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Season 4 - Episode 75 - The pursuit of happiness · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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some joy into the 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 very windy, windy chicken
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coop. Obviously you can hear the girls
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in the background. We are in the middle of waiting
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for a storm to come through. Maybe we are under a tornado
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watch, but hopefully it's going if the risk is low.
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And we are praying for all our friends that have been hit down
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in the South over the last couple days because it has been
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no fun. Let's just say that has been no
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fun for anybody. OK, so today we are talking
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about the pursuit of happiness. Now, here's what's crazy in the
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United States in the Declaration of Independence, it actually
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promises you, it says that. I mean, are, are the people who
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wrote the, the, the Declaration of Independence, the founding
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fathers of this country actually saw fit to say that we had the
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right for the pursuit of happiness, which when you think
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about that is crazy because they're telling us all right,
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you have the right to pursue happiness.
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Now, they do not say at any point in time that we have the
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guarantee that we would find it. However, we have the right to
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pursue it. And that in itself sets you up
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to say, OK, this is something. And when you misconstrue
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definitions it, it's like, OK, I have this inalienable right to
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pursue happiness, but it does not promise that I will find it,
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that I will be happy doing it. It doesn't say any of that.
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And it often confuses people because we think it is something
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that we have the right to be. We have the right to be happy
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and an an automatic like I should just be happy.
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And here's the thing, no, we are never going to be happy all of
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the time. We are never going to be happy
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all of the time because we're human beings and we have too
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many, you know, complex emotions, too many parts of our
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mind, our our soul, our heart, our brain all work together.
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And in this symbiotic relationship of the complexities
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of how we think and feel and and process the world, to be able to
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say that we are going to be happy all the time is not
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accurate. Now, if someone says to you, are
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you generally a happy person? I can tell you that in the core
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of my gut, even when the worst things are going on, I feel at
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peace. I feel like I'm always at peace
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as a happy person. Now, I use the word happy, but
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it's really more about being peaceful.
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I have certainty in my skills, in what's around me and the
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people in my life. I have that.
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So that leads to happiness. That leads to me feeling happy
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because happy is not a possession.
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You have to remember that. It's not something you can go
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buy at CVS and say, OK, I came home, I've got a bag of happy
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today and I'm going to be all good.
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Doesn't work that way and Lord knows if it did, I would.
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I would imagine a lot of people would be having ACVS care card
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and going out there and buying it.
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However, happiness really is not anything of that.
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It's to me, it's like the quality of your level of of
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thought, the quality of your mindset, the quality of how
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quickly you can pivot, the quality of how you view
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situations as interesting instead of overwhelming right
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away. There are a lot of complexities
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to it and most of us have not thought them through.
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I mean it, it is a constant process to to cultivate
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happiness. That's why I love using the
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metaphor of the farm. Because right now, as I stand in
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the chicken coop area recording this for you, I'm overlooking
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the work we've done the over the weekend and we have done so much
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work. Posts have gone in for the
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garden. Everything has been electrified
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again to try to keep out the nemesis of the deer and and
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anything else that wants to get in there and eat.
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The flower garden has an A completely new fence around it.
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I still have to put fabrics down, pin things down.
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It's very windy. So it's going to be very hard to
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do that today. If in fact we, you know, could
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even be out here. I guess the rain is coming
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shortly. But in any event, this is about,
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when I look at it, am I happy? Yes.
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I'm very happy with the progress we've made so far.
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And two things can be two at the same time.
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I'm frustrated that we're not further along and I can look at
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it and I can be honest about that, but that doesn't take away
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from the feeling way down inside that I'm still at peace with
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where we are because that's where we are and that's what we
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have to deal with. And I'm not going to allow it to
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disrupt everything. I'm going to cultivate it just
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like I cultivate a garden, just like I cultivate flowers, just
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like I cultivate everything in my life.
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I'm going to cultivate happiness.
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I'm going to constantly be working on the garden of my
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mind. So the trick is remembering it's
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a pursuit of happiness, and it is recognizing that you can find
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happiness along the way and be aware that all those other
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emotions are there to help you stay on track, knowing if you're
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frustrated, you can fix it or any other things.
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All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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will see you all tomorrow. Bye.