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Season 2 Episode 271 - Marcus Aurelius quote · 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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Good morning from the chicken coop my friends.
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So today we have a quote from Marcus Aurelius.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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It all lies within yourself in your way of thinking.
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Which isn't that amazing that something from so long ago is
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still so prevalent today. Why is it prevalent today?
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Because we consistently search outside of ourselves for things,
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happiness, connection. Whatever it might be, it's
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searching outside of yourself. And quite frankly, happiness
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comes from within as much as connection comes from within.
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I am more and more attuned, is the best word to say in this
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case to the fact that I am always connected to something
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else. And if I'm not connected to
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something else, then that's where I falter.
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I had a discussion with my. Chiropractor the other day about
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the fact that he said how how do you not get burnt out doing the
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number of sessions that you do. Because I know I can only do so
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many sessions and then I'm spent.
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And I said, well, the truth is, and I do believe this 1000% that
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you get what you focus on and I know I'm not doing it by myself
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because I truly believe that if. God in the universe gave me a
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skill set, gave me something that they wanted me to be able
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to do. They wouldn't give it to me.
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And then set me up for failure. And he started laughing and he
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said, wow, that's an interesting belief.
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And I said no, I mean, why would they do that?
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That doesn't make any sense, just silliness.
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So I believe that I have everything that I need and I can
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always. You know, tap into it.
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I can always pull from it. I can always add to it.
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I can always do those things without question.
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I don't have to worry about that.
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It's it's a done deal. I just have to remember that
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it's part of me. It's not separate from me, it's
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part of me. So that comes from within.
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That doesn't come from without. I don't plug in.
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It's not like when I charge my iPhone at night, like last night
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I'm watching my iPad. Sadly, the tat last episode of
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Ted Lasso Boohoo. But I'm watching it and it says
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10% remaining. So I'm like, OK, I gotta go plug
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that in. It's interesting because as a
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human, I'm never unplugged. I'm always plugged in.
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I just have to remember that that piece of it, that's how the
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charger works. So when you think about what
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Marcus Aurelius was so brilliant to point out so long ago.
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Which I believe though that they had so much more time to
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contemplate and they were so much more attuned to that part
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of life and humanity because they had so much more time to
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think about it and they didn't have the distractions that we
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have. But he's so attunedly put that,
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you know, it is within your way of thinking.
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I mean, there's no other question.
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It is what you think about that helps you or hurts you.
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It is what you focus on that helps you or hurts you.
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It is what your preponderance of thoughts are in the you know,
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101,440 minutes that you have in a day to do what?
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What are you giving those minutes to?
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What are you putting that into? Are you putting it into what you
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want, or are you putting it into?
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You know that part of yourself that you want to develop to be
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happy and happiness is a skill that you choose.
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So I've often said I I can have moments.
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I can have lots of moments where I have something that's thrown
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me off, whether I'm upset, angry, sad, whatever it might
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be. But at the core, underneath it
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all, I'm happy. So I think of myself as I as a I
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might be sitting on the bottom of the ocean and there's a
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hurricane on the top of the ocean, but underneath I'm happy.
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I'm just sitting there and I'm hanging out and I'm happy.
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And all those other things are just up there.
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But I'm still connected. I'm still happy.
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And when we start to focus our attention, dive in and tune into
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that belief and that piece, everything changes.
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And it can't not change. See, that's the funny part.
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It can't not change. It has to change because you're
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changing your energy and therefore everything around you
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is changing. So when you don't change your
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energy, nothing changes, but when you change your energy,
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everything changes. So it's a.
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It's a measure. Of being able to shift that
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part. It's a measure of being able to
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say, hey, I did I do better today than I did yesterday?
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Am I, am I tuning in better? Am I getting rid of those?
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The crackle in the in the wavelengths, Am I actually
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diving in? Am I during that dial, just
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little clicks at a time to make sure that I can get into it.
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And the answer is the more you do that, the better off you are.
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So. I'm going to challenge you to
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listen. Listen to the quote again.
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Very little. That's where it starts.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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It all lies within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Work on the way of thinking. Every day, every day, my
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friends, and something magic happens.
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All right. I hope you have a blessed day
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and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.