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Season 3 - Episode 343 - Food for thought… Day three! · 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
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  coop. OK, today is day three of Food
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  for Thought and we are talking about abundance.
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  The fastest way to bring more wonderful abundance into your
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  personal experience is to take notice of all the wonderful
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  abundance that you have around you already in the small
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  insignificant things that are around us.
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  And this is something I've really talked about a lot in
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  over my the years of my teaching.
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  I practice it a lot daily, but even I am not 100% with this.
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  I think it's very easy to notice what's wrong.
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  As human beings, we are wired to see what's wrong in order to
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  protect us. Because the more we see what's
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  wrong, the better off protection we can give ourselves more.
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  We can find out, OK, where do I need to be, you know, more
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  cautious, where do I need to be more conservative?
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  All of those little pieces. So we are hard wired for it and
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  we can't get around it and it's just part of who we are.
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  So that's fine and it does its job, but it also hinders our
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  progress and everything else. Because when you are trying to
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  attract things and you are trying to pull experiences into
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  you and you want people to see you as a light that they want to
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  be, you know, drawn to, you cannot be negative and expect
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  them to want to be with you. It just doesn't work that way.
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  So we, we, our job is to figure out how we can still be acting
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  abundant and still have all of those good thoughts in order to
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  be able to essentially attract what we're looking for.
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  And that is a hard thing because when you think about it, it is
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  100% true. If you want to pull things into
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  your personal experience that demonstrate abundance, you have
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  to make sure you're looking at all the small things that are
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  around you already and be grateful for them.
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  And again, I am great at this like 60% of the time.
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  And then 40% of the time I won't notice stuff or I notice things
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  visually, but I don't notice other things.
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  So for me, I'll notice all these little tiny stuff, things that I
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  take pictures of and all the stuff around the farm that like
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  the patterns on the chickens, the beautiful eggs, all these
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  things, the colors, the flowers, everything that it comes from
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  nature. I'm really good with that, but
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  with other things I am not and that is something that I need to
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  work on this year because I recognize it.
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  I will see things like the joke in my house is I see dirt so I
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  can walk in and I can see every place they've been.
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  I see their fingerprints on the refrigerator.
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  I see the mess on the counter. I see that the water, someone
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  used the sink and the water is all over the counter and nobody
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  wiped it down, or they left a soaking wet hand towel on the
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  counter rather than putting on a dry one.
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  And these are things that I get annoyed with.
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  So what does that do? That pulls me away from
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  abundance. That pulls me away from seeing
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  certain things in my world that could be very beneficial to
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  having a cohesive happy family. But instead, well, I'm human, so
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  I act human and I do human things, which is finding faults.
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  So our job and in this time, especially this time of year, is
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  looking at saying, what are these traits that I really want
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  to amplify up? What are the things that I
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  really want to give myself the gift of going into further when
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  the new year starts to come in so that I'm playing the game in
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  a way that serves me. So if you think about it, if you
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  start to notice what's already there and find a way to be
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  grateful for it, then you can move on.
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  So I I have learned over time and talked about this many times
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  about how one of the things for me is finding a dirty dish in
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  the sink when the dishwasher is sitting there and it's empty.
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  And someone could easily put the dish in the sink to the
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  dishwasher. But I used to get very upset
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  about that until I had this aha moment when the dish wasn't
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  there and my husband was traveling and the dish wasn't in
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  the sink. In the first couple days I was
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  very excited that the dish wasn't in the sink.
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  But then I started missing the dish and I started recognizing
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  that the dish represented him in my life.
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  And I thought to myself, wow, what a great lesson that is that
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  the that The Dirty dish actually represents him in my life.
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  So I've tried to bring that forward in other areas where
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  when he's cooking and he cooks like Edward Scissorhands, the
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  kitchen is always like, all over the place.
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  And I'm the one that sees dirt. Remember I said that?
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  So for me, it's very hard to stay focused on, oh, look at
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  this amazing meal that he's making when I know the cleanup
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  is going to take me a long time because I won't let him clean
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  up. For those of you who are like,
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  oh, have him clean up. Yeah, he would clean up, but it
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  won't be I want, so then I have to do it.
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  So if I have the rules, I have to do the clean up and I have to
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  work through that. So the point is, if I start to
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  notice it, I won't have so much frustration.
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  I will. And then I will be able to track
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  more abundant things into my life because I'm not spending
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  time outside that level of energy.
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  Food for thought, my friends. I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.