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Season 2 - Episode 191 - Hidden lessons all around us. · 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 master mindset
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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
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  coop. So today we're going to talk
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  about hidden lessons. And I think this is such a
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  fascinating thing because when you study different forms of
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  mindfulness and Buddhism, you'll often see things about how
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  things are not always what they seem or there's always
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  additional meanings. And you have to find them by
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  being observant. You know, you have to be in that
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  acute state of awareness. So thinking on that, I'm.
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  Going through my weekend and I am noticing how many little
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  hidden things there are that I need to consistently pay
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  attention to in order to get the lesson out of it.
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  So let's talk about one obvious silly one, which is laundry.
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  So I don't mind doing laundry. I actually like doing laundry.
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  It's pretty therapeutic to sit there and fold it and it's just
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  fine for me. I just have no issue with it.
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  And I take it seriously, like I'm the one that does the
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  laundry. I like doing it.
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  So my husband comes home from working out and he says, hey,
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  something's going wrong. When I my clothes, like, as soon
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  as they get wet, they smell. I obviously like, what?
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  What are you talking about? He's like, yeah, they have this
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  weird odor coming out of them. So I'm like, OK, so immediately
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  I get myself worked up and I'm like, OK, I'm doing the laundry
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  the right way. I'm using soap.
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  I'm soaking it beforehand. I'm doing all the steps.
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  And I'm thinking to myself, this is interesting because even
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  though I'm going through the steps that say this is how you
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  do laundry, not leaving it sitting in the washing machine,
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  transferring it over to the dryer, immediately drying it
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  fully, I'm doing all the things, I'm not getting the result that
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  I want. And I'm thinking, weird else
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  does this show up in the world, right?
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  Like, what are the other things? Like, we think we're doing
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  everything right, but we're not getting the result we want.
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  So we have to change our mind and say, well, you know, how do
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  we determine right? So we start reading about it,
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  looking it up. And apparently when you work out
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  heavily and there's a lot of sweat involved, this is a common
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  problem. So I had to change my approach,
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  find out what can I do. I don't want to have all these
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  heavy, you know, chemicals and things, and I got to figure
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  something out. But what's so fascinating to me
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  about the process is you think you're doing something right and
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  then it turns out you're not getting the result.
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  And this shows up in our lives across the board.
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  Where else does this happen for us?
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  Where else does this show up? So FYI, I figured out the
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  laundry situation. We're working it through and
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  trying it, and I feel much better.
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  And then, you know, yesterday I decided, OK, I'm going to try
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  making my own mayonnaise because I have all these wonderful eggs
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  from the chickens. And I read the recipe and I'm
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  looking at the recipe and I'm seeing how hard it can be if you
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  don't have. You can have all the right tools
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  and you can do the like, have everything lined up, all the
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  ingredients and the tools. But if you pour the oil too
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  quickly, all of a sudden you don't have it, It's not going to
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  work. It's going to break the
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  mayonnaise and you're going to have this mess on your hands.
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  And I'm thinking again, wow, this is so interesting because
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  it's about, OK, you've got the right tools, but if you're not
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  performing it the right way, that's not going to work out
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  and. You know, it's the same story
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  over and over. No matter where you look, you
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  can see it. You can have all the components,
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  But executed poorly, it's not gonna work.
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  And even when you have a good execution, when you have a
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  strong execution, sometimes you might have faulty ingredients,
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  sometimes you might just have something that's gone wrong.
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  Like that happened about a week ago, Working on trying to make
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  some bread. Had yeast?
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  Thought it was fine? Nope.
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  It didn't work and it was, as my friend said, it's a yeast issue.
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  So I'm like okay, there's there's absolutely no way to
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  really understand what is really going on until you observe and
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  say okay. Here's, here's the trick to
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  this. I myself have to pay close
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  attention to the fact that even if I have the great ingredients,
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  even if I have it the right way, I might not be putting it
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  together the right way. I might not.
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  I may be pouring it too quickly. I might have an old ingredient.
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  Whatever it might be, it's all about observation.
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  It's all about stopping, pausing and pulling yourself back from
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  the edge, observing and saying, OK, what am I going to do with
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  this information now? So take this out there into your
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  world, start to look around again.
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  This is an excellent exercise and mindfulness, and it will
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  really help you hone in on where you need to tighten up your
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  scope in life. I mean, I look at this and I say
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  all these little lessons have just brought me back to a place
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  of realizing that when I stay out of the future and I stay in
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  the moment and I'm super observant, life just gets better
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  and better and better. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very in the moment day, very blessed day and I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.