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Season 5 - Episode 16 - The unexpected shows up! · 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 everybody.
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  Good afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  It is freezing cold and it is going to get colder and colder
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  overnight. We are supposed to be down in
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  the 20s, which is very abnormal for us.
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  May see some snow. I can't even believe it.
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  And it's really got me out here thinking I'm out here trying to
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  make sure everybody's taken care of, closing the coop up nice and
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  tight. And you know what happens when
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  unusual things get thrown your way?
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  Because today is an unusual thing that's getting thrown our
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  way. And, you know, and even Gladys
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  does not like this. You can hear her in the
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  background, like yapping about it.
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  It is crazy that this is going to happen.
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  But at the same time, this is how life is.
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  It throws us curveballs. It throws us things that are
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  unexpected. It throws us things that we did
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  not plan on, did not think about.
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  I mean, when I started this week, I did not think that by
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  the end of the week I would be dealing with this.
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  Yet here we are dealing with it. So what do you do when life
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  throws you the curveballs? Because you know you're going to
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  get the curveballs. You know you're going to have
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  the flu when you don't want it. You know you're going to have
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  things that show up. You're going to have the car
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  that has the flat tire or the just the inconvenient letter in
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  the mail that says this is something that you have to take
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  care of. Or in my case, you wake up in
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  the morning and you've got to deal with a varmint that's done
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  something bad outside and hopefully not hurt any of the
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  animals. But you've always got something
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  going on. And I think that the hardest
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  part for us as human beings is recognizing we have a level in
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  all of us that puts us in a position of being certainty
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  driven. And so when our normal things,
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  as I'm air quoting get bumped out of line, our certainty gets
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  challenged. And right away we might have a
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  problem with that. And because we might have a
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  problem with that, we let it carry through the rest of the
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  day. We let it affect us moving
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  forward. We let it affect us for all the
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  other things that we are going to do.
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  And we don't notice the good things.
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  We don't notice the good stuff. We don't see the stuff that we
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  really, you know, are blessed with every single day.
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  Like today, the sun was shining all day long.
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  It was beautiful, Chilly but beautiful.
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  And I had to stop and pause and remind myself, notice that the
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  sun is out. Notice that you have all these
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  healthy animals running around. Notice that you can get your
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  garden ready for the spring early.
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  Notice that you are blessed with this amazing, you know, buddy of
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  a dog that goes everywhere with you, that you have this
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  wonderful family and that you're blessed with, you know, kids
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  that want to talk to you eating dinner with a, a person that you
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  love. I mean it, it is all available
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  to us anytime we choose to open our eyes and see it.
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  But because we spend a fair amount of time in the past and
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  we spend a fair amount of time in the future, we don't spend
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  enough time in the present moment.
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  And we when we get the curveballs, it just throws us
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  even more. So today is a blanket reminder
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  that we always have the option to worry.
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  We always have the option to bitch and moan about the
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  curveballs. We always have the options to
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  look at things negatively, but we also have the option to look
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  at them positively. We have the option to see things
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  for the better. And the blessed part of this
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  whole entire thing is that by stopping and pausing and
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  remembering these little things that we know we need to do for
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  ourselves, like, oh, OK, it's a curveball, Acknowledge it.
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  Just say that's a curveball. OK, plot twist.
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  I love to use that 10 plot twist.
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  This isn't something I planned. Oh, here's an unplanned
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  surprise. Here's an and trying to reframe
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  it in a way that allows my brain to not get triggered into some
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  freak show thing about certainty because I am super certainty
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  driven. It just, it just causes us to be
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  more intelligent in the moment when we do that.
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  When we say I can reframe this and I like to remind myself of
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  that. I can reframe this if I choose
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  to. I can look at this differently
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  if I choose to and, and when you do that, it's very powerful.
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  It's extremely powerful because it means you're not stuck by
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  just things happening around you.
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  You're empowered by the vision of how you want to see it.
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  You're empowered by how you choose to make this appear to
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  yourself. So hopefully that gives you some
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  insight. And if you've had a curveball
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  today, you can reframe it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day, and I hope wherever you are, it's
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  warmer than where I am, and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.