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Season 3 - Episode 319 - Do you find purpose in your work everyday? · 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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  Question of the day, do you have purpose in your work?
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  Do you find purpose in your work or are you just going to work
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  and feeling rather empty about it?
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  Well, I'm going to venture to guess that many people feel
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  empty about their work. Now there are those of us.
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  I do not have that problem because I really choose to fall
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  into this with like a free fall into it and just love every bit
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  of it. And it is a choice because I
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  have to say, this job that I do when I'm not recording podcasts
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  for you guys and doing one-on-one coaching is not an
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  easy job. I have to be every 45 minutes to
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  an hour. I am constantly switching gears.
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  Wherever that person is, I have to meet them there.
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  I have to figure out what they're going to need here, step
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  into for them, guide them through it.
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  It is mentally taxing work every single day.
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  And I have conditioned myself. Notice the word I just used.
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  I have conditioned myself to love that work and to find
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  purpose in that work. And I truly believe with all my
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  heart and soul that I do not do that work by myself.
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  That the universe and God provide me the skill sets to do
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  that work and to help those people.
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  Because those people are part of my world and they keep coming
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  back and they stay with me and we are creating really big
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  shifts in their lives together. Now that being said, it's did
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  that just happen overnight? No, I had to be purposeful with
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  that. I had to create that thought
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  process. I had to choose to use that
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  process because it would have been extremely easy for me, very
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  easy for me to get aggravated. And you know how I know that?
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  Because in the beginning, when I started doing this, I didn't
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  just jump into coaching and I, I, when I started working in
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  this industry, I, I was doing something completely different.
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  And then I, you know, moved over into this because I, I actually
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  enjoyed doing it on a small level.
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  And then when I realized the level at which I actually had to
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  do it in order to create a business with it, it was a lot
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  of hours. And when I first started doing
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  it, I was resentful. I was extremely resentful.
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  I couldn't believe, I felt like, Oh my Lord, this is like, this
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  is intense, this is crazy. I'm not enjoying this.
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  I don't like this. I got very, very, very upset
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  about it. Well, here's the reality.
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  That was just for a period of time.
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  And then I realized what I was doing and how I was torturing
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  myself and how I needed to change my approach and change
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  what I was doing and think of things differently.
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  So I did, I started working on it.
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  I started cultivating something different.
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  And lo and behold, I started loving it.
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  And then I started telling myself I wasn't doing it by
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  myself, that if this, if these things had shown up in my life,
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  they were here for me to learn from and to take from and to
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  actually utilize. And I recognized that this was a
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  gift I was being given and I was going to be able to use it to
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  help other people. And then I was able to move in
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  very strongly into a place of being grateful for it, excited
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  about it, willing and loving doing it.
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  And that's when everything changed.
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  That's when everything started to shift.
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  Everything started to get better because I was capable at that
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  point in time of thinking of it different.
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  I changed it. I just changed the way I was
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  thinking of it. It it it shifted.
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  And then I became excited, but it was because I chose to find
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  purpose in the work and I chose to believe that I was not doing
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  it by myself. I was here for a reason and that
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  every little bit, every little conversation, every little thing
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  mattered to the person on the other end of that phone, the
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  other end of that connection. So the real piece of this comes
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  into us when we are in our world and we're doing what we're doing
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  to trading time for money, finding a purpose in that.
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  And if you're doing it, are you able to tap into that side that
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  I tapped into, that spiritual side?
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  If you're not, then you have to find because maybe that's your
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  beliefs and that's totally OK. If you're not in the place where
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  you can do that, then the next phase is, OK, I've got to change
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  how I'm seeing this and I've got to say, OK, what are what's good
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  about this for me? What am I learning in this?
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  How is it shaping my personality in a positive way?
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  And if your answers are it's not, then say, OK, well, what
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  has to happen for it too do that.
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  You have to change your line of questioning.
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  You have to become essentially your own coach in those moments
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  where you're digging out what little things of joy.
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  So when I did this with a client not long ago, the only thing
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  that she could come up with was the fact that this woman that
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  sat next to her used to say to her, you know, I just love
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  coming in every day because you always seem to find a way to
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  make me smile. So she had said that to me weeks
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  before, weeks before, because she was talking about how this
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  woman sometimes irritated her. And then we were talking about
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  purpose and how she had no purpose in her work.
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  And I said, stop, hold on. What if your purpose was just to
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  make somebody smile? What if you did that one simple
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  thing every day and you knew that you were the reason that
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  that person smiled every day? Could that make you happy?
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  And she paused, and she was like, well, yeah.
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  I mean, is that really a purpose?
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  Doesn't it have to be something big?
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  And for the love of God, no, it does not have to be something
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  tremendous, but it does have to be thoughtful.
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  So think about that. Could it be something as simple
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  as making that person just smile?
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  Sure. Because once you accept that, it
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  grows. And it's like the Pebble in the
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  pond and the water going out. Look for that.
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  Look for those pieces and find that purpose, because I promise
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  you, you will feel so much more incredibly robust in your life
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  when you do. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.