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Season 2 Episode 274 - Your gifts mean less until you share them! · 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 coop.
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  So this morning we are talking about our gifts and what they
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  mean. So when you have a gift, when
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  you have a talent, when you have something that is special,
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  unique to you and we are all, even if we all are knitters and
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  we're all knitting, we all have our unique way we handle things,
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  do things, make things, see things.
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  Have you ever gone to a paint class where it's like a wine and
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  paint? And you go in and you sit down
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  and the teacher's up in front and she has this picture and
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  she's painting the picture. And she says, all right,
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  everyone follow along. And at the end she shows what
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  everybody stands up for at the front.
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  Everybody shows their paintings compared to others.
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  And we all looked at the same picture, yet everyone's picture
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  is different. Amazing, right?
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  Like we all saw the same thing, yet we all produced something
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  slightly different. It's like absolute magic when it
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  comes to human beings because we all see things slightly
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  differently. And for me, this is one of those
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  beautiful, beautiful things about having talent and having
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  gifts within us. Even if your talent is just to
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  give love to people. Even if your talent is just
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  kindness. Even if your talent is just your
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  excellent hugger, whatever it might be.
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  Each one of us has gifts and talents, and they're special,
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  and they're unique to us. But guess what?
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  Here's the trick to all of this. They don't mean as much unless
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  you share them. Because what if I'm an excellent
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  hugger and I don't hug anybody, right?
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  Does that seem right? Like, oh, you give the best hugs
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  and you've heard that in your life, you give the best hugs or
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  you are sucked. Such an exceptional listener.
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  I have a group of ladies that I coach and one of them made a
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  comment the other day about one of the other ones.
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  They're all friends. And she said to me, you know.
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  She is really the best listener I have ever spent time with in
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  my life. And I said I agree and why do
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  you think that she's such an excellent listener?
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  And she said, I don't know, but there's just something about her
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  when she like sits down and she's with you in person, you
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  just feel like she she is riveted on you.
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  And that is a talent. That is a gift.
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  But how good is that if you don't share it with anybody?
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  Rightly, If she's by herself and she's home and she's intently
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  listening like she does, and it's to a television show, a
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  video, an audio course, a book, sure, that's fabulous for her.
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  But doesn't it mean more when you actually go share it?
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  I mean, wow. I have clients say the same
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  thing. To me it's like, gosh, I I can't
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  understand how you hear those things when I'm talking to you.
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  How do you pick up on what's really going on in my head And
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  it's because I have this wiring. But that wiring and that
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  training is no good unless I share it with somebody.
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  It's just useless. It's.
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  I mean, it's no, I won't say it's completely useless, but it
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  doesn't. It does OK for me, but guess
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  what it does for others? Oh gosh, it takes them to a
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  whole new level, takes them to outer space with it because it
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  all of a sudden it feels. Like they feel your energy and
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  that's what it really comes down to.
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  This is an energy share. This is something when you are
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  sharing your energy that way, when you are giving of yourself
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  to others, it shifts the world and it shifts their world.
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  And when you start shifting people one at a time, one at a
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  time, one at a time, it makes a massive difference for people's
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  self development, their growth, how they feel, how they show up,
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  it is tremendous. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  figure out, you know, okay, what are my gifts that I can share
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  with people. And I, you know, this is one of
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  those challenges where people will say, I don't know about
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  this, what gifts do I have that I can share?
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  And they'll often tell me what they're not good at.
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  I mean, everyone knows what they're not good at because
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  we've all learned that through other people, through other, you
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  know, experiences. Things that have happened to us.
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  Here's what I'm not good at. And for me, one of the things
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  that I'm inherently really great at is growing things.
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  Whether it's loud chickens or it's plants, vegetables, you
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  know, whatever it might be. I'm really good at that.
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  Like, I know that's one of my God giving gifts to take that.
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  Just love doing it. Love taking the seeds.
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  Love taking the plants that have been thrown on the side of the
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  road. Love taking things that have a
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  little plant right now that I found in the parking lot at
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  Lowe's that someone drove over someone.
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  Stomped over. It was just a little piece that
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  broke off of something. That someone was buying and they
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  left it there for dead and I brought it home and fixed it and
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  now we are getting ready to go into our second pot and it's
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  growing like crazy. And I can't tell you the joy
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  that that brings me. That is my gift.
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  But what if I was in Lowe's that day and I didn't actually pick
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  that plant up? What if I didn't do anything?
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  What if I just walked right by it?
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  I saw it. What if I didn't do anything and
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  I just said, you know what, I'm not going to use my gift today.
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  That plant would not be alive. Instead, I brought it home.
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  I put it into this little jar to get its roots going, put it into
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  a solution, put it in the right conditions, and within a week we
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  had a bounce back. So that's me utilizing one of my
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  gifts so that. It can bring joy into something
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  else, into the energy I shared them, into the collective energy
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  that we all expel and participate in.
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  So it's really important to remember it only works when you
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  share them. It does not work when you keep
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  it to yourself. So go out and share your gifts
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  today, my friends and I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.