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Season 3 - Episode 270 - Being completely engaged · 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 mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about being completely engaged in what
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  you are doing. I think this may be one of the
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  biggest topics that I talked to clients about all week long.
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  And I, I have to say I years ago, many years ago, I had this
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  challenge myself where I might physically be doing something,
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  but my brain was completely doing something else.
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  And I had to teach myself to be completely present with what I
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  was doing. And it is not an easy task.
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  In fact, it's a rather hard task.
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  It's, it's a very hard task because I feel like most people,
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  my brain is more than capable of like thinking about other things
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  and doing something physical. Like if I'm folding laundry, I'm
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  thinking of something else. And, and I'm, and I'm not, I'm
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  not saying I don't do that. I still do that, but I'm very
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  careful about what I allow myself to do that with now
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  because I want to be completely engaged in what I am doing so
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  that I am in the present moment. Because if I'm doing something
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  and I'm in the present moment, I'm actually healing myself from
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  either going to the past or the future.
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  I'm staying put. I'm right where I am.
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  So like right now when I am with you guys and I'm recording this
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  podcast, I am at the Chicken coop.
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  I had already opened the gate. The girls are they get their
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  main doors open and then they get their gate doors open to
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  their run so they can run all over the farm.
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  Half of them left right away because I think with all the
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  rain that we had and whatnot, they are still finding bugs
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  everywhere. We've still got many little
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  ponds that formed all over the property and they're very
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  excited to get out to them. Half of them are still here and
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  a whole bunch are busy in they're laying eggs.
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  It is you can hear all the crows off in the distance that are
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  dealing with a hawk that has arrived this morning.
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  I've got some of the girls who like to sit and listen while I'm
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  doing the podcast. So they take up a seat on perch
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  and listen and you know, we've got egg layers and what not
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  everything's happening. So how can I tell you all of
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  this? Because I'm being observant.
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  I'm in the moment. I'm not anywhere else.
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  I'm not thinking about anything else.
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  I'm not doing anything else. I'm out here in my extra tough
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  boots, a pair of shorts, a sweatshirt, my hair's in a
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  ponytail. I've got my phone.
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  It's very low key how I do this. And I am recording in voice
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  memos to you. And then I will make this into a
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  podcast. This is being in the present
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  moment. I'm looking around to everything
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  I can take in, everything that's happening.
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  I'm not thinking about what I'm doing next.
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  I'm thinking about just this, what's going to come out of my
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  mouth. I'm being observant in this
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  moment. Nothing else I can see.
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  The sun is hasn't come up over the trees yet.
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  It's pretty dark, very early. Celine just ate an entire
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  Raspberry. You know, it's that kind of
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  thing that I'm in the present moment.
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  And when you are not future pacing out in the future, when
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  you are not rear facing in the past, you have such a powerful
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  clearing of your energy to be in the present moment.
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  Because it's freeing to know you don't have anything to worry
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  about past or future. You're just sitting here right
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  now. Are there things I could worry
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  about? Absolutely.
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  Do I have tasks that need to be done?
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  Yes, I do. Am I behind on a project?
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  Slightly Yes. And it irritates me that I am.
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  But you know, with the hurricane and everything that happened, we
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  were behind. OK, great.
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  It happens. But my point is, I am in the
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  present moment and in this present moment, I'm not worried
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  about that. I'm just joyfully watching all
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  these fluffy little butts, eating their breakfast, having a
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  good time, walking around, hunting for things, looking at
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  the, you know, the observing that I have this one group of
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  girls splash Moran's that they there are four of them and they
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  don't like to go off. They like to stay right next to
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  the coop even though the doors are open.
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  They like to hang out. They like to come and sit with
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  me. They are very magical and I love
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  them. But I wouldn't even notice that
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  if I wasn't in the present moment because I'd just be like,
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  oh, some chickens are out and some chickens are in.
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  But instead it's not about some chickens.
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  It's like I'm recognizing them all as I'm talking to you.
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  One of them walks up and just starts staring right at me.
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  It's like she's just there. I wouldn't.
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  Most people might not even notice that, but because I'm in
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  the present moment, I do. So you've got to make sure you
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  stay engaged with what you are doing in the present moment
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  because that's why it's called the present.
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  It really is a present. It's a gift to us when we do it,
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  when we're willing to do it, but we've got to be completely
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  engaged with it in order to take it all in.
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  So eyes, what you're seeing, what you're smelling, what
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  you're hearing, what you're feeling, that's being completely
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  engaged. Work on that and I promise you
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  will see huge differences in your life.
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  And so will the people that interact with you because all of
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  a sudden they're going to appreciate you on a whole
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  different level. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day. I hope this was helpful and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.