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Season 4 - Episode 85 - The acts of gratitude · 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 happened 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 to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy 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 evening from the chicken coop.
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  As I'm tucking all the girlies in and doing their head count
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  and getting everybody all put away.
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  Tonight we are talking about gratitude and all the little
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  things we can be grateful for. Because the one most powerful
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  thing that you can do for yourself is to operate in
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  consistent gratitude. But it takes a lot to do this.
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  Everybody thinks it's so easy and it's so simple.
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  Just be grateful. But when you're in this world
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  and you're dealing with the everyday days of this world,
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  it's kind of hard to to put on a a bright face all the time and
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  say, let me find my gratitude list and not have a feel like
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  you're just ticking a box. Honestly, I stopped writing a
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  gratitude list a long time ago because I felt like I was just
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  doing it as a chore and ticking a box and moving on.
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  And I didn't mean any of the words.
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  So I changed my practice of it many years ago.
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  And I try to live in a state where I can find multiple things
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  that I can be grateful for over and over.
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  Small, tiny, tiny things. So for instance, I could sit
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  here and say I'm grateful for a flashlight because I'm out here
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  in the coop and it's getting dark and the girls are all up in
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  their roost and I'm grateful I have a flashlight.
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  I'm also grateful I have the iPhone.
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  I'm grateful that I can come out and record the podcast in the
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  evening because the mornings are still so dark.
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  I've got a basket full of eggs. I can be grateful for all the
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  eggs that they gave me today and that the weather is nice and,
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  you know, cool right now it's not too hot.
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  I can be grateful that today I had a break in my calendar and I
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  was able to get some of the garden fabric down.
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  I'm grateful that I'm looking at the row of wild jessamine that's
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  growing along the girls fence and it looks so pretty.
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  I'm grateful that Buford is out here with me.
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  And I think you get the point. I could go on and on and on
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  about the things that I'm grateful for, but the power of
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  this, and this is really why I want to talk about this, is when
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  you start focusing on the small little things that you can be
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  grateful for, more big things show up that are tremendous.
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  But you have to train your brain to stay consistent in that
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  energy so that you can manifest it by calling it in.
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  And that's the hard part, consistency.
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  I mean, if I said, hey, I want you to hold the thought of being
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  grateful for something for the next one minute, 60 seconds, I
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  can guarantee that in 30 seconds in, your brain is going to be
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  floating around and you'll be like, oh, yeah, what was I
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  thinking about? It's very hard to train the
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  brain to stay present and consistent in the moment.
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  So the work is real. The work is hard.
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  It's like going to the gym mentally every single day, and
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  you have to focus on it. So my condition is as I walk
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  around, You've all heard me say this before.
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  If you're a regular listener, I use my phone to take pictures of
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  things that I can be grateful for throughout the day, and then
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  I look at them at the end of the day.
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  I walk through my life looking at all the small things, paper
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  clips, spoons, things that seemingly don't get noticed,
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  flip flops like the list I just gave you.
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  Because if I can do that, then all the big things can be
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  attracted and come in. Like I'm so grateful that the
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  girls put themselves away at night.
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  I don't have to go outside and call them all.
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  They just know it's time to come in.
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  That's awesome. I love that.
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  It's like kids putting themselves to bed.
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  It's the best thing. I'm grateful for the fact that I
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  have paid attention to this small pattern that changes so
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  much in my life. When you start doing this, I
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  promise you, you're going to notice a tremendous difference
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  in how you show up in the world during the day.
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  Every day builds on each other and you start to feel more
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  energized. You start to feel more powerful.
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  You start to feel more abundant. What's so important in all of
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  this is that you stay on task with this and make sure that you
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  have a very specific, very tight rope around your brain going off
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  in the wrong direction and that you really put your intention on
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  that piece of saying, I'm going to.
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  I am focused on gratitude and I'm going to stick with it
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  because I promise you, once you do that, you won't notice all
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  the crap that's around you that you don't like as much.
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  You'll start letting little things go, Your moods will
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  elevate and you will recover quicker when something does go
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  sideways. So for the practice of this
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  purpose today, just start simple, do the little things you
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  can, and then we will go from there.
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  Practice with it, be grateful, and do those little, tiny little
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  things that make it feel so much better.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.