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Season 4 - Episode 228 - We all need encouragement · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here every day.
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  To record a. Podcast to teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the.
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  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 from the chicken coop.
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  We're talking about encouragement today and how
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  encouragement is so important to those around us.
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  And let me be very clear, as someone who coaches 50 hours a
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  week, I'm telling you right now, everyone needs encouragement.
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  Everyone needs to feel that they're doing something that is
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  worthy of encouragement. And we sit there and we say to
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  ourselves, well, maybe they're not.
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  Maybe they're not doing something that's worthy of
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  encouragement. Maybe they're doing everything
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  the wrong way, but what I'm talking about is the kind of
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  encouragement that can come out in other ways as well, not just
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  the things that they do, but The Who they are as a person.
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  So I can tell you for sure when my son, before he got into this
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  groove that he's in now, which is amazing and wonderful and,
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  you know, working so hard and plumbing and going to school and
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  doing all this stuff, and he's only 16.
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  Before that, he was having a hard time trying to figure out
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  himself and he needed encouragement.
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  And the things that I would say to him is it's OK that you don't
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  know what you want to do right now.
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  It's OK that you feel bored with school.
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  It's OK that all that's happening because you're a good
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  person. You know in your heart of hearts
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  who you are as a person. And I would encourage him on his
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  character and say you have this, you're a hard worker.
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  You're always willing to jump up and help.
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  You're you've always got great thoughts.
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  You just because you don't like what they're telling you, you
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  have to learn and you feel it's a waste most of time, does not
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  mean that you are a bad person, does not mean that you are
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  broken. And once I got really into
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  understanding his psychology of things and I recognized, OK, he
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  is not somebody that is in that that same level of, hey, you go
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  to you go to all the way through high school, you go to college
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  and you get a job and you sit down.
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  He's not that guy. He's just not that guy.
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  He's way too mechanically inclined.
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  So I encouraged him and his mechanical stuff, which did lead
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  to a whole year of him, you know, trying to get out of the
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  house because we homeschool to go build a motorcycle.
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  But that led him to understanding his entire mindset
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  and skill set and physical skill set around being able to be hand
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  like very mechanical, very mechanical, very handy.
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  He can look at something and figure it out, which led to him
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  saying I want to go into the trades, which led to him saying
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  I really want to do plumbing. And he is so happy at this point
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  in time. It's it's crazy.
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  We went to visit his sister, my daughter the other day and we're
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  in her house and he's, he had just come from work and he had
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  his bag of, of tools and stuff with him.
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  And mind you, he's apprenticing, but he's been taught so much by
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  these wonderful men in his life so quickly.
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  And he said to her, I want me to do a maintenance check on your
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  house. And she just started laughing
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  and she's like, sure, what does that mean?
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  And he said, well, I'm going to go through all the sinks and I'm
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  going to go through all the traps and I'm going to make sure
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  all the screens are clean. And he spent, like, 45 minutes
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  going through and pulling out all the hair in the drains and
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  fixing them. And she's like, oh, my God, look
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  at him. And she's like, Lucas, this is
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  amazing. The sink hasn't worked well in
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  so long. And he's like, well, that's what
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  I do. And he was so proud.
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  And he was so beaming. And she's like, I love this.
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  Will you come do this often for me?
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  And he's like, yeah, of course. That level of encouragement is
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  so important to people. And it doesn't matter if it's,
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  you know, a little tiny bit or a big wave of it.
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  We all need it. We all need to hear somebody say
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  to us, hey, that's awesome, or hey, I love something about you.
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  And if you are not getting that in your life from the people
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  around you, then you have to give it to yourself.
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  You have to say, oh, high 5 to me, oh Gold Star for me.
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  You have to be able to push yourself and understand where
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  your greatness is because not everybody's capable of giving it
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  to us. They're just not capable of
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  giving it to us for one reason or another.
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  They're not always capable of giving it to us.
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  And that leaves us in a place of a deficit and we start to feel
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  down about things. And of course, we have to be
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  responsible for ourselves. So that's why it's important to
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  encourage yourself, encourage others.
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  If you're listening to this, do that favor for yourself because
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  receiving is really important, but giving is important too.
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  And when you give to somebody and you give that encouragement,
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  God, it just makes you feel like you're on fire and you're
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  spreading your magic wherever you go.
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  So I encourage you all today. If you listen to this, then I'm
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  encouraging you all to by saying great job for sticking to this,
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  great job for joining us. Great job for being out here
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  with me and the girls while clearly Delilah is letting us
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  all know she's about to go lay an egg.
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  That's what she's bragging about.
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  And she has no problem bragging. So in any event, brag to
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  yourself about something. Encourage yourself and encourage
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  somebody else and make them feel like 1,000,000 bucks because it
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  changes life. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.