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Season 2 - Episode 246 - Are you interested in your own life? · 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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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  From the chicken coop. So apparently Dottie has a lot
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  to say this morning. Dottie, you want to You want to
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  do the podcast this morning? Oh, you've got a lot to say,
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  darling, don't you? She sure does.
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  Well, this is. She's cracking me up.
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  This I this morning we are going to be talking about does your
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  own life interest you? So isn't that a crazy question
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  to ask? Like of course I must be
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  interested about my own life. But really, I want you to stop
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  and think about this. Because if that was true and you
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  were truly living like your life, interested to you, and you
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  were focused on your life, then. You wouldn't be talking about
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  other people. You wouldn't be looking outside
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  yourself for constant entertainment, i.e. being on
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  your phone all the time or watching television or movies or
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  whatever, and just being completely distance.
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  If your own life truly interested you, you would be
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  focused on just that. You would be working towards
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  bettering your own life, bettering yourself as a person
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  and. Pushing through with that, you
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  would not be caught up in all this other stuff.
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  So when we have these these situations where we ask a really
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  interesting, difficult question and we start to wonder about the
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  answers that we're coming up with, we have to say to
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  ourselves, okay, I got to take a genuine look at this.
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  I've got to discern this and see if this is really true for me.
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  Am I interested in myself and in my own life and in what I'm
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  doing? And for me I mean.
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  Learning is a is a very big part of it.
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  I'm always working towards learning new stuff, it's just
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  the nature of who I am and now I'm not going to change that.
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  Right now I'm in the middle of taking a painting class on how
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  to use different elements to work with watercolors.
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  Meaning, sometimes you might use salt, you might use alcohol, you
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  might use dish soap, all these cool little things that give you
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  different effects and. For me, that's just an important
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  aspect. I don't like going around
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  talking about other people. I find that it's just a
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  distraction. I don't like focusing on just
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  being obsessed with my phone. I social media.
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  If anybody follows me on social media, they know I'm terrible at
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  keeping up my business page because I just, you know, it
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  just doesn't interest me. I know I need to do it, but it
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  doesn't interest me. My personal page, well, I use
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  that to connect with friends who I have all over the world from
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  my years of traveling and working all over the world.
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  So I'm fortunate that I have people everywhere that I love
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  and appreciate and that's a little bit how we keep stay
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  together. But even there I may be on it
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  for like 3 minutes and then I'm done.
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  So. Being interested in your own
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  life means you work on you, you focus on you, you cultivate the
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  things that interest you. You don't go out and start
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  focusing on everything else, talking about other people,
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  talking about other stuff, giving more interest into things
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  that are outside of your control.
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  And part of the reason for that is if you're doing that.
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  You're not growing. It's that simple, hands down.
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  If you're participating in those things, you are not growing.
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  You are not cultivating a level of yourself that you can sit
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  there and be proud of. Right, Dottie?
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  She's given all the all this advice here today.
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  You got to focus on you. You got to be better at you.
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  And you don't worry about other people.
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  You don't think about those other things.
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  You focus on what you need to for yourself.
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  And when you start to see that and you start to actually tell
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  yourself, I'm going to take interest in this.
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  I'm going to take interest in myself, and I'm going to take
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  interest in my life, and I'm going to take interest in these
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  things, then boom, magic happens.
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  Boom. Things change.
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  So I'm gonna challenge you for, you know, this upcoming month,
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  since we are in a new month, to really think about the level of
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  interest you show in your own life, in your own way, and put
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  together a plan for cultivating that interest and show and
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  demonstrate how just how interested you are and how much
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  you appreciate the stuff that you bring to the table and.
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  Don't worry about what everybody else is doing.
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  Take interest in yourself. And this does not mean that you
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  don't ask other people how they're doing or, you know,
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  cultivate your friendships. I'm not talking about that.
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  I'm talking about the destructive things, about
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  looking outside yourself for distractions, looking outside
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  yourself for gossip, that kind of stuff.
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  That's what the poison is, not taking genuine interest in your
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  friends. That's a gift.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Take immense interest in yourself and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.