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Season 3 - Episode 299 - A tale of my own making · 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 porch.
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  So I'm telling you a funny story today because I had a completely
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  different plan of what I was going to shoot this morning.
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  You know, we did daylight savings time last night and of
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  course, I spent my evening again.
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  We talk about emotions. You can hear Rufus off in the
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  background. They're crowing like crazy.
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  We spend our time talking about how emotions affect us and what
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  they do and everything else. Well, I woke up, I went to bed.
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  Not so early for me, but you know, still early for most
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  people. I think it was like 930.
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  And I had this thought while I was clearly asleep.
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  I had this thought because my certainty girl never shuts the
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  hell up that I wonder if the app on my phone that I use as a
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  clock is actually going to tell the time change.
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  Like this got into my head because it's an app and it's not
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  my phone doing it. It's an app.
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  So I was like, I wonder what that's going to be.
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  I wonder if it's going to work. I wonder if it's going to
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  actually do what it's supposed to do.
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  And I, I could not figure for the life of me, I couldn't let
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  it go. Now here's what else goes on in
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  my head. Because one would say logically,
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  well, why didn't you just pick up the phone and check it?
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  Because I know myself so well that if I pick up the phone and
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  it's 1:00 in the morning and I see a text message from a
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  client, or I start thinking about things, or I see the
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  bright light, all of a sudden I'm going to be hooked.
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  And I'm going to say I might as well just get up.
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  And I might as well just go work, write content, do
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  something because I don't like to waste time.
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  So instead what I decided to do was to attempt to let it go.
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  I said, I'm letting this go, but I couldn't because I didn't know
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  and my certainty girl was off the rails.
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  So I would sleep for a little bit and then I would wake up and
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  sleep for a little bit. And then I kept thinking, does
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  it really feel like it's 3:00 in the morning?
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  Does it really feel like it's 4:00 in the morning?
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  Does it feel like it's off? And then I started getting angry
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  about the whole time change thing in general, like as a
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  group of adults in a, in a position where they can get rid
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  of this stupidity of changing the clocks that has nothing of,
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  of, of benefit to any of us anymore, except to mess up with
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  our friends in other areas that don't time change in the US,
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  like Arizona. What do we do?
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  So it, it, it just, it was so aggravating to me that a group
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  of adult humans that are in our Congress can't make a decision
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  on what to do about this because we know they keep lamenting it.
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  So of course, then I start thinking about all the other
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  things that I needed to do that I did not get back to yesterday
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  because I had this really hellacious afternoon of all
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  kinds of things coming at me. And I was, and I normally don't
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  say things like that, but it was like that yesterday afternoon.
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  And I was like, Oh my gosh. OK, OK.
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  I was just, I was off my game. And that's what we're talking
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  about right now, listening to that voice, getting into it,
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  being off your game. It happens to everybody.
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  It happens to all of us. And yesterday was one of those
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  days. So today here I was, I, I ended
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  up, I said, OK, you know what, I'm going to go out early.
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  I'll record it from the porch. So I will get a jump start.
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  And on the day before the sun is even up and it will feel good.
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  And I was rushing to go out the door and here I have this cup of
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  hot liquid with me because it's not tea right now and it's not
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  coffee. I'm doing this thing called
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  LMNTS. And this is not a promo for
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  Element tea. Let me be very clear about that.
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  But I'm using it hot water with an Element tea packet in it to
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  give me magnesium, potassium and all that stuff.
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  So here I am coming out the door and I have to unlock the door.
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  So it means I have to put the cup down.
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  I go to put the cup down. I miss the shelf because I'm
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  rushing. And then I spill it all over the
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  floor. And I, I just stopped And I,
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  instead of getting aggravated, I was like, OK, that's totally
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  because you've been in this state now for 24 hours.
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  It you took it from yesterday afternoon into the evening with
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  you and now you're heading into the morning with it.
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  What are you going to do about it?
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  And I just stopped because I asked myself the right question.
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  What are you going to do about it?
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  And I was like, you know, I'm going to laugh.
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  I'm going to say, this is the lesson.
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  And this is what this podcast is about.
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  This is the lesson. Because I was continuing it and
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  the spill of the drink was my indication.
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  I was still in the same frame of mind, and I needed to get rid of
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  it. So I'm sharing this with you so
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  that you can all see your little clues, see your little towels,
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  see the things that you know are happening, and then you can
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  decide, OK, this is not how I want to show up.
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  This is not who I want to be. This is not the way I want my
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  day to go, my evening to go, whatever it might be, my week to
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  go. And you can hit the pause button
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  and regroup. So recording for you today, I'm
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  hitting the pause button. And I promise you, this is the
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  end of this state because now I'm laughing about it, feeling
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  good about it, not rushing anymore.
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  And all the things that I was so amped up about yesterday that
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  had to get done in a short period of time, I was like,
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  Nope, I'm scheduling them. They're on the calendar and I
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  can let it go and I'm not going to stress about it.
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  So I hope, my friends, that you learn from my stupidity.
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  And I love this fact that I could even use the word
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  stupidity and be honest with you about it because it was stupid.
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  And once I did let it go, it felt so much better.
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  It felt so, so much better. So I hope you all have a very,
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  very blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.