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Season 3 - Episode 352 - The Self Discovery Journey.mp3 · 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 quasi the
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  porch. It's pouring dark, rainy.
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  I can hear the Roosters off in the distance.
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  Sun isn't even cracking yet, but I'm out here getting ready to
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  talk to you and maybe you can hear the rain pouring in the
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  background as it's coming off the roof.
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  You know it's it's a lot. Anyway, we're talking about this
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  today, this journey of self discovery that we are all on.
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  And being on a journey of self discovery is not easy, my
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  friends. And it is really important to
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  listen to the one keyword that's in what I just said, and it was
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  self. And the reason that this is so
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  important, especially this time of year, comes back to right
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  now. If you're in that place of
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  getting ready to transition over and start making your plans and
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  getting excited like we've been talking about and thinking about
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  what you want to make your goals be for 2025 and all that good
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  stuff. It's important to recognize not
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  everyone is on your journey. Not everyone is on your journey.
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  It's a journey of self discovery.
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  We are here to have self discovery, learn about
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  ourselves, understand ourselves. And it seems incredibly obvious
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  that it is called self discovery for a reason.
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  But we are constantly looking at every other journey and we're
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  judging other people's journey and we're judging other things
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  that are happening instead of putting our attention on
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  ourselves. Instead of saying I'm going to
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  pay attention to my journey right now because that's what's
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  so important. And I'm going to put my journey
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  in this place up front because we feel like that could be
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  selfish. But here's an interesting
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  thought. If you are not taking care of
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  your own journey, you can't take care of someone else's.
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  And you have no right to talk to them about what they are either
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  doing correctly or incorrectly. Because one, maybe they didn't
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  ask and two, you are supposed to be focusing on your journey.
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  So basically we're talking kindergarten rules, my friends,
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  where it's like, keep your eyes on your table, on your work,
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  keep your hands to yourself. Please do not touch anyone
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  else's Plato crayons or papers. You know basic kindergarten
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  rules. Now, that doesn't mean if they
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  ask for help that you don't help.
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  But I feel as though this time of the year is always a great
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  time to reflect on this because when you are on a path of self
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  recovery, you have to keep asking better questions of
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  yourself. What was the reason I reacted
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  this way? What was my outcome?
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  What was I thinking when I said XY and Z?
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  There's so many little integral parts of asking questions of
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  ourselves on a path of self discovery that can be really,
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  really helpful to us if we choose to look at it.
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  And that's part of the the real crux of what I want to get
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  across today. If we choose to look at it.
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  And by not choosing to look at it, we set ourselves up for this
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  colossal let down. Because ultimately the most
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  important thing that we could possibly do for ourselves is to
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  recognize that we have this innate need to grow inside of
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  us. And when we shut that down by
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  giving us ourselves a label or saying, you know, this is too
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  hard or I don't understand or I'm just defeated because one
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  thing showed up, we start to look outside of ourselves for
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  other things to do. And that's when we start to pull
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  in other people. We start to pull in other
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  thoughts. We start to pull in other
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  beliefs instead of saying, Nope, you know what?
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  I bless them on their journey. I'm going to stay focused on me
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  and I'm going to be the best me that I can be.
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  And I'm going to show up the best way because ultimately
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  that's how you change a situation.
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  When you can change your own path and change how you respond,
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  ultimately you change the situation.
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  So for instance, think about the fact that you might be someone
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  who gets anxious about things. So when you show up in a
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  situation, you bring your anxiety to it.
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  The best thing that you can do for that situation and your path
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  of self discovery is to say, OK, I'm going to leave my anxious
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  self, my anxiety aside and then I'm going to go.
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  And I'm not going to show up with that.
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  I'm going to just be chill. I'm going to keep monitoring
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  myself. I'm going to know what my
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  buttons are ahead of time. I'm going to be prepared and I'm
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  going to go in and ultimately you just doing that one little
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  thing will change the situation overall because people will
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  respond differently when you respond differently.
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  They might not be perfect. Put me rephrase that.
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  They will not be perfect. They this will not go 100% the
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  way you want it to go. However, it can still go 80% the
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  way you want it to go. It can still feel 80% better.
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  And if you were 80% better, isn't that a great way to start
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  figuring out what you want for the new year?
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  So my friends, consider it, it's a path of self discovery.
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  So it's not selfish to put it on yourself for this portion.
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  It, it doesn't mean you don't share, it doesn't mean that you
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  don't give, it doesn't mean that you don't care.
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  It just means that you are on your path of self discovery 1st
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  and then you do a better job for everyone else.
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  All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.