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Season 3 - Episode 307 - A Mark Twain 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 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 chicken coop.
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  So Mark Twain is known for saying the best way to cheer
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  yourself up is to cheer someone else up.
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  And I got to tell you how much I love that saying because how
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  much do you enjoy giving somebody something else and
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  watching their joy And maybe they don't always have joy.
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  Recently I just had someone who did this and he basically took
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  flowers to someone and not not in a romantic way, just to be
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  kind and brighten this persons life up.
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  And there was not the response that he thought he was going to
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  get. And it was interesting because
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  we talked about how, you know, if you want to cheer yourself
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  up, cheer someone else up. He went and did it.
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  And he said it kind of made me feel very different.
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  Like I I wasn't sad, but I was just like, wow, I questioned
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  myself. And this is what prompted this
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  today because we know I've, you've heard me say many times
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  before, we do things and we all have expectations behind the
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  scenes, whether we're honest with it or not.
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  We all know we're doing things to get something out of it.
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  And it's OK to expect someone to be grateful.
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  It's OK to have that little bit of like, oh, I hope they're
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  happy. And then when they're not,
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  you're sad. It it, it's OK.
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  But the point of this is it doesn't change the rule.
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  And we still know that if you really want to feel great, you
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  go out and you do something great.
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  Now, again, this is part of my whole thing with the chicken
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  coop. I come out here because I watch
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  how excited they get when I give them different types of treats.
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  And they get so excited in the morning when I'm bringing stuff
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  out and they're just like, oh, this is you can see them run for
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  it this morning. They're having raspberries and
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  they're having oatmeal and shredded zucchini and bananas
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  and some leftover pasta. And they are just more than
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  excited about that. And while I can't hear them say
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  they're grateful, I see how excited they get when they have
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  a piece of pasta and they run with it.
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  It's very funny. And they're excited and I know
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  it. And I feel that that's I
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  translate that into myself as gratitude.
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  But now let's go back to this situation where this person had
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  this happen and then there was disappointment.
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  And he felt like, well, geez, I mean, I guess maybe I shouldn't
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  have done it. And I was like, no, did you get
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  something out of going and doing the act of kindness?
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  Like, what did it bring to you? And he said, well, I was happy
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  to like, you know, extend something and let her know that
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  I appreciate her. And I was like, exactly.
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  And whether she took it the way you wanted her to or not is you
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  weren't making any making her uncomfortable.
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  Right? And he was like, no, she wasn't
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  uncomfortable. It was almost like she couldn't
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  accept somebody acknowledging her.
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  And I was like, exactly. So it's something about the
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  other person. It's something about where they
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  are. Maybe they don't feel that
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  they're worthy, but that should not impede on you doing a kind
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  act and let that sit with them. Because maybe that little tidbit
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  of information, maybe that crumb of you doing something
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  incredibly kind will shift and all of a sudden that person will
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  now be like, OK, maybe I am. And maybe they will bring up the
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  topic of conversation afterwards.
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  And then you'll have an opportunity to explain to them
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  how much you appreciate them. And that's why you did what you
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  did. So it's it's a opportunity to
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  open conversation. It's an opportunity to see
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  something different. It's all about opportunities,
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  all about the what ifs in this case, what it, what can it, what
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  can it change? How can I go ahead and say, all
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  right, I'm opening up my heart and letting people know how much
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  I appreciate them. You know, one of the things that
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  I do is bring the eggs. I don't sell the eggs that come
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  from the coop. Obviously with this many
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  chickens, I've got a lot of eggs right now.
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  You'd be surprised, though. It's not as much as you think
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  because I've got so many. My older girls are molting and
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  they look like homeless chickens that have been rapidly abused.
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  They're missing feathers. They just look terrible.
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  But it's just part of the natural process of feathers are
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  not as good over a period of time.
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  So they drop off and they get better feathers again for
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  insulation and and waterproofing.
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  So it's, it's fabulous. So here we go there.
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  They look a certain way and they show up a certain way.
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  And I have all these eggs that I get from them.
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  I take all those eggs and I give them away and I've gone to the
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  fire department to drop them off multiple times.
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  And sometimes I have somebody that's super friendly.
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  Sometimes I have a bunch of guys that come out and talk to me
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  about it. And then sometimes I go and
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  there's only one guy and he's not happy or grateful, doesn't
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  appear to be grateful at all. And I don't care because I'm not
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  doing it for that. I'm doing it for everybody else.
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  And in my mind it comes back to I know I'm providing them with
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  nourishment and I'm providing them with really healthy eggs.
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  And I appreciate that they risk their lives every day and I have
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  no problem dropping them off those eggs.
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  So it's the right reason. So remember that when you do it,
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  it's for the right reason. But do it anyway.
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  Do it anyway, because somebody out there will be changed by
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  your ACT. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.