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Season 5 - Episode 93 - Learning from Henry David Thoreau · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. It's a little dark out there.
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  You're going to possibly hear some owls in the background.
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  They've been going off all morning and that's why I'm out
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  here standing on the porch of the garage before I actually
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  start my chores and have the chickens out.
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  I was hoping you could hear the owls because they sound so cool.
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  Anyway, I want to talk to you about a quote from Thoreau, and
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  this is one of his most famous quotes, and I'm going to read it
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  exactly as it is so you can see it in its totality.
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  On success. If one advances confidently in
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  the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which
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  he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in
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  common hours. So let me reread that again
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  because I thumbed it up at the end.
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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and
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  endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet
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  with a success unexpected in common hours.
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  Now, there's long been debate about the definition of what
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  does success mean? And that's a very personal
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  thing. And I think everybody has their
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  own version of what does success mean.
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  I mean, he defines it clearly. It's it's what you personally
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  and view it as and intentional. It's very intentional, OK.
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  It's not just about financial success, but it is an
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  intentional success. Meaning am I, am I going after
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  what I really want? So I was having a deep
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  conversation with this about a client who's trying to figure
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  out what his phase 2IN life is going to be when he leaves his
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  very successful position. And we often debate these
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  things, we often talk about these things.
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  But he's really at the point now where he's he's thinking about
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  like, you know, five years from now, he wants to be retired.
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  And as he's going through this, he's thinking about how success
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  he has now, which is great financial success.
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  It's wonderful. And he is very fulfilled by what
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  he does with the people that he works with.
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  So he's thinking about, OK, well, how would I find that same
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  level of fulfillment? And I keep bringing him back to
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  the same exact thing over and over and over again.
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  And he and he's because he still can't answer the question.
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  And it's that one big question that you have to ask yourself
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  when you're in the process of this is how you define success.
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  So for me, I can tell you right now, my version of success is
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  very different than most people because I have, without a shadow
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  of a doubt, I have a very odd definition of it.
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  I know that about myself. Wanting to farm and do that is
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  not common. It's not what most people want.
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  They think it's a lot of work and it is a lot of work, but is
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  the work worth it? And to me, it's definitely
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  worth, worth it. And I'm, I'm out here right now
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  as I'm talking to you. I'm over here and I'm working,
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  getting all the snacks ready for the chickens, getting them all
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  the birds set up. Everything has a place and stuff
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  that has to be done. And so I'm in here working on it
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  while I'm talking to you. I don't think of that as
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  something that is unpleasant work.
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  I actually love taking care of it, but that's my version of it.
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  So when you go back and you think about how he's telling you
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  to pursue it, this is another part of the puzzle.
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  You have to realize that you have to be bought into it.
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  You have to be confident in your choice.
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  When people commented on how hard this was going to be and
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  was it, was I going to like it and all that stuff, and what are
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  you going to do? I did not question what I was
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  endeavoring because I had already imagined it over and
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  over and over and over, and I imagined it with the work.
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  I imagined enjoying it. I imagined the good stuff.
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  So the idea that I would be completely and totally
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  overwhelmed by it and not like it was not part of my belief
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  system. It wasn't part of what I was
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  going through. All I was doing was saying, I,
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  I'm being realistic about this. So if you can make sure that
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  you're thinking and imagining the success as you want it to be
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  and you're consistent with it, you can get there.
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  There's no question in my mind you can get there.
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  I help people do it all the time.
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  The it's not about that. It's it, it's not about the
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  piece of it. That's like the tactical stuff
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  because the work is is available if you're willing to do it.
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  The work is out there. You can make anything happen if
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  you're willing to do it, if you're willing to be consistent
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  enough to do it. The consistency is the
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  challenge. My friends and most people, they
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  don't want to do the challenging stuff of being consistent
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  because that's hard. Being consistent is hard work
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  and it takes patience and it takes commitment.
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  Believe me, I know because I'm consistent with things and it's
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  hard. So ask yourself, am I willing to
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  be consistent so I can get to those those unbelievable things
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  and recognize that his quote is absolutely, you know, true.
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  You will meet with a success unexpected in common hours,
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  meaning what other people deal with.
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  So I hope this helps you guys and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day, bye.