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Season 3 - Episode 242 - Small every day deeds · 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 mastermindset
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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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  We've all heard the phrase an apple a day keeps the doctor
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  away. And originally, you know,
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  obviously this was because people wanted doctors wanted us
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  to eat more fruits and vegetables.
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  And it was a nice little rhyme and it made everybody remember
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  it. And, you know, have your fruit,
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  have the things that make you healthy.
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  And I love it because it just, it's a good reminder.
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  But you know, we have to start to think of it in terms from
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  mental aspect as well, because often we forget that we need to
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  take care of ourselves mentally as well.
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  So when you look at that, it's like for me, I, I tend to use
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  this little phrase instead. Small everyday deeds keep the
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  darkness away, and the darkness meaning the negativity, the lack
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  of just positivity that's around all the time.
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  You have an opportunity to tap into it anytime you turn the
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  television on because it's filled with those opportunities.
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  Algorithms in social media are meant to agitate.
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  That's one of their favorite words.
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  They're meant to agitate. If you didn't know that, oh boy,
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  do they just want to agitate Now, does it always mean they're
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  doing it in the negative? No.
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  Sometimes they are doing it in the positive to get you to
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  purchase things, whatever. But there are agitation, and
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  often we have an association to that with the negative.
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  But in this case, I am talking about the negative because these
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  small, little, tiny things you do every day help you stay away
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  from that darkness, bring you into the light.
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  And it doesn't have to be grand things, you know, you've heard
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  me say a million times, it's like those one little step.
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  So if I take one step, if I just stop, I'm I'm walking in circles
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  out at the chicken coop and the girls actually are chowing down.
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  So they're they're fairly quiet right this second.
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  I just realized that. But if I take one step, I'm one.
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  I change my perspective on looking at them.
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  If I take one more step, I change it even closer.
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  It's like taking a camera lens and zooming in and out and you
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  see, you just hit those little degrees and all of a sudden the
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  view changes, the view changes, the view changes.
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  And that's what this does these little everyday deeds that we
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  do. So whether it is saying thank
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  you, whether it is going out and telling somebody how much you
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  appreciate them. Whether it's buying someone a
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  coffee and paying it forward. Whether it's writing thank you
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  notes to your clients. Whether it is buying a book that
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  was an influence in your life and leaving it somewhere so
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  someone can find it and trusting that the right person is going
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  to find that book for what they need at that moment in time.
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  All of these things are just a little tiny drips into the
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  universe that help people along the way, and they help us in the
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  process keep the darkness away because I'm adding it in.
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  So do I have to come out here every day and spoil my chickens?
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  No. Do I have to take, you know, 20
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  minutes every morning to make their breakfast and get them out
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  there when they have, you know, big bins of food inside that
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  they could eat every day and they have them available all the
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  time? No, I don't have to.
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  But these little acts of kindness towards these animals,
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  these little souls that are entrusted to me, push that light
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  forward and take that darkness away.
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  And I know that handedly because I see how they are with me.
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  I see how they come to me. I see how they want to spend
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  time with me. And they wouldn't do that if, in
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  fact, I was not pushing out that light and keeping the dark away.
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  And that is a great feeling to have.
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  You know, our free range bunnies just come right up to me.
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  They don't have to, but they do. Do they go to others?
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  No, they come to me. My one of my cousins said, it's
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  like you're Snow White. And I started laughing.
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  And I was like, yeah, kind of. And but that's because I'm
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  putting the light out there. That's because I'm not shutting
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  it down. So how do you do this every
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  single day? Well, you heard my ideas a few
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  seconds ago. I gave them to you.
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  But more importantly, it starts in your head.
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  It starts with positive thoughts and sending positive thoughts to
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  people. Like if you know someones going
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  through something hard, but you can't really talk to them about
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  it for one reason or another, you just send them love.
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  Every day you sit and think about them and say don't have
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  just pity, send them love. Actually think about them in
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  terms of sending them a hug, sending them love and seeing
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  them, you know, feeling better, seeing them, feeling like they
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  have good things happening. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and practice this because I promise
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  you the everyday deeds keep the darkness away.
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  All right, I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.