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Season 2 - Episode 349 - The grass is always greener… · 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, we've all
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  heard the phrase the grass looks greener on the other side.
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  And I think we've all experienced what that feels
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  like. We all understand what it means.
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  We all have kind of got a sense of the fact we understand what
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  this phrase means to us and we've all committed it.
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  We've all, we've done that, we've all looked at our
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  neighbours or friends, Co workers, whatever and we think
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  well they have it better than we do.
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  It's it's probably one of the biggest human conditions that we
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  have and and it really stems from the fact that we are all
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  growth oriented creatures. So we look at other people, we
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  see what they're doing, have being, and we say I want that.
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  And that's how we kind of judge things for ourselves and kind of
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  run out and do it. However, before we start doing
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  that, we have to recognize you have to stop staring at
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  everybody else's grass. You have to stop comparing.
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  You have to stop complaining that your grass isn't working,
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  that your grass is yellow, that your grass is too tall, that
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  your grass is too long, whatever it might be.
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  We have to start looking at our grass as if it's absolutely the
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  fact that we are not caring for it the way we need to.
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  We need to stop comparing our grass to others and start taking
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  care of our grass the way they might take care of their grass.
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  So when we when we actually, and it's such a great metaphor,
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  because when you say you're looking at the grass, you're
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  actually comparing the end result.
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  You're not comparing the process to it.
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  You are not there all the time to watch what this person may do
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  to take care of their grass. And that might be a lot of
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  things. They might be using fertilizer.
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  They might be regularly watering.
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  They might be, you know, out there aerating, giving it all
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  kinds of, you know, nutrients that you are not putting on
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  yours. And what a great metaphor that
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  is for life because there are so many times where we sit there
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  and we say things and we're like, well, I'm looking at so
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  and so and she gets this and she gets this, But you're not
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  recognizing that this person gets up at 4:00 in the morning.
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  They they go to the gym before anything else even happens.
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  They're doing all the little tiny things that matter into the
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  the world of self development and self growth and outcomes.
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  And they are excelling because of that.
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  And you're looking at their end result and you're judging it and
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  you're saying, well, that grass looks awesome and I want to be
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  over there. Well, but why?
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  Why do you want to be over there?
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  Because, you know, we all know we've all been in those
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  situations where we've actually said, well, my job sucks and I
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  want to go somewhere else. And if in fact, during the
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  pandemic that happened a lot, a lot of people left their jobs
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  because they thought it looked better somewhere else and then
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  they go to the new place and then they're miserable
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  afterwards, they're like, oh, this is the worst thing ever.
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  I this isn't at all what I wanted.
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  I want to go back to my old job and they feel foolish for for
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  leaving. But it's all back to this
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  principle of looking and comparing, looking and
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  comparing. And sometimes we look at surface
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  and we don't look below And one thing especially in you know,
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  the the job oriented space, you'll look at tasks, you'll
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  look at specific benefits, you'll look at certain things.
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  But you don't look at culture. And you just because someone
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  says they have a culture on paper does not mean that the
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  culture is actually real. And unless you dove in and
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  actually asked to talk to people, you know, ask people who
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  work there what it's like, you'll never really know.
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  It's just the nature of the beast.
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  So again, taking care of the grass means you're actually
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  doing your homework. You're doing all the stuff that
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  you need to do in order to figure it out and really making
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  sure that before you are done with something, someone,
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  somewhere, you have to give yourself the gift of sitting
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  there and saying am I doing all the things that I could do,
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  should do, would do in order to make make sure I'm getting the
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  most out of it. And I'll tell you 99.9% of the
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  people I speak to work with are not and myself included.
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  I know there are things that I as much as I do and and am.
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  There's always stuff that I could be doing better and making
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  better, and that's just part of understanding the process of
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  saying this is about growing. Being a human is about growing,
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  and this is a big chunk of it. So do yourself a favor.
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  Stop comparing your lawn to everybody else's.
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  Stop comparing the grass. Start looking at yourself.
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  Take care of your lawn. Water your lawn.
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  Give yourself the gift of being able to do that, because it's a
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  tremendous thing when you recognize, hey, I turned my
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  crappy brown, spotty lawn into something amazing.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.