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Season 5 - Episode 73 - What I realized from a missing chicken... · 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 morning. Oh my goodness, so much
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  happening here on the farm. We had a missing chicken for
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  days, like she just went missing and I knew who it was because
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  it, it's happened before. And these chickens that moved in
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  from our neighbor when like a year and a half ago, almost two
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  years ago now that you know, they're different.
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  They're, they're a type of Bantam.
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  They're a little bit smaller. They're called sea brights.
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  They're a little flighty. They take off, they like to
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  sleep in trees. But this has this chicken has
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  gone usually for a night and then comes back.
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  But she was gone for like 3 days, four days now.
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  And so I was convinced that she was just gone, like literally
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  dead. And I was never going to see her
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  again. And then all of a sudden, boom,
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  she's back in the coop. And I'm like, where does she go?
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  And this just got me thinking about how sometimes this is,
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  this is exactly like what happens to us mentally.
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  We just check out, we just take off and we might like not tell
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  anybody where we are. Mentally we're just like, OK,
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  we're checked out. And I thought she just needed a
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  break and she got out. She just took off, went to where
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  she needed to go and took herself a break.
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  And there's nothing wrong with that.
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  She's back. She's totally fine.
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  She's acting normal, but how many times do we check out
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  mentally? How many times do we just like
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  take off? And I do know, I mean, I have
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  had people in the past that I've coached where they have
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  literally just checked out physically too, where they're
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  like, that's it. I'm going to a hotel for the
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  night and they just leave. And I've always been like,
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  that's so interesting. I, I wouldn't like to do that.
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  I'm not somebody that wants to just take off and go sleep in a
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  hotel bed. But I do understand the theory
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  of just getting out of dodge and saying I got to get out of here.
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  I need a break or whatever. So, you know, when you think
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  about the fact that you, you know, you're feeling this way,
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  what are you doing about it? Are you getting yourself into a
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  position where you can pull yourself into reality and say, I
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  see this coming before it actually hits you so that you
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  can do anything about it? Or do you just want to let
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  yourself get there so that then you're pushed and you're forced?
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  Now? It's an interesting question.
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  I like to believe that I see everything ahead of time, but I
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  don't. That's the reality.
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  And sometimes I think I do set myself up for a lot of work.
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  That's just like this week, you know, coming up, I am 100% I'm
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  off from coaching. It's a five week month, so I'm
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  off. And that means to me that I'm
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  going to push myself to do all kinds of farm work.
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  I could have been doing it up to this point, but instead I've
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  stacked it. And I, when I was thinking about
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  this, I'm like, huh, I pushed myself right to the edge and I
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  set myself up and, and now I'm like, oh, I've got so much to
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  do. I've got so much to do.
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  Well, of course I have so much to do.
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  I set myself up that way. So how different is that?
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  Then maybe the chicken just got fed up with everybody and took
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  off. I don't know, because I don't
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  speak chicken that well. I do want some things, but not
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  this one. Like I can't, I can't figure out
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  what they're what she tries to do and what she tries to say.
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  But I do know I did set myself up for this.
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  So there are so many lessons in this and there are so many
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  things to think about in this. So I and I am challenging myself
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  to look at this from a different perspective, see it differently
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  and work to figure out, OK, I'm going to actually schedule all
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  of the work this week. I'm not going to get myself into
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  a position where I don't have any other time to do things.
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  I'm going to actually schedule stuff.
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  I'm going to sit down and sort it out.
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  And sometimes that helps. But if you're at the pinnacle,
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  like if you're right at the top of the tippity, tippity top of
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  feeling like I'm just getting to this point where my head's going
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  to blow off, stop and do a brain dump.
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  Get it out now. So then you can choose if you
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  want to wait until that blow up happens or you want to fix it
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  ahead of time because you've got opportunities to do both, or you
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  can wait until you just go down a rabbit hole.
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  Either way, the choice is yours. So I hope that's helpful.
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  I'm going to go take care of the chickens now and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.