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Season 4 - Episode 72 - The different definitions of love... · 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 happen 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 afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  The girls are all getting ready to get tucked into bed.
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  All the late girls are hanging out outside as I'm recording
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  this, looking at me like, what are you doing?
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  What do you have for snacks? And they always make me laugh
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  when they do this. Snack time is over anyway.
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  OK, I had a client that said to me the other day, if you have to
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  persuade someone to love you, then they just don't love you.
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  And I thought, wow, that's pretty profound for a Monday
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  afternoon. And we had a good laugh about
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  it. And then, you know, he explained
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  further what his thought was on it, That love was something that
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  you shouldn't have to work for. And I think we all in this
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  society, we all have different variations of what love is, what
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  love does, how love acts. We all have these versions that
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  come into our minds. And a lot of it for some of us
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  is Hallmark movies. And we're constantly thinking
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  it's going to be a certain way. We've all seen the romantic.
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  I mean, I obsessed on watching The Princess Bride and When
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  Harry Met Sally and all these wonderfully romantic movies and
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  got me thinking about, you know, we're really is is that really
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  true? What he said about love?
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  If you have to convince someone to love you, they don't love
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  you. Well, I don't agree with that.
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  I think there are many different kinds of love.
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  And I think the love that I have for my chickens is very
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  different than the love that I have for my children or my dogs
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  or anybody else. Like everything is relatable in
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  one way or another. So you have to pull yourself,
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  you know, out of the ethereal of what love is in our head and
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  come back to, is this a definition that I'm comfortable
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  with for everything? Or is it something else?
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  Like, I love growing flowers, but that's different than my
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  love of growing vegetables. And there's nuance in all of it.
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  And if we are willing to be honest with ourselves and stop
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  and pause and think about it and talk about it, we can recognize
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  that this nuance makes a big difference.
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  It is, it is something that's important.
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  It's a distinction and you have to define it for yourself.
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  I think when you think about if you love your spouse and your
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  spouse and you love your parents, that's a different kind
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  of love. It's in everything.
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  It's even in coffee. I could say I love coffee, but I
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  love coffee from one particular coffee shop more than I love it
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  in another one. And that's what's so peculiar
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  and fascinating and thrilling about emotions is they are,
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  they're just constantly malleable.
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  They're constantly moving, they're constantly switching
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  places and making us think about it.
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  And we have to define them over and over and over again.
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  But do we define them? That's my self question that I
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  always ask myself. It's like a very important
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  question. It's like it's a self reflective
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  question, you know, am I defining my emotions today?
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  Am I searching for them? Am I realizing what they're
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  telling me, or am I just letting them run me and drive the bus
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  and drive me crazy in the process?
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  And it's, it's become quite the profoundly shifting habit that
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  I've developed for myself asking those questions.
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  So if you've never done that and just constantly checked in and
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  asked these questions about all different things, like what
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  we're talking about right now, just do a check in, say, let me
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  think about all the things in my life and how I love them.
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  How do I define love for each of them?
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  Because it's all different. And it's OK that we can say
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  that. We can be honest about it.
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  Love is a big word and it has many variations and and if we
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  ignore those variations, we ignore the nuance, which gives
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  us all the little trickles of greatness in there, the little
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  sparkles, the things that show up that make that feel so yummy
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  when we think about it. So as a practice, as a general
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  practice to take into your world, start checking in on your
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  definitions of not just the word love, but everything happiness.
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  Look, think about all the different things of happiness.
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  You know, how can you be happy doing laundry?
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  Well, sure, if you have the right focus that you're, you
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  know, you're helping the people that fill those clothes.
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  Can you be happy with cleaning your house?
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  Sure, if you're caring for something that you love.
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  All these versions have options and you have to define them so
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  that you can feel good about them all, otherwise they will
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  make you crazy in the process. So I recommend going and
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  thinking about them all and don't try to do it all at once
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  for everything. Just take little bites here and
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  there and start to define it and see where it comes and leads you
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  because that's where the path of being a human is.
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  So, you know, so interesting to me because as you define
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  yourself over and over and over again, you learn so much more
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  about yourself. And that's what this life is
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  about, learning more about yourself overall.
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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.