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Season 2 - Episode 194 - Eagles vs chickens · 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,
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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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  So I got a meme sent to me by one of my friends and it was
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  very funny, made me laugh and I thought, this is a perfect topic
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  for a podcast. This little meme, it was Eagles
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  do not take flight lessons from chickens.
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  And I thought that was so awesome And she said you are my
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  eagle and you live with the chickens.
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  And I started laughing and I thought, Oh my gosh, this is too
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  funny. How many times in your life are
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  you having the thoughts of Eagles where you want to soar,
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  you want to come and create something completely different?
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  You want to just go to a different level.
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  You want to be regal. You want to get out there.
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  You want to be fantastic, compelling.
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  You want everyone to look at you like you are just the bomb and
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  you know you're acting as such and.
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  All of a sudden a chicken shows up and says, hey, maybe you
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  should do a little less. Maybe you shouldn't push
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  yourself that hard. Maybe you should play it safe.
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  Maybe you should do this. You know, I love my chickens
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  with all my heart, but the truth is they can never soar like an
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  eagle. They are fully flight winged.
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  They have everything they can to fly, and they do fly, but they
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  have to do it while they're running.
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  Or they can fly down from something.
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  They're not very good at flying up to things they can.
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  But when they go up at night, they actually climb the ladders
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  and they do their little things like that.
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  And some of them are better than others.
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  They can fly up at the most. They really usually fly up is
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  about 6 feet, and they are not soaring like that.
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  They are. You know, doing their chicken
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  things. And when you think of the eagle
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  and the chicken in terms of humans, how many times have you
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  been in the middle of creating your eagle dream and a chicken
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  shows up and says to you, well, I don't know.
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  I don't know if you should do that.
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  I don't know how that's going to work.
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  I don't know what you're going to do.
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  And I've had those moments with people that I'm, you know, very
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  close to. And I've had those moments where
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  my own mother has said to me, well, if you want to do it, I
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  mean. I don't know how it's going to
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  turn out. And she's said things that were
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  less than encouraging. And then I've had the moments
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  where, you know, I've had the eagle encouragement, somebody
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  being the wind beneath my wings, so to speak.
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  And what's so fascinating about this concept of paying attention
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  to it like that is recognizing who you want to be going into
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  it. Are you showing up like the
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  eagle or you showing up like the chicken?
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  Are you showing up like somebody who's filling somebody else up,
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  or are you showing up like somebody who's being that person
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  that's depleting them even? You know, more important is when
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  you want to be the eagle, the the people that you're
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  surrounding yourself with, are they lifting you up?
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  Are they allowing you to soar or are they pulling you back down
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  to being, you know, on that level of the chicken?
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  You know, hiding out and not making things happen.
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  I think when you start to recognize this in your own
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  behavior and in yourself and how you can control these things,
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  you can decide what they mean. You can decide what it looks
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  like. It is astoundingly clear to me
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  that our reactions to all of it, whatever happens on the outside,
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  happens. But our reactions to it are what
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  allows us to take on that role. Of either being the eagle or the
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  chicken. It's not what they say.
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  Those are just words. You don't have to buy into them.
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  It's how we react. That's the big thing and.
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  Controlling our reaction. Defining our reaction.
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  I'm just controlling it. But defining our reactions.
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  Making ourselves think of the difference.
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  Who do I choose to be right now? What do I want to put my
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  attention and intention into? Could not be more important.
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  And so often we get into this place where we listen to other
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  people. And I'll tell you, the older I
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  get, the more I realize that. There are a few people that I
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  listen to. I'm just being very frank about
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  that. I have a very tight circle of
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  people that I listen to and that I read.
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  I have always looking to grow, always looking to learn more.
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  But I am very careful about the energy I take in because it is
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  guarded and I do not want to allow anything to poison that
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  for me. And I choose to soar out like an
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  eagle. I've got to choose to hang out
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  with that. I've got to choose to have that
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  energy. That's the place I'm tapping
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  into. And when you think about how
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  high an eagle can fly, there aren't a lot of birds that can
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  join them up there. They don't really fly down low
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  where all the rest of them are. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  pick your path of an eagle, pick what you're choosing, be smart
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  and don't fly with the chickens. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Go sore. Bye.