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Season 4 - Episode 249 - Don’t Die before you are dead! · 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 happen 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.
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  Podcast. To teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy into the world. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning from the chicken coop
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  today. I have a statement for you.
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  Don't die before you're dead. That's very cryptic, right?
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  You have to like, think about it for a second.
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  Don't die before. You're dead.
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  So what? I mean by that is very specific.
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  It's. Very easy to just become so
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  sedated with everyday. Life that you lose your
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  compelling nature to dive in, you lose your interest, you lose
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  your curiosity, you let things go and you.
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  Slowly wither. Away and die very much like a
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  flower that's, you know, passing.
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  You just watch it and it looks, you know, and it's beautiful and
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  it blooms and then all of a sudden it starts to die back,
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  but it doesn't die right away. If you.
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  Haven't cut it and it's just out in the farm.
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  I can watch it and it just kind of.
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  Withers away slowly, and that's what.
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  I'm talking about don't die before you're dead and don't
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  give up. Don't.
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  Don't change your mind about your intentions.
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  It's so easy for. Us to get wrapped up in the, you
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  know, the chaos. Of everything around.
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  Us that we don't realize that we're just withering.
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  And essentially, the part of us that makes us, us.
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  That is so important, our uniqueness.
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  Our creativity, our. Compelling nature starts to die
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  off. And before you know it, you
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  don't even realize it. Now, I watched my mother go
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  through this. And when she retired, one of my
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  biggest concerns was saying to her, you know, what are you
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  going to do? And she's like, well, whatever I
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  want. And I said, yes, I understand
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  that, but what are you going to do?
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  Like, you really need a compelling thing to keep you
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  alive. You need something compelling.
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  And she just, she would just sit there and say, oh, I don't know,
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  I'm going to, I'm going to volunteer.
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  And she had this whole list of things, but none of them were
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  things she had ever done before. So I was kind of like
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  ambivalent. I was like excited that she
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  could be doing something different, but I was also
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  nervous that she was doing something so different that it
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  wasn't going to be in her nature to follow through.
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  Well sure enough none of those things happened and I would push
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  her to try different things and no she didn't want to do it.
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  I would ask her to go on things. She went on 2 trips from the
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  time that my dad had passed away until she passed away.
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  She didn't travel. She always said she wanted to go
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  out off and see things. Nope she didn't.
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  She went on one trip with her friend and she went on one trip
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  with me and that was. It.
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  She just lost her, her vigor to do things, and she died before
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  she was dead. And it's such a harsh way to say
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  it, but it is the best way to impart the wisdom of it in
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  yourself is to think about it that way when you, when you
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  start to like, give up the nature that you were meant to
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  do. And as human beings, we are
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  meant to expand. We're meant to do things in a
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  way that allows us to keep growing like we are meant to
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  grow. So if I look at the flower
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  situation and I come back to it and I say, well, even as that
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  flower that I have not cut is withering and dying back, it is
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  seeding itself. So it's planning its comeback.
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  It's it's planning its comeback. It knows it's going to die off,
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  but it's planning a comeback. And that's the part of it where
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  is it really dying or is it just morphing?
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  So for me, when things go awry or things go different, I just
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  look at it. Like.
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  I must be working on the comeback and I kind of focus on
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  the fact that the flower does that because the flower isn't
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  really dying off, it's seeding itself again.
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  It's going into a different status.
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  So thinking about this, where are you allowing yourself to
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  wither? Where are you allowing yourself
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  to just die back and, you know, die before you're dead?
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  And where is it where you're receding yourself?
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  Look at the difference in that statement.
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  Look at the difference in how that appears, because that's
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  going to help you shape what you want to do with it.
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  And that's what's so important. I want to help you shape a new
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  way of seeing this. I want to help you see things
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  from a different perspective. It doesn't mean that you're, you
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  know you, you're, you have to just, you know, give up on your
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  life while you're in it doesn't matter how old you are, None of
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  this matters. What matters is your curiosity
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  and your will and your willingness to be able to engage
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  for yourself and with yourself in what makes you feel good and
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  lights you up. And if you don't know what makes
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  you feel good and lights you up anymore, then you have to ask
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  that very important question, what would fill me up, What
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  would light me up? What would make me feel like I
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  am on fire again? And really dig in and find that
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  peace out because that's what's going to save you in the long
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  run. Understanding that, get curious
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  about yourself and know because we definitely do not want to die
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  before we're dead. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.