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Season 3 - Episode 176 - Be like a lighthouse! · 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 mastermind set
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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 want to start us off by reading a quote from one of
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  my favorite authors, Anne Lamott.
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  And I think this quote just screams everything that I often
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  talking about with people. Lighthouses don't go running all
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  over an island looking for boats to save.
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  They just stand there shining. I mean, honestly, how brilliant
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  is that? Because it's so true.
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  Lighthouses save lives. They are beautiful.
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  We flock to them when we're on the coast to look at them and
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  take pictures of them. And it's such a great metaphor
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  for what the job that they do, they stand there and they just
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  do. They just shine.
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  They just do their work and they just shine.
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  And they show up consistently all the time.
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  And isn't that a great metaphor for us?
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  Isn't that just something for us to all think about, About how we
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  have to just recognize that we need to just be able to shine,
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  do our work, show up, stand there, and stop running around
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  looking for people to save? I think so many of us have our
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  identities tied to other people and what other people think of
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  us and what we can do for other people instead of just residing
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  in ourselves and focusing on the good stuff that we have within
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  us to just put out there in the world.
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  Just being that beacon of hope, being that beacon of light.
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  I mean, honestly, that's what I try to do with this podcast is
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  putting it out here and having everybody just have those
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  moments of clarity that come through it.
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  And I can't run around and save everybody in the world, but if
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  it helps one person in the morning hear something that they
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  need to in order to have a great day, it was worth all of it.
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  It was worth getting up. It was worth coming out.
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  It was worth creating this whole idea of doing it.
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  And I, I want to stress that in our world right now, a little
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  kindness goes a long way because it seems to be in a large
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  deficit. So just asking someone in a, in
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  a genuine way, you know, how's your day going or smiling at
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  somebody or doing something simple.
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  The act of paying it forward is shining a light, the buying a
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  coffee for the next person in line behind you.
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  I mean, we all like to think that we would do those things,
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  but how much of it do we actually do?
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  Do we really take the time to think about what what is the one
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  thing that I can do today to be kind to somebody?
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  I think people in public service out there, whether it's, you
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  know, waitresses, waiters working behind the counter at
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  any of our stores that we go to and frequent all the time.
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  I really make it a point to ask people, how's your day going?
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  And if I see someone that looks like they're off, I'll often say
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  to them, hey, I'm sorry you're having a bad day.
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  I hope it gets better for you. And you'd be surprised how many
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  people, when you say that, don't get angry.
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  They look at it and they say, thank you.
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  I really needed to hear that. Or you just smile at somebody
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  and you say something nice about them.
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  Oh my gosh, it just changes everything because so many
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  people are just depleted. So the theory of the lighthouse
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  about putting your light out there, it doesn't have to be
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  complicated. It can be super simple.
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  You know, I, I get, obviously with all these chickens, I have
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  a lot of eggs and we don't sell our eggs.
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  I give them away to people. I like to make them happy and I
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  just like to give them away. So a lot of people that come out
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  here to drop stuff off, we live way out in the middle of nowhere
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  and I have lots of stuff shipped in, but I have water delivery
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  and we get those five gallon jugs of water delivered.
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  And my water guy is just the sweetest, sweetest kid.
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  And I couple months ago I started giving him eggs and
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  today he delivered the water and I said to him, hey, do you need
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  eggs? And he's like, oh, I always need
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  your eggs. They're awesome.
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  I'm so excited. He goes, I love it when I get
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  this route. I love that I get to come out
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  here and see your chickens. I love that you get your eggs.
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  He goes, it's so kind of you to share them.
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  And I'm like, they are absolutely abundant.
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  All the girls are happy to provide them for everybody.
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  And you can just see him light up when he gets these eggs.
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  And to me, it's like the easiest thing in the world.
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  Package them up and give away a rainbow in a box.
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  And it makes me happy. It fills my heart to do that.
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  So when you act like the lighthouse and you turn the
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  light on and you put those things out there, you are
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  getting yourself into an amazing state for attracting what you
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  want in life. You're also shining the light on
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  somebody else and helping light the way for them, and you're
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  filling yourself back up in the process.
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  So go out there today. Find a way to shine a light.
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  Be that lighthouse. Listen to that theory.
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  Don't go running all over the place to try to find people to
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  save. Just put your light on and be
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  happy. Walk around and just be bright.
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  Show off that piece of it and you will find a way to help
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  brighten somebody else's day, I promise.
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  I hope you guys have a very blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.