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Glow Stick Moments · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today we are going To talk about glow sticks, you must be
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  thinking to yourself. Like, why the hell are we
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  talking about glow? Sticks, well, a glow stick as we
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  all know long, plastic thing. Some mystery material inside of
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  it. You looks like nothing when you
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  take it out of the package except a long plastic tube.
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  And when you snap it, you crack it.
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  You almost break it. It begins to glow.
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  And there is a story that's been roaming around, author unknown
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  for many years about how this woman recognized, As she was
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  watching her kids play with glow sticks and how they were
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  snapping that she heard God speak to her and say that just
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  like the glow stick. I had to crack you.
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  In order for you to completely see your purpose in fulfill and
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  shine. And I love that metaphor because
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  it's so true. We all think to ourselves, you
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  know, why is this happening to me?
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  You know, and we've heard the reframe most of us have heard
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  the reframe of what's not happening.
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  Meaning to you, it's happening for you.
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  The first time I heard that I was going through a divorce and
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  I was just like, oh, this is just not what I needed to hear,
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  right this moment because my frame of mine was not healthy
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  enough to hear that perspective. But the truth is, it did happen
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  for me. There were lots of parts of my
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  life that have happened for me. In fact, now I look at it and I
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  say, okay, if I did not go through all of that, I certainly
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  could not be here in this. Place that I am now teaching all
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  of you, what? I'm teaching you and those
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  lessons, those moments of the cracking, where the light can
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  kind of seep out of you to me. That's the time when you know,
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  faith comes in, that's when God is with us or whatever.
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  You choose to believe we're the universe and God have come
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  together as one with us. And we are now in this position
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  to shine, we have a moment of where that Light leaks out and
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  we get to decide what that perspective is.
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  And and in that moment, when you ask yourself and you pause and
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  really, what can I make this mean?
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  What does this mean to me? Now what should it mean to me?
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  Where do I want it to go? How do I choose to show up?
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  You've heard me ask that question before, but it matters
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  and this is because you're in sacred, Holy Ground at that
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  time. You're, you're not thinking of
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  it from the worst terms. Yes.
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  Sometimes you have to measure. Okay, where am I?
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  And sometimes you have to go. Oh yeah, I'm in a kayak and it's
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  sinking. Okay, great move my ass, get
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  myself going but you don't have to stay disempowered and when
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  you remember this little tiny story about the glow stick and
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  how those cracks that moment that shocked is all about
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  helping us to see and pushes us to our greatness then.
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  You have a gift in my opinion, you know, everyone has asked me
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  this in reference to the podcast.
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  Why it took me so long to put a podcast out there because I have
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  friends that have been doing it forever.
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  I have friend who has, I don't know, 11 million downloads on
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  his podcast. Why did it take you so long?
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  And the truth was, I was comfortable if I was really
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  honest about it. The truth was, I was
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  comfortable. I like writing my Books.
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  I like staying keeping to myself and I was comfortable.
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  And this year I turned the same age.
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  My father was when he died, my father was very young when he
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  died and I turned the same age. He was when he died and I
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  started thinking about the fact that gosh, I can't imagine dying
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  at this point in my life because I feel like I have so much more
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  to give. And in that moment it was a glow
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  stick moment. Ami still get choked up even
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  thinking about it. It was a move your ass kind of
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  moment. What are you doing?
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  Why are you doing this? You have gifts.
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  Go share your gifts. Glow.
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  Stick moment. And in the process of thinking
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  about it, it was okay. Well I don't want to travel
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  because I don't want to go back on the road and speak and do all
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  that stuff. It's just not for me anymore,
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  but this is a great way for me to be able to reach everybody
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  quickly and a little bit each morning so that everybody can be
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  taking something useful into their day.
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  And in doing that, I had such an epiphany because I was in my
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  chicken coop when I had that happen and I said, oh my gosh,
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  this is one of my favorite places.
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  Is this is where I want to shoot it from.
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  And boom. Here we are.
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  But I had to allow myself to focus on something that was the
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  hardest thing in my world. Losing my dad and losing him at
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  such a young age, using losing when I was young and just going
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  back to that point and saying, well, how would I feel if I
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  actually was at the end of my life, would I, what would I be
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  leaving on the table? And I don't want to leave things
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  on the I'm going to play full out, you know what does it Def?
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  Leppard says it's better to burn out than fade away.
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  Well, maybe sometimes in certain situations.
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  Yes, it is. So I challenge you to sit there
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  and ask yourself about this and you know, what are your glow
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  stick moments? What are the things that you're
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  going to change the meaning of so that they mean something so
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  profound to you. That they move your butt, get
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  your ass in gear so that you don't allow yourself to just sit
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  what are the ones that are going to.
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  Change how you show up with other people in your world and
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  and significantly shift you because those are the ones that
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  matter my friend. So I will see you guys tomorrow
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  and hopefully this will crack some light into your day.
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  Have a great one guys. Bye.
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  Change how you show up with other people in your world and
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  and significantly shift you because those are the ones that
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  matter my friend. So I will see you guys tomorrow
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  and hopefully this will crack some light into your day.
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  Have a great one guys. Bye.