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Season 3 - Episode 209 - We are storytelling creatures · 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 let's talk about stories. So sometimes we have really
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  great stories that we tell ourselves, and sometimes we have
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  really crappy stories that we tell ourselves.
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  And the reality is we are in charge of the stories we tell.
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  The facts are simple. They're right in front of us,
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  but we are in charge of what those stories come out like.
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  You know, the fact is it rained. Let's just use that as a simple
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  example. The fact is it rained.
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  Now. I could say, oh, I'm so sick of
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  it. It rained.
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  It's so wet. And I could put all this
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  negative emotion into it. Or I could say it rained.
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  Thank God it rained. We needed the rain so bad and
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  everything needed a drink and the pond was getting empty.
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  And I'm so excited that it rained.
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  I could be excited about it. I could create many different
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  stories around the fact that it rained.
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  I'm in charge of the story. I want that fact really clear.
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  We are in charge of the story. Here's where it gets tricky.
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  When we start telling stories that are disempowering, we start
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  arguing for our limitations instead of arguing for our
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  greatness. And we have options about what
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  our stories are that we tell. So when you're working on
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  things, no matter what it is, your goals, your day, going to
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  the grocery store, everything comes with a story.
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  And if you just stop and pause for a second and you start to
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  think about it that way, you start to recognize I have a lot
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  of crappy stories or I have a lot of great stories.
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  And you want to be aware of it because here's what's important.
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  As human beings, we are completely tied to telling
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  stories and they mean something to us.
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  We just like thrive in telling stories.
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  They are an essence of how we have adapted and become the
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  cultures that we are through to storytelling and what they all
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  what things mean to us. But when we tell ourselves
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  stories, that has a huge effect on us because it creates a
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  reality around us. So think about it for a second.
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  We can create a story that is so compelling that it makes people
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  want to join us in building businesses or buying into
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  whatever it is that we're doing. If we tell a story that's crappy
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  about it and right from the very beginning and start saying
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  things about how it's limiting, it's so difficult.
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  Nobody wants to do it. I could tell stories all day
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  long about how much it's amazing to grow chickens, to keep
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  chickens, to be carer of chickens, chicken tenders, if
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  you will. And I can create it so
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  compelling that people want to all of a sudden go out and get
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  chickens. Now is the reality that it's
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  very hard work raising chickens. I, I think it's a lot of work
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  sometimes I wouldn't say it's hard, but it's a lot of work.
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  But some people might think it's hard depending upon the vision
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  they have and the story they tell about it because it always
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  comes back to that. So the point of this today is
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  recognizing every part of your day you're telling yourself a
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  story. Every single part.
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  You tell your story about life with whoever your family is.
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  If you don't have a family, what that is.
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  You tell stories about how your dog is, cats are pets are.
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  You tell stories about the food you make.
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  You tell stories about your job, your Co workers, your drive to
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  work, the kind of car you have. Everything is a perspective and
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  a story, so don't you think it's worth having attention given to
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  it, awareness given to it, because it's such a big part of
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  our life? I mean, if you stop and really
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  think about it and you're telling stories about
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  everything, it's worth asking yourself, am I telling good
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  stories or am I telling really bad stories?
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  Am I telling boring stories or am I telling exciting stories?
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  It's always coming down to that piece of awareness, that little
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  simple fact about what am I doing?
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  And if you can clear that up and you can say, OK, today I'm going
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  to tell good stories. And you just start your day off
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  that simple one simple fact. Today I'm going to tell some
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  good stories. Instead of today I'm going to
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  tell some bad stories. I'm going to tell some
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  complaining stories. I'm going to tell some dark
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  stories. Whatever it might be.
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  It's just making a choice to say to yourself, OK, I'm going to
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  start telling better stories than I have and see what happens
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  because they are energetically charged.
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  They're going to bring things to you.
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  They're going to push things away from you.
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  Understanding the stories you tell could not be more of a
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  magnetic thing that you're putting out there.
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  So go look at your stories, be very observant of them, make
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  decisions to tell good ones, and see what happens throughout your
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  day. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed, happy storytelling day and I will see
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  you all tomorrow. Bye.