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Season 3 - Episode 341 - Food for thought… Day one! · 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 mastermindset
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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 from the chicken coop.
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  We are doing a week of food for thought.
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  Nothing that you have to absolutely buy into, but just
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  some things to think about. And I love taking this time of
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  year and giving myself new ways to think of things.
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  So I've been doing deep dives into lots of different reading
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  in the past month, getting ready for my end of the year and what
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  I plan. And I want to share some of that
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  with you. So today is a thought that I
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  received from somebody. Obviously some of this is, no,
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  not verbatim because it's very challenging to always get exact
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  quotes from stuff when you're just having conversations with
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  people. But one of my mentors said to
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  me, your path is more well lit than you have ever allowed
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  yourself to realize. And I was like, wow.
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  And that was told to me years and years and years ago.
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  And he has since passed away. And when he said that to me, I
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  was like, yeah, right, whatever. OK.
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  And I tossed it aside. But like I said, I love to go
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  deep dives into things, older books, new books, go through my
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  old notes, journals. And this week is going to be
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  based around all the journal stuff that I have dug up from
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  all the events, all the different teachings from all the
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  different speakers, trainers, coaches I've had.
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  And he had said to me, your path is more well lit than you have
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  been allowing yourself to realize.
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  And I was like, what an interesting thought that is.
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  Now as I sit here contemplating how I'm going to put together my
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  next year, what are the things that I'm going to allow myself
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  to think and believe and to, you know, act into?
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  And the fact that there may be a possibility that that path is
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  far more well lit than I have ever realized kind of got me
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  excited when I read it. I said, well, maybe now's the
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  time I'm supposed to be reading this.
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  Because sometimes when we get information like you might hear
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  something on here and it might, you might think this girl is
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  crackers. You know, she's out of her mind.
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  And then you might hear it again a year later and be like, wow,
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  that kind of hit home in this moment.
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  So I like to revisit things, just like trying different
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  foods. You know, the first time you try
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  something, I mean, you might hate it, and then a couple years
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  later you try it again and you might start to like it.
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  I felt that way a lot about different types of sushi.
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  It took me time. Although I will say with peas,
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  I've never learned to like peas. However, other than that
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  situation, I have really developed a taste for certain
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  things that I might not have had otherwise.
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  So this is where the information, you know, comes
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  back around and says is now the time, has the has the lesson
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  finally reached a point where the student can hear it, own it
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  and start to contemplate it? So for me, what does it mean
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  when a path is well lit? Well, I think in this case, I
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  have always known that I wanted to be a teacher and I get to
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  coach. And to me that's a form of
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  teaching and really pouring out into people when you you're
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  speaking helps them really kind of know you and you are that
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  teacher. And this year for me is a big
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  thing is going to be about going out and doing, speaking more,
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  coming off of being, you know, the whole thing about pandemic
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  and staying neutral and staying stationed and not going on the
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  road really stopped me from doing any of that.
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  Plus we were building out the farm at that point in time and
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  that was a lifelong dream I was making happen.
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  And now that it's here and running, there isn't any reason
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  why I can't go back out other than I'm the one that's in my
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  own way. And so when opportunities rise
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  up, I haven't, I have the chance to say yes or no.
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  And recently opportunities have started to arise.
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  So I'm like, oh, this is the way the path is lit.
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  Isn't this interesting? The path truly is lit in this
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  moment. So maybe I do want to consider
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  this. Maybe I do want to find a way to
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  say, OK, I can do this and be feeling that it's effortless.
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  It doesn't have to be a struggle because before it used to be a
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  struggle to me in my head. That's why I didn't want to do
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  it. It was just like, oh, it's the
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  hassle, it's the finding stuff, it's the talking, it's the going
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  out, it's the flying. It's I would make a million
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  excuses when the reality was I was probably just scared to do
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  it. And I can't articulate it now so
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  much from this perspective because I didn't really put a
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  pin in it, but I would guess it was just it was probably as I
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  was just scared to do it. And now I'm not scared to do it.
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  So it's a it's a great consideration and it's something
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  worth visiting because when you recognize that your path has
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  been in front of you and that it's shining and it's like that.
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  Think of it like an airport when you're about to land the plane
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  and the at night and you are flying in, if you've ever I've
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  seen that before, you see all the flashers leading the plane
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  in and it's pitch dark, but there are flashes.
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  You can't see it. It's just those little flashes
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  of light. And the pilot knows exactly
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  where to go. And as he's landing the plane,
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  he's completely confident that his path is well lit and he
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  realizes it and he's safe. And that's exactly what we have
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  to do, my friends. So consider this food for
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  thought this week. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you soon.
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  Bye.