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Season 4 - Episode 162 - Worrying and our imagination · 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 happened 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 podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some 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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  We're talking about worrying today and how worrying is using
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  your imagination for things that are not stuff you really want.
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  But we're using the imagination to conjure up, to put into play
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  visions of things that we don't even know if they're true.
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  So we start the worrying process because we think it's going to
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  help us be prepared. I know I used to be a
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  professional warrior. Hello, my name is Kim, and I
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  used to be a professional warrior.
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  And there's part of me that still does do that.
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  And I have to manage it and take myself out of it and put myself
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  in situations that are healthier than the worry framework.
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  And worry comes with anxiety, worrying comes with discomfort.
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  Worrying comes with all kinds of things that my imagination is so
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  skilled at painting and putting forth.
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  It doesn't matter if I am, I'll give you an example like OK, we
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  had this terrible rainstorm yesterday afternoon came
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  through. And so yesterday or the day
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  before, I forget which day it was, but anyway, it came
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  through. We've it's rained every single
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  day, at least some point during the day.
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  And this one was fierce. It had wind and they said we
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  were having 40 to 60 mile an hour gusts of wind and it was
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  pouring like it was coming down sideways.
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  And the only thing that I could think of was my tomato plants
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  are going to get wrecked. And I was in the state of Oh no,
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  Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. And the whole time it's raining,
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  it's like 4:00 in the afternoon. I'm trying to stay focused on
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  what I need to stay focused on because I'm still working.
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  But my brain is literally thinking about the mess outside.
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  And I'm trying to figure out like, oh, are they going to be
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  OK? I wonder if they're all falling
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  over. I wonder if they're in the dirt
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  and the tomatoes are getting beat up.
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  I wonder what happened. Now, the whole time I can't walk
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  outside and look and I can't see it from my window where I am
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  because it's pouring and I'm not going outside.
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  Lo and behold, when the storm stops about 45 minutes later and
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  I come outside, none of them were ruined.
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  Nothing had fallen over, nothing had happened like nothing had
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  happened. And here I was catastrophizing
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  in a in a really great way. I must say.
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  I was really good at catastrophizing.
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  And I kept thinking about how much I thought it was going to
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  be wiped out. Oh, no, no tomatoes.
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  And it reminded me, if you've ever seen the movie A Christmas
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  Story. And the little boy at the end
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  when the dogs from the neighbors, the Bumpus dogs eat
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  the Turkey and he's standing there screaming and he's like,
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  no Turkey, no chicken, no Turkey Ala King, no Turkey sandwiches,
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  no. And he's like making this whole
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  list. And all I could think of was, Oh
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  my gosh, no tomato jam, no BLT's, no sandwiches with the
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  big thick tomato slices. Because tomatoes are my thing
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  that I used to do with my dad. So I'm emotionally attached to
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  tomatoes. I have distinct memories of my
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  dad and tomatoes. So they're important to me.
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  And I can't begin to tell you the level of worry I was going
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  through now. Fortunately, I was able to keep
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  it in check when I was on the phone.
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  But the second I hung up the phone, the floodgates open and
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  in comes the worry. And then I have to wait because
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  I'm still trapped in the house because the storm is still
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  happening. And it made me recognize how
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  even with all the work you do, all the work I do, all the stuff
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  I teach, how it can just sneak up on you and your imagination
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  takes over. Now, one of my greatest tools
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  that I have is my imagination and my creativity.
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  Unless, of course, they're left Unchained like a toddler on
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  sugar in a house and they just go nuts and that's what
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  happened. So using your imagination for
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  the greater good and using your creativity for the greater good
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  is something that you have to cultivate and learn.
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  In order to cultivate and learn it, you have to actually see
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  where it shows up when you are off track.
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  Really important distinction. It is really beneficial to
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  understand where you fail with it, so you understand where you
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  can grow with it and recognizing the weak points of how it shows
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  up and how to fix things. Because when you're prepared
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  that way and you really think about, you know, oh, where where
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  am I weak in this? Where are where are the cracks
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  in the foundation? You, you definitely end up
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  building yourself up stronger in the process, but you just have
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  to look for us. And if you don't look, it will
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  surprise you. I had no intention of thinking
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  that that was going to be an issue, but yet here it was an
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  issue. It was right in front of me and
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  it was a big issue. And that's what happened.
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  And I had to really work myself through it so I could make sure
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  that I paid attention and it doesn't happen repetitively.
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  So now that I know that that was something that showed up in the
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  way that it showed up, I'm like, OK, I've got to go in and make
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  sure that these are very set up so I don't have to feel like I
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  have to worry about this because I don't want to worry about it.
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  I just want to manage it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  this was helpful and I will see you all tomorrow morning.
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  Bye.