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Season 3 - Episode 72 - The legacy or the moment · 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
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  coop. So today we are talking about
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  leaving a legacy and how that is just so important to some of us
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  where we just get super focused on the fact that we want to
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  leave a legacy behind in our lives.
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  We think to ourselves. Now I want to have something
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  that I can leave behind that's a true legacy.
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  I am focused on creating abundance and putting all that
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  out there. And I know for a fact that I
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  want my legacy to be apparently Raven agree, You know, whatever
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  it might be. But what do we sacrifice for
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  that legacy? That's the big question.
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  And sometimes we forget that what we're working on may in the
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  moment may be towards our legacy, but it's something
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  that's causing sacrifices in the moment of other stuff, like
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  being with the people that are actually part of our here and
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  now, focusing on creating a life in the moment that we want as
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  opposed to leaving something after we're gone.
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  So just and I'm not suggesting that we don't work towards a
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  legacy because I think it's a beautiful thought and I actually
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  think about it myself often. But the reality is if I'm
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  thinking about that and I and that only, and I'm not focused
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  on being in the here and now, what am I giving up?
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  What am I missing? What am I moving in the wrong
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  direction with? So I think there's a balance
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  here and I and that's what I really wanted to bring up today.
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  Just some food for thought about this.
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  Because if you're so focused and future paced out for something
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  that is not even, you're not even going to be here for.
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  You have to really think about the fact that you are missing
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  the moments of being in the space that you want with those
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  that you want to be with. And you're not necessarily
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  taking into consideration what that means for what those people
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  are going through. You're just completely and
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  totally myopic in the sense that you're thinking legacy, legacy,
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  legacy, legacy, but you're not thinking about what you want to
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  share with them. Now maybe while you're creating
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  that and carving out a balance, to me this is all about a
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  balance. Finding a way to say I can have
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  both, I can do both. But not being unrealistic with
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  the fact that you have to balance your time in the spaces,
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  that means something to you. So many times we get imbalanced
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  as human beings. We get all work oriented or all
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  lazy or just all focused on ourselves, and the selfishness
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  comes out, you know? And before you know it, you're
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  not focused on the small stuff of being with other people,
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  having other people in your world and having that matter to
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  you. You're just thinking about one
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  thing, and that one thing is somewhere way out there, and
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  you'd probably be dead by the time that one thing comes
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  around, especially if it's part of your legacy.
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  So how do you, how do you stop that?
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  Well, the first thing is you have to figure out, sit down and
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  actually write out what does that legacy look like?
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  What are the important parts of it and what is the overall
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  mission of that legacy? Like, really think about that.
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  What is the overall mission of the legacy?
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  What is it that you want people to remember you for?
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  And then you have to realize that some of those people are
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  here now, some of those people are here right now.
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  So what are they thinking about you in this moment?
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  What are they believing about you in this moment?
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  Are they believing that you are a person?
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  That's there for them. Are they believing that you're a
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  person that's selfish? Are they believing that you're a
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  person that's self-centered? Are they believing that you
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  don't have time for them? Are they believing that there's
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  just, you know, not enough of you to go around and they don't
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  matter, 'cause that's the kind of stuff you need to know.
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  If you really want to create more balance and more love in
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  your life, you have to figure that part out because that's a
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  real situation that's showing up.
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  So do a little homework for yourself.
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  Think about this and see exactly what it is that you need to know
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  so that you don't have these issues.
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  Show up and it's short and sweet today because it's right to the
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  point. But I just had to ask the
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  questions because it's got me thinking myself.
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  I had a person in my life who I haven't seen in many years, but
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  he passed away and it just got me thinking about all of this.
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  And I just, you know, be in the here and now be in the moment.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.