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Making Happy Happen · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So doesn't have anybody out there ever consider what's the
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  purpose of life? You know, it's a big question,
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  the purpose of life well according to the Dalai Lama, the
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  purpose of life is to be happy. And that's what this is about
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  today. Being happy.
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  You know, I think we all want to be happy.
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  I think we all have a innate desire to be happy and I think
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  that happiness is different for each one of us.
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  I mean some of you would certainly not be happy in the
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  chicken coop standing out here with all my chickens running in
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  and out of the Run, going out to their free-ranging space.
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  Some of you be thrilled by it. Some of you be like, ew, that's
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  disgusting. And others are like, wow, how
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  cool is that? That you get to do that again?
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  Happiness comes in different packages.
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  Different things. And that's you know the
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  wonderful thing about being human is that we all have our
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  own versions of happy and I certainly have my own version of
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  happy and I know my husband has a different version of Happy.
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  And my son has a different version of Happy.
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  It's kind of like the tapestry gets all woven together by all
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  these different versions. But when we stopped and we think
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  about it, we say, you know, purpose of life is to be happy
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  and someone says, well, I'm working on being happy.
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  I say, okay, I appreciate that. You're working on being happy,
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  but I want to challenge your thoughts with this because
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  happiness is a choice of, no matter what's going on in your
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  life, you can always choose to be happy.
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  You still will have problems. You still will have things that
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  are going on. You'll Have things that you
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  don't like, but choosing happiness, choosing
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  lightheartedness choosing the ability to say, I'm going to
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  focus on feeling good. Internally is something that is
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  a gift that we have been given that we can do.
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  We can our emotions are a gift. I'm completely convinced that
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  our emotions are a grand gift from God in the universe and we
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  use them and can use them. However, we see.
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  Fit and they are system of communication with God in the
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  universe. And when we choose to tap into
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  that happiness, we tap into that reality, but it is a choice.
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  And do you need a reason to be happy?
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  I often will say, you know, we have moments when we're sad.
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  Of course, of course, we have moments when we're sad, that's
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  how you get guidance to move towards what you want and move
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  away from Not working. You know, the moving towards and
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  moving away, emotions are really important to recognize and know
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  but Choosing happiness over everything or saying at the core
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  at my Center in my gut. I choose happiness, everyday, I
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  choose to find the small things that make me happy everyday.
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  That is developed. That is it, that is a skill set
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  that you develop by recognizing it that you can do it and nobody
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  can rob you of it. Nobody can rob you of the core
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  Center of You are, they can try, they can try to break you but at
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  the bottom center of who you are.
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  Nope, that's you. That's your soul.
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  That's where you get to be. You and happiness is part of
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  that. Happiness is something that we
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  all have the ability to tap into any time.
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  We choose, just by making the choice of saying, I am happy.
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  I am happy and knowing that you are doing that for yourself
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  because it's the gift. That we get to have and we get
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  to use it. And and as freely as we want to,
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  I think part of where we get stuck, is we look at our
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  external conditions and the external conditions Drive, what
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  we are willing to focus on and how we react in our emotions
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  show up. And then we feel a certain way.
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  Now, can you feel, you know, happy at your core and still
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  feel sad? At something that's happened.
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  Yes. Yes, I'm a happy person.
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  Yes. And then I can have some
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  conditions that might make me sad or might make me angry, or
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  might make me frustrated, but you can choose to be at your
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  core, a happy person, and make choices, like a happy person
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  makes choices instead of an angry person making choices.
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  And that's the key to Wellness. That's the key to mental
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  wellness. It's the key to saying, I hold
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  this. Nobody else.
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  What's this and recognizing that when the Dalai Lama says, the
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  purpose of life is to be happy? He's not saying go out and seek
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  happiness, he's saying be happy. He's saying do happy.
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  Just find those fundamental things that you can focus on
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  that make you smile, whether it's recognizing, you know,
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  small things in your world that are there and around you that
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  you're grateful for. Like, while I'm out here and I'm
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  recording. I have a A whole group of
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  chickens that will always come and sit and listen to me, and I
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  crack up laughing because they're so cute that they sit
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  down and they hunkered right next to me and they listen to me
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  record these for you. One of my clients said to me,
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  they must be the most well-adjusted chickens around
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  and the kind of, it's very true. What they actually are, we have
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  no fighting, everybody gets along, everybody's just, you
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  know, happy all the time and I think it's unlisted.
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  Someone's trying to sit in someone else's box.
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  Then there's a little But an issue.
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  But for the most part, I will say it is demonstrated that the
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  energy I put off. Really does show up with these
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  animals and I recognize that and then I look at it and I say to
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  myself. Wow.
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  Okay this is kind of a fascinating fact that they're my
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  happy place is their happy place.
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  There's no accident, right? It's fascinating.
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  And I think that when we start to focus on that for ourselves,
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  and we start to really say, okay, I can choose this.
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  I can choose happy and I can spread my joy.
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  It does work. So today find your moments where
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  you can choose happy and be excited about it.
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  Be excited that you have complete control over it.
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  You know you have complete control over your happy so do go
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  do your happy and have a great day.