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The art of managing your state · 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 chicken coop so today To talk to you
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  about the art of managing your state, a phrase that my children
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  are not necessarily a fan of, but they learned it anyway.
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  What does managing your state mean?
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  Well, it means that many components make up our state.
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  It's our words are emotions. If you will permeate from us, so
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  the energy, we're putting off. It's how you're conducting
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  yourself, physiologically. Are you moving, are you moving
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  fast? Are you moving slow?
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  Are you? You in an angry State, all of
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  these different components kind of come up, how your tone is
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  showing up out of your, when you're speaking?
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  Are you listening? Or are you just like not
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  listening at all? You're just like, I'm going to
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  ignore this whole entire thing. Your state is everything about
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  you. So we'll often say that, you
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  know, the only thing that we can control is our self.
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  That's it. We don't lose nothing else that
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  we can control, but we can control.
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  Ourselves. And that is one of the hardest
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  things to do is to control yourself.
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  But I like to refer to this as managing your state because it
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  really is true. You are the manager here, nobody
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  else can get in and do it for you.
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  Even if you think people can, they're forcing you to do it.
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  But eventually you are the one that surrenders or you are the
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  one who fights back. So, State Management is the key
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  to you, going out in the world and successfully navigating
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  during the day. Day and not having other people,
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  push your buttons. Because if you're managing your
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  state, you should be able to go out and fulfill what you have
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  intended to fulfill during the day.
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  Now, a part of this, I refer to as sensory acuity.
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  So, sensory acuity means I'm using all of my senses to bring
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  information to me, not just one of my senses to bring
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  information to me. And this is important because
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  all of our senses are meant to be used like this.
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  So you have to rely on not just. But you have to rely on your
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  sound. You have to rely on the smell.
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  You have to rely on touch feeling, you have to give
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  yourself the scope of all of it. So like right now I can tell you
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  there is a big amount of energy coming from the chicken coop as
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  you can all here. And I could sit here and I could
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  ignore it, but I'm going to use it as part of this because it
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  just amped up, and it's all about State Management.
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  This is all going on. Because again, someone is in a
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  box and someone wants to get in that.
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  Box to lay an egg. What's funny is?
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  As you've heard me say before there are eight boxes.
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  So one of my Spanish hens wants to get into a box and someone's
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  in there. And now she's getting everybody.
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  Riled up about the fact that that box is being used, others.
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  Don't even want to use that box but she's causing, she's
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  stirring the pot and she is not managing her own State.
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  She's angry because someone's in that box and she's in the face
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  and now, all of a sudden she's putting off that energy all
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  these Responding. I'm not even in the cook,
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  they're outside of it. And this is such a great
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  metaphor and it just happened to fall into my lap, right?
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  This moment because this is what people do, they get riled up
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  about things that aren't even you know, concerning them in the
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  moment. Why do these other chickens
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  getting all riled up because of her energy and she's not
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  managing her State. She could easily choose another
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  blocks. All the other boxes are open
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  except the one that she wants and she will not go to one of
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  the other seven boxes. And so is that reasonable?
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  Well, you know, and chicken world.
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  This happens all the time but in human world we have to ask
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  ourselves. Is this reasonable it?
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  No, it's not. There's a very easy way around
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  this. If she was managing her State,
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  she could pick a different box but she's not managing her
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  State. She's going to be in that other
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  chickens face until that chicken decides to leave and then she
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  can have the box, which it sounds like that's what's
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  happening right now. She screamed interface until
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  somebody else left and then she could get in that box.
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  So, I notice when she quieted down everybody quieted down,
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  it's fascinating, how this works, but energy is everything
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  and it permeates nature in every single way.
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  So, when we're talking about this managing your state, you
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  have to look at this and say, okay, what am I bringing to the
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  table for myself and am I using all of my senses to understand
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  it? Not just my sound or my sight
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  but all of them. Am I taking it all in?
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  Am I using everything so that I can really have an Artful
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  response to this as opposed to just flying off the handle,
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  living, by whatever is going on around me and going from there.
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  Because that's what's happened with the chickens, they just
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  respond to whatever is going on around them.
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  They have no clue. They have no clue why they got
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  upset. They just know they got upset
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  and then that, therefore, they have to squawk and be part of
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  it, but for no reason and you don't want to be like that
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  because that's not being Artful or thoughtful, all that's doing.
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  Is living in response which we've talked about before as
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  opposed, you know, I mean living in reaction, rather than
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  response, it's just going off in a different direction.
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  So what's important right now is to remember sensory acuity gives
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  you the ability to add to this, okay?
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  In multiple ways with all of your senses and managing your
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  state means you are choosing and your thoughtfully coming up with
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  how you want to show up and not just living in reaction.
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  So hopefully this helps you today to some food for thought
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  about yourself as you go off into the world and I will see
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  you guys tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.