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Season 3 - Episode 35 - The happiness list · 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 let me ask you a question. Do you have a happiness list?
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  I know that's an odd thing to keep, right?
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  But do you have a happiness list?
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  Do you have a list of things that bring you joy that if
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  somebody wanted, if someone didn't know you and they said,
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  hey, I would love to figure out what makes you happy.
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  You could say let me show you. And you could actually pull out
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  said list and actually show it to them and say, hey, here are
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  the things that make me happy. Do you remember the movie Sound
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  of Music? For those of you who have never
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  seen it, it's a classic old movie and it's wonderful.
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  And Julie Andrews has this song. These are a few of my favorite
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  things, and having a list of that always reminds me whenever
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  I talk about the happiness list. This is so critical to say, OK,
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  these are things that make me feel good.
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  These are things that make me happy just to be around them,
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  like very simple things to very complex things.
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  The list is your list, so it can be as abundant or as limited as
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  you choose because it's your list of happiness.
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  But most of us do not have on paper a list of things that make
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  us happy. And the real question is why?
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  How come nobody's ever asked us to have this happiness list?
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  And when we do this, when we make the list, the fun part of
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  it is you have to unleash your creativity.
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  So that's always fun. Unleash your imagination.
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  But don't limit yourself to the things that you have already
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  done. Put things on there.
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  Like if you've never travelled out of the country and that's
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  something that would make you happy, then put it on the list,
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  even though you've never done it.
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  It does not have to be a list that represents things that you
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  have already done. It can be a list of things you
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  have not done. For instance I've been talking
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  about making bread and I have still not gotten to the point
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  where I've jumped in and done done it.
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  But I know just the smell of fresh baked bread makes me
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  happy. And whenever I have the
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  experience or the chance to actually have fresh baked bread,
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  I go crazy because I I just. I love our farmers market always
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  has these. This man who's got this like
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  clay oven, wood fired oven that he brings on a trailer behind
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  the truck and he bakes this rice bread right in it and it's an
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  old world recipe that he has and it is insanely delicious.
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  I mean it, it knocks your socks off.
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  Not to mention he does these butters that is on my happiness
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  list when I can go and have the that a slice of that bread
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  because he sells it a slice with the melted butter on it.
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  It Will Rock your world. It is that wonderful.
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  Now that being said, are those the only types of things on my
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  happiness list? No.
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  Chickens obviously are on my happiness list.
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  Being able to go for walks on my happiness list, Painting
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  happiness list, reading happiness list, Being surrounded
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  by animals happiness list, Being able to spend time with my
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  children happiness list. So going to the beach,
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  collecting shells, working in the garden, you name it, I have
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  got pages and pages and pages of what can be tapped into as a
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  happiness list. And the more you start to
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  cultivate this, the more you attracted into your life.
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  So if you have not started one, I am going to suggest that you
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  get a notebook and you start a happiness list.
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  And at first when you start looking at this, it's going to
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  be difficult. It is going to be difficult, my
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  friends, because you're going to say, all right, well, I've got a
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  few things I can throw on there. But then you start to think,
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  jeez, is that all it is? And maybe maybe that's it.
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  But the reason it's going to be difficult is because it's very
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  high level stuff. When it first comes out, it's
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  just what's at the top of your head.
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  And then you have to dig deep. You have to go to the deeper
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  side of the list, The little tiny things that make you happy,
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  like someone getting you a cup of coffee or the smell of a cup
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  of coffee like crazy. Things on my 1 crazy thing on my
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  list is Jelly doughnuts. Now why do Jelly doughnuts make
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  me happy? Because my dad used to bring
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  them to me in a Dunkin' Donuts paper bag, a cup of coffee and a
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  Jelly doughnut, and it was his way of just sharing with me.
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  And he would show up at my house with that, and he would leave it
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  on my desk, in my office, at my house, and I would be so excited
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  every time I saw that. So now when I go, I can go to
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  Dunkin' Donuts and get a Jelly doughnut in a bag, and all of a
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  sudden I feel excited about that because it brings me joy.
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  So you've got to start looking for all the little things, Not
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  just the big things, the little things.
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  Look at all the little things. The smell of crayons.
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  Brand new crayons make me insanely happy, and Plato makes
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  me insanely happy. And then someone recently told
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  me about Sparkling Plato where it's got glitter, and I had no
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  idea they made that. So all these little tiny things
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  add up for your happiness list. So when you are off, when you
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  are feeling that you are down in the dumps, when you are feeling
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  that your energy has been sucked dry by other people or just life
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  overall, you can go to your happiness and you can pull it
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  out and feel great about it. So get your happiness list
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  together. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.