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Season 2 - Episode 263 - Faith is a habit too! · 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,
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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're talking about the
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  fact that faith is a habit as well as other things.
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  But faith is a habit. And I debated that with somebody
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  recently and they said, well, faith is about beliefs.
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  And yes, that's part of it, but it's also a habit, because if
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  there's one thing that I've recognized about.
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  People who profess that they have large amounts of faith,
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  sometimes it's very convenient for that faith.
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  And what I mean by that is they have it when it's convenient,
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  but when they don't, they fall apart.
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  And they don't rely on the faith that they supposedly have in
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  whatever their religion might be or their spiritual beliefs might
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  be. They say they have it when
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  things are moving along well, but in the moments when things
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  are difficult, in the moment when there's pain, in the
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  moment, when there's something else going on that's unpleasant,
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  they don't rely on it. And I have to say I've been just
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  as guilty of this is the next person because I I can't
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  describe the amount of pain that.
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  You get in life. I mean, it just happens.
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  It's part of the process of being human.
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  And I believe it shapes us. You know, the more you go
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  through life, the more you recognize that there are things
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  that shape us in all of the things that happen.
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  It's just just you have to decide what shape you want to
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  be. It's kind of like that diamond
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  forming under pressure. And you know, do you want to be
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  an Oval? Do you want to be a square?
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  When they finally get to cut you, how do you want to be?
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  Do you want to have the little fissures in you?
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  Or do you want to be a perfect diamond?
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  And it all comes down to the choices that we make.
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  So cultivating a habit of faith. Is a daily moment to moment
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  practice. Because if you have faith, and
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  if you have absolute faith, and I want to be really clear about
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  this, absolute faith is hard work because you are
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  surrendering to the process. And it doesn't mean you don't
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  give make good decisions. It doesn't mean that you're not
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  smart about what you're doing because you're being guided to
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  do it. But what it does mean is that
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  you have absolute faith and you refuse to allow your connected
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  energies and your emotions to go down a dark hole where in fact
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  it feels. Feels off where you feel
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  depressed and sad and ugly, you just refuse it.
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  You're like, Nope, I can go through this problem, deal with
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  the problem. I can be pissed off, I can be
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  angry, I can be upset. But I underneath it, I'm still
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  happy, focused, and faithful. And I am absolutely faithful
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  that this will work out. And you keep cultivating the
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  thoughts of the faith so it can deliver for you what it needs
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  to. Because we know like attracts
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  like. So if we're focused on something
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  negative, we're going to attract more negative things.
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  And when it comes to having faith, if there's one thing that
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  I've realized over the years for myself is that it used to be
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  very cyclical. Meaning I would have it and I
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  would work on it and then I would forget.
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  It's kind of like when you're doing a half ass diet and you
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  say, OK, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna workout today, but then you go
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  and you eat a cookie or you go to Mexican food and you eat the
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  chips and cheese or you just keep putting things in your
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  mouth throughout the day and you're like, oh you know, I
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  don't know why this week I work so hard.
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  Well, guess what? That's because you weren't
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  rigid. You weren't strict.
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  You didn't put yourself in a box and.
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  Cultivating any habit requires that consistency, consistency,
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  consistency, doing the work, doing the work.
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  But with cultivating a habit of faith, it is moment to moment.
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  It is always moment to moment where you have to make decisions
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  about who you want to be, what you want to think, how you want
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  to show up in everything. And faith is probably one of the
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  biggest ones, because you are, you're talking about the fact
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  that if you're, let's say it's a religious faith, let's say you
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  are a person who absolutely 100% is into the faith that you have.
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  Then what's the reason you're not relying on that faith?
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  What's the reason? You're relying on the fact that
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  you can still have all these negative thoughts.
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  And then they consume you and they ruin your day.
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  Because if you have the real faith that you talk about, then
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  you should be able to have those thoughts and turn them around,
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  have the thoughts, turn them around, have those thoughts,
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  turn them around. Because you know God's got your
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  back. And that's what the IT boils
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  down to, is that God's got your back.
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  Doesn't matter. The faith, it matters that
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  whatever you believe God to be has your back.
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  And that should be that could even be your mantra.
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  I don't need to focus on this. God's got my back.
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  I can do all the. I don't need to focus on the
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  worry. Let's say I might have to do
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  some tasks to straighten things out.
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  But guess what? I I know he's got my back.
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  It's gonna be effortless. It's gonna be easier than I
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  think. He's got my back.
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  I'm not sure why it showed up, but he's got my back.
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  And if you're spiritual, it's the same thing.
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  The universe, all it brings together.
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  Everything. All the energies, all, all the,
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  you know, it doesn't matter if you believe in angels, they
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  they're there to help you. So it's talking to yourself
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  about your faith and cultivating it and using it every single day
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  that way. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very, very, very abundant fun day and I will see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.