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Season 4 - Episode 94 - A grand thing · 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 happen 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 to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the world, so welcome to
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  the. Coop and let's start your day
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  off in a fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  We are standing in front of a seed table this morning because
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  I still have a bunch of flower heads that can't.
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  I haven't seeded them yet because, well, you know, it's
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  still that wonky part of spring where it could get cold, it may
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  get cold, it might not. It's been warm the last couple
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  days, but next week it's going to go back into where it should
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  be, which is a little bit cooler.
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  So I haven't put them out yet, but the reason I'm standing here
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  is because I have all these what look like dead flowers, but
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  they're filled with possibility because they're filled with
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  seeds. And all I keep thinking about is
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  that quote from Agatha Christie where she said just to be alive
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  is a grand thing. And I'm standing here thinking,
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  gosh, we look at this and we see the destruction.
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  We see them dead. They're dead.
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  As far as everyone's concerned, they would look at them and go,
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  oh, that's a dead flower, get rid of it.
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  But I look at this and I say, wow, this is just amazing
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  because it's pure potential. And then I get excited about
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  bringing them to life and I think about, wow, isn't it just
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  amazing to stop and think about being just alive?
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  Just taking a moment and saying, wow, I'm grateful that I am
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  alive. Waking up in the morning is a
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  gift. Every time you wake up, it's a
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  gift. And we don't think of it that
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  way. We don't think like, OK, I got
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  up and it's a gift. We think, oh God, what do I have
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  to do today? Most of us get up into a pattern
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  that's just get up and do do what you do.
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  You know, for me, that pattern involves getting animals taken
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  care of because they stare at me and I know they need things.
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  And you can't avoid Beaufort the way he stares at you.
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  He's just as big as I am, so I have to pay attention to him and
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  we go into our routines and unless we stop ourselves and say
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  I have to celebrate the fact that I have this opportunity to
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  feel like it's a grand thing to be alive, I won't do it.
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  I'll think about all the things that must be done.
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  I'll put the pressure on me and my mind shifts into a toxic
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  place. We all do it and we don't
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  necessarily think of it as toxic, but it is because it's
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  not bringing us what we want. What it's doing is keeping us
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  trapped in the illusion that we, we have to, you know, do, do,
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  do, do, do in order to, to be successful or be happy or all
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  this. But we can just choose it.
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  We can just choose to tap into the creative force.
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  We can just choose to say, I, I live in this abundant universe
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  and I'm going to feel good no matter what, even while I'm
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  feeding the dog. I, instead of sitting there and
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  looking at it and saying, OK, yes, I've got to feed the
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  animals. I've got to go through all this.
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  I can be grateful for them. I can be grateful that he, he is
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  a constant companion of mine and I can be grateful that I he lets
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  me kiss him on the head all the time and does not get annoyed
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  with me for doing it because that makes me feel good and I
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  think it makes him feel good. But my point is when you stop
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  and wonder and you really go into a state of wonder and you
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  start to recognize how letting go of all the limiting thoughts
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  and all the limiting beliefs and just saying it is a grand thing
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  just to be alive, that that is a fulfilling thought process.
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  It fills your heart up. It fills your soul up and it
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  allows you to let all the rest of it leak away.
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  Take, take that, pull those weeds out that you don't want
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  there because I've learned over and over and over that there is
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  constant wedding that has to take place in my mind, in my
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  heart, in the farm. It doesn't matter.
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  Weeds grow and you've got to pull them out and remembering
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  what I am not doing like that. Ah, the, the aw.
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  Now I get in a constant state of awe when I see flowers popping
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  out, when I see the stuff growing.
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  I think that's why I like to grow stuff so much is because I
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  love that response. I love to see that, look at
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  that, look at them going and it, it, it amazes me how the
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  transformation takes place. So I think that's why I do it.
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  But what's the, what's the thing that you do?
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  What's the thing that helps you get into that state of awe and
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  say it's a grand thing just to be alive?
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  And when you realize what it is, you have to keep doing it over
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  and over and over to lift yourself up because we are in a
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  society that drains us constantly with information of
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  negativity. So you have to tap out of that
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  and tap into something better, tap out of the negativity, tap
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  into the positivity. But the first part of it just
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  comes down to one simple thing to really understand that no
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  matter what is going on around you, if you woke up, it is a
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  grand thing. If you are back in your human
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  body, it is a grand moment. So be grateful for it and smile
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  and say, you know what, I can go out and I can make anything
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  happen because I'm present again today.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.