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Season 2 - Episode 282 - Your joy depends on YOU! · 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 as I am out here with them and I'm watching them walk
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  around and I'm thinking, what am I going to talk to them about
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  today? I realized how much joy they
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  bring me and how. Much.
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  I mean, I always think about that, but today I was just
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  looking at them and thinking, wow, it's not so hot.
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  It feels really great out here. I actually, I'm able to have
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  jeans on and a sweatshirt and they are just so happy and
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  they're out digging and looking for bugs and it's just it just
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  brings me such joy. It made me think about the fact
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  that Joy does not depend on others.
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  You can find joy in the smallest of things.
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  Look, I find them in chickens, and the chickens are completely
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  clueless. The level of joy that they bring
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  me, but they do. They bring me massive amounts of
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  joy and I. I am so grateful for that every
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  day, every morning when I come out here and I get to talk to
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  you and I get to open this coop up and I get to see them and
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  them having their best chicken lives that they could possibly
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  have, I recognize that I am completely and totally.
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  In a state of joy. Now that may seem silly to
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  people, that may seem like it's irrational to find joy from
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  chickens. I even laugh about the fact that
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  I've got, let me see, how many are here?
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  123-4567. Seven girls that don't get up.
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  Like the rest of the girls, everybody else is up and out and
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  filled with their breakfast plates and they're off and
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  running and doing their thing. And then I've got the seven, the
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  mighty seven that hang out up top and always my coachings who
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  are just. Fluffy and puffy marshmallows.
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  And then I've got a couple other ones that are, you know, they're
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  all random, but they're all up there still and they don't come
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  down there that they sleep in. They're late, they take their
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  time. And it used to bother me when I
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  first got them and I was like, what is wrong with them?
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  Why do they do this? Chickens are supposed to be down
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  early. They're supposed to be out.
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  But for some reason this group, they just take joy and taking
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  their time. And when I recognized that, I
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  was like, OK, I'll let them take their time.
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  They're not starving. They're not hungry.
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  They're up there and they'll come down when they're ready,
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  and they always do. Just makes me laugh.
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  So I often think that they're pretty smart though, because if
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  something was going to happen early in the morning and there
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  was a predator, they wouldn't be part of the what would happen?
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  And the others are out there. So maybe that's their strategy,
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  I'm not sure. But anyway, back to the joy.
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  It doesn't depend on anybody else.
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  You can find your small little things and all the stuff that
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  you do that make you happy. You just have to go, and you
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  have to seek it out and look for it because that's the key.
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  Joy is something that you cultivate.
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  Joy is something that you absolutely look for.
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  Joy is available to you in all moments if you just look for it.
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  The crazy thing is, we'd have not been taught to cultivate
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  things that are important. We have been taught to wrote,
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  learn stuff that will most of us forget the moment the test is
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  done. What's really important is
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  having these core skills to say, I can do this and I can go out
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  in the world and I can be able to find this.
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  So just now I'm standing here talking to you and the breeze
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  picks up and you can hear all the oaks just ever so slightly
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  wrestling and it sounds so awesome.
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  It sounds. Sounds so amazing.
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  That's a little piece of joy for me.
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  It's like everything is alive. And when you hear it and you
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  start to think, wow, there's life everywhere.
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  Everything around us that brings me joy.
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  These are all little things that bring me joy.
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  We have a a vine here that creeps and it's morning glory.
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  And it creeps and it's wild and. People complain about it because
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  it's a invasive and it takes over.
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  But you know what? It also blooms purple flowers.
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  And you know what? As I'm sitting here watching it
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  because it I let it creep all inside the chicken run area.
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  There are bumblebees, native bumblebees, everywhere, all over
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  it. And I'm looking at it and I'm
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  like, if I had pulled this all up, this poor bee would not have
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  any place to be having his breakfast.
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  That brings me joy that I can see that he's enjoying this.
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  I won't rip that out. I'll let that go.
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  And I don't care. The chickens don't mind it.
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  It is again building joy. So the question you have to ask
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  yourself is how do I build joy every day?
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  How do I build joy? Throughout my day is the real
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  key. It's got to be throughout your
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  day. It's that seeing that one single
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  flower and you're like, look at that, look how pretty that is or
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  looking down and appreciating the fact that you like your
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  sneakers because they are comfortable or the color of
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  them. Or you look up and you see
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  clouds and the clouds look like something that reminds you of
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  something when you're a kid and you're like, wow, OK or the
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  smell of play DoH. It's like.
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  Your joy does not depend on others.
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  Your joy depends on you, and you get to decide how you want to
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  build it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.