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Season 4 - Episode 241 - A lesson from Leo Tolstoy · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happen to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop, and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the porch. A quote from Leo Tolstoy today.
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  Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better
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  person today. Wow.
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  That is a pretty specific thing he's asking for.
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  Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better
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  person today. So he's not saying think about
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  it. He's not saying contemplate it.
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  He's not saying, you know, you know, put it out there and just
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  don't do anything about it. He's saying do it today and I
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  love that because it's giving very specific action to take in
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  this moment today, not to wait, not to do anything different,
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  but just to say, OK, how am I going to do this today?
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  Now it's a very deep thought when you start getting into it
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  because most of us are just running our rackets.
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  We're just out there doing what we do.
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  We're we're working, we're taking care of our family.
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  We're doing laundry, we're making breakfast, we're
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  recording podcasts, we're looking for butterflies,
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  whatever it might be. We're saying, OK, I've got a
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  list, list of tasks to do. And those tasks are endless.
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  If you are anything like me, you look at your list and you you go
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  these, this just doesn't go away.
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  I had this conversation recently with my daughter and she said,
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  you know, the list of things to do doesn't ever get any shorter.
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  And I said, well, here's something that you can rely on.
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  The list stops when you're dead and you have to realize that
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  it's proof of being alive. So the first thing you have to
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  look at is say, you know what? That list of things to do is not
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  going anywhere anytime soon because it's proof I'm alive.
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  It's proof I have things that need my care.
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  It's proof that I have things that are important and to other
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  people that I do like, it's important today that when I
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  start coaching at 8:00, today is a late day for me to start.
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  I, I actually look at that and I go, oh, wow.
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  I, I, I feel like that's a blessing.
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  I look at that and I say, OK, when I start that someone's
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  looking forward to that conversation and each and every
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  hour thereafter that I'm doing it.
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  They're looking forward to their conversation and I'm looking
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  forward to that conversation and I'm I'm looking at it and I'm
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  saying, OK, how can I add value to them?
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  That's a big question that I ask myself every day because it
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  falls under this realm of being an increasingly better person,
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  learning something every day, asking yourself small things,
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  learning. Like yesterday I was able to
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  actually use cap cut, edit a video I had with it, and put it
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  up on YouTube Shorts by myself. If you go over to YouTube Shorts
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  and you go to mindset with Kim, you're going to see that there's
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  a short up there that is the title of it is, is this poop?
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  And you'll see why when you get there, but it's not always what
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  it's meant to be. But here's the thing.
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  Here's the thing that to me, makes me feel like I'm an
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  increasingly better person because I learned something new.
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  I learned how to do something and I felt very accomplished.
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  Now it took me way too long. I am not fast with it.
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  I'm not fast like I am with graphics.
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  But that's okay. I can become better with it the
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  more I work on it. And you know what?
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  I also made a couple of calls yesterday to people I hadn't
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  spoken to in a long time. I had a little gap in my
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  schedule. And I was like, you know what?
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  Let me go check on this person. Let me go check on this person.
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  And that just those little outreach, those little touches
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  make all the difference. Even if it's just a text, even
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  if it's just, hey, I'm thinking of you.
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  Those things add value to people and they make them feel like
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  they matter, which is part of being an increasingly better
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  person in my world. Now you have to decide what is
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  being an increasingly better person every day in your world.
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  Is it being better to yourself? I mean, for some of us, sure,
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  We, we don't take care of ourselves.
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  For some of us, we're better at that.
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  I know I'm very, I'm very good at being that way with myself in
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  gardening, like in the, in my world of nature, like do I take
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  the time to go and get a massage?
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  No, I rarely do that because I think of that like, oh, well,
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  you know, I could have, I could have been doing this or I could
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  have been doing that. It it, my brain just goes to
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  different places where it's stuff that I'm attracted to in
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  the garden. It's an obsession for me to be
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  out there and seeing things and looking at things and observing
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  things and doing things and creating things.
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  That's how I add my increasingly better person into this world
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  because I know the more I do that, the more flowers I have,
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  the more things I see, the more creatures I help.
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  It's all part of that cycle. But you have to find out what is
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  your version of that? How do you want to become an
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  increasingly better person? Is it just being more patient?
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  Is it just being kind? I mean, a few years ago, I said
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  every morning my dog had to take a pill.
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  And every morning he's, you know, he's got a hat.
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  He, I took him off the medication.
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  Now he was scratching constantly and I had to give him a pill
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  every day. So I made a decision that every
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  day I gave him the pill, I was going to kiss him on the
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  forehead and I was going to bless him that he didn't need
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  the pill anymore. And lo and behold, after a year
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  and a half, he doesn't need the pill anymore.
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  So I love that. And I, I just feel like, OK, I
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  was an increasingly better person with my patients.
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  So what are you going to do today that puts you in that
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  category of increasingly better person?
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.