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Season 3 - Episode 354 - Is it all about purpose? · 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 mastermindset
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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 garage.
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  It's very early, dark and a little rainy, so I am in the
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  garage now. Let's do a little bit of a talk
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  about purpose because that comes up a lot this time of the year
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  when people are finishing up and looking for the new goals and
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  everything. Sometimes this conversation gets
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  really in depth and it goes into purpose, like what is my
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  purpose? What am I here for?
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  That is a very, very big question, my friends.
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  And it's a question that's hard to answer all in one thing.
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  Now, there are some people who are here and they appear, let
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  me, I'm air quoting this. They appear to know their
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  purpose 100% straightforward. Like Mother Teresa, no denying
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  her purpose on this planet was to go out and give love and
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  provide people with hope and to care for others.
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  She did that in a multitude of ways.
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  OK, Now this is the part that I really want to emphasize.
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  She did it in a multitude of ways.
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  And being an adult, sometimes it's difficult for us to say,
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  OK, am I on purpose? Because we want more than one
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  things. We have conflicting outcomes, we
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  have conflicting ideas. And sometimes it just seems to
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  nothing seems to align as it should on paper.
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  And guess what? That is OK because as you're,
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  when you're a little person and you, you have thoughts of what
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  you want to do that excite you. Those threads will stay with you
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  in some way, shape or form if you allow them to be remembered,
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  if you allow them to be accessible again, like I can
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  tell you right from the beginning, and I've said this on
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  this podcast before, I always wanted to be a teacher.
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  I, that was just my desire was to be a teacher.
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  I would go to school all day. I would come home, I would sit
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  down, do my homework and then go play school.
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  And it was just, it's hard for my parents to understand my
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  father, especially, as I've said before, because he did not want
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  me to be a civil servant under no circumstances.
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  So I had to deal with those things, but I was little and I
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  didn't understand it. So I but I'm ultimately
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  responsible for my own life and my own beliefs.
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  And so I went about it and figured out a way to do all of
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  this. And part of this is
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  understanding that happiness is a part of life.
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  But happiness is such a hard word.
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  And we've turned it into such a commercial word.
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  It's hard for us to understand it.
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  So it's like, find your purpose and you'll be happy.
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  I'm sorry, it's not that simple. It's it's finding your purpose
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  over and over and over again as your purpose morphs and becomes
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  more, because that's what human beings are supposed to be doing,
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  being creative, being imaginative, morphing, growing.
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  If you just got to your one destination, you're going to
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  want to improve, you're going to want to go further, you're going
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  to want to do more. And that's what it's supposed to
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  be. That's how it's supposed to
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  work. So it is your life's purpose,
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  the key to to peace and joy and happiness and all of that good
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  stuff. It's yes, and it's a yes and
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  moment, but it's also about understanding that morphs, that
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  moves as you grow and you learn more.
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  And so accepting that fact is really important.
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  And you are responsible to constantly be checking back to
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  that thread, that piece, that one little desire that shows up
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  over and over again because we have to discover, we have to
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  dedicate ourselves to that creativity.
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  I'm going through this right now because as part of my happiness,
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  part of my key, I've said all along is being able to teach.
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  And I do that through a multitude of ways, through
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  words, through books, through photos, through farming.
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  I, I'd find all these fascinating little ways that
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  excite me because they're part of that thread and I can do it.
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  And now I'm expanding it again this year.
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  OK, what else is there that's exciting me?
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  Where are these little threads that I can pull on to pull
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  myself into it and say, yes, this seems like something that
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  is really part of that process. And for me, it's all about
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  examining yourself over and over again.
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  I mean, some people seem to figure it out right away very
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  quickly. And some people take a long time
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  and they finally reach that point where they clicks and
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  boom, you know, I, I feel it. But I have a very strong belief,
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  having worked with so many people over the years, that when
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  you go back and you start just asking simple questions like
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  what did I love to do when I was a kid?
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  What are the things that I just loved?
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  What lights me up then or what light lit me up then and what
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  lights me up now? And then you can connect those
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  that that wire, you can see it and say, ah, OK, there is the
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  threat of something there. And I will tell you, it
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  typically comes down to in some way, shape or form, whatever
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  you're doing, it does touch other people.
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  Now, that may not be right in front of your face, but it's
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  pretty much always true. So figure out how am I really
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  helping other people? And that might be the answer, my
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  friends that you dig for. OK, my friends, I will see you
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  all tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.