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Season 2 - Episode 264 - Quote for the day! · 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,
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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 I have a quote but we don't know who said it.
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  I researched like crazy trying to figure it out because it
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  drives me insane when things say unknown because I always try to
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  find somebody to give credit to. But this quote is so great.
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  Every day may not be good, but there is good in every day.
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  And obviously unknown is the author of this quote.
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  So what does that mean? That means that you have to.
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  Look to find it. It is not always out in the
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  open. I like to think of these like
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  I'm on a treasure hunt or an Easter egg hunt or some kind of
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  magical thing where you're looking.
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  I love to do hidden pictures and you're always looking for the
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  hidden picture. And for me, that's the thing.
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  It's like you have to seek it out.
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  You have to find it and. If you're listening this week,
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  there's kind of a theme going here about finding these things
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  because people are struggling right now and they are very
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  bombarded by all the wrong things that are happening out in
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  the world, and they're struggling to find the right
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  things. So this is a habit of
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  cultivation. This is a habit that you're
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  developing. This is something that you have
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  to look for. And while you may have, you know
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  bad things happen every day. And every day may not be good.
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  There are good things, small things, tiny things.
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  And how can you get more if you're not even focused on the
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  little ones that happen? It won't happen.
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  You will never, ever, ever be able to truly hit your level of
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  greatness if you're constantly noticing and looking for the
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  things that are not working. So what's so important to
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  remember in the process of doing this is that you have the power
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  to see and not see. You have the power to, you know,
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  change your eyes. Remember the the magic pictures
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  years ago. And it was this whole craze at
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  one point in time where it looked like just this myriad of
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  a graphic and you couldn't see it.
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  But if you. Didn't unfocused your eyes and
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  they would say look past the graphic.
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  All of a sudden you'll see a picture of a plane or a rocket
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  ship or a sun. And I remember I was so young
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  trying to see those and it drove me nuts and I was like, I can't
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  see him, I can't see him. And I would try so hard and I
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  would try so hard and I would look at all the little squares
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  and all I could see was the little squares.
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  So I was seeing right what was right in front of me and I
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  couldn't see the bigger picture which I had to unfocus myself
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  and. Really get into a different
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  headspace. But you know what's really cool
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  about it? Once I did it, once I was able
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  to do it, oh boy, it changed everything.
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  And I learned a trick. And then I learned how to do
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  hidden pictures, and I got way more skilled at being able to
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  see things that I couldn't essentially see.
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  So I'm going to challenge you guys.
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  To go out and try to find that and just food for thought.
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  This is something that I do regularly.
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  It's a habit of mine. I have a hidden pictures app,
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  and no, this isn't a plug for hidden pictures, but I keep it
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  on my iPad so that I can sit and I can look at it because I'm a
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  very visual person and I love to see things that are there that I
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  don't see. So I will walk around like, you
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  know, I've talked about this in the past.
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  I will take pictures of every little treasure that I, and I'm
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  air quoting treasure here that I find on my walks which are are
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  on the farm. Every day I walk, walk, walk
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  27,000 steps a day around the farm.
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  Typically I have a walking trail and I just walk it and I see
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  things. Flowers, bugs, all kinds of
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  things because I'm cultivating A mindset that allows me to find
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  good little things in every day and those little things, no
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  matter how difficult it might be.
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  Be for coaching day or a recording day and how difficult
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  the weather might be or whatever.
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  I'm going to go off and I'm going to find those little good
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  spots. And every day that's why I post
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  pictures of flowers, to teach you guys to do it.
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  That's why I post pictures of bees and bugs and every little
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  tiny thing, because we are surrounded by them.
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  We just have to find them and be willing to stop and pause and
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  look. And I use my cameras to help me
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  with that. All different types, whether
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  it's my. Video camera, my phone, my big
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  camera, my DSLR, whatever it is, I am always taking pictures,
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  much to my husband's dismay by the way, because there's a lot
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  of photos that are in our iCloud and boy, it's a lot.
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  But in any event, it's a tool and it helps you see the good.
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  So try to find the good, you know?
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  Honestly, even a paper clip is an amazing tool.
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  When you think about it, wow, How did somebody come up with
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  that? What a cool thing.
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  Zippers. You put your pants on every day,
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  you zip them up. Guess what?
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  That would not be happening if it was not for the guy who or
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  the girl who created the zipper. I mean, come on, think about it.
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  The person that did that? Pretty brilliant in my opinion.
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  You know, I use these shades out here in the chicken coop to give
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  them areas where they can just get out of the sun.
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  Besides the fact that they can go everywhere they want on the
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  farm, but some of them like to hang out close to the coop.
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  So I create these things. These little shades are awesome.
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  Can't even tell you how grateful I was when I picked up.
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  I was like, wow, this person is amazing and I just sent that
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  person a ton of energy because I wanted to put out good energy.
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  I went there to solve a problem I was dealing with.
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  Not enough shade for the girls who stuck around.
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  That was not a good thing. But guess what?
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  I was so focused and excited. I'm like, I'm going to go find
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  something. I was on a treasure hunt.
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  I walk in, I find it. Boom.
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  Now I've got good in the day. See how it works.
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  So go find your good in the day. All right, my friends, have a
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  blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.