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Season 2 - Episode 352 - Cherish the moments · 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 I want to talk about cherishing the moments, because
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  this time of year is so important to cherish the moments
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  that you have with the people that you love.
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  And I have a few friends who have lost loved ones just in the
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  last couple weeks and obviously anytime you lose somebody it's
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  terrible. But losing them over the holiday
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  season is even seems heavier and seems sadder and it's just not
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  good for anybody. And in the process of that, I'm
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  also watching that my son who's so independent and has, you
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  know, he's 14, but he has so many gifts that he's going to
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  gain through this period of time in his life.
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  And he's I I listen to him talk and interact with other people.
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  And he has a job two days a week, and he's working really
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  hard at cultivating friendships and doing all of these amazing
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  things that young people do. And I look and I say, you know,
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  it's crazy. I don't step on Legos anymore.
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  I used to say Legos were worse than fire walking, and they
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  really are. But I don't step on Legos
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  anymore because they're not around.
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  And and now it's, you know, different things.
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  Work boots are there, dirty boots are in the hallway and his
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  thermos isn't cleaned out from work.
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  And his closer and a lump on the floor and you know, I could go
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  on and on with the list of all the little things that he does
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  that are not appropriate or in line with how I would say I
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  would want him to be like, you know, be neater, be this, be
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  that. But I recognize that in
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  cherishing the moments and realizing there are not Legos
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  around the house anymore and there aren't sticky fingers
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  touching everything anymore, that he's growing up and he's
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  going to be out of the house before you know it.
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  And you realize, gosh, I should have cherished those Legos a
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  little bit more. I should have taken the time to
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  pause. I should have, you know, put
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  myself in a position of complete awareness around how I wanted
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  him to, you know, know that I was there and helping him.
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  And by doing that, it forces me to now the time that I have.
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  When I recognize that right now, it puts me in that little box
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  and forces me to say, wait, stop, take the time.
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  So when I'm in the middle of working some on something, like
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  today I was getting ready and go out in the morning.
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  It's really early, It's quiet. He comes out and he says, hey,
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  you want to come see something cool.
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  And I mean, it's like the sun isn't even up yet and he's
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  already saying you want to see something cool.
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  And it had to do with his fish tanks because he loves his fish
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  tanks. And I really didn't want to go
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  see the fish tank. But you know what I did?
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  I put down everything I was doing and I went and saw the
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  fish tank, because how many times is he going to ask me to
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  go see the fish tank? I don't know.
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  It's going to be limited. And I'm going to go every single
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  time because I want him to realize that his his interests
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  matter to me. And I think we all get wrapped
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  up in this. We all get wrapped up in
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  ourselves. And yes, we have to take care of
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  ourselves, but we also have to realize that we need to cherish
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  the moments. Because if we do not cherish
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  those little moments, they slip away.
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  And before you know it, there are no little moments to pay
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  attention to. They're all gone.
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  And you're feeling pretty lonely that you haven't seen those
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  little moments. So cherish them.
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  Work through that for yourself. Create those moments in your
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  head and know that those are your moments.
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  That was a cherished moment. Go back, Write a list, make.
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  Make a decision to just focus in on it.
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  Because I promise you, it makes life happier.
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  And it makes life a lot more peaceful, a lot more tolerable,
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  a lot more exciting, depending upon where you are in this
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  process. But it's always making it
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  better. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and this cherished moment of being out
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  here with you this morning and watching the chickens all come
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  out the door and start mucking around and all the rainwater and
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  everything that was leftover. It's quite the gift.
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  All right. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.