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Season 2 - Episode 295 - Obstacles can make us greater · 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 we're talking about overcoming obstacles because you
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  know, they're everyday in our world.
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  We can't ever say that we don't have obstacles to overcome.
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  Whether it's family, whether it's business, whether it's
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  physical, whether it's mental. The obstacles are there because
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  a flat Rd. that's just straight is.
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  Damn boring. Let's just face it.
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  It's damn boring. How many of you have ever gone
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  to the desert and just driven through a state that is
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  completely flat? Or somewhere in the world?
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  Because I know I have listeners all over the world, but
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  somewhere where it's completely flat for just hours, you're just
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  driving flat and there's nothing there.
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  There's nothing to see. There's it's just flat.
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  Just the road, straight road. And you know, at first it looks
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  cool, At first it seems really, really cool.
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  And then all of a sudden it becomes boring.
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  And it doesn't push us to grow. It doesn't do anything.
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  It's just flat. Well, that's that's what would
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  happen if you didn't have obstacles and things to overcome
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  and things to think about. And I'm not talking about tragic
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  things that, you know, we all have tragic things that show up.
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  We all have losses in our lives. I personally, my, my whole
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  extended family, my mother, my father, both sets of my
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  grandparents are all gone. So I have.
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  My daughter, my son, my husband and my cousins and my uncle and
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  aunt that I like, adore and that that to me is the loss of all of
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  those other people. Those are tragic things that
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  happen. But we we, we can't stay focused
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  on those. And I'm not talking about those
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  kind of things that are big like that.
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  I'm talking about everyday obstacles that show up.
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  Everyday, little obstacles, you know, things like the dishwasher
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  breaks or, you know, like a couple weeks ago my husband was
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  mowing the lawn and the mower chucked a rock and it broke one
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  of the glass doors at the front of the house.
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  That was annoying. Trust me, That was annoying
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  because, Oh my God, it's an obstacle we have to figure out
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  because it's a glass door. It's you can't just go in and
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  get it. You have to order it.
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  I'm worried that, you know, somebody's going to get cut with
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  glass because we have animals everywhere here and it was an
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  obstacle. But when you realize that those
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  obstacles are here for you to handle them, then you can start
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  to reshape it. So for instance, when that
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  happened, it was like, shocking because I was on the other side
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  of it. Now it didn't break all the way
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  through. It broke one because we've got
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  these hurricane windows didn't breakthrough the double S, but
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  it hit the first one and it shattered it and it didn't fall
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  out, which was amazing and it was scary.
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  And then he, he was very upset with himself.
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  He's like, ah, very frustrated. I'm like, don't be frustrated.
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  It was an accident. But he was like, yeah, but now
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  it's going to be hard. And so the obstacle in his head
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  was bigger. In my head, it was like, well,
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  nobody got hurt. It didn't fall out.
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  Thank God nobody was standing out there when that came through
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  because it could have really hurt a person.
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  And it was just a thing. Don't worry about it.
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  Like, it'll we'll figure it out. And guess what we did.
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  And guess what? Homeowners insurance helps pay
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  for it. And guess what?
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  The guys that came and installed it were so great and they fixed
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  a little problem that had been there with the door before it.
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  This even happened and they corrected it and it was
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  fabulous. It ended up being a great thing.
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  So my point is. When obstacles show up, it's all
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  about how you tackle them. It's all about how you want to
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  approach them. And some of us have daunting
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  lists of things that I will call it the obstacle list, where we
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  put things down on a thing. We say this is my To Do List,
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  but it's really the obstacle list because it's crap you don't
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  want to do and you're just like gross about this.
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  But they're here to help us be better.
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  They're here to help us be more creative, think outside the box.
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  Do different things. Because if you don't tackle them
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  that way, you will be just absolutely miserable every day
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  for too long. And then it starts to become
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  part of your wiring. Your head starts to just stay
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  that way. And then before you know it,
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  you're just a miserable person. And nobody wants to be around a
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  miserable person. Nobody wants to be around a
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  miserable person. Everybody wants to be around
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  people that are happy, that are filled with joy.
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  Everybody wants to feel something fantastic when they
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  connect with other people. So why not be that little gem
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  that shows up and makes people feel good?
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  And that's what I try to do here with this every day with you
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  guys is be that one space that you can go to and you can say
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  no, I'm going to get some positivity when I leave here.
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  I'm going to have a tool when I leave here.
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  That is the outcome because. I need that as much as you do.
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  So when I do it for you guys, I'm helping myself, I'm helping
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  everybody and I'm also teaching you all that chickens are
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  awesome. So Needless to say, go out and
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  find that. Go out and find that in yourself
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  that you love the obstacles because they're here to help you
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  grow. And be on point with it because
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  it really does make a difference.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.