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Season 3 - Episode 326 - The week of gratitude… Remembering · 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 mastermindset
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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 garage.
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  Not the chicken coop because it's cold and I'm freezing my
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  butt off. So I haven't acclimated yet to
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  the cold weather that we're about to be in for apparently a
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  couple weeks. So we're in the garage this
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  morning and the girls aren't even up yet.
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  So today I want to talk to you about something.
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  A game that I've been playing with myself and that I am using
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  today is an example for you. For gratitude is our last day of
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  gratitude is upon us for the week.
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  And this, this little game that I came up with, I, I like to
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  think of it as the memory game, but I pick specific thoughts of
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  a person, a subject, a place. And then I dive back in and
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  think, all right, let me dig up some memories because you know,
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  we have access to all of them and we can dive into them now.
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  Unless, of course, there is something wrong and you have
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  memory loss for a physical reason.
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  You can play this game. That's the that's the part of
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  this. That's so cool.
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  We all have these memories, but sometimes because of how things
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  went down, we compartmentalize them.
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  We push them away, we put them away.
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  But, and some of them aren't pleasant and some of them are
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  fantastic, but when you are completely neutral about things,
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  which is what we want, you know, we want that Zen driver driving
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  our bus at this point when we're playing this game and we just
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  want to go and observe what we think about something.
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  So like I said about a year ago, I started doing this just
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  because I was, I felt like I was forgetting certain things or I
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  wasn't feeling certain things. That is clearly because that's
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  how I kind of go through memories as I feel them, see
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  them in in that colorful way with my grandmother, who was
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  very near and dear to my heart. And I was and I had, you know, I
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  lost her when my daughter was 4. So I, I kind of am like, I
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  don't, I don't like that. So I want to go back and start
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  thinking about things with my Nana and it just, I would just
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  pick a time like Sunday dinner and I would start thinking about
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  it and I would be like who was at Sunday dinner or something?
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  Like let me think about their house because their house was
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  very, very old and it was like a 300 year old house, 2 maybe 250
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  year old house. Now what?
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  I can't remember the exact time it was built, but it was really,
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  really old and it was kind of creepy to me as a kid.
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  And I started remembering and I would go through all right,
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  where were the how did you get to the basement?
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  Where did they keep food? Because I can't remember where
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  there was storage there. And this, this part drove me
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  crazy because I couldn't remember.
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  I could remember the whole kitchen and I was like, yeah,
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  but where did they keep things? Like where was the cupboard?
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  Where was the, I remember where the refrigerator was, but I
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  couldn't remember like where the big cupboard was that they kept
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  things in and they didn't have a ton of cabinets.
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  And so I kept trying to go through this in my head and I I
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  just had no memory of it. And then and all of a sudden, a
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  couple days later, I'm thinking about their house again.
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  And there was this small little room off the living room.
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  And I remember, ah, wait, she had shelves in there.
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  That's right. So it made me feel connected
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  again. And I kept playing this little
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  game of walking around their house or sitting there at Sunday
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  dinner or going to church with her on Saturday nights and or
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  going to church with my grandfather on Sunday mornings.
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  They went to two different churches, two different
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  religions, and I was, you know, with both of them a lot.
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  So it was one of those really big eye opening experiences for
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  me to start doing this because it's starting to shift my
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  awareness of how much we carry around with us.
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  And we just really, really, really have access to some very
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  cool things to pull up to think, wow, I was like 3.
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  And I have like specific little dribbles of memory about that.
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  I wonder if I can expand on that.
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  I wonder if I can go back to it now.
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  If these are not pleasant for you, by all means, don't do
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  this. However, if you have, you know,
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  what most people have is a mix of pleasant and unpleasant, a
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  mix of good and bad. And most of us carry that around
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  with us. So it's good to go in and kind
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  of see through that and see what's up.
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  So I'm just putting it out there that I, it was a fun game for
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  me. I wanted to share it with you
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  because it made me feel connected.
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  And I am incredibly grateful for memories because it's made me
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  realize how much my, you know, my, who my grandparents were.
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  And not only that, but how far I've been able to come from the
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  conditions that they were in and the conditions even my parents
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  were in. So it's a good way to make
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  yourself be grateful. It's a good way to make yourself
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  feel gratitude for those of us before us.
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  And it's just an overall hug, at least for me.
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  And yes, I've had, I've gone through and I've had some
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  memories that I'm like, oh, yeah, I don't want to think
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  about that. Or I, I just didn't enjoy that.
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  But it didn't make me stop. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Go get some memories. Bye.