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Season 3 - Episode 346 - Food for thought… Day six! · 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 very cold garage.
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  And we're in here because it's dark and the reason it's dark
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  and it's well obviously day 6 of some food for thought.
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  I thought this was perfect because it's dark, it's cold and
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  today marks the winter solstice. It is December 21st and it is
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  the longest night of the year. So we are here still in the dark
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  talking about this. And this brings up a really
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  great food for thought this today because, you know,
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  obviously we all can use these metaphors, the Dark Knights, all
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  of these things, but fear really does come into play with this.
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  So when you think about fear, nobody wants fear.
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  And as you've heard me say many times before, all our emotions
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  are useful. All our emotions are here to
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  help us, but part of the challenge we have and that we
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  have to think about this year so we can control it and move
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  through it, is that fear comes forth to teach you something.
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  It's supposed to help you. It's supposed to move you in
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  case of danger. That's the original intent for
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  it like to to pay attention to danger and move through it.
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  But what happens when you start to use fear and you start to
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  terrorize yourself? You sit with it and you just
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  lament on it. You go over and over.
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  It becomes the long night, it becomes the longest night.
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  It becomes the thing you're just thinking about all the time and
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  your imagination and creativity are sitting near it and they're
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  all having this conversation about how horrible things could
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  be and they're not arguing for your greatness.
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  They're arguing for the limitations, they're arguing for
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  the what ifs and it goes on and on and on and it produces
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  anxiety and before you know it, you are not sleeping and it and
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  the longest night is all the time and you just drag through
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  it. It is a very, very interesting
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  thing when you break it down and you start to think about how it
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  starts. Because where we go back to the
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  root beginning, it was trying to just tell us one thing, two
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  things that we might be have to get out right down, sit there
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  and say, OK, but there's nothing we can do about it because you
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  can't worry enough to change it. Whatever's happening, you can't
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  worry enough to change it and lament it and keep going over
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  and over and over and over because it's not going to help.
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  And I, I tend to think when this starts to happen that they
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  become the terrorist. And when you think about a
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  terrorist, part of the, the, the, the power that they hold is
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  in, in what never has happened yet.
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  They start to put the fear in you, but it hasn't happened yet.
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  And yes, there are some that cross the line and they do
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  things. Yes, yes, yes, it all happens.
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  But I'm talking about the, a big chunk of the fear is that they
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  threaten you. It's a threat and you have to
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  stay on heightened alert. It's that constant action that
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  they put out there to just put you in a place of speculation
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  and constantly worrying about it.
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  And it runs rampant in your head.
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  And the power that they that that motion possesses is in the
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  fear, but it doesn't happen. And the fear just takes over.
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  So on these longest nights, on these places that get so heavy
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  for us on the things that we think about over and over, it is
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  imperative to recognize that you've got to get it out of your
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  head. You've got to put it onto paper.
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  You've got to put it someplace that you don't have to look at
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  it. You you don't have to think
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  about it. You just have to see it in that
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  one moment and you have to say, OK, it's on the paper.
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  And now is this valid? Is this a valid thing for me to
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  keep thinking about while I'm supposed to be sleeping?
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  Should I let this go? Should I move past this?
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  And the answer is yes, because the power that we possess as
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  humans is in the moment. And it and that moment can take
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  place during the longest night. That moment can take place at
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  any point in time. That moment is now the moment
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  that I'm with you standing in the garage getting ready to, you
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  know, pack up the chicken screwed in the morning and go
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  out and talk to them as soon as they, you know, have sun, some
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  sunshine out there. And that moment is the moment I
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  can stay in. And we always have the we always
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  have the present moment to go to.
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  That's why I love that phrase where, you know, this moment is
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  the present. And that word has two meanings.
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  It's like the now, but it also is the gift.
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  And the moment is the gift. And I really believe that if I
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  can stay in the this moment, I will find the gifts.
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  I will find the peace. I will find the the way to
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  release the anxiety because believe, believe me, I
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  throughout my life until I understood a lot of this.
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  And even now, I still have those times where I have the darkest,
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  longest nights and I have to pull myself out of it.
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  And rather than sitting there and lamenting all of it, it's
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  write it down, get up, get it out and move on.
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  So as we go into this winter solstice, my friends, some food
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  for thought. Don't make the longest night all
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  the time and celebrate the fact that we are now moving in to the
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  most my most beautiful time of the year, which is spring.
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  We're going to start to go through this winter and we are
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  going to close it down and get ready for spring.
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  So I hope you all have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.