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Season 3 - Episode 36 - Where does Joy live? · 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 mastermind set
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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, Let's
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  talk about where is Joy located? Somebody asked me that last
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  week. So where do you think Joy is
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  located? And I started laughing and I
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  said, that's an interesting question, Where is Joy located?
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  How do you find Joy? Because we were talking about
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  discovering Joy, making Joy, finding Joy.
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  And so she said, where is Joy located?
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  And it actually caused me to pause for a second because I was
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  like, wait a second, is it externally?
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  Are we out seeking it? And the answer is no.
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  It's internal. We know that, like, you know,
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  you, you find Joy inside yourself, but really, where is
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  it located inside of you so you can go get it?
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  It's kind of, it's kind of like finding something in the closet,
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  right? Like, you go and you look and
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  you're like, OK, I know I'm looking for this spice.
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  And I know you said it was in this closet, but where exactly
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  in this closet is it supposed to be?
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  So after some deep conversation with her, we came to the
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  conclusion it was more of a collaborative effort.
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  Let's just say in the fact that we believe that joy is found in
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  your thoughts, it's and your thoughts.
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  Then you know, have the emotions and the feelings and then that
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  produces joy. But it is first cultivated in
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  that thought. It's first cultivated in that
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  initial like, OK, it's here, it's in our thoughts.
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  It's, it's and. And here's where it gets tricky.
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  How can you separate thoughts or emotions?
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  It's very hard for human beings to do that because they're so
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  close, nanoseconds intertwined next to impossible to separate
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  it, next to impossible to separate them.
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  Sometimes we will refer to it as time slowed down and I had the
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  thought and then the emotion came up, but it usually that's
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  predicated by what emotion is driving you anyway.
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  So chicken and the egg, no pun intended, because I'm in the
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  coop, but you get the point. So joy is located in our
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  thoughts. So if joy is located in our
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  thoughts, that means we have a lot more control over it than we
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  think we do. So again, it comes back to the
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  mindful things of being joyous about the everyday, mundane
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  things. Finding joy in the things that
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  are around us all the time. Except we don't necessarily find
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  joy in that stuff. So take coming out to the
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  chicken coop. You've heard me mention this
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  before. There are some people who would
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  not find joy in taking care of chickens.
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  I, however, do. Some people would not find joy
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  in how noisy they are. I do.
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  I think it's so hysterical to me that they cackle the way they
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  do. And all this cackling that you
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  hear in the background right now is because out of the 8 egg
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  boxes they have to choose from, somebody wants the one that
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  someone else is sitting in. So therefore that means a big
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  thing. OK, I'm going to cackle at you
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  until you do something about it and it just makes me laugh every
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  time I hear it anyway. So point is, we're talking about
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  finding this joy. That is a point of joy for me.
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  It's not a point of annoyance. I make it.
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  I choose it to be about joy. I don't choose it to be about
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  something negative. I choose it to be about
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  something positive and say this is who they are and they're
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  getting to be the best version of themselves that they can be.
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  Because Lord knows, I don't think they could have gone many
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  places that would spoil them as much as I spoil them.
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  So I find joy that they're having the best chicken life
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  that they can. I find joy in the chores.
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  I find joy in the raking and the cleaning and the caring of them.
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  Because one, it's totally part of my certainty, girl.
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  It's their environment. So I can clean it, create it,
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  make it everything that I want. I've decided, oh, I want to put
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  roses along their fence. I can do that.
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  I find joy in those things, even though is it a lot to care for?
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  Sure. But I'm choosing to seek those
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  little things out. So you have to ask yourself, can
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  I go into my head? Can I go into my thoughts?
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  Can I go into my emotions and my feelings and set up neural
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  pathways for joy? And the answer is yes you can.
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  You can set up that track to happen.
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  You are in complete control of it though.
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  It's not going to happen by accident.
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  You actually have to work at it. You have to cultivate that and
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  set yourself up for it. So the question is this month of
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  February, setting that up for yourself, saying, okay, it's
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  right at the beginning of the month, supposed to be, you know,
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  Valentine's Day for those who celebrate that kind of thing.
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  And it's a month of love and it's, you know, the latter part
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  of the winter. So there's lots of things that
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  are starting to get done and ready to pop for spring, and
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  it's just a great time to start thinking and planning about
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  that. So what if you took these next
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  number of days that we have left in this month and say, OK, I'm
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  going to really work, really, really work on bringing that joy
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  out because it's in my thoughts, it's nowhere else.
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  It's in my head. And cultivate that joy.
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  By the end of this month you're going to have it.
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  So look for the small things, write them down, make a plan,
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  ask yourself what is the joy in this?
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  And if you can't answer that positively, then you say, OK,
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  what do I need to do to experience joy in this?
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  And And 9 out of 10 times that answer, my friends, is just make
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  the choice. Just say no.
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  I choose joy, 'cause you can find joy in anything.
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  We've all met that bus driver that's driving a bus, and he's
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  talking to everybody. And he's like, I just love
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  meeting people. So he's not driving the bus
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  because it's like the joy of the bus.
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  It's that he meets people. He found his joy.
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  So do the same thing, OK, my friends, I'll see you tomorrow.
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  I hope you have a blessed day. Bye.