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Season 2 - Episode 56 - Is it really hard? · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Ooh, so let's talk about hard work.
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  I often get people who ask me, you know, how do you do so many
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  sessions? How do you have all the animals
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  that you have? How do you keep track of
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  everything that you have going on?
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  And isn't that hard? Isn't that hard work?
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  And I often pause and have to actually ask myself.
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  You know, is this hard? And for me, this is not hard and
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  I'm going to give you my assessment of why It's not hard
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  and it's pretty simple. I think when you're doing
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  something that's aligned with what you love, what's aligned
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  with your soul. What's part of who you are as a
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  person? It's not hard.
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  It might be a lot of work sometimes, but it is definitely
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  not hard because you're putting in an effort to something that
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  means a lot to you. You're putting in an effort to
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  something that just is connected to a different Energy in the
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  universe. It's just you know it's God's
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  work. And for me you know doing the
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  work that I do coaching being a creative strategist with people
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  helping them come up with the ideas and things for their life,
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  that just makes my heart so full, it actually fills me with
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  energy, it doesn't actually drain me.
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  And you know, a lot of people I think get drained by what
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  they're doing because it's not the work that they really
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  wanted. To do a he can't tell you how
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  much I hear that where it's like, well I didn't really want
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  to start off doing this work but somehow I ended up doing this
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  work and it just kind of fell into it or, you know, I went to
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  school for this but I ended up doing that instead or something.
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  Worse off when your parents move, you and push you into
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  something where they say this is where you'll make a lot of
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  money. This is what you should do and
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  you should give up what you want to do now.
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  Fortunately for me I did have one of those situations.
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  And if you listen, this is not the first time, I brought it up
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  my dad, pushed me to open my own business.
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  And he did not want me to become a school teacher.
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  Because he felt as though, there's no money in that and
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  he's probably, he was right. You know, there's not a lot of
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  money in that but I found a way to still stay aligned with what
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  I wanted to do and do this. And did I run from it at one
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  point in time? Sure.
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  Was I not confident of my abilities in the beginning.
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  Yes. Did I question lots of things?
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  Absolutely. But somehow when you align with
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  what you love, it's not hard work and you feel blessed by
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  what you're doing and I can tell you, I can assure you.
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  All I feel incredibly blessed by what I'm doing.
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  I feel incredibly Lucky by what I'm doing.
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  I feel as though there is a huge part of my soul that gets lifted
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  up every day in what I'm doing and I think a lot of us struggle
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  because we are not having those examples.
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  We are not having those things. We do not have that.
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  Feeling of being. Lift it up by what we're doing.
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  I I was very fortunate to have a conversation with somebody new a
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  little bit earlier today to me that I had not met before a
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  friend of a friend and she was talking about how much you know
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  she doesn't she doesn't connect with the words portion of life
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  like you know she's like I'm a numbers girl.
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  I just love numbers and I started laughing and I said, I'm
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  just a words. Girl, I can't stand working with
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  numbers and we were laughing about how we both loved what we
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  did. But it was the Exact opposite
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  experience for us because it was something out, you know, just
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  different. But yet she could say, oh, I
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  could do this forever or I love, I love doing certain things for
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  my clients. Like when they asked me to do
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  projections and all the stuff she said, I just love doing that
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  with him and you could hear it in her voice.
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  How super excited, she was about it and for me, like, that sounds
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  like a living hell. But for me if someone says well,
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  you know what do you love doing? Oh I love brainstorming with my
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  clients. I love helping them, see
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  themselves, doing things that they never.
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  Never would have thought they would have done and it just
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  pours energy back in just a different Focus.
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  But back to this hard work, part of the conversation, if the work
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  that you're doing seems hard and it's not fulfilling you and you
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  feel as though you know you're just drudging through every day
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  and you just got to get by or you don't want to do it.
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  Like while I'm out here talking to you and I'm getting them all
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  set for the day I'm working on, changing their kupo.
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  I'm actually carrying a bale of hay.
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  Hey, right now, I'm talking to you and I don't look at that.
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  Like, that's a hard awful chore. I look at that, like I get to
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  take care of them. I like to take care of them.
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  I like to create this place that special for them and it's just
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  part of the things that make me happy.
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  I don't look at it from drudgery, I don't look at it
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  from the side of emptiness, I don't look at it from the side
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  of, oh God. Now I have to do that.
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  If I had that. I thought I shouldn't be doing
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  what I'm doing. I should be considering
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  something else I should be. Figuring out why I have them and
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  meaning the chickens and what am I doing with it all, I only
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  bring things into my world now that I know are going to lift me
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  up and make me feel good about things and I try to really
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  adjust what doesn't work so that I'm not lying to myself and
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  forcing things because that never works long-term makes you
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  incredibly Unhappy. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  go out there and think about the work that you do the chores,
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  that you have, the things that you have in your life and that
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  you feel are drudgery. Look at them and say, how can I
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  shift this? So it's not drudgery.
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  How can I change my mind about this?
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  How can I change my perspective? Or do I just need to get more
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  aligned with the things that I want to do?
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  You know? Might you might be having a day
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  job that's not ideal for you but that doesn't mean you can't have
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  a side gig that's like pretty awesome and filling your soul
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  and you work towards having that side gig Come your full-time
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  thing, but you've got to know it in order to find it.
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  So, go look for it, seek it out, you know, get away from the
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  things that em to you. And, you know, if it's hard,
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  it's one of those things that you shouldn't feel that way, you
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  know? It's it should be.
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  Yes, it sometimes you have to kick yourself through it if
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  you've got a lot to do but you should feel on the other side
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  like I'm doing a purposeful job. So I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.