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Season 4 - Episode 226 - Being open to new opportunities · 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.
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  To teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  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 from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about being open to new opportunities
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  and possibilities. This is something that you
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  really must think about way ahead of time.
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  Are you open to new possibilities?
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  Are you open to new opportunities?
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  Because as a human being, we get so stuck in our ways and how
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  things roll with us and the way we see it often that there is
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  not an opportunity for things to to show up because we're just
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  not open to them. So we have to actually prepare
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  ourselves way ahead of time by thinking, no, I'm open to new
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  opportunities. I want new opportunities.
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  I want new things to come my way.
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  So when was the last time you thought about new things coming
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  your way? When was the last time you said,
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  hey, I want to believe that new things are coming my way and I
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  want to see them coming my way and I want them to be include XY
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  and Z and have something show up.
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  Now here's what's really funny about this.
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  I just started thinking about all of this because I'm, I'm, I
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  just went through and put up a whole new LinkedIn profile.
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  Thanks very much to one of my clients who is this LinkedIn
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  expert. She was talking about how I
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  needed to work on my LinkedIn. And you know what, she was
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  right. I thought it was it was
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  adequate, but it wasn't outstanding.
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  I just never use the tool. So over the last week I've
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  really been pouring into it and she's been like pushing me
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  really hard, messaging me, going, hey, saw what you did.
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  You should change this or you could do this and you could do
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  this. And I was laughing because she's
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  pushing me and I loved it. I loved every second of it.
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  So thank you. Thank you very much.
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  I know she listens. So thank you, Mary.
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  I really appreciate it. In any event, here we are and
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  I'm looking at this and I'm like, OK, this is making me open
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  to new opportunities. And so I kept thinking to
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  myself, I'm open to all new opportunities, I'm open to new
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  ideas, I'm open to all kinds of things that can show up in my
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  world. And I wasn't like I, I wasn't, I
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  won't go say I was obsessing on it because I was really
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  obsessing on learning how to do the LinkedIn and then other
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  stuff that that's coming up that I want to learn and work on.
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  And typically this time of the year is that for me, because I'm
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  back to school, all that good stuff.
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  And I, I recognize that like things just all of a sudden
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  started showing up. I open up an, an, an app that I
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  have about plants and they're talking about this particular
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  type of gourd. Now this is weird.
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  I only grown gourds once and they grew really early and they
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  rotted before it was even the season to put out gourds.
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  So I was like, I don't know. And then all of a sudden, this
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  really strange looking gourd that's called a caveman's club.
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  So if you Google it and you look at Gourd's caveman's club, it
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  seriously looks like a giant bat or a club hanging upside down.
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  And I thought, Oh my God, those are beautiful.
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  I want to grow those. I want to have that experience
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  of having those. And then I realized and stopped
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  and said, wow, I've been talking about having new ideas, new
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  experiences, new things. And all of a sudden they're
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  they're starting to show up in little interesting ways and
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  they're starting to drip in. They're starting to show
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  themselves. And I have to be open to all of
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  it to see it. So it's not just about putting
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  it out there saying that you're open to it.
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  It's about also saying to yourself, hey, wait a minute,
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  I'm going to look at them when they show up.
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  I'm not going to ignore them. I'm not going to have a blind
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  eye as something passes by me. It's it's you've got to have the
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  target of your eyes dialed in, your ears dialed in, your heart
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  dialed in, your gut dialed in so that not only can you just say
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  I'm, I'm open to it, but then not be.
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  You just have to be. OK, There's another one.
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  There's another one, there's another one.
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  So this is how we grow. This is how we experience
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  different things. So being able to do this is
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  incredibly important and just pay attention, put your focus on
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  something and actually answer the question, are you open to
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  new opportunities and new possibilities?
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  And if you say yes, then say, well, what, what types?
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  What am I looking for? What would be exciting?
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  And it doesn't matter if it's a new food, it doesn't matter if
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  it's a new workout routine. It doesn't matter if it's a new
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  pair of jeans and you know, boots, a new job, a new
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  interaction, a different type of client going after something,
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  redoing, you know, your social media presence, whatever it
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  might be. Are you open to all of those new
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  ways to look at it? And if you are and you say you
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  are and you know, again, we go back to if your growth mindset,
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  you probably are, then act into it, really start thinking about
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  it and all just walk around and focus saying I'm open to all
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  these new opportunities. I'm open to all this newness.
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  I'm open to it all. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.