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Season 2 - Episode 316 - Holidays! Gratitude · 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 today in our final holidays conversations, we are going to
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  talk about being in a state of gratitude because going into the
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  holidays we should all be grateful for the things that we
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  have around us. But sometimes it's really hard
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  when things are difficult to be grateful for them.
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  Sometimes it's really hard to find things.
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  That you can be grateful for when your head is stuck on the
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  big problems, or especially right now, stuck on the problems
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  of the world. And even though you are safe and
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  you are OK and your family's OK. We get so tied up emotionally
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  because we are emotional creatures, and rightfully so
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  with everything that's going on in the world right now.
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  It's very painful, very sad and in my view it's so.
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  Unnecessary on so many levels. If we could all just get to a
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  better place where we could each hear each other, but we're not
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  there. And as humans, we evolve over
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  time and things take time. And recognizing that and putting
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  yourself into a place of. I refuse to be part of the
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  problem, but I will be part of the solution from the standpoint
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  of sending positive energy and positive thoughts and mindful
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  thoughts to it all. And being grateful for the
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  healing even before it's done is very powerful.
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  So being in a state of gratitude and being in a state of
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  positivity is something that doesn't just happen.
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  You have to cultivate it. You have to work on it.
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  It's a non-stop process every day.
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  And I shoot this podcast, as you know, I shoot from the chicken
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  coop because this place brings me joy.
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  And I know that sounds crazy, But watching them eat oatmeal
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  and bananas this morning, on this chilly morning, and digging
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  and having their own little world about how you know they're
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  out here, it just brings me joy. And I'm grateful for them.
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  I'm grateful for their eggs. I'm grateful for their
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  shenanigans. I'm grateful for how quirky they
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  are. I'm grateful for how relentless
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  they are getting the things that they want.
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  I'm grateful. That they're funny and you name
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  it. I can find something to be
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  grateful for with them. It to me, if you're cultivating
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  gratitude in the smallest of small things in your life, magic
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  happens. So as I'm standing here and I'm
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  looking down at Ella and I see all the modeled feathers in her
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  and how beautiful they are, I can take a moment and say, gosh,
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  that is, I'm so grateful. I noticed those because they're
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  blue and Gray and purple and they've got all these
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  interesting colors in her. And to me, somebody who loves
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  art and loves color, I can find a big huge gratitude in the fact
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  that I noticed that. I can find gratitude in the
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  color of the eggs that they produce.
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  I can find gratitude in the fact that they all have these quirky
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  little sounds that they make. Each one of them has a different
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  voice, and they're they actually do make different sounds, each
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  chicken, but they have a different.
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  They don't all sound the same when you know them, and that's
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  interesting. Just like human voices don't all
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  sound the same. Well, chicken voices don't all
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  sound the same, and I find gratitude in that.
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  So when you start cultivating gratitude ahead of time before
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  you get into the actual days before you get into all of this,
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  it, it makes your your ability to tolerate everything much
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  higher because the gratitude has been built up.
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  It's like a muscle in the gym. You're building it so.
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  You know, somebody, if someone's complaining about or you're
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  thinking, I just don't want to have to buy all these gifts.
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  I don't want to have to go through all the wrapping.
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  Maybe it's time to start thinking about, well, you know,
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  here's the interesting thing. It won't be forever.
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  I won't be able. I won't be doing this forever.
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  So all of a sudden you start to feel grateful for it as soon as
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  you recognize things are not forever.
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  Everything is impermanent and things are always in flux.
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  You start to not mind so much doing some of this.
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  You start to actually feel good about the fact that I get the
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  opportunity to do this. I have an opportunity to be able
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  to, you know, buy Legos again or have have little little things
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  that people like. They know when someone looks
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  forward to your the things that you wrap up for them and they're
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  stalking, you know you're not going to have to do it forever.
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  So find your gratitude. Ahead of time, start thinking
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  about it. It's really helpful, too, to sit
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  down and say, OK, I'm going to write my points of things that I
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  can focus on or things that I want to choose to focus on for
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  gratitude for the season. Like I'm grateful for cooler
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  weather. I'm grateful for hot chocolate
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  and long pants and sweatshirts and cozy hats.
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  And I'm grateful for fireplaces. I'm grateful for being able to
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  watch Christmas movies and Christmas music or holiday
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  music. I'm grateful for the smell of
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  Turkey. Some people love to have that
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  smell of Turkey in the house. For me it's like pumpkin
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  muffins. So grateful for pumpkin muffins.
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  I love making them. Anything like that starts to
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  build you up ahead of time and sets you up to win.
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  So start your gratitude list, and you can also do that for
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  people. Make your list of the people
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  you're grateful for and what you're grateful for in that
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  person. Not just the person's name, but
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  what can you be grateful for with that person?
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  And I promise you, it shifts your energy.
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  And then you can have that list out and read it every day until
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  the end of the year. And you will have a very
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  different holiday season when you start this far ahead.
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  OK, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.