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Season 4 - Episode 217 - What do you REALLY want to do? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good Morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my Chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day. To record a podcast.
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  To teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  If there was one thing that you knew you really wanted to do and
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  you're not doing it, what would it be?
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  Now, this can be a tricky question because you might be
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  saying, well, Kim, is it like a thing to just go do, like I
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  should go get a haircut? Or is it like a goal?
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  And the question is it can be anything.
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  It's just what's that one thing that you know, you really want
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  to be doing that you're not doing that you're like putting
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  off because you don't know the dreaded how that you don't think
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  you have the support to do it. The the thing that you know,
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  makes you like, oh, if I could have that, I would be so
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  excited. Yet you're not doing what you
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  need to do to get there. What is that one thing?
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  And the reason I'm asking this is because, you know, over the,
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  over the weekend, we've had some very challenging things going
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  on. And Mark's dad is not well and
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  he has congestive heart failure. And one of the things that I
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  always think about when I'm presented with stuff like this
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  is, yes, it's incredibly sad. And yes, we're all kind of
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  putting ourselves in the head space for what's going on with
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  this. That being said, there's also a
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  part of me that says, what can I learn from this?
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  What can I take away from this? What's the one thing that I want
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  to make sure that I'm embodying in this other than sadness?
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  Because I believe everything has duality.
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  And I like to use everything as a duality so that I can not just
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  take away, you know, the, the horribleness of it, but take
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  away the other things, you know. And this is one of those big
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  situations. So I started thinking, you know,
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  life is short. What's the one thing for me that
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  I'm not doing that I wish I was doing?
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  And then I started like my brain started going on fire.
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  And of course, you know, I've been sick.
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  So being sick also adds something to it because I've had
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  to be very relaxed. Let's say I, I couldn't be at my
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  normal high speed pace and that slowed me down.
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  So then immediately, as soon as I asked a question like that, my
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  brain went off the rails and it started making a list of all
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  kinds of things. And I'm not even joking.
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  I ended up with like an 11 by 17 piece of paper filled two sides
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  of all these little things that I still want to do in my life
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  that I that I am pushing myself to, you know, not even just do,
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  but observe like, and I don't mean pushing it in a negative
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  way. I mean like I'm like really be
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  like no holes barred. If you could do anything, what
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  would it be? And really asking those deep
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  questions and the paper is filled now which one am I going
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  to take on immediately? Because I asked you guys for
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  one. I didn't say have, you know, 2
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  pages full. I said, what's the one thing?
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  And I'm going to pull myself into a place where I look and I
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  say, what's the one thing and work through those.
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  I'm not going to ignore the others by any stretch of the
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  means, but it just got me really thinking.
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  And I said, you know, I really want to share this with
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  everybody because I think it's important to pull back and to
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  look and say, OK, is there a thing that I know I really want
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  to do in this lifetime that I really want to do that I'm not
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  doing? I remember my mom constantly
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  telling me that she wanted to be a nurse or she wanted to be a
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  hairdresser, 2 very different things, but neither of those
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  ever came to fruition. And when I asked her, you know,
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  you really, really wanted to do this.
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  How come she never did it? And she said, well, you know, I,
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  I got a job and I got into that job and it was a job for Texas
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  Instruments. It wasn't like it was a career
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  thing like a being a hairdresser or, you know, being a nurse.
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  But she got into it and she never stopped doing it.
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  And for me, that just, I think that may be a part of the drive,
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  why I'm so driven to not miss out on those things because I
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  know she missed out. And we used to encourage her to
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  go back. My dad was so great about that.
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  He's like, just go back to school, just go back to school.
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  But she didn't want to do it in the sense that she wanted the
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  outcome, but she didn't want to have to put in the time to do
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  it. And I find that to be really
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  sad. So I am breaking that cycle.
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  I am pushing, I am figuring all these things out and I want you
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  guys to do this with me. I'm throwing it out there so we
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  are all on the same page with this and we're going to all say
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  a prayer for Mark's dad and say, hey, you know what, We're all
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  sending him good juju and hope that he takes a a different turn
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  and comes out of this in the best state for himself.
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  And at the same time, we're going to learn this lesson and
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  say, you know, what are those things?
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.