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Season 3 - Episode 90 - We all have 'A PATH' · 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
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  coop. So today I would like to talk to
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  you about your path, that internal path that we all have.
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  Some of us believe we don't have an internal path.
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  We think we're just out there essentially roaming around
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  bumping and bumbling, but that's not exactly true.
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  We have an internal path that we actually follow.
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  That's part of us and we definitely have it.
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  Some of us guilt confused by the fact that we have it.
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  Some of us don't know necessarily where it is.
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  We'll go off the path, so to speak.
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  And we think, oh gosh, I'm never going to get back on my path.
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  But I personally don't believe that's true.
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  All the spiritual work I've done, all the studying and, you
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  know, different teachers that I've learned from, I personally
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  believe that our path is within us.
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  When we arrive here, we have a mission, if you will.
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  We have an end game, a goal of what we're going to be doing or
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  an idea of it, and our job is to redefine that message in
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  ourselves as we go along and see it, remember it if you will.
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  And we do that through our emotions, which guide us along
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  the way. When things don't feel right, we
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  get messages. We are excellent at ignoring
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  said messages, but we still get the messages.
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  And those messages help us move through things and help us move
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  closer to the end game that we want to have.
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  But we have to listen and we have to be attuned to it and
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  attuned to ourselves. But I personally believe, and
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  some of you may not agree with this, and that's OK, because
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  this podcast is all about possibilities and giving you
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  different ideas. But I I do.
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  I personally believe that we all have this defined piece of
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  ourselves that we are supposed to connect to, resonate with,
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  and bring forward. And when we get off the path and
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  if we veer off of our path, things start to go awry.
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  And the more we stick to the path, the more things seem to
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  stay in flow. And we get the messages from our
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  emotions, we get the messages from the the results that are
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  surrounding us in our life, and things just get exponentially
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  better the more we pay attention to it.
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  So the question you really have to ask yourself is how far do
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  you have to go off the path before you realize you're off
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  the path? And are you listening to those
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  little whispers that show up when you go off the path so that
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  you can course correct quickly and actually get back on the
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  path? And really asking yourself, you
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  know, what are the, what's the truth about the path that I
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  want? Because what's interesting is a
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  lot of times some of us will be very, very clear and we know it
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  from when we're a child and then someone else says something and
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  boom, we we are moved. So I'm going to give you an
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  example. Heard me speak of my dad before
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  when I taught on the podcast and my dad was clearly my best
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  friend in life and I lost him when I was 25 and he was 57.
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  And when I was young, probably 9 or 10 years old, I said to my
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  dad, I want to be a school teacher.
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  And my dad said, oh, you can't be a school teacher.
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  There's no money in that. And I was like, oh, but I really
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  want to be a school teacher. And he's like, no, you don't
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  want to do that. I'm telling you, there's no
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  money in that. You have to find something that
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  you can take care of yourself. And he really was on a mission
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  to empower me as a young woman to take care of myself and not
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  need anybody to take care of me. And I appreciated that from him.
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  And he definitely instilled those things in me.
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  But I really wanted to be a teacher.
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  And so I pulled myself back. And I said, OK, well, I'm not
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  going to be a teacher. So, you know, time goes on.
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  And I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do.
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  Fast forward a couple years and I say, well, maybe I'm going to
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  be a writer. And he says, oh, no, no, no, you
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  don't want to be a writer. There's no money in that.
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  OK. So I'm like thinking to myself,
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  well, what else? And I'm super creative because
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  my grandmother instilled that in me.
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  I mean, I've always been creative.
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  My grandmother really nurtured that piece.
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  So here I am. OK, well, I'm going to go into
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  being an artist in graphics. And this is at the time when,
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  you know, computer graphics are starting to come out.
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  So I'm like, OK, I'm, this is what I'm going to do.
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  I'm so excited about it. I go to my dad and I tell him
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  this is what I want to do and I want to have an ad agency.
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  And he says that's excellent. That's exactly, you know, that's
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  great. You can make great money in
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  that. So I was like, OK, so I'm doing
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  it. And it did.
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  It worked out right. I had, I built my business and I
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  had a great time until I felt like I had golden handcuffs and
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  I was making money. But I was miserable every day
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  and being doing artwork for other people and people
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  constantly correcting my artwork didn't feel good.
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  And I was too close to the art. Like, you know, I would do
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  something and I would be proud of it, but then someone would
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  come in and they would correct it.
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  This just did not feel good. If I'm blatantly honest it
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  didn't feel good. So and I'm getting you know I've
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  got a photography studio as well and I'm I'm taking pictures,
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  commercial pictures for products and whatnot and and it's not
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  filling my soul out. It's not making me happy.
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  And I had you know this moment that if you will to come to
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  Jesus moment where I was like OK what am I doing?
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  Well, after my dad passed away and I am in this I start to
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  realize this is how I get into self development.
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  I I put myself on this path of self discovery and I realized I
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  was way off the path because there was part of me that still
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  wanted to be a teacher, that still wanted to write books,
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  that that was a mission in myself and I could not escape
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  that mission. So it was still there.
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  Well now look at what I'm doing. What am I doing?
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  Right now, I'm teaching and I'm writing books and I have created
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  what I would call the magical life because I went back to the
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  path. I went back to the things that
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  were in my soul, if you will, and here's the thing.
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  My father wasn't wrong because he loved me.
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  He was trying to correct me. I don't fault him for that.
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  And all those gifts that I learned along the way are great.
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  And I still have all those skills.
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  I can create my graphics for all the stuff that I do.
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  I can market myself. I can do anything that I want,
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  but I always had to come back to the path and I think that's the
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  the part of this that we have to check in with ourselves on and
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  say, am I on my path or am I on the path that someone else
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  created for me? And if I am off, what do I need
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  to do to start to come back to my path?
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  And I'm not saying you have to bang a hard left and all of a
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  sudden just drop the world and go on to this other thing and
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  maybe you want to, and that's your choice.
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  But for most of us, we can make these corrections and come back
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  and feel like we're gaining that momentum, gaining that charge in
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  our soul again, that puts us on the right path and makes us feel
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  good. So I'm going to challenge you
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  today to go back and think about those moments and ask yourself,
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  you know, am I, am I really on the path of what I want?
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  Or am I doing these things because this is what somebody
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  else put on me or redirected me or told me?
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  And think about the story that I just told you and see how that
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  you know can pertain in your life as well.
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  And hopefully it will help you pick up some of the whispers and
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  get you back to a place where, or at least aligned with a place
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  where you can be in that process.
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  I will see you tomorrow my friends, and I hope you have a
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  fabulous day. Bye.