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Season 3 - Episode 255 - A Turkish proverb · 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 very windy chicken coop.
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  So if you hear some wind in the background, yes, it it is
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  definitely very, very windy this morning.
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  So today we have a Turkish proverb we're going to read.
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  And I want to make it very clear to everybody, I am not doing
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  this as a political statement. I am doing this because it's
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  good. In our life overall.
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  When we are dealing with humans, we are often being swayed one
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  way or another. As you've heard me say,
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  influence happens constantly. Whether it's from my chickens
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  influencing me to give them snacks, or my dogs or humans, it
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  doesn't matter. Influence happens constantly.
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  So this Turkish proverb really does sit in that realm and
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  that's why we are reading it today.
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  So here it goes. The forest was shrinking, but
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  the trees kept voting for the axe.
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  For the axe was clever and convincing to the trees that
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  because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.
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  Wow, isn't that so profound. When I read that, I was like,
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  that is just killer because it's just such an insight into the
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  styles of manipulation that are used everywhere on us all the
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  time. And it's not just, you know,
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  people will ask me, do you think it's gotten worse over the
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  years? No, I don't.
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  I think there has been, there's more access because of social
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  media and phones and technology, but it hasn't gotten worse in
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  the sense that people are doing it and they've always done it.
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  They've it was just a slower process before.
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  What's happened now is it's just faster.
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  It can happen faster that we are manipulated and influenced
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  quicker. But this is such a great 1 based
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  on the fact that it's very clear that when someone tells you
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  they're like you, I'm like you, and you know they're not like
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  you. You know, they're not like you
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  in many senses of the words and they're trying to say things to
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  you to influence you, but you know you would never do those
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  things. Then are they really like you?
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  So the question you have to ask yourself is who am I?
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  You have to be very clear, very staunch on the core principles
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  that you choose to believe in yourself.
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  Now, that does not mean you're immovable.
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  That does not mean that you don't take on things and learn
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  from things. It what it does mean, though, is
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  that you have a very high sense of awareness for yourself.
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  So you know wholeheartedly that you do not need to be influenced
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  in certain areas that, you know, this is what my core belief is.
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  I'm very, very clear on my core beliefs.
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  So, so for instance, my animals get treated a certain way
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  because I have respect for the souls that animals are.
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  I, I mean, I don't look at them just like they're the, the lowly
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  chicken and they're just meant to be on a plate at all.
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  I don't have that. I don't think things should be
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  treated with disrespect or be handled improperly.
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  I, I, it, it physically hurts my heart with the way I am wired at
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  the core of my being, which is why I come out here and I do
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  this with them in the morning and they're spoiled having their
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  shredded zucchinis and bananas and whatever else they're
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  having. Yesterday they had pasta.
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  Doesn't matter. Whatever it is that they're
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  having, I make sure that they are loved and shown care, shown
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  deep affection every single solitary day.
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  And that's important to the core of my being.
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  That's important to the person that I choose to be.
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  So that's why we're having this conversation this morning is
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  because that proverb really reminds you that you have to
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  know if you're going to be in an association with the handle of
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  the axe, then you really have to pay attention to the fact that,
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  OK, just because it says it's like me doesn't necessarily mean
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  that I am aligned at the core of who I am.
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  At the surface, there may be things where we are aligned, but
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  are you at your core, the person that I want to align with?
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  And that's where we have to pay attention.
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  Go deep inside yourself and say, who am I at my core?
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  And do I align with those things all the time?
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  Because sometimes we have to bring ourselves back and say, am
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  I really aligning with who I choose to be at my core?
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  It's hard, my friends, to constantly say, hey, listen,
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  I'm, I'm really aligned to who I am.
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  And we forget and we retract because we get wounded in this
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  world and we retract and we say, oh, I'm not going to, you know,
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  let's say you donated to a charity and then you found out
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  charities take the money and use it for something else.
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  Therefore, now I will never donate to another charity.
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  Well, at your core, you want to give and you decide not to give
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  because of that. So when you check back in and
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  you go, you know what? I miss giving.
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  I miss doing things. OK, then fix that.
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  Find someone that you know you can give to and feel good about
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  it. You know, that's the important
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  thing. Like, I don't, I don't sell
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  these eggs in this chicken coop, but I give them all away and I
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  give them to people like first responders.
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  I give them to the fire department, Police Department.
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  I give them to my chiropractor. I give them to the girls to come
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  and help me take care of the farm.
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  I do all of that and I do it because it makes me feel good.
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  Selling them wouldn't make me feel good.
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  That makes me feel good. All right, my friends, go out
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  there and remember the proverb. Please remember the proverb.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed
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  day. Bye.