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Season 3 - Episode 38 - Purpose in your 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 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 question
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  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 podcast
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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 use.
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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 because those people are
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  part of my world and they keep coming back and they stay with
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  me and we are creating really big shifts in their lives
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  together. Now that being said, it's did
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  that just happen overnight? No.
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  I had to be purposeful with that.
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  I had to create that thought process.
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  I had to choose to use that process because it would have
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  been extremely easy for me, very easy for me to get aggravated.
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  And you know how I know that? Because in the beginning when I
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  started doing this, I didn't just jump into coaching and I I
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  when I started working in this industry, I was doing something
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  completely different. And then I, you know, moved over
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  into this because I I actually enjoyed doing it on a small
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  level. And then when I realized the
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  level at which I actually had to do it in order to create a
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  business with it, it was a lot of hours.
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  And when I first started doing it, I was resentful.
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  I was extremely resentful. I couldn't believe.
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  I felt like, oh, my Lord, this is like, this is intense.
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  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 that
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  was just for a period of time. And then I realized what I was
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  doing and how I was torturing myself and how I needed to
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  change my approach and change what I was doing and think of
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  things differently. So I did.
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  I started working on it. I started cultivating something
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  different. And lo and behold, I started
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  loving it. And then I started telling
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  myself I wasn't doing it by myself, that if this, if these
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  things had showed up in my life, they were here for me to learn
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  from and to take from and to actually utilize.
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  And I recognized that this was a gift I was being given, and I
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  was going to be able to use it to help other people.
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  And then I was able to move in very strongly into a place of
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  being grateful for it, excited about it, willing and loving
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  doing it. And that's when everything
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  changed. That's when everything started
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  to shift. Everything started to get better
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  because I was capable at that point in time of thinking of it
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  different. I changed it.
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  I just changed the way I was thinking of it.
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  It it it shifted, and then I became excited.
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  But it was because I chose to find purpose in the work and I
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  chose to believe that I was not doing it by myself.
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  I was here for a reason and that every little bit, every little
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  conversation, every little thing mattered to the person on the
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  other end of that phone, the other end of that connection.
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  So the real piece of this comes into us when we are in our world
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  and we're doing what we're doing to trading time for money,
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  finding a purpose in that. And if you're doing it, are you
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  able to tap into that side that I tapped into that spiritual
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  side? If you're not, then you have to
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  find because maybe that's your beliefs and that's totally OK.
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  If you're not in the place where you can do that, then the next
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  phase is OK, I've got to change how I'm seeing this.
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  And I've got to say, OK, what are what's good about this for
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  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 has
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  to happen for it to do that? You have to change your line of
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  questioning. You have to become essentially
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  your own coach in those moments where you're digging out and
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  what little things of joy. So when I did this with a client
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  not long ago, the only thing that she could come up with was
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  the fact that this woman that sat next to her used to say to
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  her, you know, I just love coming in every day because you
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  always seem to find a way to make me smile.
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  So she had said that to me weeks before, weeks before, because
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  she was talking about how this woman sometimes irritated her.
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  And then we were talking about purpose and how she had no
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  purpose in her work. And I said, stop.
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  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, I
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  mean, is that really a purpose? Doesn't it have to be something
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  big? And for the love of God, no.
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  It does not have to be something tremendous, but it does have to
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  be thoughtful. So think about that.
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  Could it be something as simple as making that person just
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  smile? Sure.
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  Because once you accept that, it grows and it's like the Pebble
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  in the pond and the water going out.
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  Look for that, Look for those pieces and find that purpose.
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  Because I promise you, you will feel so much more incredibly
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  robust in your life 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.