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Shining your light! · 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 so today I want to start us
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off by reading a quote, from one of my favorite authors and
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lamotte. And I think this quote just
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screams everything that I often talking about with people
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lighthouses, don't go running all over an island looking for
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boats to save. They just stand there shining.
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I mean honestly how brilliant is that because it's so true
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lighthouses. Save lives.
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They are beautiful. We flock to them when we're on
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the coast to look, At them and take pictures of them and it's
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such a great metaphor for what the job that they do.
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They stand there and they just they just shine.
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They just do their work and they just shine and they show up
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consistently all the time. And isn't that a great metaphor
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for us? Isn't that just something for us
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to all think about about how we have to just recognize that we
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need to just be able to shine, do our work show up, stand there
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and stop running around looking for People to save, I think so
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many of us have our identities, tied to other people and what
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other people think of us, and what we can do for other people
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instead of just residing in ourselves and focusing on the
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good stuff that we have within us to just put out there in the
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world just being that Beacon of Hope, being that Beacon of
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light. I mean, honestly, that's what I
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try to do with this podcast is putting it out here and having
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everybody just have Those moments of clarity that come
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through it and I can't run around and save everybody in the
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world. But if it helps one person in
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the morning, hear something that they need to, in order to have a
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great day, it was worth all of it.
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It was worth getting up. It was worth coming out.
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It was worth creating this whole idea of doing it.
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And I want to stress that in our world right now, a little,
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kindness goes a long way because it seems to be in a large
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deficit. So just asking someone in a
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genuine way, you know, how is your day going or a smiling at
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somebody or doing something simple?
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The act of paying forward is shining a light, the buying a
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coffee for the next person in line behind you.
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I mean, we all like to think that we would do those things,
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but how much of it do we actually do?
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Do we really take the time to think about what is the one
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thing that I can do today to be kind to I'm buddy, I think
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people in public service out there, whether it's, you know,
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waitresses waiters working behind the counter at any of our
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stores that we go to and frequent all the time.
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I really make it a point to ask people.
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How is your day going? And if I see someone that looks
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like they're off, I'll often say to them.
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Hey, I'm sorry. You're having a bad day, I hope
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it gets better for you. And you'd be surprised how many
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people when you say that don't get angry.
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They look at and they say thank you.
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I really needed to hear that or you just smile at somebody and
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you say something. Nice about them.
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Oh my gosh, it just changes everything because so many
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people are just depleted. So the theory of the lighthouse
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about putting your light out there, it doesn't have to be
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complicated, it can be super simple, you know, I I get
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obviously with all these chickens, I have a lot of eggs
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and we don't sell her eggs, I give them away to people.
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People. I like to make them happy and I
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just like to give them away. So a lot of people that come out
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here to drop stuff off, we live way out in the middle of nowhere
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and I have lots of stuff shipped in, but I have water delivery
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and we get those five gallon jugs of water delivered.
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And my water guy is just the sweetest.
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Sweetest kid, and I couple months ago, I started giving him
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eggs. And today he delivered the water
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and I said to him. Hey, do you need eggs?
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And he's like, oh I always need your eggs.
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They're awesome. I'm so excited.
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He goes, I love it when I get this route, I love that.
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I get to come out here and see your chickens.
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I love that you get yours because it's so kind of you to
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share them and I'm like, they are absolutely abundant.
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All the girls are happy to provide them for everybody and
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you can just see him light up when he gets these eggs.
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And to me it's like the easiest thing in the world package them
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up and give away a rainbow in a box and And it makes me happy,
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it fills my heart to do that. So when you act like a
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lighthouse and you turn the light on and you put those
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things out there, you are getting yourself into a an
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amazing state for attracting what you want in life.
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You're also shining the light on somebody else and helping light
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the way for them and your yourself back up in the process.
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So go out there today, find a way to shine a light, be that
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Lighthouse. Listen to that.
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Theory don't go running all over the place, to try to find people
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to save. Just put your light on and be
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happy while I walk around and just be bright show off that
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piece of it and you will find a way to help brighten somebody
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else's day. I promise, I hope you guys have
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a very blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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Bye.