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  So when you know, there are things that you want to do or
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  you feel like you need to do, and it's this time of the year
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  and you're being completely barraged by ads all the time and
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  you're looking at them and you're like, oh, I really want
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  to do that. Oh, I really want to go there.
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  Oh, the you're being manipulated and you're starving at the same
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  time because you're not taking care of yourself so that you
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  cannot be manipulated that way. And it's imperative to recognize
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  that. That's the same thing as being
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  hungry in the grocery store. They're manipulating you.
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  You walk by and they know you have a yearning and you are
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  going to put it in your cart. So the trick is to understand
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  where your gaps are in your regular life.
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  Like look at it and say, what am I yearning for?
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  So this time of year it's a really big deal because it's
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  typically if you're in the Northern hemisphere, it's cold.
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  And even if you're in Florida, it can be cold and, or down in
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  the South. I mean, it's cold here and it
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  leaves us to retreat. It leaves us to feel certain
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  things. Now, I know this is a very
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  dangerous time for me to be buying seeds because I'm being
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  completely manipulated by it because I can't wait to get
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  outside and plant. So the seed catalogs come, the
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  ads come, the emails come, and I'm looking at all of them and
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  I'm dreaming about seeds. I'm thinking all about seeds and
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  what I can grow and what I can see.
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  And before you know what, I've spent way too much on seeds.
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  And granted, I, I mean, I appreciate the fact that
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  everybody's offering me everything and I, everyone has
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  their right to sell and do what they want to do, but it's my job
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  to make sure I don't have the gaps that they can manipulate.
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  And this is what happens when you go to the grocery store and
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  you're hungry. This is this is just a great
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  thing to look at and say, where is this showing up in my life
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  right now? It may be in clothing, it may be
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  in sleep, it may be in simple little things like seeds like
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  I'm talking about. But no doubt it's showing up
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  somewhere and it's costing you not just your attention, but
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  your money, your time. I mean, lots of different things
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  show up with this. And the only way that you can
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  break out of it is to say, where am I feeling dissatisfied right
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  now? Where am I feeling like I'm
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  hungry for something? Where are these little things,
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  you know, presenting themselves to me?
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  And once you know that, you can actually start to feel like you
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  can control it, take care of it, do something with it.
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  If you don't know it, you can't do anything with it.
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  So the theory is figure out where the gaps are and then you
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  won't struggle. And understanding where those
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  gaps are takes the time to just sit down and notice your
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  emotions. Be in the present moment.
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  I mean, if you've spent any time on social media over the last
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  couple weeks, you know that the monks are walking from Texas to
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  Washington, DC, and one of their big things that they're talking
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  about is being in the present moment.
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  Well, this is another a piece that's like that.
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  You have to be in the present moment to know what you're
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  yearning and what you're looking for.
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  And once you do it, it becomes much easier to solve the
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  problem. But you can't solve a problem
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  you don't understand. So without looking and saying
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  where is this showing up? You can't do it.
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  So this is your little reminder. Consider this your reminder for
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  the day to say, where are the gaps?
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  So I don't get manipulated and I don't end up in a grocery store
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  starving and putting a bunch of crap in my cart.
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  That's not going to be healthy for my body or my soul.
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  OK my friends, I hope this was helpful and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Bye.