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Season 5 - Episode 62 - The gift of connection · 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 early morning from my hotel room.
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  Yesterday was quite the trip in and six hours of driving, but it
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  was so worth it because I was completely and totally focused
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  on getting here, doing, you know, getting ready for the
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  event that I'm going to be speaking at.
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  And I have to say that what's so fascinating to me about
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  travelling and coming and doing these kind of things is when you
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  break out of your norm, what it does for you and how it gives
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  you these shifts. And for me, you know, leaving,
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  leaving the farm is always one of those very interesting things
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  because I, I rarely do it. So when I do do it, it to me,
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  it, it's, it makes a main, main thing of, you know, I'm
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  concerned about the animals, first of all, that that's always
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  running in the back of my head. But, but I think the big thing
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  that I, I strive for when I come out and do this is connection to
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  people and being 100% present. And so when I get here, I, I
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  have this rule in my head, whatever that I'm doing that I'm
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  going to be 100% present. I'm going to be 1000% connecting
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  with people. I'm not going to be distracted.
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  I'm not going to be working like doing other things.
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  I'm present with them and it never ceases to amaze me how
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  much that matters to people. When you just stop and you start
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  focusing on the people across from you, the way they show up,
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  the way they feel, that impact that you're bringing to them,
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  when you're just like excited to see them, just being present
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  with them, it changes the entire interaction.
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  So I I'm with a couple of my clients here and it's the first
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  time I've met them in person. One of them worked with her for
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  a year. The other one I've worked with
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  him for. We were trying to figure it out
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  last night. Maybe 7 years, 6-7 years I've
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  been working with him and I've never gotten to see him in
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  person. And I've talked to him endless
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  numbers of times. And just the fact that I was
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  willing to go to dinner, like think about this, I have to eat
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  anyway. But just the fact that I was
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  willing to go to dinner and hang out and, and talk to people, not
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  coaching them, but just talking to people.
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  What an impact it had on all of us at just to be able to be
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  there. And what a gift it was to me.
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  So this whole thing about pausing and giving yourself the
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  gift of connection, giving yourself the gift of that piece
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  is real. It, it.
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  And I do it on the farm regularly with what the chores
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  I'm doing and the stuff that I'm doing like that I connect with
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  my animals. But doing it with other people
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  is challenging for us as human beings because we're constantly
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  busy. We're always out there doing
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  something. We, we really are human doings
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  and we forget that we're human beings.
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  I mean, we are called human beings for a reason, and we need
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  to remind ourselves constantly, instantly, that we have the
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  opportunity to connect in a big way.
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  So we should do it. We really should do it.
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  But life gets in the way and then we find ourselves not doing
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  it and we find ourselves adrift, getting drawn into things,
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  pulled into other stuff that we want to do.
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  Where does that really serve us? It's interesting to me and I, I
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  want to constantly remind everybody, go back, go back to
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  what matters to people. Go back and say, let me connect.
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  So that's my message today. It's not, it's not a long one.
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  It's like today, tomorrow, moving forward, work on
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  connecting with people as much as you can.
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  Be present with people as much as you can, because those are
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  little golden Nuggets that you're that you're giving them.
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  Those are little gifts. Giving our time is giving a
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  gift. So I say go out and do it
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  because I'm going to be doing it a lot today and I will see you
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  tomorrow and I hope you guys have a blessed day.
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  Bye.