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Season 4 - Episode 303 - Gratitude & Thankfulness can be tricky! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good Morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my Chicken coop and I
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  come out here. Every day to record a podcast
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  to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, happy
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  Thanksgiving. So this is an interesting
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  concept today. I'm, I first, I want to say
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  thank you very much and just from my bottom of my heart for
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  being here every single day for the last four years.
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  My God, Can you imagine that? We have been doing this for four
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  years? I can't, but I am so grateful
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  and thankful that everyone stays and comments and reaches out.
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  It just, it warms my heart and it shows that what I'm doing
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  matters and that is important to me and I appreciate all of you
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  more than you could ever know. Now with that being said,
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  today's lesson is about gratitude and being thankful and
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  understanding that it's not always easy, is it?
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  It is one of those things where someone may say to you, you
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  should be grateful for this, or you should be thankful for this,
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  or you think, hey, someone doesn't feel grateful or
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  thankful for me and how that affects us.
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  Because here's the here's the crazy thing, and I've said this
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  many times, so if you're a regular listener, I know you've
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  heard it, where we don't do things unless we get something
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  from it. As a human being, we have to
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  realize that no matter what is happening, we get something from
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  it. And it seems like that's crazy,
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  but when you really think about it and you study it, even if
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  you're getting negative attention, at least you're
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  getting attention. And that's what happens.
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  And even if it's not ideal, at least something is moving in the
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  right direction for you or there's always some agenda
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  behind the scenes that it feeds. So for me, doing this podcast
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  every day, I always feel like keeps me on my toes.
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  It keeps me associated to what I do and it keeps me learning
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  because I have to keep finding more and more information that I
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  want to share. So I have to learn more and more
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  information. So being that I label myself as
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  a lifelong learner, I really want to keep learning.
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  So I keep going out and studying and getting different
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  certificates and learning stuff. And like right now I'm deep in
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  the weeds, no pun intended, with all of the learning about herbs
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  and what they can do for you and how to do an apothecary and all
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  of these different things. That's fascinating to me.
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  But I'm getting something from that.
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  Like I'm not just doing that to share that with the world.
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  I'm doing that because it's filling me up.
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  And that's how that works. We always have to have things
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  that fill us up. So when someone says, you know,
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  I'm grateful for you, it's they're getting something by
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  saying that they're getting something by feeling that
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  they're getting something by whatever it is that they're
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  doing. And oftentimes we're told we
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  should be grateful and we don't feel it.
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  We don't feel grateful. We feel whatever I've had people
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  say to me in my lifetime, well, you should feel grateful.
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  And I'm like, are you? Are you high?
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  Like I don't feel grateful about this at all.
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  I feel used. I feel taken advantage of.
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  I feel like you don't see who I am and whether the situation was
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  personal or in business. And I've had it happen many
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  times. I have to realize that gratitude
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  and thankfulness are just like any of our other emotions.
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  We get something from them and our definitions don't always
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  match and they are sometimes hard, hard ones to deal with.
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  As much as we want to think they're the easy ones.
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  No, no, no, they're not. They can be really tricky.
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  And I can tell you, I can think of an instance right now in my
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  past as I'm talking about this, where I was told I should be
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  grateful. And I was like, I am astonished
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  that grateful is the word that this person came up with because
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  I was tormented and that's how I felt by this person.
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  I felt tormented by this person. So again, this is one of those
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  lessons on this day where we can be grateful for our health and
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  we can be grateful that we're alive and our families.
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  Some of us can be grateful for our families and some of us may
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  not be grateful for our families.
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  And that's the whole point of this.
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  We sit there and we look at it and we go, wow, this is the
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  thing. This is the beautiful thing
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  about emotions. This is the weird quirky thing
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  about emotions. They're always fluid, they're
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  always moving. And sometimes we just have to
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  look at it and go, OK, I get it. I get it.
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  It's just like any of the other ones.
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  So when I tell someone I am grateful for them and I am
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  thankful for them, believe me, I genuinely mean it because I've
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  thought about it. I, I like to give those words as
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  a gift because it is a gift that I am certain I'm giving and I'm
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  not doing it with resentment or anything else because I
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  understand they are just precious emotions to give away.
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  So know today that I genuinely appreciate you guys being here
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  and keeping me on my toes and I'm thankful that you show up
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  every day because it really does make me a better coach, makes me
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  a better teacher, and hopefully it helps make you guys better as
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  well. So with that being said, happy
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  Thanksgiving and I hope you guys have a beautiful, wonderful day
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  and remember it. It's not always as easy as it
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  seems with this. Have a blessed one.
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  Bye.