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Season 4 - Episode 238 - Counteract the bad with the good! · 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 happened 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
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  to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. So I want to take a moment and
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  talk. About all.
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  This sadness. I'm not going to speak of
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  specific things, but I think everyone knows what I'm talking
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  about. That's happened this week
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  because I've heard. Feelings on it over and over and
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  over. And I've experienced feelings.
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  Myself over. And over and over.
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  And when sad things happen, it pulls all our attention to the
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  sad thing. And as human beings, we need to
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  express them. We need to grieve about it.
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  We need to talk about it. We need to be able to say this
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  isn't right, this is sad, this is horrible.
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  And we need to express those feelings.
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  And that is absolutely, perfectly normal to be
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  experiencing all the emotions included, including anger and
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  resentment and fear and all of those things.
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  It is definitely part of the dynamic that happens in our
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  world when things that are sad happen and you can't make
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  yourself wrong for it. You just have to go through the
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  emotions and allow it to happen. But for me, over time, I've
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  learned that there are a few things that I can do to help
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  myself. And one of the biggest things
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  that I, I personally partake in is when something happens that's
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  horrible and really bad, I want to go.
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  Do something nice for someone else.
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  I want to go out there and pour good into the world instead of
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  the bad, because the bad is always an option, but the good
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  is always an option too. And the more we pay attention to
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  the fact that we can go add the good, the more fortunate we are
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  to recognize that we have the option to add the good.
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  We have the option to do something.
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  So today I am taking lots of eggs and I am giving them away
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  to people, the fire departments getting some, some, my
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  chiropractor is getting some. My friend's daughter is coming
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  to pick up some. And when that happens, when I
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  give those away, it makes me feel elated that people are
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  appreciating what my girls do and what I do and that they get
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  so excited with a dozen eggs. They just get so excited.
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  And the guys at the fire department are just always so
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  grateful that they get eggs and whatever else I give to them.
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  Because lots of times I'll bake for them.
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  If I'm in a really like either a very high mood excited or I'm in
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  a very like there's sadness out there.
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  I like to bake. I like to do things I like to
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  can and I like to make jellies and things like that, do
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  something creative in my head. And the moment I do that, I know
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  I'm going to give some away and I know I'm going to feel better
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  about it. So I, I have discovered that my
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  healing process includes that. It doesn't negate the fact that
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  I need to mourn. It doesn't negate the fact that
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  I'm sad. But what it does do is it gives
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  me a feeling of power instead of just sitting in the sadness and
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  feeling like that I'm helpless and I can't do anything about
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  it. There is something you can do.
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  There is something that you can do and it's go add good to the
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  world because it's always a balance.
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  It's always been here, all of these horrible things ever since
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  man has been on this planet have happened.
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  It it it if you you know, it just didn't happen at the speed
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  of light like it does now with our ability to find out things
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  so quickly and hear them so quickly.
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  And in my opinion, because of that, more people learn they can
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  do horrible things so they can get attention.
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  And so because we're all tapped into it, the more people that
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  see it, the more people go, well, I want my limelight.
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  And if they're not mentally stable to begin with, this
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  initiates more of a problem. So it's just we find out things
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  so fast now we don't even have time to recover from the last
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  one when the next one shows up. Where before all of these
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  things, like if you go back into the 1700s and 1800s, people were
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  shot and killed all the time. There were, there were
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  constantly things happening. You just didn't find out about
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  them at the same rate of speed. You know, it was literally like
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  the Pony Express. And you didn't know.
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  You just didn't know. So you lived in your bubble and
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  you took care of yourself and your family and you did what you
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  had to do to survive. And we forget that the
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  nanoseconds, the overload of information, the constant push
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  of information makes us even sadder and it's harder to
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  recover from. So the only counterbalance that
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  I have ever found that works for myself is to pour good into the
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  world. Go do something.
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  Buy somebody a coffee in line behind you.
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  Go. Go see somebody in a restaurant
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  eating by themselves, having breakfast.
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  Tell the waitress you want their bill to pay for it.
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  Go out and have a conversation with somebody instead of just
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  checking out and not even talking to the person who's
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  checking out your groceries. Ask them how their day is.
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  Watch them smile. Have a conversation about
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  something, pick something, but do something.
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  Spread the love. Do not sit and just be sad
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  because that doesn't help. But spreading the love, man,
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  that helps. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.