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Season 2 - Episode 229 - WE ALL HAVE HARD DAYS! · 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,
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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
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  coop. So today I want to talk to you
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  about something that we all experience.
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  And when I say all, I do mean all of us.
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  Hard days. Hard days happen.
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  And I think that you think that too hard, Dottie.
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  Yeah, Dottie says the same thing.
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  Hard days happen. And it doesn't matter who you
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  are, what you do, where you go. If you're a human, hard days
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  happen. Because that's our nature,
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  right? Things are never going to be
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  100% perfect and when we have these hard days it's it's not
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  about avoiding them. It's not about saying I never
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  want to have a hard day, because lots of times hard days lead to
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  great things in in the aftermaths of them.
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  We just have to allow them to cultivate and over time.
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  I have recognized that some of the hardest things that I have
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  ever gone through in my life have really cultivated me to be
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  a different person and to be a better person.
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  And those hard days are here for us to grow with.
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  Where I think we get so hung up in our humanness is that.
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  And especially now, when everything on social media is
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  supposed to look so perfect and everyone's relationship is so
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  perfect and their hair is so perfect and everything's so
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  perfect. That we we think we can't have
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  hard days and we think we can't have hard moments or bad things
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  happen to us and it really is part of being human.
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  We have all had them. The idea is not avoiding them
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  because you can't avoid the bad stuff.
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  You can do everything you can in your in your actions, in your
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  mind, in your law of attraction, everything.
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  You can do absolutely everything.
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  And things are still going to happen.
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  And people will often say, well, it doesn't happen to us, it
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  happens for us. And sometimes that just
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  irritates us when we hear that in the moment because that's not
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  where we are to capture that. And I myself have had somebody
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  say that to me when I was in a very bad place, and they've
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  said, well, it's not happening to you, it's happening for you.
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  And I just wanted to punch them in that moment because that's on
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  them for not having the sensory acuity to not say something like
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  that in that moment. Did it make me angry?
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  Yes. Actually pissed me off but I
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  obviously have the ability to come back from that and and
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  later on I was able to recognize that was probably a very true
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  statement but in the moment I couldn't hear it because my
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  emotion was high and we all know what happens when our emotion
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  goes up, our intelligence goes down.
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  So this was this is no different and when you recognize that
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  sometimes. These things show up to move us.
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  Like, let's just say you have a job that is just absolutely not
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  what you like. It is not fulfilling for you.
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  It doesn't give you what you want.
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  It drags you down and you're working your ass off.
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  You're doing a good job and they don't recognize your good job
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  and they are just on you about things.
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  And you know, you know in your heart of hearts that you are
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  struggling to make it work there.
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  Maybe, just maybe, all of the pain that you're experiencing is
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  so that you will move and go to the next place.
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  Maybe in relationships it's the same thing when they fall apart.
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  It's so more things can fall together, you know?
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  Sometimes it has to happen that way.
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  But you can't pick up on that when you're stuck in the moments
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  of despair and you're stuck in the moments of having to hear.
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  The painfulness of what they're telling you or what you're you
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  know, other people in your world are telling you.
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  So what I want to convey to you all today is bad things happen.
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  Crazy things happen, hard days happen.
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  It's not that they're not going to happen, and it's not that you
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  should try to avoid them, because if you're out trying to
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  avoid them, that means your focus is on avoiding, which
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  means you attract more things to avoid.
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  You should just focus on that, you know, having that moment of
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  being happy and living your life.
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  And when the bad things show up, when the hard days happen, you
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  pause and you say to yourself, okay, this is in this moment.
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  This is not a forever moment. I think remembering this is not
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  a forever moment is so important.
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  There are no forever moments like that.
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  Everything. Grows.
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  Everything moves. Everything's in constant flux.
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  That's just because that's the nature of the world and the
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  universe. There is nothing permanent.
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  So recognizing that, you can tell yourself this is just in
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  this moment. So I'm going to go to sleep.
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  I am going to put myself in a state of awareness that tomorrow
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  things will look different. You don't have to go to the
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  place where things will look better, but they will look
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  different. You will have a different
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  perspective. Go for a walk.
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  Get some water, Hydrate yourself, and allow yourself to
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  have that moment to pause. Collect yourself and regroup.
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  And ask the very important question that you hear me say so
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  much on this podcast. What else could this mean?
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  Because if you recognize that you're asking things like what
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  else could it mean, then you can figure out what else it could
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  mean. And maybe there's a sign in it.
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  Look for the signs. Look for the things that are
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  driving you to go to a different place.
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  What else could this tell me? What else could this tell me?
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  Where else can this is pushing me.
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  Where else is this moving me? Ask the right questions.
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  Take the break, Pause and collect yourself and put
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  yourself back. But keep knowing it is just this
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  moment. It is just right now.
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  This is not forever. And I promise you it will
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  brighten back up because it always does.
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  And you know that old saying it's always the darkest before
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  the dawn is not, is not wrong and.
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  Sometimes you just need to know that you know people out there
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  are also having bad days and that they all change.
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  So I just want you all to know. Happens to all of us, myself
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  included. So I am sending you all a huge
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  hug today and I hope that you are having great days today and
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  I hope you're not having a rough day.
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  But if you are, I just know that tomorrow it will be much better
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  and things will change. And look for the good stuff.
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  All right my friends, I will talk to you soon.
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  Bye.