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Season 3 - Episode 23 - How brushing my teeth taught me very valuable new lessons · 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're going to talk about a funny story that
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  happened because I think I mentioned it last week that I've
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  jacked my back up and my shoulder is just I'm driving my
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  chiropractor crazy, let's just put it that way.
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  Thank God he has patience with me.
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  Anyway, I can't use my right arm in certain positions.
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  So when you go to brush your teeth, you know you tend to lean
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  over the sink. You tend to brush.
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  I'm a right-handed person, so here I am trying to brush my
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  teeth and it's killing me. Like it.
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  The The pain that's coming through my shoulder blade and in
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  the back of my neck is just ridiculous.
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  So I try to brush my teeth with my left hand.
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  Simple request, right, let's switch hands and try doing
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  something with my other hand. Now, I didn't really think too
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  much about this because I actually like if I sat and I
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  concentrate, I can actually write fairly well with my left
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  hand and I do a lot of things with my left hands.
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  Like when I'm gardening, I always, you know, I'll switch
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  hands constantly. I'll go left right and I can
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  use, I can use tools with both hands.
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  So I can't really think much about it.
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  Here I go. I'm like, I'm going to brush my
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  teeth and I can't. I can't brush my teeth with my
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  left hand. Now this may sound ridiculous,
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  but try it. Try brushing your teeth with
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  your opposite hand and see how what happens and how that works
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  out. So this gets me thinking about
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  how we have this whole system within us that we take for
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  granted all the time about like, you know, what we do and the
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  patterns in which we do it and we just do it and we don't even
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  give it a second thought about how hard it would be if we
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  didn't have it. So then I'm thinking, well gosh,
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  I haven't had any gratitude towards the fact that I can
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  brush my teeth with my right hand, appreciating how strong my
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  right-handed skills are. So I'm running through my whole
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  thing about being grateful with my right hand, and then I start
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  thinking about okay. Well, this is really interesting
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  because how many other things am I missing that I'm just taking
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  for granted? Like brushing my teeth with my
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  right hand? Anything, anything that you do,
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  all of a sudden you start really like I am great at picking up on
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  small things around me, things that I can take pictures with
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  the phone of all this stuff. But the daily tasks, what we
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  would consider the mundane task, the maintenance tasks tend to
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  get lost even within me and and I am conditioned to kind of look
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  for these things all the time. But I recognize I was I was not
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  paying attention as close as I could.
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  So I started to think about, all right I want to dial this up.
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  I want to go up to a whole different level with this and I
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  really want to kind of make it so that I can find all these
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  little tiny things that I can, you know, be grateful for and
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  focus my, you know, skills. And and another piece of this is
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  just saying, hey, I really want to practice things differently
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  this year and I really want to be more intentional with
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  noticing certain things. So I want to notice okay.
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  I really I would like to be able to brush my teeth with my left
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  hand and I'm very grateful for my left hand.
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  I want to be able to balance as strong on my right foot as I can
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  on my left foot. So just a strange tendency since
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  the right side of me is more the the user side, let's say.
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  But I recognize I, I often, while I'm talking to clients,
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  I'll balance on one foot. Because you it's very important
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  as you get older to be able to balance on one foot that's like
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  stops you from falling over all the time or when you get much
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  older, you know the the danger of falling down and hitting your
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  head. So I'd read this and I had often
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  stop and pause, but I realized that my left leg I can balance
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  like a Pelican on my left leg, but my right leg, no, I'm tippy.
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  I I can, like, actually tip over or still.
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  So I'm like, how many of these little things am I just not
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  paying attention to? Every little piece of it?
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  Since I started asking these questions, I started picking up
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  on the strangest things, directional stuff that you try
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  to do the opposite of with your other hand.
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  So, like, think about how you pour your coffee in the morning.
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  Do you pour it with your left hand?
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  Your right hand? OK.
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  And I do it with the other hand. And then you're going to be
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  grateful for the fact that you're able to do that.
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  So you're tying gratitude to everything because it's a great
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  practice to always tie gratitude.
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  Sounds silly, but when you start building your mundane tasks with
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  gratitude, one, you don't mind doing them so much, that's a
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  byproduct of it. And two, you really start to
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  feel like you're building your day right out of the chute in a
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  state of gratitude, which is super important in my opinion,
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  because the more gratitude you have for things, the more likely
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  you are to be able to, you know, have an excellent day right out
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  of the chute. So start looking for all these
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  little tiny things that are seem mundane but are going to shift
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  you quickly as you do them, because they're not mundane if
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  you fuse them with gratitude. And you're now building your
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  skill set in a far greater way with the opposite parts of
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  yourself. Huge strength in that, my
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  friends. Huge strength in that.
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  So give it a shot and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Hope you guys have a blessed day.
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  Bye.