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Season 3 - Episode 228 - Quote for the day · 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 mastermindset
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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 I have a quote but we don't know who said it.
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  I researched like crazy trying to figure it out because it
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  drives me insane when things say unknown because I always try to
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  find somebody to give credit to. But this quote is so great.
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  Every day may not be good but there is good in every day and
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  obviously unknown is the author of this quote.
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  So what does that mean? That means that you have to look
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  to find it. It is not always out in the
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  open. I like to think of these like
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  I'm on a treasure hunt or an Easter egg hunt or some kind of
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  magical thing where you're looking.
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  I love to do hidden pictures and you're always looking for the
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  hidden picture. And for me, that's the thing.
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  It's like you have to seek it out.
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  You have to find it. And if you're listening this
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  week, there's kind of a theme going here about finding these
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  things because people are struggling right now and they
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  are very bombarded by all the wrong things that are happening
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  out in the world, and they're struggling to find the right
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  things. So this is a habit of
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  cultivation. This is a habit that you're
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  developing. This is something that you have
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  to look for. And wow, you may have, you know,
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  bad things happen every day and every day may not be good.
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  There are good things, small things, tiny things.
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  And how can you get more if you're not even focused on the
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  little ones that happen? It won't happen.
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  You will never, ever, ever be able to truly hit your level of
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  greatness if you're constantly noticing and looking for the
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  things that are not working. So what's so important to
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  remember in the process of doing this is that you have the power
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  to see and not see. You have the power to, you know,
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  change your eyes. Do you remember the the magic
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  pictures years ago? And it was this whole craze at
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  one point in time where it looked like just this myriad of
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  a graphic and you couldn't see it.
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  But if you didn't unfocused your eyes and they would say look
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  past the graphic, all of a sudden you'll see a picture of a
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  plane or a rocket ship or a sun. And I remember I was so young
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  trying to see those and it drove me nuts.
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  And I was like, I can't see him. I can't see him.
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  And I would try so hard and I would try so hard and I would
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  look at all the little squares and all I could see was the
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  little squares. So I was seeing right what was
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  right in front of me and I couldn't see the bigger picture
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  of which I had to unfocus myself and really get into a different
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  headspace. But you know what's really cool
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  about it? Once I did it, once I was able
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  to do it, oh boy, it changed everything.
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  And I learned a trick and then I learned how to do hidden
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  pictures and I got way more skilled at being able to see
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  things that I couldn't essentially see.
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  So I'm going to challenge you guys to go out and try to find
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  that. And just food for thought.
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  This is something that I do regularly.
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  It's a habit of mine. I have a hidden pictures app.
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  And no, this isn't a plug for hidden pictures, but I keep it
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  on my iPad so that I can sit and I can look at it because I'm a
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  very visual person and I love to see things that are there that I
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  don't see. So I will walk around like you
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  know, I've talked about this in the past.
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  I will take pictures of every little treasure that I and I'm
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  air quoting treasure here that I find on my walks, which are are
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  on the farm every day I walk, walk, walk 27,000 steps a day
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  around the farm. Typically, I have a walking
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  trail and I just walk it and I see things, flowers, bugs, all
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  kinds of things because I'm cultivating a mindset that
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  allows me to find good little things in every day.
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  And those little things, no matter how difficult it might be
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  for coaching day or a recording day, no matter how difficult the
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  weather might be or whatever, I'm going to go off and I'm
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  going to find those little good spots in every day.
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  That's why I post pictures of flowers to teach you guys to do
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  it. That's why I post pictures of
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  bees and bugs and every little tiny thing because we are
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  surrounded by them. We just have to find them and be
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  willing to stop and pause and look.
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  And I use my cameras to help me with that.
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  All different types, whether it's my video camera, my phone,
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  my big camera, my DSLR, whatever it is.
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  I am always taking pictures, much to my husband's dismay, by
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  the way, because there's a lot of photos that are in our iCloud
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  and boy, it's a lot. But in any event, it's a tool
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  and it helps you see the good. So try to find the good.
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  You know, I honestly, even a paper clip is an amazing tool
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  when you think about it. Wow, how did somebody come up
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  with that? What a cool thing.
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  Zippers. You put your pants on every day,
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  you zip them up. Guess what, that wouldn't not be
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  happening if it was not for the guy who or the girl who created
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  the zipper. I mean, come on, think about it.
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  The person that did that, pretty brilliant in my opinion.
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  You know, I use these shades out here in the chicken coop to give
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  them areas where they can just get out of the sun.
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  Besides the fact that they can go everywhere they want on the
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  farm. But some of them like to hang
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  out close to the coop. So I create these things.
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  These little shades are awesome. I can't even tell you how
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  grateful I was when I picked it up.
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  I was like, wow, this person is amazing.
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  And I just sent that person a ton of energy because I wanted
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  to put out good energy. I went there to solve a problem.
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  I was dealing with Not enough shade for the girls who stuck
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  around. That was not a good thing.
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  But guess what? I was so focused and excited.
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  I'm like, I'm going to go find something.
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  I was on a treasure hunt. I walk in, I find it.
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  Boom, now I've got good in the day see how it works?
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  So go find your good in the day. All right my friends, have a
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  blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.