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Season 3 - Episode 59 - Should we help people out? · 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.
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  From the chicken coop question of the day, are we here to help
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  each other or are we here to just help ourselves?
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  Oh, it's a very, very big philosophical question today.
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  You know, this came about because I was in the grocery
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  store, and you know how you go through the line, You go to
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  check out, and I'm still a person that does not just have
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  them bring it out to the car? OK?
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  I go to the grocery store. I want to look at my things.
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  I want to see what else I can throw in my car at because it's
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  like an adventure hunt for me. And in the process of this, you
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  go to check out and they ask you, would you like to round up
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  to help? Whatever 'cause they're helping?
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  And I have this habit being very honest with all of you of saying
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  no, because I don't want somebody else to decide where
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  I'm donating to. So I I know it's coming and I'm
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  just not willing to do it. And part of the part of me is
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  also one of these people that's like I want to do something that
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  I believe is going to matter. So I want to do something live
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  in action where I donate to a small shelter.
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  I get find out what their wish list is, I send them things,
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  that kind of stuff. So I I don't like the corporate
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  portion of this, but I understand it has its place and
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  some people like it and that's totally OK.
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  It's just a matter of preference.
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  But anyway, back to this thing of are we here to help each
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  other or we just here to take care of ourselves?
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  So I'm a couple people back and I hear a man answer the
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  question. He says sure, happily.
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  Would you like to round up to donate to whatever it was they
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  were donating to? He says sure, he does it.
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  The next woman in front of me goes up.
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  The cat guy asked her the same exact question, and she says
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  very rudely to him. Absolutely not.
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  Absolutely not. They're thieves.
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  I don't want to give them the money, and I hate that you ask
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  me this every time I come in the grocery store.
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  Now there's part of me that feels her pain because I'm like,
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  why are we doing this? But there's part of me that
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  says, OK, they found a way to get people in the spot, on the
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  spot, to donate. And I get it.
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  This is, this is a strategy. It's an influence strategy that
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  many companies use. But I'm looking at this poor kid
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  who's at the cash register doing his job, his minimum wage job, I
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  might add. And this woman's being
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  incredibly harsh with him because he's just doing what
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  he's told to do. He has no control over what he's
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  asking. And I'm looking at his face and
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  he says, OK And he doesn't really care one way or another
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  if she donates, He just has to ask the question.
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  So when I get up there, he goes to ask me the question.
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  And I was like, no, thank you. And he's like, oh, thanks, like,
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  like he was. You could see that he was happy
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  that I was just more neutral about it.
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  Like, no thanks. I'm just not doing it.
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  And it got me thinking about the fact that one, our response to
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  these things has to be part of this bigger thing, which is what
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  they're looking for, is are we here to help each other or are
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  we just here to help ourselves? And I truly do believe we're
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  here to help each other. I believe that we are here to
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  help each other. I believe that we are here to
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  help. Even even the people who are not
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  sweet, even the people who are not nice, even the people who
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  are evil, put us in a position where we are allowed to grow.
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  And I've said that before on here, I I think that when you
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  have the antagonist, when you have that in your life, when you
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  have that rub, that sand in your shoe, the grit in the oyster, it
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  causes things to happen and helps us grow.
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  And just like this, I believe that we are here to help each
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  other overall. That is our goal.
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  It's one of the reasons why I do this podcast every day.
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  I don't get paid for this podcast.
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  I do it every single day because I want to help people and I
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  don't make money on it and I get people ask me all the time from
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  where I host it, do you want to put ads in it?
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  And I'm like, Nope, no ads. It's just staying the way that
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  it is Because it's important to me to add value in the world and
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  know that there are people, my fans, that listen to it
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  regularly. I'm helping them.
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  And that's just part of my dynamic.
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  Part of the way my brain processes things is if I am
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  under the the guise of we're here to help each other and I'm
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  helping and I'm doing something for the greater good.
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  But it when we start to really think about where else are we
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  showing up in the world, we have to ask, well am I here to help?
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  Am I here to do something? Like for instance, you know we
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  have thing in our neighborhood where we have a family that's
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  splitting up. We have a family that's having
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  this big issue, and they're basically breaking up, and their
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  animals are being split up there.
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  They were left behind. And myself, along with the two
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  other neighbors, we're just taking it on.
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  I have all the chickens. Well, the chickens started
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  moving in one at a time, and now all of the chickens are here.
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  Some of them will sleep here and some of them won't.
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  And one of my other neighbors said to me, well, are you
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  annoyed that they're just here all the time?
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  And I said, no, I'm not annoyed. You know, I think we're here to
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  help each other. I wouldn't want my family
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  splitting up and being going through all of this.
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  You know, terrible stuff that they're having.
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  And these chickens have chosen us and they trade me eggs and I
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  give them food and shelter if they want it.
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  Some of them sleep inside and some of them sleep in trees.
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  I can't do anything about that. They're strange little Bantam
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  hens and my my hands are not. But point of the story is I'm
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  here to help out. So I want you to think about
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  that. Are we here to help or are we
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  here to just help ourselves? And, you know, the bottom line
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  is it's a little bit of both. Yes, you have to participate in
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  your own rescue. But we are here to help each
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  other. And when we do that, we always
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  feel better. So the answer, the tricky answer
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  is, yeah, participate in your own rescue.
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  But yeah, help somebody out. It's the right thing to do.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.