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Season 3 - Episode 110 - Do you believe it's too late for you? · 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 mastermind set
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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 today we are talking about the fact that it's never too
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  late. So what do I mean by that?
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  Well, as we age often times we start to believe and I'm air
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  quoting as I say things about ourselves or believe things
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  about what is age appropriate or we start to believe things that
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  are just not true because someone else had that experience
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  happen. You know when I started this
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  farm with my husband and we made this decision that we were
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  coming here, I had quite a few of my friends and clients I
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  might add that said to me, why would you want to do this at
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  your age? Why would you want to go and put
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  all that hard work on your plate?
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  I got to tell you the last thing that I was thinking about when
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  we moved here, and we're talking about starting a farm and doing
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  the things that we had always dreamed about doing.
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  The last thing I ever thought about was the fact that my age
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  had anything to do with it. I I just, I never think of it
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  that way. The the last thing I think about
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  in my head is age. Years ago, I can remember
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  sitting at one of the events that I was working for Tony
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  Robbins and a friend of mine was at the table with me and we were
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  in between. Everyone was in the room
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  listening to Tony work as magic. And she said to me, you know, my
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  eyes all of a sudden I can't see.
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  Well, you know, you get to that age.
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  And I just started laughing and she said, what?
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  You know, you get to an age and your eyes start working, stop
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  working the way they should. And I said, you know, I don't, I
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  don't buy into that. And she said, what do you mean?
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  I said, yeah, I mean, OK, your eyes might stop working.
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  Well, you might need glasses, but it could be because you're
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  staring at a computer screen for, you know, 8 hours a day,
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  and not just because you have eyes going bad because you're
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  getting older. I mean, yeah, sure, it could be
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  that. But why do we have to make it be
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  the worst case scenario and say, oh, it's about aging and let
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  alone accept it. And I just live by the premise
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  that if I if I am not willing to accept those conditions and I
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  focus on other things, that other things occur.
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  I mean, I am in better shape now than I've ever been in my life.
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  And I know that for a fact because I can walk more, I can
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  lift more. I mean, work in a farm is not
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  easy. Trust me, it's not easy.
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  And being able to say, you know, that I can do 20,000 steps a
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  day, every day, like it doesn't even bother me.
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  There was a time when I was in my late 20s, early 30s, and I
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  went to Amsterdam and I walked around and walked around and
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  walked around. And I got to tell you, I I know
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  I was completely beat up for just The Walking that I was
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  doing. And I couldn't believe how out
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  of shape I was. And I was supposed to be a
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  healthy young person. So this whole thing about aging
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  is the very first part of it is what are you accepting?
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  I mean, what are you doing to yourself at this point in time?
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  What are we doing to ourselves thinking that this is what we
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  have to accept? It's never too late.
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  Whatever you want to do. You know Louise Hay, who was
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  just an amazing, If you've never known anything about Louise Hay,
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  she was an amazing woman and she created a publishing company
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  called Hay House. She published her own books and
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  she brought in all other authors from the spiritual side of the
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  world and the inspirational side of the world.
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  And it's it's to this day it's, it's an amazing publishing house
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  for just those types of things. Well, she didn't start that
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  until she was in her late 50s. And then she turned it into
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  something. And she lived the last 35 years
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  of her life in astounding different ways than she did the
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  front part of her life. And she was at the point when
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  she started it where the people would have been giving up and
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  she just started it off. I I think we really have to re
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  examine our values of well, is it too late?
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  Have I screwed up? I can't do something now.
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  Well, why would I start it now? I mean, it is never too late if
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  you have it in your heart and you're motivated to do it.
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  It's never too late if you're willing to push yourself and
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  say, hey, I want to think differently.
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  I'm starting this whole thing with balance, right?
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  Because I've never been a particularly coordinated person
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  and it's always been a joke that I'm kind of clumsy.
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  So now I'm starting all this, this balance, these balance
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  exercises. So my son gets this little board
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  and it sits on like this half balloon.
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  I'm not even sure what it's called.
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  I'm sure it has a name and I can't think of it right this
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  moment. But you balance on it and it's
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  hard as hell to do it. And at first I couldn't do it.
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  But I'm like no, no, no, I'm going to do this.
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  So I started balancing on it. Now I'm able to do not only
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  balance on it, but I can do squats on it now.
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  So I am like astoundingly proud of myself.
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  I will stand on one foot and I will pick the other foot up and
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  I won't hold my other foot and I'll just stand there like a
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  Pelican for minutes at a time because it's good for your body,
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  it's good for your brain to have to balance you that way and you
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  fight it off. But there are other people who
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  would say, OK, you shouldn't even be able to do that at this
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  point in time. So if you have it in your heart
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  and you really want to do something, do it.
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  Don't go out passive. You know what is that line from
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  the Def Def Leppard song? You it's it's better to burn out
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  than fade away. IA 100% 100%.
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  Believe that, and there's nothing worse than just fading
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  away and making a decision that you're just going to play
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  inadequately. And Nah, I'll just die without
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  ever having put in the effort. Come on.
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  Our life is a gift from the universe, from God, and what you
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  do with it is a gift. Back.
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  Play it fully. Push yourself.
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  Do the things that you want to do.
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  Don't matter when you think it is.
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  Go out, be creative and do the things that you want to do with
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  yourself because I promise you the rewards are huge.
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  I hope this helps you guys and I hope that you don't take no from
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  the answer for yourself, because nothing is more important than
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  that piece of listening and saying if this is what I really
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  want to do, it doesn't matter where I am in my life.
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  I can make this happen. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow and I hope you have a very blessed day.
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  Goodbye.