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Happy Mother's Day! · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  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 everybody.
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  Happy Mother's Day as I say this from the chicken coop, watching
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  a couple of hens who desperately want to be mommies and I won't
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  let them sit on eggs because right now I don't have a spot
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  set up for them to do that. So I'm keeping them at Bay from
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  doing it. And they are very annoyed with
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  me and very loud about it. But in any event, Happy Mother's
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  Day, today is the day where you're supposed to be spoiled if
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  you're a mom. And if you are not a mom, you
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  are supposed to be spoiling someone.
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  And this is always tricky when I talk to people about this, even
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  on in my own world, I had to pay attention to what my mother
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  wanted and or she wouldn't tell me she wanted.
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  I had to look for things. I had to find ways to make her
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  feel important and special and all of those things.
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  And that was always hard for me. My mother was a Riddle for me in
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  many ways. She didn't let me know stuff.
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  She would keep things. I had to become very observant
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  in order to take care of her and be able to give her the things
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  that I knew she wanted, but she would never ask me for.
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  Like one year I got her a massage and she was really,
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  really, really upset with me for that because in giving her a
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  massage, it was not something she wanted.
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  It was something I would have wanted.
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  She just didn't want to be touched.
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  And so often like she she would hug and things like that, but
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  she don't want a stranger touching her.
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  And I thought, oh, this would be so nice.
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  She'll get to go. Her back is always sore.
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  Like she liked it when I rubbed her back, but she didn't like it
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  when someone else did it or especially like a full blown
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  massage. And it used to drive me crazy
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  that I'm like, mom, I can't I can't help your back by rubbing
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  it this way because it's not doing any good.
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  You need to have like a massage. But when I sent her for one, she
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  was miserable. She did not enjoy it.
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  And she said, please don't do that again.
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  And I never understood that. And then when I was a small
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  child, like probably like 10 or 11, she, I remember she had a
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  big birthday. I don't remember which one it
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  was, but it was like either A0 or A5.
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  And I was, you know, it committed to giving her a
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  birthday party. And we were camping and I had
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  set the whole thing up with my dad.
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  I planned it with my dad. I really wanted to do something
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  special for her. And lo and behold, as one, you
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  know, my mom would have it. She got really upset with me for
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  doing that. She was very unhappy with me.
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  She was like, how could you do that?
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  She wouldn't come outside. I don't like people.
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  And I had invited lots of the campers that we camped with to
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  come. And she was so upset with me and
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  she wouldn't come outside. And I was crying and my dad
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  didn't know what to do. And I, I was very angry about
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  that for a long time. I, I was one of the reasons I
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  had a struggle with my mother, because I couldn't understand
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  where she was coming from. I kept thinking of things as I
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  would want them, not as she would want them.
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  And then once I got older and I recognized that there was
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  something to this, there was a method to this thought process
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  around saying, hey, you know what?
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  I really have to pay attention to what someone else wants, not
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  just what I want out of some like really pay attention to
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  that. Because the reality is that
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  these are these are important things when you're dealing with
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  other people and thinking about it, you really have to look at
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  what other people are asking for or looking at as what's
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  important to them as opposed to what's just important to us.
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  And even today, as I say this, someone out there will hear this
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  and say, that's right, I didn't. They weren't listening to me.
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  They got me something that was either convenient or something
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  that was ideal for them but not ideal for me.
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  And it makes you feel crappy. And you know what?
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  It's OK if you felt crappy about it.
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  It's OK. Like, I I really want you to
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  know it. Yeah, I, I have the same
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  experience. People don't always know.
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  And you feel crappy. But our job is as a mom because
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  I am a mom. And I had a mom.
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  And not everybody has those exact same conditions, but I am
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  a mom and I had a mom. My job is to make sure that I am
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  making myself available to let them know exactly what they
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  could do if they wanted to do something or just tell them to
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  come up with something. They know what I like and then
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  be OK with that. Or I could convey exactly what I
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  would like. And sometimes it's OK to do
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  that. Just convey exactly what you
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  like. But understand this is a very
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  emotional holiday for people and they're putting a lot of weight
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  on it. They're thinking, wow, how is
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  somebody going to ignore acknowledge me and my efforts
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  and my work? So if you don't get acknowledged
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  the way you want to acknowledge yourself, like, and I know it
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  doesn't feel the same. I totally get it.
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  More than you could ever know. But guess what?
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  Do that for yourself and recognize that maybe I'm not
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  conveying the information correctly.
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  Maybe I'm waiting for other people to see it and they just
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  can't. Maybe there are other ways to go
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  about this, so it's time to take a peek and think about it and
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  really look at it and then know that they do appreciate you,
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  they do appreciate you, and they love you.
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  It might not be in the way you want, but they do.
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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.