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Season 3 - Episode 162 - Our path is built into us · 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 mastermind set
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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 today I would like to talk to you about your path, that
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  internal path that we all have. Some of us believe we don't have
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  an internal path. We think we're just out there
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  essentially roaming around bumping and bumbling, but that's
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  not exactly true. We have an internal path that we
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  actually follow. That's part of us and we
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  definitely have it. Some of us guilt, confused by
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  the fact that we have it. Some of us don't know
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  necessarily where it is. We'll go off the path, so to
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  speak. And we think, oh gosh, I'm never
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  going to get back on my path. But I personally don't believe
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  that's true. All the spiritual work I've
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  done, all the studying and you know, different teachers that
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  I've learned from. I personally believe that our
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  path is within us. When we arrive here, we have a
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  mission, if you will. We have an end game, a goal of
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  what we're going to be doing or an idea of it, and our job is to
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  redefine that message in ourselves as we go along and see
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  it, remember it, if you will. And we do that through our
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  emotions, which guide us along the way.
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  When things don't feel right, we get messages.
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  We are excellent at ignoring said messages, but we still get
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  the messages. And those messages help us move
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  through things and help us move closer to the end game that we
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  want to have. But we have to listen and we
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  have to be attuned to it and attuned to ourselves.
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  But I personally believe, and some of you may not agree with
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  this and that's OK because this podcast is all about
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  possibilities and giving you different ideas.
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  But I, I do, I personally believe that we all have this
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  defined piece of ourselves that we are supposed to connect to,
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  resonate with and bring forward. And when we get off the path,
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  and if we veer off of our path, things start to go awry.
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  And the more we stick to the path, the more things seem to
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  stay in flow. And we get the messages from our
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  emotions, we get the messages from the the results that are
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  surrounding us in our life. And things just get
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  exponentially better the more we pay attention to it.
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  So the question you really have to ask yourself is how far do
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  you have to go off the path before you realize you're off
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  the path? And are you listening to those
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  little whispers that show up when you go off the path so that
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  you can course correct quickly and actually get back on the
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  path? And really asking yourself, you
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  know, what are the, what's the truth about the path that I
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  want? Because what's interesting is a
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  lot of times some of us will be very, very clear and we know it
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  from when we're a child. And then someone else says
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  something and boom, we, we are moved.
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  So I'm going to give you an example.
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  Heard me speak of my dad before when I taught on the podcast.
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  And my dad was clearly my best friend in life.
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  And I lost him when I was 25 and he was 57.
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  And when I was young, probably 9 or 10 years old, I said to my
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  dad, I want to be a school teacher.
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  And my dad said, oh, you can't be a school teacher.
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  There's no money in that. And I was like, oh, but I really
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  want to be a school teacher. And he's like, no, you don't
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  want to do that. I'm telling you, there's no
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  money in that. You have to find something that
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  you can take care of yourself. And he really was on a mission
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  to empower me as a young woman to take care of myself and not
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  need anybody to take care of me. And I appreciated that from him.
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  And he definitely instilled those things in me.
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  But I really wanted to be a teacher.
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  And so I pulled myself back and I said, OK, well, I'm not going
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  to be a teacher. So, you know, time goes on and
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  I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do.
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  Fast forward a couple years and I say, well, maybe I'm going to
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  be a writer. And he says, oh, no, no, no, you
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  don't want to be a writer. There's no money in that.
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  OK, So I'm like thinking to myself, well, what else?
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  And I'm super creative because my grandmother instilled that in
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  me. I mean, I've always been
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  creative. My grandmother really nurtured
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  that piece. So here I am.
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  OK, well, I'm going to go into being an artist in graphics.
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  And this is at the time when, you know, computer graphics are
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  starting to come out. So I'm like, OK, I'm this is
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  what I'm going to do. I'm so excited about it.
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  I go to my dad and I tell him this is what I want to do and I
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  want to have an ad agency. And he says that's excellent.
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  That's exactly, you know, that's great.
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  You can make great money in that.
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  So I was like, OK, so I'm doing it.
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  And it did. It worked out right.
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  I had I built my business and I had a great time until I felt
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  like I had golden handcuffs and I was making money.
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  But I was miserable every day. And being doing artwork for
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  other people and people constantly correcting my artwork
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  didn't feel good. And I was too close to the art.
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  Like, you know, I would do something and I would be proud
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  of it, but then someone would come in and they would correct
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  it. This just did not feel good.
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  If I'm blatantly honest, it didn't feel good.
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  So, and I'm getting, you know, I've got a photography studio as
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  well and I'm, I'm taking pictures, commercial pictures
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  for products and whatnot. And, and it's not filling my
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  soul out. It's not making me happy.
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  And I had, you know, this moment that, if you will, to come to
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  Jesus moment where I was like, OK, what am I doing?
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  Well, after my dad passed away and I am in this, I start to
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  realize this is how I get into self development.
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  I, I put myself on this path of self discovery and I realized I
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  was way off the path because there was part of me that still
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  wanted to be a teacher, that still wanted to write books,
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  that that was a mission in myself and I could not escape
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  that mission. So it was still there.
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  Well, now look at what I'm doing.
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  What am I doing right now? I'm teaching and I'm writing
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  books and I have created what I would call the magical life
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  because I went back to the path. I went back to the things that
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  were in my soul, if you will. And here's the thing, my father
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  wasn't wrong because he loved me.
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  He was trying to correct me. I don't fault him for that.
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  And all those gifts that I learned along the way are great
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  and I still have all those skills.
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  I can create my graphics for all the stuff that I do.
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  I can market myself. I can do anything that I want,
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  but I always had to come back to the path.
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  And I think that's the the part of this that we have to check in
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  with ourselves on and say, am I on my path or am I on the path
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  that someone else created for me?
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  And if I am off, what do I need to do to start to come back to
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  my path? And I'm not saying you have to
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  bang a hard left and all of a sudden just drop the world and
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  go on to this other thing. And maybe you want to and that's
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  your choice. But for most of us, we can make
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  these corrections and come back and feel like we're gaining that
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  momentum, gaining that charge in our soul again that puts us on
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  the right path and makes us feel good.
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  So I'm going to challenge you today to go back and think about
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  those moments and ask yourself, you know, am I, am I really on
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  the path of what I want? Or am I doing these things
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  because this is what somebody else put on me or redirected me
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  or told me? And think about the story that I
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  just told you and see how that you know can pertain in your
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  life as well. And hopefully it will help you
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  pick up some of the whispers and get you back to a place where,
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  or at least aligned with a place where you can be in that
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  process. I will see you tomorrow, my
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  friends, and I hope you have a fabulous day.
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  Bye.