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Happiness is a perspective! · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So does anybody out there ever consider what's the purpose of
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  life? You know, it's a big question,
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  the purpose of life well according to the Dalai Lama, the
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  purpose of life is to be happy. And that's what this is about
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  today. Being happy.
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  You know, I think we all want to be happy.
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  I think we all have a innate desire to be happy and I think
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  that happiness is different for each one of us.
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  I mean some of you would certainly not be happy in the
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  chicken coop standing out here with all my chickens running in
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  and out of the Run, going out to their free-ranging space.
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  Some of you be thrilled by it. Some of you be like, ew, that's
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  disgusting. And others are like, wow, how
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  cool is that? That you get to do that again,
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  happiness comes in different packages for Different things.
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  And that's you know the wonderful thing about being
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  human is that we all have our own versions of happy and I
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  certainly have my own version of happy and I know my husband has
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  a different version of Happy. And my son has a different
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  version of Happy. It's kind of like the tapestry
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  gets all woven together by all these different versions.
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  But when we stopped and we think about it, we say, you know,
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  purpose of life is to be happy and someone says, well, I'm
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  working on being happy and I say, okay, I appreciate that.
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  You're working on being happy, but I want to challenge your
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  thoughts with this because happiness is a choice of no
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  matter what's going on in your life, you can always choose to
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  be happy. You still will have problems.
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  You still will have things that are going on.
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  You'll Still have things that you don't like, but choosing
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  happiness, choosing lightheartedness choosing the
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  ability to say, I'm going to focus on feeling good.
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  Internally is something that is a gift that we have been given
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  that we can do. We can our emotions are a gift.
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  I'm completely convinced that our emotions are a grand gift
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  from God in the universe and we use them and can use them.
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  However, we see fit. And they are system of
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  communication with God in the universe.
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  And when we choose to tap into that happiness, we tap into that
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  reality, but it is a choice. And do you need a reason to be
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  happy? I often will say, you know, we
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  have moments when we're sad. Of course, of course, we have
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  moments when we're sad, that's how you get guidance to move
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  towards what you want and move away from what's not working,
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  you know, the moving towards and moving away, emotions are really
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  important to recognize and know but Choosing happiness over
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  everything or saying at the core at my Center in my gut.
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  I choose happiness, everyday, I choose to find the small things
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  that make me happy everyday. That is developed.
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  That is it, that is a skill set that you develop by recognizing
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  it that you can do it and nobody can rob you of it.
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  Nobody can rob you of the core Center of You are, they can try,
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  they can try to break you but at the bottom center of who you
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  are. Nope, that's you.
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  That's your soul. That's where you get to be.
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  You and happiness is part of that.
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  Happiness is something that we all have the ability to tap into
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  any time. We choose, just by making the
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  choice of saying, I am happy. I am happy and knowing that you
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  are doing that for yourself because it's the gift.
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  That we get to have and we get to use it.
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  And and as freely as we want to, I think part of where we get
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  stuck, is we look at our external conditions and the
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  external conditions Drive, what we are willing to focus on and
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  how we react in our emotions show up.
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  And then we feel a certain way. Now, can you feel, you know,
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  happy at your core and still feel sad?
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  At something that's happened. Yes.
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  Yes, I'm a happy person. Yes.
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  And then I can have some conditions that might make me
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  sad or might make me angry, or might make me frustrated, but
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  you can choose to be at your core, a happy person, and make
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  choices, like a happy person makes choices instead of an
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  angry person making choices. And that's the key to Wellness.
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  That's the key to mental wellness.
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  It's the key to saying, I hold this.
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  Nobody else. What's this and recognizing that
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  when the Dalai Lama says, the purpose of life is to be happy?
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  He's not saying go out and seek happiness, he's saying be happy.
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  He's saying do happy. Just find those fundamental
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  things that you can focus on that make you smile, whether
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  it's recognizing, you know, small things in your world that
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  are there and around you that you're grateful for.
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  Like, while I'm out here and I'm recording.
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  I have a Whole group of chickens that will always come and sit
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  and listen to me and I crack up laughing because they're so cute
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  that they sit down and they hunkered right next to me and
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  they listen to me record these for you.
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  One of my clients said to me, they must be the most
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  well-adjusted chickens around and the kind of very true what
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  they actually are. We have no fighting, everybody
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  gets along, everybody's just, you know, happy all the time and
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  I think it's unless it's someone's trying to sit in
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  someone else's box. Then there's a little But an
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  issue. But for the most part, I will
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  say this, it is demonstrated that the energy I put off.
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  Really does show up with these animals and I recognize that and
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  then I look at it and I say to myself.
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  Wow. Okay this is kind of a
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  fascinating fact that they're my happy place is their happy
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  place. There's no accident, right?
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  It's fascinating. And I think that when we start
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  to focus on that for ourselves, and we start to really say,
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  okay, I can choose this. I can choose happy and I can
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  spread my joy. It does work.
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  So today find your moments where you can choose happy and be
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  excited about it. Be excited that you have
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  complete control over it. You know you have complete
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  control over your happy so do go do your happy and have a great
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  day. I can choose this.
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  I can choose happy and I can spread my joy.
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  It does work. So today find your moments where
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  you can choose happy and be excited about it.
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  Be excited that you have complete control over it.
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  You know you have complete control over your happy so do go
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  do your happy and have a great day.