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Blessings and how to find more of them. · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Ooh, so I want to talk to you about blessings because we often
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  will sit there and say, count your blessings.
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  But the question is, what do you define as a blessing?
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  And many of us don't have Clarity on how we Define
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  blessings. Therefore, we get stuck, and we
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  don't actually count things as a blessing because maybe we make
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  it too. Big of a deal.
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  We start thinking about it and we think, oh, this has to be a
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  big thing to do in order to be a blessing and I don't think that
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  things have to be huge to be a blessing.
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  I think you. Find small things that you can
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  say. It's a blessing, you know, I
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  purposefully look for small blessings every day.
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  Those little tiny things that people typically go unnoticed,
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  something that goes easier, something that's like, oh, it's
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  a sharp pencil. You pick it up and, oh, I'm
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  grateful for this. And I will incorporate that into
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  a very strong gratitude practice that I have, which is constant
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  and never-ending of finding little things all day long that
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  I can be grateful. For and purposefully put them
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  into the category of gratitude and blessings.
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  So this is a practice that is often overlooked will say, we
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  have a gratitude, practice will say we have a practice of prayer
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  and blessing, but we only look for those big things and we all
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  have the big things that we talked about that, you know, we
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  feel blessed in something, but it's hard.
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  When something tragic happens or it's hard to find the small
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  things sometimes. As you have big things that
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  happen to you and they're tragic and you have to reframe them.
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  Sometimes you can't, you can't get around it.
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  You have to look at it and reframe it.
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  Few years ago, we had an incident where a dog that we had
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  and we had him since he was a puppy.
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  Just absolutely lost his mind and he attacked me in the
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  kitchen. I bent down to wipe up some
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  drool off the floor, and he grabbed my head.
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  And this dog was weighed more than I did and he would have
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  killed me. He missed my eye by a quarter of
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  an inch and my temple by a half an inch.
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  And if it wasn't for my, then little son, who saved my life.
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  I wouldn't be here. He Jumped over the kitchen table
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  and pounded the dog off of me without any thought of him, his
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  own safety. So why am I telling you this?
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  Because this is one of those big things that was quote-unquote
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  tragic and it was a tragedy because obviously the dog had
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  something wrong with him and he was a loved member of our family
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  and we couldn't keep him. We had to make the difficult
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  choice of putting him down because there was no way he
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  could be safe with anybody else. And it was extremely emotional
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  situation and the reason I'm telling you this story, it's
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  very purposeful because I'm so focused on gratitude throughout
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  the day and blessings throughout the day that when that accident
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  happened, when that incident happened, the only thing I could
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  think of was thank God. It was me and it wasn't my son.
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  Thank God. It was me and it wasn't one of
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  his friends. Thank, thank you.
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  God, for the fact that this was not a stranger, thank you for
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  the fact that it wasn't. Anybody who wouldn't be able to
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  emotionally recover from this quickly and I, while I was in
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  shock while it was awful and I had Staples through all my scalp
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  and what not? It was something that I was able
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  to maintain. And we took that as a blessing,
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  that it was me, rather than just focused on the tragedy, was it
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  tragic? Yes, but remember I've said
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  before two things can be true at the same time and this was one
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  of those things. That two things could be True.
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  At the same time and the lessons learned from that have been epic
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  so you can have a tragic thing. But you just have to reframe
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  your point of view. You have to reframe your
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  perspective, you have to ask yourself.
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  What can I take away from this? What can I move through with
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  this? How can I look at this in a
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  better way and when you do, it's going to give you a huge gift
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  now The small ones every day are what led me to be able to do
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  that. I'm convinced of that.
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  So if you, if you want to be able to have those moments when
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  those show up, those tragic things show up because they
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  always do, that's called life. That's called being a human.
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  Then you have to build the muscle every day with the small
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  things of gratitude. Finding Small Things, geez.
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  Okay, great. It's raining outside and left my
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  car windows open do no tragic but guess what, it really wasn't
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  that wet inside. Yes, it's a blessing.
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  I'm grateful, you know like you find all the little tiny ones
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  and you let them stack up. So that you feel brilliant and
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  wonderful and bright and side and not daunted by these things.
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  So hopefully this is helpful and I will see you guys tomorrow.
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  And you know what, I'm going to say because this is the tagline.
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  I choose to go with, at the end of it.
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  I hope you have a very blessed day and you find all your
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  blessings in moment-to-moment. I'll see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.