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Season 2 - Episode 287 - Gratitude and a thankful heart · 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 are talking about a thankful heart.
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  We're talking about that because obviously as we enter into the
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  fall, we obviously go into these places.
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  Apparently he agrees with me on this this morning and they are
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  thankful right now that I just opened up the garden to them for
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  them to run in and go and adventure in take up everything
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  that's left in there. And they are over there all
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  enjoying it. I was moseying on that way as I
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  was talking to you is as soon as I opened their doors they were
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  gone. Like lighting to get over to
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  that garden. I guess there must be a lot of
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  bugs in there in the morning. Anyway, the thankful heart, OK?
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  This time of the year is a really great, great time of the
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  year to be able to think about. What are you grateful for?
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  What has happened this past year?
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  That you can be grateful for, what is happening?
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  That you can be grateful for? What's an active thing happening
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  that you can find yourself grateful for and stop and pause
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  now. We all talk about this gratitude
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  practice. It's everywhere.
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  Everyone wants to talk about the gratitude practice and saying,
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  oh, you got to be grateful, you got to be grateful.
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  And I, I myself talk about it all the time, because I do
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  believe that being in that state is incredibly important.
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  Nothing happens without gratitude.
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  If you're not grateful, you will not move forward.
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  I mean, it will be. It will be so slow and arduous,
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  you will be miserable with it. But the more you find yourself
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  in a state of gratitude, the more that the universe and God
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  seem to. Flood your way, if you will.
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  And for me, it's an energy. You know, I've said this before,
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  everything is an energy. So the more you stay in the
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  energy, the more you attract the like energy.
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  And it's very simple. It's not like it's a punishment.
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  If you don't say thank you, you're not going to get
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  anything. It's just that you're attracting
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  it because like attracts like. So when you are in deep
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  gratitude, you attract more of the things that you are deeply
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  grateful for. And authentic gratitude is hard.
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  Let me be very clear about this I Authentic gratitude is hard
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  because it's very easy to say thank you, but it's not very
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  easy to be authentically in that state.
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  We'll just say it because we've learned to say thank you.
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  But the question is checking in with yourself behind the scenes
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  and saying, am I being authentically grateful?
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  Am I really in that place of gratitude, even if it's just for
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  a moment? Am I actually really there or am
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  I just going? Thanks because.
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  Your mother used to do what my mother did and poke you in the
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  back of the head if you didn't say thanks.
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  It's really about setting up a practice that feels genuine.
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  So a lot of people have a gratitude practice where every
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  morning they'll write down things that they're grateful
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  for. But what I have discovered over
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  the years of doing this work and coaching.
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  It's it's not a genuine gratitude.
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  Often what they do is they get into a headspace of I got to
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  figure out something I'm grateful for today.
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  But it's not like they really pause and think about it, or
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  they're grateful. It becomes more like a rote
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  activity where you're just, you know, going through the motions,
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  ticking the box, get it done, move on, let me write my
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  gratitudes, let me read some of the Bible and then let me
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  jumping in my coffee. So.
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  I just had a client say that to me last week and I was like,
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  well, did you actually like take it in?
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  Because, you know, sometimes when you read something, you
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  don't take it in, you read it, but then you have to back out
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  and say, wait, what was that concept?
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  Like something will catch your eye, but not enough that it it's
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  like you got the whole thing you have to back up.
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  And that happens to all of us. It happens to me.
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  I mean, I have tricks around that with myself that to try to
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  stop that, especially if I'm reading or listening, but.
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  This gratitude. When I try really, really,
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  really hard not to get into a rote state with gratitude
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  because it's so important to me, I I stop and I force myself to
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  pause. And you've heard if you're a
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  regular listener, you know I use my camera on my phone for this.
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  Because I will be walking, I will be talking to clients and I
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  will see something. And I've trained my brain to be
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  grateful for things that I see or that I hear.
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  And so that I will be like if I'm on with a client and they
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  say something and I know I'm that's going to help them, I go,
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  I'm so grateful for that. And then boom, I've got it and I
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  really mean it in that moment. Or I take a picture of
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  something. I take lots of pictures to show
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  you guys out here how you use your camera to be able to make
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  yourself present in the moment like you know when all of a
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  sudden. Heat drops and the flowers start
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  to come back because the heat was too intense.
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  It was just too much for them. But then boom, they're back.
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  So finding your path to gratitude is all about your
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  personal choice. Some people find it just by
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  pausing and sitting and meditating.
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  Some people find it by writing. But just allow yourself to be
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  genuine and keep checking in and say am I genuinely grateful for
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  this? And my can I genuinely pause and
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  be like, wow, OK, I can be grateful for this.
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  Because if you can, the world changes.
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  All right, my friends. I hope you have a blessed day.
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  And I'm grateful for all of you. And I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.