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Season 2 - Episode 244 - Our point of view dictates what we believe · 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,
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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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  So today I want to talk to you guys about transcending current
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  conditions. Now, those current conditions
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  can be current conditions of the world.
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  They could be current conditions in your personal world.
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  They could mean multiple different things.
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  But we're talking about really shifting our focus to something
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  that is more expansive than what we are seeing right in front of
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  us. And part of that the conditions
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  that we are currently in, whether it's you know,
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  political, spiritual, whether it's financial, those conditions
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  are subject to how we view them. Everything always takes place
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  from our point of view, and this is hard for us as human beings
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  to understand because we want to always look at the outside and
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  say I am this way because of this or I am this way because of
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  that person or because of this that happened.
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  Well, the truth really comes down to and it's a hard truth to
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  take on and really own. But the truth is we are that way
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  because of our point of view of it, and there's no denying it.
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  Think about this. Two people go off to war and
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  they both come home. One of them is forever changed
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  because of the conditions that took place and what they saw.
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  The other person comes back completely blessed and talking
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  about how they're focused on what's next in their life, being
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  grateful that they're with their family.
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  The other person is completely focused on everything that they
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  saw and went through. They were at the same war.
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  Now we don't even have to use something that dramatic.
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  Let's go to the fact that if we're at, we're at a party.
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  And if you and I were at a party and I decided to go and stand
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  next to the speaker at the party.
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  And it was really loud and uncomfortable for me.
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  And I didn't like it because it was so loud, somewhat like the
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  rooster. And it was, it was just really
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  uncomfortable. And you actually went across the
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  room and you were standing by the table that had all the
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  beautiful food and you got to talk to people.
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  You in fact have a completely different experience than I do.
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  You have a totally different spirits.
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  We leave, we get in the car to go home together and I say, God,
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  that party was so loud, I can't hear myself think at this point.
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  Well, you're like, what are you talking about?
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  It was such a great. Party well, this is based on our
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  point of view and how we choose to take on that information and
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  how we choose to see it. And again, it comes back to,
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  well, it's, I am in control of that and this is how you
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  transcend your current conditions.
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  So whatever you're dealing with, whatever it is, how you see it
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  matters and how you focus on it matters.
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  One of the things that I see most consistently with clients
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  when I work with them is their intent on the focus and how they
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  don't want to let go of their point of view and try on a
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  different one. Now.
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  I'm not saying you have to give up your offense, although it is.
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  Useful to give up your offense and just start from neutral.
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  You can keep it, you can just keep it, and you don't have to
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  try to ditch it. What you do have to do though,
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  is try on different points of view so that you can transcend
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  the current condition and say what else could this mean?
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  How else could I see this? What else could I think about in
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  order to bring myself to a different level of awareness and
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  that those particular questions, that particular phrase of asking
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  yourself, what else could this mean on question, Not phrase,
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  but it is meant to shift you and help you to see it differently.
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  Because the the more you allow yourself that thought of
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  possibility, the more likely you are to be able to create a
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  situation in your life that's healthier for you and bring you
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  a different perspective. I always think it's for me, the
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  word is magic. This is, this is magic.
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  This is what real magic is. Because your entire world can
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  change in a moment just by having a different perspective.
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  Just by having a different perspective.
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  There was an A story went around a long time ago.
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  No idea if it's true or if it's not true, but it was to the
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  point of exactly what I'm talking about.
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  Where this gentleman was on a train in New York and he was
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  looking at a another gentleman who was sitting across from him
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  and the kids hit. The guys had five kids with him
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  and they were running all around.
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  They were being mean. They were being loud.
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  They were shoving each other and the guy just sat there
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  completely checked out and this gentleman who was watching it
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  looked at them and was having judgment of it.
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  He was saying, God, this guy can't get his kids into under
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  control. He's he's totally checked out.
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  He's not paying attention. He's not a great dad.
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  And after riding on the train for a few minutes, the guy
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  looked up and he looked across eye to eye to this man and he
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  said, I know they're being really loud, I'm really sorry,
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  but I think they're in a state of trauma.
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  Their mom just passed away a little while ago, and I just
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  don't know what to do and I don't know how to talk to them
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  about it. And in that moment, the man who
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  had all the judgment, all the thought, all the awful things
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  shifted, and the power of that shift made all of his
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  irritation, all of his frustration, everything went
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  away. So the conditions of the
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  children did not go away. The conditions of the children,
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  they were the same. They were still acting the exact
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  same way. But the difference was what this
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  man thought of it. And that example is probably the
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  best one that I can give you to tell you this is what you do to
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  yourself, inside your own mind, your own head, your own
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  feelings, your own. You know, bus if you will.
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  This is what you do. And you create these absolute
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  frames of mind and they don't serve you.
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  So today I'm going to challenge you all to start thinking about
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  that perspective and ask yourself, what else could this
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  mean? What else could I make this
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  mean? How else could I see this?
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  What's another perspective? Because your power and your
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  solutions lie right there. OK my friends, I will see you
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  tomorrow. Have a great day.