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Let’s talk about hard work · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Ooh, so let's talk about hard work.
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  I often get people who ask me, you know, how do you do so many
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  sessions? How do you have all the animals
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  that you have? How do you keep track of
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  everything that you have going on?
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  And isn't that hard? Isn't that hard work?
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  And I often pause and have to actually ask myself.
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  You know, is this hard? And for me, this is not hard and
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  I'm going to give you my assessment of why It's not hard
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  and it's pretty simple. I think when you're doing
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  something that's aligned with what you love, what's aligned
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  with your soul. What's part of who you are as a
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  person? It's not hard.
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  It might be a lot of work sometimes, but it is definitely
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  not hard because you're putting in an effort to something that
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  means a lot to you. You're putting in an effort to
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  something that just is connected to a different energy in the
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  universe. It's just, you know, it's It's
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  God's work. And for me you know, doing the
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  work that I do coaching being a creative strategist with people
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  helping them come up with the ideas and things for their life,
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  that just makes my heart so full, it actually fills me with
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  energy, it doesn't actually drain me.
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  And you know a lot of people I think get drained by what
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  they're doing because it's not the work that they really wanted
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  to do. I hate can't tell you how much I
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  hear that. At where it's like, well, I
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  didn't really want to start off doing this work, but somehow I
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  ended up doing this work and it just kind of fell into it or,
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  you know, I went to school for this but I ended up doing that
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  instead or something. Worse off when your parents
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  move, you and push you into something where they say this is
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  where you'll make a lot of money.
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  This is what you should do and you should give up what you want
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  to do now. Fortunately for me I did have
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  one of those situations and if you listen This is not the first
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  time I brought it up my dad, pushed me to open my own
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  business. And he did not want me to become
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  a school teacher. Because he felt as though,
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  there's no money in that and he's probably, he was right.
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  You know, there's not a lot of money in that, but I found a way
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  to still stay aligned with what I wanted to do and do this and
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  that I run from it at one point in time.
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  Sure. Was I not confident of my
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  abilities in the beginning. Yes.
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  Did I question lots of things? Absolutely.
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  But somehow, when you align, Line with what you love.
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  It's not hard work and you feel blessed by what you're doing and
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  I can tell you, I can assure you.
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  All I feel incredibly blessed by what I'm doing.
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  I feel incredibly Lucky by what I'm doing.
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  I feel as though there is a huge part of my soul that gets lifted
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  up every day in what I'm doing and I think a lot of us struggle
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  because we are not having those examples.
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  We are not having those things. We do not have that feeling of
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  being lifted up by what we're doing.
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  I I was very fortunate to have a conversation with somebody new a
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  little bit earlier today to me that I had not met before a
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  friend of a friend and she was talking about how much you know
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  she doesn't she doesn't connect with the words portion of life
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  like you know she's like I'm a numbers girl.
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  I just love numbers and I started laughing and I said, I'm
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  just a words. Girl, I can't stand working with
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  numbers and we were laughing about how we both loved what we
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  did, but it was the exact opposite experience for Us
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  because it was something out, you know, just different but yet
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  she could say, oh, I could do this forever or I love, I love
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  doing certain things for my clients.
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  Like when they asked me to do projections and all the stuff
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  she said, I just love doing that with him and you could hear it
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  in her voice. How super excited, she was about
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  it and for me, like, that sounds like a living hell.
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  But for me if someone says well, you know what do you love doing?
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  Oh I love brainstorming with my clients, I love helping them,
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  see themselves, doing things that they never would have
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  thought they would have done it. It just pours energy back in
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  just a different Focus. But back to this hard work, part
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  of the conversation, if the work that you're doing seems hard and
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  it's not fulfilling you and you feel as though you know you're
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  just drudging through every day and you just got to get by or
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  you don't want to do it. Like while I'm out here talking
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  to you and I'm getting them all set for the day I'm working on,
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  changing their kupo. I'm actually carrying a bail of
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  hay right now. I'm talking to you.
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  And I don't look at that. Like that's a hard awful chore.
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  I look at that, like I get to take care of them.
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  I like to take care of them. I like to create this place that
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  special for them and it's just part of the things that make me
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  happy. I don't look at it from
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  drudgery, I don't look at it from the side of emptiness, I
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  don't look at it from the side of, oh God.
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  Now I have to do that. If I had that.
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  Thought I shouldn't be doing what I'm doing.
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  I should be considering something else I should be.
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  Figuring out why I have them and meaning the chickens and what am
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  I doing with it all, I only bring things into my world now
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  that I know are going to lift me up and make me feel good about
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  things and I try to really adjust what doesn't work so that
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  I'm not lying to myself and forcing things because that
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  never works long-term makes you incredibly Unhappy.
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  So I'm going to challenge you to go out there and think about the
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  work that you do the chores, that you have, the things that
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  you have in your life and that you feel are drudgery.
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  Look at them and say, how can I shift this?
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  So it's not drudgery. How can I change my mind about
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  this? How can I change my perspective?
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  Or do I just need to get more aligned with the things that I
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  want to do? You know?
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  Might you might be having a day job that's not ideal for you but
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  that doesn't mean you can't have a side gig that's like pretty
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  awesome and filling your soul and you work towards having that
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  side gig Come your full-time thing, but you've got to know it
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  in order to find it. So, go look for it, seek it out,
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  you know, get away from the things that em to you.
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  And, you know, if it's hard, it's one of those things that
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  you shouldn't feel that way, you know?
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  It's it should be. Yes, it sometimes you have to
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  kick yourself through it if you've got a lot to do but you
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  should feel on the other side like I'm doing a purposeful job.
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  So I hope you guys have a very blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow.