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Season 4 - Episode 89 - The string of happy moments · 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 happened 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 morning. Actually good pasta morning
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because they are having pasta today.
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And if anyone's interested in the fact that 1 LB of pasta
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cooked up and chopped up with zucchini, shredded zucchini last
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about, I'd say one minute, little over one minute for them
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to eat at 61. Chickens can eat that that
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quickly. It's pretty amazing.
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And they're still just pecking away at all the little shreds of
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the zucchini on the trays, but the pasta is gone.
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So anyway, that, that is a good lead in to my Segway today
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because I, I had a, a, a real epiphany.
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I was reading a quote from Esther Hicks and any of you who
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are regular followers know how much I love Esther Hicks.
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And she said this is a quote from her.
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A happy life is just a string of happy moments.
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Most people don't allow the happy moment because they're so
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busy trying to get a happy life. Now she said that 20.
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Let me see. She said that in 2003.
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So look how long ago that was. 20, you know, 22 years ago, 23
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years ago, whenever she said it. And it to me is still so
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relevant for today because we're constantly chasing something and
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saying I want the happy life and we think that it's a
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destination, but it's not. It's a series of happy moments.
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And just like I, I was saying about the pasta, whenever I do
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pasta for them and I bring it out, it is such a happy moment
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for me because they actually can smell it and they get so excited
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and they're doing their little happy flap dance and they're
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running around looking at me like, put the plates down, put
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the plates down. And it's hysterical to see how
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excited somebody gets about pasta and it, it just brings me
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pure joy to spoil them like that.
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And it's a happy moment. And then as I'm standing out
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here getting ready to record, it's a happy moment listening to
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them all start screeching to get their boxes.
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Some are leaving to go walk out. Some are headed off to different
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spots because the garden has a tarp.
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The tarps are down now in the garden or the the fabrics down
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in the garden and they can't get in, but they're I just love
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watching the morning here. It just brings me such joy to
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have this the way it is. And does that mean the whole day
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is going to be joyous? No, it doesn't.
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Does it mean that there are things that I have to do today?
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Yes. Like I have to go shopping
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later, food shopping, and I don't like to go later in the
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day. And I slept a little bit later
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this morning. I slept till 6:30, which is
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crazy insane because I'm always up at 4.
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But I was exhausted from what we were doing yesterday in the
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garden, so I just slept. And that put me on a different
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trajectory. So things got a little backed
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up. Does that make me happy in that
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moment? No, I'm not unhappy.
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But I couldn't say that those choices made me happy.
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The choice to sleep in made me happy, but the results of it did
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not make me happy. Does it make sense?
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So I want you to think about it that way.
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We have multiple ways to view this.
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And if I sat there and said to you, overall, I am an extremely
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happy person. Like just inside I feel
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happiness, I feel joyous, I feel blessed.
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I can't say how blessed I feel. I mean, it's, it's insane.
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However, if I look at the day and I break it down, sometimes
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our days look like Ekgs. They're up and down, up and
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down, up and down, up and down. And that's the part that we have
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to accept. It's like a happy life is
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something that you choose inside of yourself, the moment to
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moment, you collect the happy moments and then you remember
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them. So This is why I, I personally
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believe This is why we take pictures, because we want to
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remember the beautiful things. We want to remember the happy
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things. So we take mostly pictures of
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that. Now, if there's a severe
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accident and we need proof of something, yes, we do take out
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our cameras for that purpose. But for the most part, what do
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we use our cameras for? We we collect the happy moments
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and that is just more evidence of how we are.
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We are driven to find those. We are driven to see those.
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What's beautiful, what's happy, what's joyful, what's a moment I
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want to go back to and wow, that's a great shot because it
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brings us right back to it. That's the beautiful thing about
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having photographs. So just pause and say to
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yourself, my collection of happy moments today looked like this.
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When you debrief your day and ignore the things that you don't
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want to pay attention to in that, just to allow yourself to
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say this, this, this is good. You don't have to focus on all,
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yes, the other things happened. Yes, we know they're there, but
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we don't have to give it our attention to have it grow for
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the next day and the next day. So start to string together
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those happy moments. And and if you've got chickens,
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I promise you they do like pasta.
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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.