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Season 3 - Episode 132 - The small decisions we make can have grand impact · 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
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  coop. So today we're talking about
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  small decisions. You know, often times we think
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  we need to make grandiose big changes in order to have things
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  work out differently. And honestly, sometimes the
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  smallest ones are the are the things that make the biggest,
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  most impactful shifts quickly because you can stack them
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  quickly and you can get shifts to happen quickly.
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  So I'll give you a For instance, one would think that you could
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  not lose a lot of weight just walking, Simply just walking.
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  Well, I can hear, I can tell you myself, personal experience,
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  that I lost 40 lbs just walking. Now here's the trick to this
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  thing. I I just didn't even notice that
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  it was on me because I'm just tall and it just kind of went
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  everywhere. I kind of felt like a sausage at
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  one point. And when I weighed myself, I was
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  like, Oh my God, and it had to come off.
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  But The thing is, I just don't like going to gyms.
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  I just really don't like going to the gym.
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  And I also think that that's not, you know, ideal for me in
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  the sense that you go in, you work out, and then you come back
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  and what you said all day, it just didn't work.
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  So for me, it began just with moving, taking steps, moving,
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  moving, moving and really tracking my steps.
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  And I've said this before in the podcast, tracking the steps is a
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  huge thing. I I'm a mad tracker, but a small
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  thing like walking. I literally walked my ass off
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  and people always go, no, it can't be just that, no, it was
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  really just that did I shift my diet at all?
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  Probably a little bit here and there.
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  I I really ditched alcohol for a while but other than that it was
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  not something that I did big shifts with.
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  I, I, and I really want to stress this about the small
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  shifts, because this is one of those things where when you just
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  do it tiny, especially at this time of the year, you can again
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  feel like you've got to win and those tiny little shifts add up.
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  So when we're looking at something to start with,
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  whatever you're trying to work on, even if you do it for 5
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  minutes a day, let's say you focus on, you want to add
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  reading in. OK, so you're just adding
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  reading and just read for 5 minutes, just for 5 minutes.
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  If you. And if you can't pull off 5
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  minutes for yourself, we have bigger problems.
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  So we really need to work on figuring out what those are.
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  But the reality is doing little tiny things and allowing them to
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  affect you really works. So it's really funny how
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  sometimes these things show up and you don't even realize it.
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  So I was telling my husband about how one of my clients was
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  using Duolingo. And then he's like, well, what
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  is it? And so I tell him it's an easy
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  way. It's an app.
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  You can start to do it. So he got it and he's been doing
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  it every single day. And I'm like, how long you doing
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  it? He's like 15 minutes.
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  And I'm like, do you feel like it's working?
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  He's like, yeah, it's really cool.
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  And it's 15 minutes. And in just that short period of
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  time, these little things start to happen.
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  So this time of year, people often think of gargantuan things
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  instead of small, little tiny quick things.
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  So I want you to think about doing the the things that you
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  think are insignificant, just do them anyway.
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  Just do them anyway because it makes a massive difference.
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  So pick two or three things that, you know, you really want
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  to do. Like I have a client right now
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  who's coloring with. She's got some beautiful pencils
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  that she ordered and she's starting to sketch and she's
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  starting to color in, in one of those adult coloring books,
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  flowers and, you know, a simple thing as a stress reliever
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  during the day. I've got somebody else who's
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  like, OK, I'm going to cook one different recipe a week, OK,
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  there you go. That is going to be epic.
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  By the end of the year, she'll have made 52 different meals,
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  have tried all kinds of different spices, 'cause that
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  was the part, you know, the part that she really wanted to do was
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  become better at cooking. I can obviously relate to that
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  since I am not a good cook and it's just considering taking
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  into account that those small, little, tiny things will add up,
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  will affect you, will be positive and will go in the
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  right direction. So work on that piece, be kind
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  to yourself about it. Don't just focus on gargantuan
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  things. I'm not saying give those up.
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  I'm just saying to in order to feel good because you've got to
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  stay in that framework of feeling good about this process
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  and not tearing yourself down. And maybe maybe one of the
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  things is you have to just get back to like, relaxing a little
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  bit. Maybe you're so frenetic all the
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  time, you just need to relax. So you're going to say, hey, you
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  know what? Once a week I'm watching a
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  movie. OK, that's great.
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  That is excellent. Maybe it's OK.
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  I'm going to meditate. Don't try to meditate for 1/2 an
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  hour. Try to meditate for 5 minutes.
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  Meditation is hard. It is hard, hard work.
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  And it is not easy to quiet one's mind.
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  So start small, forgive yourself for failing and do it again.
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  And do it again. And do small, small, small and
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  stack up. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.