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Season 3 - Episode 196 - What are your thoughts the moment you wake up? · 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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  So today I have a quote for you from Marcus Aurelius.
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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is
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  to be alive, to think, to enjoy, and to love.
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  Now, obviously our our resident rooster had to crow right in the
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  middle of that, which I think is funny.
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  However, he's continuing to do it because that's what he loves
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  to do. That quote, how often do you
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  actually wake up in the morning thinking what a privilege it is
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  to be alive and to enjoy your day and to think about all those
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  happy things? I mean, I know for sure for me,
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  I can tell you just as a human, I don't wake up like that every
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  day. I mean, I wish I woke up like
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  that every day and I can work to wake up like that more days.
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  But do I actually wake up like that every day?
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  No. I would be telling you a big
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  story if I told you that it was true that I did, that I work on
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  waking up and being once I'm up and I'm moving around and going,
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  you know, through the mourning processes I'm in, doing my
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  routines and getting my head straight.
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  But are the first thoughts that I have when I wake up in the
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  morning that absolutely not. And it's a goal to to get to
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  that point because I think that he was right all those many,
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  many, many years ago. He was right, and probably even
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  more right now than ever to have it be that way.
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  You know, part of my joy, part of my Wellness routine is to be
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  out with the chickens. That's why we shoot the podcast
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  from the chicken coop. And as I sit here with all of
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  them surrounding me, that's, that's a joy that I can't be in
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  to express. But that happens quite a bit
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  after I actually wake up. So when you, when I hear this
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  quote, when I read this and was getting ready to come out and
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  you know, take care of them and shoot the podcast, I started
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  thinking, I'm going to talk about this because I think it's
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  such a, an important factor that I might be missing out on myself
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  because it's not something that I actually concentrate on.
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  So putting it out to everybody, think we need to concentrate on
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  this now. How do we incorporate this?
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  How do we put make this work? So for myself, I'm just going to
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  talk about this exactly like how I'm putting it in my own head.
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  I'm going to be taking this on as I open my eyes, I'm still
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  lying in bed and I'm going to say what a joy it is to be in my
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  body and be present. What a joy it is to wake up,
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  just simply wake up and know I'm present in my own body once
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  again. And I'm going to start with
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  something simple and then I might move up further in it
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  where I'm thinking all the positivity I'm bringing in in
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  the day. But I think it's super important
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  just to start with what a joy it is to wake up.
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  You layer it. You start off with something
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  simple. You layer, you layer, you layer.
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  And as you go up, up, up, you start to feel even more, you
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  know, entangled with the goodness that that brings to
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  you. As I sit here and I'm recording
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  this, I have a little chick that some of you who have signed up
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  for the newsletter will probably have seen Gladys.
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  And Gladys loves to sit next. She loves my phone.
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  She's obsessed with my phone. And I record the podcast on my
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  phone. She's just sitting here staring
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  at the phone while I'm recording, trying to figure it
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  all out. And what a joy that brings to
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  me. So as I think about that, like,
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  you know, the joy that comes from all these little things is
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  what we have to wake up with and take to our days.
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  So this is a short and sweet one this morning because it's just
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  about turning ourselves into that.
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  So tomorrow when you wake up, try that.
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  I'm I'm just grateful to be awake.
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  What a joy it is to be awake and just start with that.
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  And then I'm going to add on what a joy it is to come out and
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  see my chickens. What a joy it is to have a
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  chicken like Gladys who is so excited.
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  What a joy it is to be able to have a farm and animals to take
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  care of, and what a joy it is to have a place that I can grow
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  flowers and vegetables and the list could go on and on.
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  So I challenge you guys to find yours and add that in and see
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  where it takes us. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.