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Season 3 - Episode 322 - The week of gratitude… Growth · 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 as I start this podcast off today, Sammy is sitting on my
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  lap and she's watching OK, And he's right next to us and she's
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  watching the screen go and there she goes flying off.
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  So anyway, today we're talking about gratitude and growth.
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  Now, this is not the kind of growth that may be the easiest
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  topic to deal with, But when we're growing, sometimes it's
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  very painful. Like do you remember when we
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  were growing as children? And we often, often had growing
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  pains. And I used to say, Oh my gosh, I
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  have growing pains. My legs hurt, my arms hurt, my
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  bones hurt, everything hurts. And we were miserable because we
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  had these growing pains. Well, we have emotional growing
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  pains too. As we learn, as we come to
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  accept things, as we come to have to shift ourselves to
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  change things. And all of this, that's all
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  growth. It's all part of the process.
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  It's all part of things that we have to do.
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  So think about it as if I'm growing, how can I be grateful
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  for the growth, even if it's painful, How can I be grateful
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  for the growth? So when you're getting taller,
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  most of us want to grow taller. So we will say things like, OK,
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  I'm so I'm growing it, it's miserable, but I, I want to be
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  tall. So I have to go through it and
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  we accept it and then we can find gratitude in it.
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  But if you just complain about it all the time, are you
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  actually shutting down the phase of gratitude?
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  And the answer is yes, you are. Because in order to accept
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  gratitude, you can't shut it down energetically.
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  You have to tap into it. And it becomes something that's
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  a learned practice. Again, this is not something
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  that you're just inherently going to have.
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  You're just going to say, OK, what are these situations that I
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  can grow from? So earlier today I had to, I had
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  to call Apple. And everything I have is my
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  iPhone, my iPad, my computers, they're all Apple.
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  And I have Apple Care. And so I had to call because I
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  had a problem and I could not find how to shut something off
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  in the settings. So I call Apple Care and
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  fortunately they're extraordinary.
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  You call them and someone calls you back in like less than a
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  minute. And then they ask you for access
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  so they can see your screen, but they can't like do anything.
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  You still have to do the process.
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  And then they're drawing little red circles and I'm like, wow,
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  this is so cool. And I can see it right on my
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  screen. And he's like, click here, go
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  here. It's kind of buried.
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  You'll find it over here. And I thought to myself, wow, in
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  this difficult situation that I'm dealing with, I'm so
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  irritated. He comes in, he gives me this
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  bit of knowledge. I'm so grateful for it.
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  I'm grateful for Apple Care. I'm grateful that I could solve
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  a portion, a big, huge portion of this problem in a moment's
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  notice. And I can find that spot to
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  pause in the growth. And I said to him, I'm really
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  grateful that Apple Care works this way where you can get on
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  and just teach me about this in no short order.
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  And he said, you know, it's funny because we don't get like
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  people that were actually recognized most of the time that
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  they can call for these kind of things.
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  They mostly call for hardware issues.
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  We're trying to figure stuff out.
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  And I thought, isn't that fascinating because we, there's
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  a whole different aspect of it that you can call for.
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  And it was thrilling to me that I was able to connect those
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  dots. But in the growth of
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  understanding, I have a whole new team member I can think
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  about because once you pay for it for the year, you have access
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  to it. I don't use it enough and I
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  should and I will now. And I think that when you can
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  extrapolate from that what you are thinking about moving into
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  your everyday life with it, it's like look for those little
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  difficult situations and say, OK, what's what is the growth
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  point in this? Where can I grow and where what
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  can I be grateful for in the process?
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  So looking for that one little question, what can I be grateful
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  for in this may be challenging. I'm not going to lie to you,
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  it's often challenging. Is there anything you can be
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  grateful for in it? Maybe not.
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  But I will say a good strategy is to just write it down.
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  If you can't find something in the moment of these difficult
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  situations in the growth situations to be grateful for,
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  write it down. And then every day check back
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  and say, do I have something today I can be grateful for?
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  Do I have something today I can be grateful for with it?
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  And eventually it will show up. And even if it takes you six
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  months, a year, you will find something because it will prove
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  itself out and it always shows up.
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  I, I can't begin to tell you over the years of doing this and
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  coaching how many times it has just shown up.
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  So give yourself that little gift and be very clear about how
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  it works so that you too can find those little gifts in the
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  growth because it feels so good to know it when you find it.
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  It it's like finding a little gem in the sand and nobody else
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  noticed it except you. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day. I hope you find something in the
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  growth process that you can really be grateful for.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.