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Season 5 - Episode 77 - A lesson from Costco! · 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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the Chicken Coop.
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  So I happen to be in Costco. Well, happening to be in Costco
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  is kind of an interesting situation for me because I'm
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  often in Costco. It's one of my favorite places
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  to go and shop. I love that they have just a
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  variety of everything there. And I I get the girls a lot of
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  vegetables in there. So it's really handy for me,
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  especially when I'm not growing any vegetables that it can be
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  there. But nonetheless, this is a story
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  from the heart that happened in Costco, which I thought was just
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  so crazy. So I'm walking through doing my
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  normal thing, checking off my list, getting my normal stuff,
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  and I always walk by the flower section and often I don't buy
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  the flowers for multiple reasons.
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  But one of the biggest ones is that I really love to obviously
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  have my own and I sometimes look and I think to myself, you know
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  what, they're pretty, but they're pretty average as well.
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  But I was like, you know, I always like to go look, you
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  never know. Sometimes they have absolutely
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  beautiful hydrangeas that haven't opened up yet.
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  And once you put them in some hot water, they really like just
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  burst forward and they look amazing.
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  But anyway, I'm walking by and I'm walking slowly and there's a
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  young man, probably in his mid 30s, standing there with a cart
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  and he's got a bunch of flowers in each hand and they look
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  pretty different. And he's looking at both of
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  them. And I'm looking just wondering
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  like, what is he thinking? What's in there?
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  Like I'm, I'm kind of in this very contemplative state of
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  life. Like I wonder why he's staring
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  at them so much. And obviously it's Good Friday
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  tomorrow. You know, it's something he
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  maybe he's buying flowers for his wife, his mother, Maybe he's
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  looking for both, I don't know. And all of a sudden, this older
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  gentleman who's clearly in his 70s or 80s walks up and he's
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  watching this young man with these flowers in his hands.
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  And all of a sudden he says to the young man, son, buy them
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  both. And the kid, the young man go
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  looks at him and is like, I'm sorry.
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  And he's like, buy them both. And he said, oh, oh, yeah, I
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  mean, I, I can't decide. And he goes, I'm telling you,
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  just buy them both for whoever it is that you're thinking
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  about. Because here's the truth.
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  I just lost my wife and I never bought her enough flowers.
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  And the fact that you have a chance to buy her flowers right
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  now, buy them both. Buy them every week.
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  Take it from somebody who who wishes they had handled it
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  differently. And everyone around hearing this
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  just stopped. It was like a moment in time.
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  Everything slowed down, everything seemed to just
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  screech to a halt. And, and that young man's face
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  was priceless because he was, he was getting a lesson from
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  somebody that he didn't ask for that was kind of just dumped in
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  his lap. He was shocked.
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  I was shocked. Everyone around him is shocked.
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  And the old man just turns around and he says have a great
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  day. And he walks away and I look up
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  and there's an older woman standing probably 3 carriage
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  lengths away and she's got her eyes like pouring water.
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  My eyes are filled up. The young man's just standing
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  there and he looks over at us and he's like wow.
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  And I was like, wow, that's a lesson if I I ever heard it.
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  And he goes, yeah, I think I'm going to take that and pay
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  attention to it. And I was like, you know,
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  imagine if he did. Imagine if he just said, I love
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  this person in my life and I'm going to make sure that once a
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  week, no matter what's going on in the world, that this person
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  knows that. And he just, you could see that
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  it had impact. Now the question is, will it
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  have long impact? Will it be lasting impact?
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  Who knows. But what I do know is that
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  moment in the middle of Costco hit home for that person.
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  It hit home for me. It hit home for that other woman
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  and probably anybody else that was standing there dumbfounded
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  listening. And it just it's a great
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  reminder. So I wanted to share it all with
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  you because listen, it's the lessons are all around us all
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  the time. You just have to open your eyes,
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  open your ears, open your heart and take things in because once
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  you do, it changes everything, my friends.
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  So buy both bunch of flowers. I mean, I it to me it, it's
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  pretty simple. I never have a hard time with
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  that part. But I do have a hard time with
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  other things because I'm human. So I can extrapolate the lesson
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  and take it forward with me. But I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.