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Season 3 - Episode 321 - The week of gratitude… Foundations · 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 today and for this week, we are going to be talking about
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  gratitude in different forms because you know, Thanksgiving
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  is here. It's a time when we're supposed
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  to be grateful and for some time, some of us, it's very
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  tough sometimes. As I've stated before, this is a
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  very interesting, I'll use that term time of the season.
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  For me, because of my loss of my dad over this particular holiday
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  and this being his favorite holiday, it has always been very
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  challenging for me to navigate it.
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  And I try to put on a good face, but sometimes it's very
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  challenging. So I thought, well, why don't we
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  talk about all of this over the course of this week.
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  So this week it's gratitude. And today's the first thing that
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  we're talking about is the foundations of gratitude and how
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  we build them because it's not something that we inherently
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  have built into us. I mean, we want to believe that
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  we are all born and we're just grateful.
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  But the hard wiring that comes with us when we first arrived
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  here is all just about getting our needs met.
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  And as I mean, anybody who's been around an infant knows, all
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  they care about is getting their needs met.
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  And if they're not being met, what happens?
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  They scream, they cry, they go through lots of anguish, and
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  they put out a lot of energy that makes us feel very like in
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  that reactive state to try to calm them down.
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  And oftentimes it's very, very challenging.
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  And we even even as we are grateful for them, we love them.
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  We all wanted to have them. They're here with us.
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  We're like, Oh my God, this is so hard.
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  And then you start thinking about how that moves forward in
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  our lives. Well, as human beings, it is
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  very much to our benefit to acknowledge that we have to
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  cultivate gratitude. We have to think about gratitude
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  because it's not something that's just hard wired into us.
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  We have to learn it. It is a learned behavior.
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  So where does it all begin? Now, if you're a regular
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  practitioner of this podcast, you know, I talk about moment to
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  moment gratitude where I use my camera on my phone and I take
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  pictures of finding things that I'm grateful for throughout the
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  day. The smallest of small things to
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  the bigger things. The chickens being a big part of
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  my gratitude practice because I just love the fact that they're
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  just so interesting and unique and they all have their own
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  personalities and just feels good for me.
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  Now, some people would think the worst thing in the whole world
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  was being grateful chicken coop, but I'm very different like
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  that. But we all have our own things.
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  Like some people are so grateful to go get their nails done.
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  And to me that's just torturous. I never want to do that again.
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  I've done it, never want to do it again anyway.
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  So building a foundation of it depends on who you are as a
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  person and how you think. And it's really discerning and
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  checking in with yourself and saying, well, do I have a
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  foundation of gratitude? Meaning do I have that ability
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  to look for it every day? Am I actually seeking it every
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  single day? Now I can tell you point blank,
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  if I did not have this camera that I've attached my gratitude
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  to, I would have a very hard time doing it every day.
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  Now you made me. Wondering why is she saying
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  that? Because you know of what I
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  teach. But I remember when I first
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  started this process about having to have a gratitude list
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  and everyone said you sit down in the morning and you make your
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  gratitude list and then you sit down in the evening and you
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  write your gratitude list. And for me, it just became a
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  task. It became just like doing
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  laundry. It's a task.
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  You check it off your box, but you're not emotionally connected
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  to it. And it was just get it done.
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  But there was number no feeling there was number congruent take
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  away that I could say every day did it.
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  And of course, if there was a day and there was something
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  enormous and I could say, Oh yeah, I'm grateful for that,
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  then yes, I could use. That but for the.
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  Most part everyday life. Oh, that became really
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  difficult. So I, I had to come up with a
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  way around it. And that's how the camera
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  situation was born. And just for anyone who doesn't
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  know, I use my camera. I walk around with my iPhone all
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  day while I'm coaching and I just take pictures of things
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  that catch my eye, things that I see that I can say I'm grateful
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  for, like a pretty flower, little bugs, great shots of the
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  chickens, waiting on things because I'm hyper visual.
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  So I use the visuals as part of that process and that works for
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  me. Now there are other things that
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  people do like sound wise, people will say, oh, can you
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  hear that? And they'll.
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  Record things or they catch a bit of music and they record
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  that little bit of music or they'll get a song.
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  Like I have one client who loves to say I have a song theme for
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  every day. So I hear a good song and then
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  I'll say, oh, that's my song for the day.
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  And at the end of the day, they replay that song and that's like
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  kind of like they're moment of gratitude.
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  Doesn't matter what it is, but it's foundational.
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  So I'm going to suggest that you.
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  Build out. What is your version of the
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  foundation day one? What is your version of the
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  foundational piece? And then we will build on it
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  tomorrow. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you then.
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  Bye.