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Season 2 - Episode 327 - Gratitude on Thanksgiving · 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 we are talking about deep gratitude since it is
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  Thanksgiving Day and I want to just let everybody know how
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  grateful I am for all of you and for the fact that you show up
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  here and that you listen and that you are a part of my world
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  every day. That makes me smile.
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  I get to come out. I get to be with my girls.
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  I get to do something for people that I don't even know all over.
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  The world I'm so grateful for. The numbers of people that we
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  have that show up and talk, send messages to us that are just a
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  part of our world. You motivate me.
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  You keep me on track. You make me a better person
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  because I get to go and create things that I would never, ever,
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  ever do. I mean, I can't even imagine
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  how. I would feel without this doing
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  this podcast because it feels so great to hear from people about
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  the fact that you know, oh you're I have listened to your
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  podcast on dot dot dot and it and it really helped me so much.
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  It it just puts such a a a light, such a fire in my soul
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  and it puts such a smile on my face.
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  So first and foremost I want to say I'm grateful for all of you.
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  I'm grateful for your listening. I'm grateful for your support
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  and I'm grateful for any of you sharing it with anyone you know
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  because the more people we reach, this is how you change
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  the world. You change it one thing at a
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  time and one little thing and this is what we do.
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  We change it. 1 little tiny thing at a time and it it makes
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  all the difference so. If you are starting to think
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  about yourself and what you're deeply, deeply grateful for,
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  most of us go to the I'm grateful for my family, I'm
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  grateful for my health, I'm grateful for the big stuff.
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  But finding those moments of deep gratitude for small things.
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  This morning I was getting the girls breakfast ready.
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  And they had a special breakfast today because it was, if you
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  know, Thanksgiving. So they had pasta today with
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  coconut oil and some shredded zucchini and bananas and chia
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  seeds. And yes, they eat really, really
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  well, Well, because we eat their eggs.
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  So I want them to have a very, very healthy diet because we eat
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  their eggs. But anyway.
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  And I'm making this up and I'm, I take the pasta and I have to
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  chop it up otherwise they just run around with big giant
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  noodles and everybody's fighting and it's pretty funny but silly
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  at the same time. So I chop it up so that they
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  have bite sized pieces. And in the process of this I
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  think, OK, I'm talking about gratitude today.
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  And I realize, wow, I'm so grateful for my fingers because
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  I'm in the kitchen and I've got this little chopper thing and
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  I'm using it and I'm chopping away and I'm like.
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  Wow. I'm really grateful for the
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  pasta. And I'm grateful for the fact
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  that I have coconut oil that I can give them because they are
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  just absolutely all of them in this state of losing their
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  feathers and molting. And feathers are very important
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  for chickens, so we have to make sure that they get taken care of
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  the right way with it. And I just going down this road
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  of I'm so grateful I have the tools, I'm so grateful I have
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  the resources, I'm so grateful for the small things.
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  I'm grateful for the platters that I have that I can put this
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  on and I'm running this big long.
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  List of gratitude through my head and the moment I I
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  recognize I'm doing it, I I I pause because I'm human and I'm
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  like, wait, wow, it's strange that I'm grateful for all these
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  like, you know, things that I wondered I hadn't been grateful
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  for in quite some time. Those types of things.
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  Like it can always be grateful for the flowers I see in the
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  small stuff. But finding Moment to be
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  grateful for your fingers? That's interesting when you
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  start to pause and think about it.
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  So. As you move into your day today,
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  as you're going through your day, yes, you can be grateful
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  for the big things. But I'm gonna challenge you to
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  be grateful for the small things.
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  Be grateful for all the stuff that you normally don't notice.
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  The water that comes out of the faucet, the towel that you dry
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  yourself with from the shower, the toothbrush.
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  The toothpaste soap. You know, having gas in your
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  vehicle, having a vehicle, having a bed to sleep in, clean
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  sheets, socks on your feet, things, having feet to put socks
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  in, shoes, shoelaces. The list could go on and on and
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  on and on and on and you can find your list.
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  As I'm talking and to you right now, There's a chicken running
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  across the yard headed back to the coop at Cuz they all ran out
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  the second I opened the door this morning for some reason.
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  And she's running back to the coop, and her waddle is so
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  funny. And when I see it here she comes
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  again. And whenever I see it, it just
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  makes me laugh. And I'm so grateful that I have
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  these characters around me that have all these personalities,
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  you know, right next to me. Very quiet.
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  Always very quiet. Chicken is Hootie and she
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  doesn't lay eggs. But she's so adorable and I'm
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  grateful for Hootie even if she doesn't lay eggs.
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  I'm grateful she lives here because if she didn't live here,
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  somebody would have surely eaten her by now.
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  But I'm grateful that she's my chicken.
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  So you see the point. So go find your gratitude today
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  and have a blessed holiday and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.