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Operating In 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, 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 for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Who write, as I open their doors for them to all pop out and say
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  good morning in here, they go out for their day.
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  So today we are talking about optimism and being optimistic,
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  not just partially like, oh yeah, I'm an optimistic person,
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  I love it. When people tell me that they
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  are optimistic because it gives me an understanding of the fact
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  that they really do want to be optimistic.
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  But the question is, are They really optimistic and I've asked
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  this of myself so many times. I've said, wait, am I being
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  optimistic or am I saying that? I'm optimistic, but I'm not
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  really being optimistic because there's always that factor of,
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  well, are you doing the act of it?
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  And being it? I living into it, or are you
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  just thinking about it or you just think to yourself like
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  you're optimistic? Like, you guys have heard me
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  talk about my mother before. Love my mother dearly and lost
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  her quite a few years ago now. But I often think about the fact
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  that if you asked my mother, who was a deeply religious person by
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  the way, because she would say to you, I'm very optimistic.
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  But the way she lived was not very optimistic.
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  And I used to struggle with that because I would say, well, how
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  can you say you're one thing and actually not do that thing?
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  You're saying, you're optimistic, but you're not being
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  optimistic in those moments. It's your, you're not doing
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  optimism and it was so. So it was such a dichotomy for
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  me to try to figure out in my life, but like, how can you say
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  that? And then not actually show up
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  that way, and I see it often in myself where it shows up and I
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  have to say, okay, I'm not necessarily doing what I'm
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  saying, I'm saying the right words, I'm saying what everybody
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  wants to hear but I'm not actually acting in Into it.
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  And I find that to be it's such a fascinating fact, about human
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  beings, because what we believe are about ourselves is not
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  always the reality in which we dwell and live in our own skin.
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  We are constant source of conundrums for ourselves because
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  we're all over the place or will say one thing and do another,
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  just like I described about the optimistic part of it.
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  So, Our world today requires that we make decisions and stick
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  with them so that we can rise above all the crap that's going
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  on out there. There we live in a world today
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  that thrives thrives, thrives on pain and negativity and the the
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  dark side because we have been taught over the last you know,
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  number of years and This is always cyclical.
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  It isn't just us. If you look back at history,
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  this this wave of Darkness happens throughout history.
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  There are times when it's very negative and then there's the
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  optimism in the time when it's negative, and then optimism, and
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  it's pretty consistent in history.
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  The way it shows up when you look back at it.
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  So we just happen to be in a time where our news is delivered
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  at lightning speed, things happen so fast and we can find
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  out about it in nanoseconds now. And That does not help when
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  these waves take over. And so right now, we are forced
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  by the powers at be around us, whether its media government,
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  whatever? It might be, they use fear and
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  they use that dark side of the world to motivate people.
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  By fear, their motivation is done by fear.
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  It's not motivated by optimism By the Light Side there.
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  It's happening out there but you have to seek it out.
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  It's like being on this podcast. This is one of those things
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  where it's like for that five-minute place where you can
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  go and find something different about the way you can think
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  about something and change it, you can change your thought
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  process. If you're feeling crappy, it is
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  possible. You just have to choose
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  something better to focus, your attention on, give your
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  attention to the things you want to grow.
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  You know this is a lesson from the garden that's just the best
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  thing is that when you find weeds you pull the weeds because
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  they don't belong. You don't want them to grow.
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  They take over. And they smother, they literally
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  smother the good plants, and the weeds will take over.
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  They'll take all the nutritional take.
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  All the water, they'll take everything.
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  So when they're smothering process, it's you've got to yank
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  them out. You've got to recognize that
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  they're there. And you tend the ones that you
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  want thoughts or the same way, we tend to the ones we want to
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  keep wheat, take away the ones. We don't we pull them out, we
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  yank them out, we rip them out. And Throw them away.
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  And this is why I want you guys to pay attention today because
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  today is obviously election day. And today is one of those days
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  where people will be in that mind frame of did my candidate.
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  When did this in this? It's and it's not about that,
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  it's not about that. This is all going to unfold one
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  way or another and tomorrow, you will wake up and you'll be just
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  as fine as you were today and it might not have gone the way you
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  wanted it to go. And it doesn't make a
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  difference. It's because you are in charge
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  of your own ecology, your own world, your own thoughts and
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  when you recognize that you pull back to your optimistic State
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  and say to yourself, I can choose to have an optimistic
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  frame of mind here in my world right now.
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  And that's what I'm going to do. So I want to remind you all of
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  that. I hope you have a very very,
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  very blessed day and no matter how any of this rolls out.
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  Just remember. We are all in this.
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  This together, we are all here to support each other and it's
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  okay. If everyone has different
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  beliefs, we don't all have to agree.
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  We never have all agreed. We're never all going to agree
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  and we just have to be okay with that fact.
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  So I hope you guys have an amazing day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.