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Season 4 - Episode 19 - Building in Joy Daily! · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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start your day off in a fantastic way.
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Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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We are out here this morning at Sunday so we are out later.
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Obviously I'm posting this later because we had to wait until the
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rain passed, but it's Pasta Sunday for the girls and they
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are very excited. You can hear them all in the
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background going crazy. I'm sitting amongst them while
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they have large trays of pasta out here and they particularly
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like it when I give them things that are shaped like worms.
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So they are having spaghetti today and it's with shredded
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zucchini and some hot pepper and some coconut oil.
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And it is crazy out here. They are flipping it, throwing
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it, running with it. I, I, I don't know what they
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think of it, but other than it's insane and fun.
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Now you may wonder, why is she talking to me about this?
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Because I've often told everybody on this podcast as
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well as everyone else that being with my chickens brings me a
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massive amount of joy. And doing something like this,
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giving them pasta, it brings me joy.
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Bringing them snacks every day brings me joy because they
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always come running and they always come see me and they are
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very excited. And I love my chickens so much.
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I, I mean, they are definitely pets.
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We do not eat the chickens. I got to just say that one more
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time. So everyone who always asks me,
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we do not eat these chickens. These chickens are my pets and
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they are here because they bring me such levels of joy.
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Now before I started this recording, I sat here for a good
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8 minutes watching them chug down a lot of pasta because I by
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accident didn't realize that 2 lbs of pasta was going to expand
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the way it did. I normally do 1 LB but I was
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short on zucchini so I said oh let me just throw another pound
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in. There's a lot of pasta here, but
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again, I have 63 chickens so they're all trucking around
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having fun and they will have full bellies today when they go
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out to have fun roaming the farm.
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But the point of this is not to talk about pasta and chickens as
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much as it is to talk about the thing that brings me joy.
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So when I come out here and I spend time doing this and
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bringing them something and connecting with them in this
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way, it brings me massive happiness.
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It makes me feel really connected and caring for them
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now, as much as they're getting from it, I'm getting from it and
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tapping into whatever brings you joy.
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No matter how strange it might seem that I get joy from
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chickens, I do. And it's not just actually the
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chickens, it's really the whole gamut of understanding that my
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personality is all about growing things, raising things, flowers,
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it doesn't matter, vegetables. I just love doing that people.
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That's why I love coaching the way I love coaching and helping
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my clients and doing whatever it takes to help them get to where
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they want to go. But the fact is, the level of
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joy I tap into is important. I recognize that and I have to
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regularly figure out how I want to tap into that.
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So when you ask yourself, am I tapping into my joy?
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That's a big question, my friends.
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And the more you ask it, the more you'll be surprised that
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the answer is no. I'm not tapping into my joy
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regularly. I'm not tapping into these
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things. And that's where you've got to
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pull back and say, hold on, hold on.
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What's the reason I'm not doing that?
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Whether it's, you know, doing something like knitting,
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painting, you know, roller skating.
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You know, I have a client that loves to go ice skating.
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And for years, she used to ice skate all the time.
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When she was a kid, she was borderline going on the
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professional circuit and then she stopped and she's recently
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started to go back and she's a mom of two and she's like, no,
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I'm going to go back and start doing this again.
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And she's like, you know what? It is amazing.
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I get on that ice and I feel like a different person.
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And that's the point. That is the point.
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So exactly what are you doing to tap into that joy?
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Where is that joy and that you are ignoring or putting aside or
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not tapping into? Because I promise you it changes
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the way you function. It changes the way you think, it
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changes everything about you. And for me, I just get a ton of
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it from all kinds of creative things.
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But really farming, I don't know why.
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Apparently at some point in time I got very hooked on this and I
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just love everything about it, everything about it.
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So I'm going to encourage you to go out, figure out, am I tapping
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into it now? I get to do this every single
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day. So Can you imagine the benefits
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it brings to me that I don't even understand anymore because
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I do it regularly every day. Me pausing with them when I come
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out, taking that time to just connect with them is incredibly
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fulfilling to my soul. So I am better at what I do when
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I do this. So go find that because I
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promise you, you will be better at what you do out in the world
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and how you are as a person and who you are as a person when you
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do this part. I know I live it every day.
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All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll see
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you tomorrow. Bye I.