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Season 3 - Episode 24 - What do your complaints really mean? · 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 would like to make today about a little reminder of
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  something. Whatever is aggravating you,
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  whatever's frustrating you, whatever you are stuck with
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  right now as one of your complaints or something that is
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  just off in your life, that's someone else's dream would stop
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  And think about that for a second.
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  You know, yesterday I was on a call with a client and it came
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  up that he was complaining about his tax bill and having to pay
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  his tax bill coming up. And he was just he and he's had
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  a very good year. And he was complaining all about
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  it and kept going on and on and how it was frustrating him and
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  all the bills that he had. And I just said to asked him, I
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  said So what if we reframed this?
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  What if we stopped and thought about the fact that somebody
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  else is trying to get to your level right now?
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  Someone else is working really hard to get to your position.
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  Someone else out there is looking at the world and saying,
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  if I only had that, if I could only get to that.
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  And that is their focus. That is their dream, That's what
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  they're working on. And they wouldn't consider what
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  you have as a problem. They'd consider it as a
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  privilege that, you know, OK, we all have to pay taxes.
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  That's just part of doesn't matter where you live in the
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  world. We're going to pay taxes.
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  We're all going to have bills. We the cost of life is there.
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  But there's a gift in having that because it pushes you to
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  not be lazy. It pushes you to go out there
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  and make something of yourself. It pushes you in different
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  directions. So when you stop and you
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  actually think about the fact that there's somebody else out
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  there working on this to make that happen, and you're at that
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  point and you're complaining about where you are, all of a
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  sudden it's a huge wake up call. So think about that for a
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  second, 'cause when I said it to him, he was like, what?
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  And I said, yeah, think about it.
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  There's someone out there that's really pushing themselves right
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  now to get to the very spot you're complaining you're in.
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  And in that moment he had an aha, he was like, oh crap, I
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  mean, he used a potty word, but I won't on the podcast.
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  Try to keep it clean here. And he, he had this reckoning
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  with himself about the fact that he had gone from being in a
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  state of appreciation on his, you know, way up to this point,
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  and then all of a sudden it became a burden.
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  And when did that happen? That was his first question.
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  When did this happen? When did this become my reality?
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  And this is what takes place in our minds.
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  When we are not paying attention moment to moment, little things
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  creep in and we must kill the monsters while they're small.
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  When those thoughts, those negative thoughts, show up and
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  they're just, you know, eating away at us, we have to kill them
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  and we have to say no. Do I really need to complain
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  about this or is this something that's a gift?
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  People will often say to me, Isn't having the farm a burden?
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  Isn't that something that's like, oh, I would never want to
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  take care of all the animals. I would never want to take care
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  of all the plants and the crops and all this stuff.
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  And I'm always, always very cognizant of that every single
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  day. For me, I'm like, no, this is a
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  gift. I worked for this for a really
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  long time to make this happen and continue to figure out ways
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  to grow and expand it. So this is a gift.
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  This is, this is not a burden. And even though it is a lot of
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  work, there are so many gifts in that and what you provide for
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  other people in the process. Just like this gentleman I was
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  talking to, he provides for multiple families that work for
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  him and all those people matter. What he does matters to all
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  those people. Whether he recognizes it or not,
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  it matters. So there's a part of this that
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  when you start to connect those dots back again, it it lightens
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  up everything in your head. But you have to be smart enough
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  to actually go in there and do the work and lighten it up.
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  Otherwise it just takes over. So I'm going to, you know,
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  reiterate the fact that it is your dreams are, are, are, are
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  still available to you. You just have to keep looking at
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  them and growing them, because when you start to stagnate,
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  that's an indication. You start complaining about
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  things. That's when you're stagnating.
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  That's when you're not working towards the growth.
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  That's when you're not thinking bigger.
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  You've just gotten to a point and you're like, now you're just
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  in the doldrums. You're like just doing daily
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  stuff and you're not thinking about the dreaming portion.
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  And to be genuinely happy, you have to go in both directions.
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  You have to work on both sides of this, and the more you do
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  both sides of it, the happier you are.
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  So there's always growth. There's always going to be
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  things that goes that go wrong during the process.
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  There is not one thing, and this is This is why it's so important
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  for me to thread the farm into this with you guys, because
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  there are things that go wrong out here all the time, lessons
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  that I have to learn that number of animals.
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  We lost a rabbit the other day. A coyote got a rabbit.
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  I mean, there are so many things that happen that are just part
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  of the process. And does it make me incredibly
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  sad? Yes.
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  Does it stop me from growing? Absolutely not.
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  Because as long as I'm alive, I will constantly be expanding and
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  growing until the moment I cannot.
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  And that is just the truth of what makes you happy.
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  So remember, your complaints are somebody else's dreams.
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  So stop complaining. Get back into gratitude, expand
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  yourself and find a way to focus on all the good things you've
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  done. All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.