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Season 4 - Episode 143 -How compassion shapes us · 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.
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  And I. Am a mastermindset coach,
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  creative strategist and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here every day to
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  record a. Podcast.
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  To teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  I've literally started this podcast 4 different times and
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  keep getting things that come up that require my attention
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  immediately because obviously it, you know, once you let the
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  chickens out, once you get out there to do all this, everything
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  turns into chaos. I had two Roosters arguing with
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  each other and hens going crazy. Something needed to be watered.
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  It's just been a distraction and now I have in my hands grain
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  that I use for scratch grain and we have two resident ducks that
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  keep just showing up. They're wild ducks.
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  They just show up and arrive and it's a, you know, male and a
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  female and they are absolutely adorable.
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  And I, I love taking care of them even though I know it's
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  very controversial. People will say don't give them
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  any food, blah, blah, blah. But they keep coming under the
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  bird feeder. And if you show up in my world,
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  I'm going to take care of you. That's just the nature of how I
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  am. I like doing that.
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  It's part of my makeup. And I decided to give them a
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  little bit of grain. So I saw them out there.
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  And of course, that took my attention again away from what I
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  was doing, which was attempting to record a podcast.
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  But it. Also was interesting to me
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  because it fell in line with exactly what I was about to talk
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  about, which is I like to find things to take care of.
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  And now this is, again, this is one of these things where people
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  will make a comment on it and they'll be like, well, don't you
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  have enough things to take care of?
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  And I could say that. I could say, yes, I've got
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  enough things, things to take care of.
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  I don't need to take care of anything else.
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  I've got plenty of stuff that needs to be tended to every day,
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  whether it's dogs or geckos or chickens or plants or whatever.
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  I take care of a lot of stuff and it is not my nature to turn
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  things away. So if I'm driving down the road
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  and I see a plant on the side of the road that someone has thrown
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  out and it has any like, even sighting of life, I am going to
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  take care of that plant because it's important to me to make
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  sure that I am, you know, rescuing it.
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  And I feel like what that does for me as a person is so much
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  more important than I ever imagined.
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  Because I, if I pause and I really dig into it and, and
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  understand, like, where does that come from?
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  I feel like I read so much when I was a child.
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  I was constantly in books. You know, I'm an only child and
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  I read a lot of books and in the process of reading a lot of
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  different books, you know, being a mad reader, if you go into
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  that far, because I really was a mad reader, there was something
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  to be said about the fact that you learned something.
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  And one of those big things that I read a lot about different
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  stories. Yes, I read a lot of science
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  fiction too. However, a lot of the stories I
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  read were very old and I learned a huge amount about compassion
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  and having compassion for things that can't speak or things that
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  can't articulate what's going on for them.
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  And you know, everything communicates in different ways.
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  Our job is to figure out how things communicate.
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  So when I see something sitting there and it's not, well, I want
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  to fix it. If I see something and I think
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  it, I could do a good job taking care of it.
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  And most of the time, there's nothing that I say, oh, I can't
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  do a good job taking care of it. Every so often I'll say, no,
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  that's beyond my skill set or above my pay grade.
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  I don't want to do it. But for the most part, I will
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  find a way to take care of something, fix something,
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  cultivate something and make something better.
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  And the reason I'm talking to you about this today is because
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  it's, it's part of being human. When you start doing this, it,
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  it's just, it's not our nature to not care.
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  Our nature is to care. So if you are finding yourself
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  at a top point in your life where you're questioning, you
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  know, am I caring? Am I doing the right things?
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  I encourage you to find something to care about.
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  If you feel like you are empty inside and you are trying to
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  rediscover yourself, you are trying to figure something out
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  for yourself, start with helping somebody else because it really,
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  really works. And I don't mean it has to just
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  be a human being. It could be an animal, it could
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  be a plant, it could be volunteering, it could be
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  anything. But getting in that right
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  mindset of compassion and caring and cultivating changed my life,
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  brought me to a whole different level.
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  So I'm going to encourage you to do the same.
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  Go out and volunteer. Go out and find a plant that's
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  dead. Go.
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  You can simply do it by going into Lowe's and going to the
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  back of the store in the plant section.
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  And you can find a bunch of plants that are discounted
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  because nobody wants them. But guess what?
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  If you bring them home and you take care of them and love them,
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  they'll bounce back and it's an exhilarating feeling.
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  So go care for something. Talk to you guys tomorrow.
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  Hope you have a blessed day. Bye.