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Cultivate joy in the small things! · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the to Chicken Coop.
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  It's cold and chilly down here and just feels like a nice fall
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  morning. The girls are all having their
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  breakfast of coconut rice, and shredded zucchini, and sunflower
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  seeds, to make sure they have really great food in their belly
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  for the day, as well, as whatever else is in there, feed
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  stations and all of that. But okay, so why am I bringing
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  all this up? Because this One of the little
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  things that brings me so much joy.
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  And this week, we are going to be talking all about Joy because
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  we're going into Thanksgiving, gratitude Joy, all those good
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  things and I want you to realize, it doesn't have to be
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  complex no matter how intense things can be.
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  No matter how crazy things can be, we can find little things to
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  be grateful for. So today, I am out here and even
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  though my fingers are cold and I know it's not as cold as well.
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  Some of you are, I know, but I'm a big baby and I have to have my
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  big clothes on jackets and hats and all that stuff.
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  I find joy in watching them get. So excited about sitting there
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  and having coconut rice. They go crazy for it and their
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  Simplicity in how they see things their Simplicity in how
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  they just carry on. You know, they just go right
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  about their business and how excited they get about the
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  littlest things, we can learn a lot.
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  I think we missed the mark so many times in overlooking.
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  The small things to find joy in and since we're talking about
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  specifically finding Joy today, the question I have for you is
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  where do you find your joy? And a lot of times when I ask
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  that question people pause and they go, I don't know.
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  And, and really, it's okay to not know you find it, you just
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  don't recognize it and you don't call it out because Not part of
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  what we are taught to do. I mean, when's the last time you
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  can remember being in school and someone saying to you, hey, a
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  primary function of your day today is finding Joy.
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  I only wish we had classes like this so for a little children to
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  learn. So that on the way up every day,
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  you're looking for your joy. Where did I find it today?
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  Where are the places that it showed up?
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  Can I just reside in it? And for me, creating all of this
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  out here is me. Consistently finding my joy
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  because like, while they're having their Rice and you know,
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  doing their thing, I'm watching all the birds fly in and out.
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  I have bird feeders set up all over the place and that's
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  because my mother absolutely loved the birds.
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  And when I was a kid, I saw how many birds she would have fly in
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  and out. And I guess I didn't really
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  think much of it, you know, we don't, we just don't think of
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  things when you're a kid but then I moved here and I started
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  looking at how many birds and different types of wildlife
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  there was, and I fell in love with Photographing it.
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  And then I decided. Okay, I'm going to set up bird,
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  feeders and birdhouses and all this.
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  And I have a preponderance of bluebirds that they absolutely
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  love it here on the farm. So I think last year we had six
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  six sets of mating bluebirds and they all fly in and out and I
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  had tons of Cardinals and I had painted buntings and you name
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  it. We've had so many different
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  cool, birds fly in and out of here and They bring me sheer Joy
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  when I see them like, when I see them going into the little
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  houses, which I can watch right now, they're, you know,
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  constantly moving in and out. They don't leave for the winter.
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  They stay. So they're always moving in and
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  out doing things. They fly into the deck that I
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  have with freeze-dried mealworms for them.
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  For those of you who like birds, you want to see bluebirds and
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  you live in a Zone where you can find them, they'll of
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  freeze-dried mealworms and a unsolicited plug.
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  I get them all. I don't buy them from the
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  stores. Because they're so expensive, I
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  go to Exotic nutrition.com and on exotic nutrition.com, you can
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  buy big, giant bags of meal worms that are freeze-dried, of
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  course not live and they are extremely cheaper compared to
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  where you can get them when you go and buy them in stores.
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  So, not that I'm making money on that.
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  I just want everybody to know that.
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  I don't make any money on anything.
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  I suggest. However, it's one of the places.
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  I go one of my favorite things and Having having the birds show
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  up brings me joy. I love seeing all the bluebirds
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  here, I love when they bring their babies back.
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  Now, these might not be ways that you find Joy, but I'm
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  suggesting that you go find your way that you find Joy, where all
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  the little tiny things that show up for you.
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  Where all the little tiny pieces that bring you the joy and have
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  it for you in your life, you seek them out, you cultivate
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  them. Yes.
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  She's telling you the same thing.
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  Find it go. Find your joy as she runs
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  around. Round here, picking up all her
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  coconut rice, and watching them all at whatever it might be,
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  whatever it is that you are doing.
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  Watch them develop into something.
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  It can be something so simple, it can be something like I'll
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  give you. Another example of mine, just
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  so, you know, I grew up up north and Dunkin Donuts was the thing
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  that I did with my dad all the time.
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  And I love having a Dunkin Donuts coffee with my dad.
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  So whenever I have a chance to go to Dunkin Donuts because I
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  don't have my dad with me anymore and I get a coffee in
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  that Dunkin Donuts cup. It sounds crazy but it brings me
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  joy because it makes me feel like I'm right back with him
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  because he would always bring coffee and we would always go to
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  coffee and it was just the thing that we had.
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  So I suggest you find those little things and fuse that Joy
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  back into your life because it is the best.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.