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Your environment matters! · 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 her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  And I got Dottie on my lap again.
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  Apparently she likes it when I shoot these podcast because she
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  wants to join in has lots to say about this.
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  Maybe it's our subject today because we are talking about
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  environment today and why your environment matters and why
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  things around you matter. So you know its environment is a
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  very tricky thing and I think I think that it's probably one of
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  those subjects that people often.
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  About, we know our environment matters, but we don't
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  necessarily determine it at the level, at which, it should
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  matter. So, what do I mean, by your
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  environment, where your environment is made up of,
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  obviously, the place you live the place, you hang out the
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  place you work, but it's also made up of the people.
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  You choose to spend your time with it's made up of the Clutter
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  that you have in your environment, it's made up of how
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  you perceive your environment. Lots of elements Go into it, but
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  it's all are the place. We'd well, well, and it's come
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  down to the place, we either die or Thrive.
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  And for me, when I coach people on this, I tell them, I want you
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  to pause and look around, and I want you to see your
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  environment. Is it helping you to thrive?
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  Or is it helping you to die and Wilt?
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  Which one is it? Take a general assessment of
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  your environment? What do you see around you?
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  Is it what you want or is it? What you distain?
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  You just can't take it. You just don't like it.
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  Are you surrounded by things that don't make you feel good?
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  Or as our friend Marie kondo says, does it bring you Joy?
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  Do your things bring you Joy. I love the way she explains that
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  because we all have stuff, right?
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  Like stuff is a part of our lives and some of us seek more
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  stuff to make us be happy. Because we think if we just get
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  that car or we just get that jacket or we just have that
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  phone, then we'll be happy. But as you've heard me say, Say,
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  in other podcasts. Happiness is a choice.
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  You can always choose to be happy regardless of what's going
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  on around you. It's one of the things I loved
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  when I visited monks in Thailand, it was so eye-opening
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  to see how they have nothing. And yet they're always happy and
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  It's just a choice. It comes down to being just a
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  choice but today is, you know, we're talking about your
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  environment and how to how to focus on that.
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  So doing a real assessment of your environment and not lying
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  to yourself about it by saying, oh it's not that bad.
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  If you have to question it it's probably worse than you're
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  willing to admit, which is a general rule of thumbs that you
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  should follow is if you're questioning something like that.
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  And you're really like saying, oh, It's not that bad and you're
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  trying to use softeners. It's probably worse than you
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  want to admit. Whether you're embarrassed by
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  it, whether you don't understand why it happens, whether you
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  don't know where it's coming from.
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  All of that is irrelevant. Because everything about what we
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  do here is about putting a pause on and saying I can move
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  forward. Regardless of what has happened,
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  you can always move forward because you are in this moment.
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  And the moment is all, we have this moment and moving forward.
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  So the perspective of looking at your environment and saying is
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  this environment, healthy for me, makes a massive difference
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  because stuff weighs us down. If we have too much clutter if
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  we have too much male, that's probably one of the biggest
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  things that people complain to me about when we talk about
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  getting organized and doing things is male issues where
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  there's just paperwork everywhere, it makes them feel
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  so heavy because there's just paperwork all over their desk or
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  they don't know where to find things or their computer is
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  disorganized, Or their kids are disorganized or there's one
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  partner in the relationship. That is very organized and one
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  is very disorganized, that puts a great weight, on a
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  relationship, both ways because you know, sometimes the person
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  with all the organization is Driven Crazy by the person with
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  the disorganization and vice versa.
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  So what's so important to look at is your environment overall
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  just stop pause. Be radically honest with Self is
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  this environment helping me Thrive?
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  Or is it helping me Wilt and die because I can't it's one or the
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  other or we're sometimes actually there's a the worst
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  spot is being ambivalent about it where you're just in
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  purgatory and you're just like, whatever.
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  I just can't do it anymore. And that apathy while it's very
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  telling you can get past it, but you have to have a real desire
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  to say, I've got to be honest. And is it forcing me towards
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  that dying side? Or is it forcing me towards that
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  growth side and And putting myself in a different place.
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  So today your challenge is to ask yourself the very honest
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  question about your environment, make decisions about how you
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  feel about that and then really look at what has to happen for
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  you to clean up that environment, whether it's the
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  friends that don't work, whether it's the space, whether it's the
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  Clutter, whatever it might be, look at it.
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  Be honest with yourself and decide.
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  What do I need to do to move towards that?
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  Thrive in peace. I look forward to seeing you
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  guys tomorrow. Oh, and take care.
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  Have a blessed day. Oh, and take care.
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  Have a blessed day.