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Season 3 - Episode 202 - How do you tap into your state of awe · 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 chicken coop.
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  So how much do you think you spend time in a state of awe?
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  Like do you really walk around in your world looking for things
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  that are absolutely like wow, or do you just go through the day
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  meandering? Maybe here and there you'll pick
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  up some and be like, that's cool, but do you really think
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  you send time cultivating and working on a state of awe and
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  looking at the world like the wondrous lace that it is?
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  So this is something that I really try to work on for
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  myself, you know, regularly because it makes you, it just
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  lifts your soul. It puts you in a different place
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  of attraction. It puts you energetically on a
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  different plane. It's scientifically proven that
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  the happier, happier you are, the more you pour into that side
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  of yourself, the more quality of a life you have, the the better
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  things happen to you. The better your health is, the
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  better your existence is, the better your relationships are.
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  Everything becomes better when you approach it and you have a
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  higher state of happiness. And you know, for me, that's,
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  that's cultivating a state of awe.
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  Like just looking at things and being like, wow, this is
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  amazing. It's so wondrous.
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  And it doesn't matter what it is.
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  It doesn't matter what you're looking at.
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  You know, I, I obviously record this from the chicken coop
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  because it's one of my happy places.
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  And for me coming out here and watching them in their, in their
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  little world and watching how they develop their flock and how
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  you can see who's in charge and how you can watch who treats
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  who, which way and how they they blend together.
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  It's, it's literally to me, one of the coolest things that I
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  have ever seen. Like watching, I have this whole
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  little group of babies that I got at Tractor Supply and one of
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  my hens adopted them for me, which was fabulous.
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  She raised them. And now there are seven of them.
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  And they're, they're like medium girls.
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  They're like teenagers at this point.
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  And they are really trying to be like big girls.
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  And they are testing the waters to see how far they can go.
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  And in this, you know, the hierarchy of chickens, there is
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  a really is a pecking order that is real.
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  That's where that phrase comes from.
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  It is definitely real. And I've got some really, you
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  know, dominant hens that don't like to give up any space.
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  And then the rest of them are pretty easy going.
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  But these little girls are trying to test the water and
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  they're trying to get in there. And it all comes down to when
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  you eat, where you eat, where you sleep.
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  There's all these little patterns about them.
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  And I watch them and observe them all the time to see how
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  they're doing. And it for me, this triggers a
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  state of awe. Like I, I would have never
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  thought that chickens are that fascinating.
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  I would never thought they have their whole language.
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  I would never have understood that if I hadn't had them and
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  been with them at this depth like I am here.
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  Just like the fact that the rooster can make one sound and
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  the entire flop, no matter where they are, freeze because there's
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  a threat and he puts out an alert and everybody freezes.
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  They stop whatever they're doing and they just freeze.
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  And you wouldn't. Maybe you didn't know that,
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  maybe you didn't know that, but it's pretty cool to watch.
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  And then he makes another sound and they all come running and he
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  stands there and watches them run for cover.
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  And he's the one out front. He's that chivalrous male
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  standing there out front making sure that they're all protected.
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  He's the one that's going to take on that hawk and has to
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  protect them from anything happening to them.
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  But I would never. And and the day that did happen,
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  by the way, I was in a complete and total state of awe to the
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  point where I actually cried because I couldn't believe how
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  cool he was that he would do something like this.
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  I couldn't believe that he would actually put himself in harm's
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  way to protect these girls. And for me, that was like, you
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  know that old Paula Cole song of where have all the Cowboys gone?
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  Well, I have one and he's in a chicken for him and he's here at
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  my chicken coop and I, and I love him for him.
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  All right. He's, he's just the coolest
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  thing ever. And I really genuinely believe
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  that. I am in awe of him for, for his
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  willingness to do that. I watch how he goes around and
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  he pulls fruit and and berries off of our trees and drops them
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  on the ground so that the hens can eat them because he's quite
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  bigger, quite a bit bigger than the hens and he drops them for
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  him. He doesn't eat them himself.
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  He feeds the girls that to me. I could stand there and say,
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  wow, how cool is that? So my point of telling you all
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  about chickens and this is that this is a way I get my awe.
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  I get my awe fixed in this place.
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  I also get it from watching flowers.
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  I also get it from watching the world around me, seeing the
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  trees in different light, looking at all these little
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  things. Because if we stay and we just
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  look for awe in our outcomes and what we're achieving personally,
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  there are days where we'll be starved.
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  We will be starved on it and we will leave feeling depleted.
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  But if we stop and we just look around us at the, at the world
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  that the universe and God have given us, we can pause and we
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  can go, wow, there is so much here we that we could just be
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  infinitely amazed with if we just paused and looked.
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  And it recalibrates you energetically.
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  It pulls you into a different headspace.
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  It puts you in a place where all of a sudden now you can really
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  start to feel amazing about life in general.
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  And then from there, everything else gets exponentially better,
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  as we know, because once you feel good, good things happen,
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  you can really start to tap into that pattern of energy and
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  attraction. So I hope that you have an
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  amazing day finding states of awe, finding the little things
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  that you, you know, fire you up. And I hope, no matter what, that
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  when they present themselves to you, you take the time and you
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  pause and you see them. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.