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Season 2 - Episode 253 - Spiritual optimism · 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,
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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're talking about spiritual optimism.
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  And if you've never heard about this before, it's a real thing
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  it. It's when you really refuse to
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  accept the fact that there's defeat with your attitude.
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  If you just don't want your attitude to ever feel defeated.
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  You want to be on the positive side of things and you know you
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  have a spiritual connection to help you.
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  And I think it is. Just such a profound term.
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  And if someone asks me about that for myself, it's part of my
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  definition and how I define myself.
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  I'm a spiritual optimist. I always believe that there is a
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  reason that you know, I I am here.
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  There's a reason that I'm put on this planet, that the things
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  that are happening around me are to educate me, to give me
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  something that's going to make me better, stronger and move.
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  Me in a direction that I know is ultimately going to be the right
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  place for me. But you have to maintain your
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  spiritual optimism and you have to realize first of all that
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  that's an identity for yourself. So seriously, like believing
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  something is true about you helps you to maintain it.
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  So if I believe I'm a creative person, if I believe that I am
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  artistic, let's say because this is a perfect example, my
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  grandmother. My maternal grandmother is the
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  one that I knew. I didn't know my paternal
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  grandmother. She passed away before I I was
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  born. And my dad used to say that I
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  was very, very much like her in all her creativity.
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  And he used to tell me that about myself and then my
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  maternal grandmother. Was probably one of my biggest
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  fans and she I was the first born.
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  She definitely spoiled me. She definitely loved me.
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  Didn't even call me by my real name.
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  She referred to me as her doll, Dolly.
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  She called me Dolly all the time and it was her that really
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  cultivated my artistic strengths and my creativity because she
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  would sit with me and anything that I did, she would rave about
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  it. Didn't matter.
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  If it sucked, she would rave about it.
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  When I was little, I went to an art class and I was drawing with
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  these beautiful pastels and I couldn't leave how excited I was
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  to have something big girl beyond crayons.
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  And it was the, you know, pastels.
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  If you've ever worked with them before, they can be messy and
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  chalky. And my mother did not like me
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  doing them in the house because they were messy.
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  But my grandmother would let me do them at her kitchen table,
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  and she didn't care how messy they were.
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  And everything that I would draw, she would say to me,
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  that's beautiful and she would want to frame it and she would
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  keep it. And she used to carry frames
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  around with her in her big old lady handbag of things that I
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  drew because she wanted to talk about them.
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  And she gave me this identity that I was creative and that I
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  was this artistic person. And to this day, that belief
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  that she passed on to me is a part of my hardwiring.
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  So I will try things and I will paint and I do all these
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  artistic things. But I really believe it's not
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  just because I have that ability, because I think all of
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  us have abilities that are, you know, we start off fairly level,
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  but it's the ones who gravitate to something and buy into it
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  that. You know, makes them great and
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  the joy of it. So I cultivated that in the
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  identity. And that's the same thing that
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  you can do with spiritual optimism.
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  You have to cultivate it. You have to work at it.
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  You have to create it as part of your identity.
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  And once you do something like that, all of a sudden it changes
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  your life, it changes your world.
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  It gives you something completely different to own for
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  yourself. So how do you do it if you if
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  you don't feel optimistic? Well, the first part is you have
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  to start saying to yourself. Everyday I am feeling more and
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  more spiritually optimistic. I'm buying into this more and
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  more everyday. I'm cultivating my belief that I
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  am not disconnected. Like we talked about yesterday's
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  podcast about being disconnected, But today it's.
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  Realizing that you can cultivate it even when it's hard, even
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  when it seems that it's tough to do even when you don't feel like
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  it. I mean, that's where you know,
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  strength really comes in. Walking the steps when you don't
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  feel like it. Getting up and shooting the
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  podcast when you don't feel like it.
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  You know, doing the things. And believe me, there are days
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  when I don't feel like it. I feel like I just want to stay
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  wrapped in a blanket and I don't want to do it.
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  But you know what? I've got to come out here anyway
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  and open it up for the girls because I love them so much and
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  take care of them. So I'm doing it and I set myself
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  up to win with it. So cultivate this, work on it,
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  Set yourself up to win. Because I promise you it will
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  make a difference when you identify and own this as.
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  I am a spiritual optimist. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.