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Season 3 - Episode 325 - Gratitude after the party · 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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  The day after Thanksgiving when we all start feeling like so
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  overloaded. We ate too much.
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  We indulged too much. I had way too much sugar
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  yesterday. And apparently it's one of those
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  feelings that everybody gets the day after somebody starts to
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  feel something, whether it's that move to hurry up and finish
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  out the month because, you know, we only have two days left.
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  It's Thanksgiving came very late this year for those of us in
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  America, but it's still at the end of November.
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  Everybody starts to get very much like, OK, there's only one
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  month to go. And I'm here today to remind you
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  that because we have just two days left in this month, today
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  and tomorrow, it might be really good to not future pace
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  ourselves right into December and figuring out all the crazy
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  things that we have to get done. I mean, I have a list a mile
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  long. We want to launch a course.
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  There's so many things happening.
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  However, however, it is very, very smart to say, OK, I'm going
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  to look at these next two days and see exactly just what's
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  going to make me feel like I'm grateful for the rest of this
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  month because this whole week was about gratitude.
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  So stop and pause and start to take in some different
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  perspectives of things potentially.
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  You know, yesterday is a perfect example.
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  I was laughing about it because I, I like to find, I like find
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  finding things, going out and finding things.
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  So we're driving down the road because I forgot ice cream.
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  We're driving down the road to go get some and we see that
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  somebody has thrown out part of a little tiny kids playset and
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  it's stairs. It's like stairs that went up to
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  something like one of those plastic sets.
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  And I was, I looked at it and I like it caught my eye because
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  it's bright purple on the side of the road.
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  And my husband's like, oh, no, I was like, no, it would be
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  perfect for the chicken coop because they have an auto door.
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  And when that auto door slides open, there's always been a
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  plank that comes down and they just come down the little plank.
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  So I was like, no, these are perfect stairs.
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  And they're nice and wide. So when they come out, everybody
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  can come out together. They're perfect.
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  And he was like, all right, so we're stopping.
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  He's like, I think they're going to be too tall.
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  I'm like, they're not, they're perfect.
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  I just knew it. I could like measure this that
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  by the site. I'm out here a lot, right?
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  So I go and I get them. They fit perfectly, everything
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  looks great. I'm so excited and their
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  perspective is mom, what the hell is this?
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  And they won't use the stairs. Last night they would not use
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  the stairs to go in. They were all standing there
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  looking at it like now they have another way in.
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  They have the big front doors, but they get in their patterns
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  just like we do. And they wouldn't didn't want to
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  go in. So they had to all change their
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  pattern and like walk around the side and go in the main doors.
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  So I figured this morning when the auto door opens, they're all
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  going to want to go down it. They all stood there.
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  No, the first chicken was would not go down.
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  Their perspective of this whole thing was very different than
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  mine. And I started laughing and I
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  said, I'm so grateful that they, that that happened and that I
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  saw it this morning because I really wanted to see them come
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  out and be excited about it, but they weren't excited about it.
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  So I, if I had been in this place where I was hurry up and
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  go and I was out and I was shopping already, I would have
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  missed it. And granted, for some people,
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  this day, you know, Black Friday is a day where everybody's out
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  shopping. It's all over the news.
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  Everybody's out shopping, but you're also slow down and don't
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  miss things. Stop, have coffee with your
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  friends. If you're in that, take the time
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  to pause these next couple of days.
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  Find that space in which you can really truly pause and feel good
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  about it because I promise you that that makes it all the
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  better. Today I plan on going out and
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  doing some stuff myself, but I'm not going to make it a rush.
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  I'm just going to make it like I'm having fun.
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  I'm going to go have lunch. I'm going to be with my family.
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  And I'm going to just say, all right, if we get stuff done, we
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  get stuff done. And if we don't, we don't
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  because this last couple days is hyper gratitude.
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  And that's what we want to focus on, being in hyper gratitude for
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  all the stuff that's happening, all the stuff that's around us
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  that's good, bad or indifferent. We have to be grateful that
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  we're even here to observe, serve it at this point.
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  So I hope you guys have something today that you can be
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  really grateful for. Find it, look for it, seek it
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  out. And even as I'm talking to you,
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  what's so funny about this is one brave girl is walking up the
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  stairs right now and it is cute. 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.