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Season 3 - Episode 171 - The quote that stuck with me. · 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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  Today I want to share with you my personal definition of hell.
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  When the person you are meets the person you could have been.
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  Ouch. That one got me when I heard it
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  years ago, probably many years ago now.
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  I think that was a big driver for me to focus on and really
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  pay attention to because I have to say it is one of the things
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  that drives me forward most of all in thinking about the fact
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  that, jeez, who can I be? You know, when you just stop and
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  you start to think about things like that and say to yourself,
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  you know, am I being the person I was meant to be or am I being
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  a person that I have been conditioned to be?
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  There is a huge difference between those and I think that's
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  what I personally know. Everyone has their own thing but
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  that they want to focus on or that they want to step into.
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  But I often will see people and they say, well, I'm entitled to
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  blah, blah, blah. And yeah, no one's telling you
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  you're not. You can do with your life
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  whatever you choose to do. You can decide you don't want to
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  do any of the things to, you know, take care of yourself.
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  Let's say, let's say it's a physical thing and you're like,
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  I don't want to confine to the societal stuff that's out there.
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  Yep, you are completely entitled to do that.
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  I don't do that. When it comes to clothing and
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  the things that I wear, I'm very, very, very much tomboyish.
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  I guess this is the way you would call it, as I was always
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  called as a kid, but I don't care 'cause it's genuinely how I
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  feel. I feel best in baggy pants and
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  ponytails and tank tops and sneakers.
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  I mean, honestly, that is the truth.
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  And I'm not confining myself to something that someone else is
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  telling me I should or shouldn't do because it's mystical anyway.
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  What they're putting out there is just, you don't have to hear
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  it. Nobody comes to my house in the
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  morning and says those things. If I'm allowing that to come in,
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  that's just me allowing that to come in.
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  Have I been teased about it before?
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  Of course. Did it bother me at those times?
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  Yes, because I was still vulnerable about it.
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  But the reality is, once I heard this, you know, the definition
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  of hell is when the person you are meets the person you could
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  have been. I decide, you know what?
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  I don't want to be the person that gets riled by that stuff.
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  I don't want to be the person that lets that happen.
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  You know, I have people that think it's very weird that I
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  have the chickens and spoil them the way that I do and take care
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  of them the way that I do That's OK.
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  This is the person I choose to be and the person that I could
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  have been is developing every single day.
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  Choosing myself to look to greater and more expansive
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  thoughts and things to do for myself is part of what makes me
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  just feel excited about life. So when I when I think about how
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  we have this opportunity, we are given a huge opportunity being
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  here and growing and we are given this awareness that the
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  person you are right in this minute is not the person that
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  you have to stay. Every day you get to change.
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  Every day you get to shift for better work, for worse.
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  You can grow, you can stagnate. All of it is choices.
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  You can make this be whatever you want, but that phrase, that
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  one little phrase, the person you are meets the, you know, the
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  definition of hell is when the person you are meets the person
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  you could have been. I think about that and I'm like,
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  well, who do I think I could have been?
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  And I stop and I really say to myself, well, am I living on
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  track or have I just kind of stepped into a place in the
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  world where I'm accepting what's there?
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  And, and the second I start to think about accepting things,
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  I'm like, Oh, I don't know, I want to, I want to examine that.
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  And that's why it's so important to examine this for yourself.
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  You know, often times I'm in the middle of doing a, a program
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  right now while I was in the middle of one and then I'm
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  switching to another one because I'm pushing myself really,
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  really hard. Maybe that's why I have this
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  damn cold. But but in any event, I'm
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  pushing myself physically because I was getting these
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  messages from my body saying that I had, I was, I was
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  experiencing pain in my knees and I wasn't, I was, while I
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  walk constantly, one could say, oh, it's because you're pushing
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  yourself walking too hard maybe. But I didn't want to accept
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  that. So I was like, no, the person I
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  really want to be wants to be this, this really fit person.
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  So I just cut all these things out of my diet with a little
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  help from my friends, and I cut them all out and I'm like, OK,
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  so you know, here's the thing. This is a experiment.
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  I'm experimenting right now. If it doesn't work, I can always
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  go back and do something different because the person I
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  want to be wants to be healthy. The person that I think I could
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  be wants to be even healthier. Stripping things out of my diet
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  has taught me that the pain was a message from my body saying
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  you got to do away with some of this sugar.
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  And guess what, the sugar is gone and the pain is gone.
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  Wow, what a concept. And I love that that happened
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  because it just reinforces, again, interpretation of
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  messages matters. So I'm going to challenge you
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  guys to really think about that definition of hell because it
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  can affect so many areas of your life when you sit and really ask
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  yourself about it. You know the definition of hell
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  is when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
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  What are you going to do with that 'cause I don't ever want to
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  get there and have God say to me, listen, if you hadn't just
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  been so freaking stubborn and you had done this, you would
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  have been skyrocketing. Well guess what?
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  I am not taking that chance. My friends.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.