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Season 4 - Episode 251 - The ‘prompts” that show up daily · 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.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  Let's talk about prompts. So it's not a term that's
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  normally used, you know, when you think about it in terms of
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  self development or your goals or anything else.
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  It's we don't use the word prompt.
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  It's just not one of those things.
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  And I'm not talking about being on time, like that's a very
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  prompt person. I'm talking about prompts that
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  show up that like initiate things for us so we can be
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  prompted into something. There's a prompt for us to look
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  at and they show up all day every day.
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  We noticed something and that can be a prompt for us to be
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  able to take action, action move forward.
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  So I'll give you a good example. Yesterday I was out walking was
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  very hot while I was coaching, unusually hot.
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  It's not supposed to be this hot this time of year, but it was
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  very hot. And I decided to come up and
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  pace on the porch because we have ceiling fans on the porch.
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  So I was like, OK, I'm going to pace up there.
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  So at least I have air moving because it was very stagnant and
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  it felt very heavy. So that awareness of the air
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  prompted me to move to the porch.
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  So then when I got on the porch, I noticed that huh, OK, the
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  railings have like a lot of little frog poops on them.
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  Now this isn't something that is is a bad thing.
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  Like I want frogs all over my porch because they take care of
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  mosquitoes and bugs and I rarely have other bug problems because
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  I have the frogs, but I typically remember to come out
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  and wipe off this and and they don't look like poop.
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  This is the crazy thing. They just look like little tiny,
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  you know, spots that are there. So here I am.
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  I got I get up and I see it and I'm like, OK, go get the dust
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  pan. And I go along and I sweep them
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  all off and I'm thinking to myself, isn't that funny that
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  the prompt of the poop made me, you know, it prompted me to go
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  and get the dustpan and clean it.
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  Then it was like, oh, well, I should really get the Clorox
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  clean up so that I could wipe it down and clean it up the right
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  way. Now that's not something me and
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  my organic world, people would be shocked that I use Clorox
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  cleanup, but I do because I only have to use it once.
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  I put it on the rag, I wipe it down, it's done and boom, I'm
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  not spraying all kinds of stuff. But then I go back and I'm like,
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  OK, well, now I look and I say I should probably sweep because
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  there's the leaves are coming off of we have a lot of little
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  maples that are bonsaied on our porch and it's starting to turn
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  fall. So some of the leaves are
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  starting to turn and they're starting to fall off.
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  So I'm like, OK, I should probably we sweep that up.
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  And I started laughing about how there was a train of prompts
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  that just kept showing up, showing up, showing up, showing
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  up. And one thing led to another and
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  LED to another. And that's how our days often
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  go. One thing prompts to another
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  thing prompts to another thing prompts to another.
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  And before you know it, you're like, how did this train get me
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  to this spot? Because I didn't even intend to
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  do this, which is exactly what happened to me yesterday.
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  Because by the time I finished coaching and by the time I
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  finished cleaning all of that up at the end of the night, it was
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  way later than I thought I was going to go.
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  And I was just like, interesting how I'm happy it got all done.
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  And I'm happy that I looked at it and I noticed it, but I
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  didn't anticipate that I those prompts show up and then the
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  question is, do they need my attention right in that minute?
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  Do I need to follow through in those minutes or should I have
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  just said, OK, I will do that tomorrow when I have more time,
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  which is today. Interesting.
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  I didn't do it that way. I just said, you know what, I'm
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  going to put it on. And it prompted me then, which
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  is just so funny because now it was already later and I was
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  like, OK, well now I'm just going to say I'm just going to
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  make this a stacked event today. And I'm just going to dump on
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  the fact that I knew I wanted to go.
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  I'm getting my hair cut today. So, you know, anyone who has
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  followed me for years knows that I don't like to go to the
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  hairdresser to get my hair colored and I do it myself.
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  So then I was like, OK, I'm going to go in and I'm going to
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  do that tonight. And then I started going
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  through, OK, I think I want to go through and do a brain dump
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  also of all the stuff that I need to teach myself on these
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  courses that I'm taking. Like, I need to go in and make
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  sure I'm, I'm doing this and I'm doing this and I'm doing this.
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  Oh my gosh. It was like such a wonderful
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  thing to purge it all out, stack it all up and get it all done.
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  And it all started with the little prompt of that, you know,
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  being too hot walking and saying, I wish I had air.
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  We do have air. You just have to get under the
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  fans. OK, let me go to the porch.
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  If all of that stuff hadn't lined up with the having zero
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  wind and the heat and all of that, I wouldn't have gotten as
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  much done as I did because it all started with that prompt way
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  back at the beginning. But that's the point.
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  Look for the prompts because sometimes they lead you right
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  back to a great place. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.