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Season 4 - Episode 300 - Photos, memories and enjoying it! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So I'm a little later today
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  doing this. I'm on vacation this week.
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  Well, from coaching mostly I'm on vacation after today's next
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  three later today sessions, I will be officially on vacation
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  for the week. I'm still going to be putting
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  the podcast up though, because that's what I do every morning.
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  So here's something that's interesting.
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  This morning, very early, I sat down and I was looking for a
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  photo of my father that I was trying to find so that I could
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  show my daughter how much the baby's eyes look like my daddy's
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  eyes because it's freakish to me how much they look like my
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  daddy's eyes. But, you know, he's been gone
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  for quite some time and the quality of photos is not always
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  there. And the ones I have of him are
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  like, you know, probably in boxes, the ones that will really
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  show the color of his eyes. But anyway, I go into Facebook
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  and I pull up. If you go to your Facebook
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  profile and you're on your own profile page and you go to
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  photos, which is, you know, post or photos you put, it pulls up
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  every photo you've ever put on Facebook.
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  And before you know it, I'm down a rabbit hole Because as any of
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  you who listen all the time know, I'm obsessed with photos
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  and taking photos and I love sharing those photos.
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  So Facebook has always been a place that I will put things up.
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  And as I sat there, I went through so many photos before I
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  realized I was in a rabbit hole. I not only went down a rabbit
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  hole, I was having tea with Alice and the rabbit.
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  I was so far down the hole and it was taking up time and I was
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  like, OK, this isn't how I really wanted to plan my
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  morning. And then all of a sudden I had
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  this moment and I was like, wow, I like am looking at the years
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  of my life in photos and it felt so awesome.
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  Now, social media is what it is and for some people it's toxic
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  and for other people it's something great.
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  But for me, it's like a visual library or an account of my
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  world. And as I started looking through
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  it and I saw things, there were things on there that I
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  completely forgot that I did. And when the second I saw the
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  photo, I was like wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
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  And I was having all these moments of excitement.
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  And I wanted to share that because I don't know how many of
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  you actually use Facebook or maybe Instagram, whichever 1 you
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  choose to use. But it was so compelling to sit
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  there and look at those photos and see how far I have come and
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  the things we have done and the, the adventures with my kids and
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  watching, you know, in as I'm scrolling all of this and I'm
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  like, wow, I really love this moment.
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  So I kept going and I had a cup of tea and I allowed myself that
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  time to absorb those photos to realize, hey, you know what, the
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  fact that I screwed up something this morning.
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  I was supposed to have an appointment with this New Girl
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  that's doing payroll for me, and I completely forgot that I
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  didn't do the paperwork, which screwed up the appointment,
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  which meant they had to cancel it.
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  And I felt bad and I was beating myself up for the fact that I
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  screwed it up. And then I realized, wait a
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  minute, life is not just about that.
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  Who cares? I missed an appointment.
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  They were able to redo it for me.
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  I'll do it Wednesday instead of Monday.
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  Big deal. So what?
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  This is just such a profound moment of realizing how
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  important that ability to go back and look at things is.
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  So for me, it's photos. For you, it might be journals,
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  it might be other things like my mother used to sit there.
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  My mother was not a photo taker, which, you know, it's amazing
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  how I turned into one because she isn't.
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  My daughter is a fierce photo taker and always has been
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  because she always had my cameras around, which I love
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  because I get to have all the photos that she's taking too.
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  And some people do it through other things.
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  My mother would look at all her needlepoint and she'd be like,
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  Oh, yeah, I remember when I did this.
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  And like she would remember sitting and working on it.
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  It's we need those things in our life to appreciate how far we've
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  come. My friends, this is the week of
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  Thanksgiving. This is the first thing of like,
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  oh, it's Thanksgiving. Let's focus on the fact that we
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  can be grateful for all the photos.
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  We can be grateful for all the good stuff that we've done and
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  how far we've come. And we need to acknowledge that
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  in order for us to be able to create more.
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  If we're not grateful for what we have, we can't be getting any
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  more. We must focus on that gratitude
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  piece. So I'm going to give you guys a
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  throw down challenge for this week to think about all of those
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  things that you can be grateful for prior to going into family.
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  And maybe they're going to drive you crazy.
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  Maybe it's going to be a hard week.
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  I don't know. I just think it would be
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  outstanding to put yourself in the position of doing that
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  because I think it's going to give us a lot of insight.
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  So I hope you guys have an absolutely blessed day.
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  I hope you find some photos that you can go back through and be
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  happy about them. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow. Take care.
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  Bye.