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Season 3 - Episode 353 - Rehearsal is necessary! · 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 mastermindset
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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. Can you hear Rufus off in the
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  distance there crowing away? Because I'm on the porch because
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  it's pitch dark and I decided it was nice and not cold and I was
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  going to shoot it from the porch, so maybe you could get a
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  little glimmer of hearing them in the back.
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  I hear pitch dark still. Anyway, today we are talking
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  about the fact that rehearsal is necessary.
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  So when I say rehearsal, what am I exactly talking about?
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  Well, you've heard me all say before that you have to work on
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  having this envisioning process of like when you're doing your
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  end of year ideas, outcomes, goals, whatever you want to call
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  it. You'll start the process by
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  considering all these possibilities like we talked
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  about the other day. And then what happens inevitably
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  for everyone, myself included, we will start running through
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  the situations and we get to how, how am I going to do this?
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  And because we don't know how, it takes us out immediately.
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  Now that is probably primarily in in my world from what I see
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  with clients, that is the biggest thing that happens.
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  It's the how that shows up. But there are other things that
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  show up that take us out. They are the pin to our balloon
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  and we have to recognize that they're happening in order to
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  circumvent them and get around them.
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  And it is imperative, imperative to recognize you can get around
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  them. And this is where I believe we
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  have been equipped by the universe God to give us these
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  tools to do it. And this is where imagination
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  comes in and we get to use our imagination for the greater good
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  of spelling it out. Now we are all very, very good
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  at arguing for our limitations and all the things that can go
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  wrong. Let me state that
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  wholeheartedly. There is no question in my mind
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  that I can argue for all the things that will go wrong in my
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  head. I have that duality.
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  I can do it consistently. My mother made sure I had that
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  gift and quite frankly, it used to drive me crazy and now I do
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  think of it as a gift. I don't let it rule.
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  I don't leave it in charge. It's like leaving a toddler home
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  alone with one of my clients cookies in the tin that she sent
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  me. I can't walk by this damn tin
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  without wanting one of those cookies.
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  Inevitably, this is a thing that you can get past, but you have
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  to understand it in order to get past it.
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  The imagination is incredibly powerful.
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  It is one of our greatest tools that we have when used for the
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  greater good. Meaning I'm, I want to do
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  something, I'm going to think it through from both sides,
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  positive, negative, neutral, look at all the facts before I'm
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  going to make decisions on things about how I'm going to
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  end up doing it inevitably and how always shows up when you are
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  in the right frame of mind. So you can always go back and
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  argue for all the limitations. But let's just assume for a
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  second here, we're going to use this to the greater good and
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  we're going to make sure that we can say, OK, I'm going to use
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  this part of my myself. And I'm going to say, let me use
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  it for all the possibilities of what will go well, could go
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  well, whatever. I would prefer to use the
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  language for myself. That's like, OK, this is going
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  to go outstanding. How is it going to look?
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  What is it going to look like? What is it going to come down
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  to? How is it going to shape out for
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  me so I can put it all on paper? Imagine it the best you can
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  imagine it, give it like you was a slant Grand Slam out of the
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  park. You know, you just won the ball
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  game with a walk off and you took all of these people with
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  you. You just scored six points, five
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  points, whatever it might be, you're going to do it that way
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  and put it down on paper. Now you can go backwards from
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  that point and say, OK, well, what if it was just a home run?
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  What would that look like? What are the things?
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  How would it shape out? What do I need to believe about
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  myself, the process? What do I need to get excited
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  about? You go through and you put all
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  of those on the paper as well. And then you go back and say,
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  OK, now, if it's still in your head and you're still feeling
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  doubt, put the doubt on the paper.
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  Get it out of your head. Don't keep it with you, because
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  there's nothing worse than doing that.
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  There's nothing worse than saying I'm going to keep the
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  doubt hidden. That is a trick.
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  You have to put it out. Don't keep it inside of you
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  because then it feels unheard. It feels like it.
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  It's not going to be listened to, so it becomes pokey and it
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  just niggles at you and annoys you.
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  Ultimately, it's doing its job. It's giving you the information
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  you need and since this is a rehearsal, this is exactly what
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  you're supposed to be doing. Rehearse it.
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  Just think of it that way. Think of it like it's all a big
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  rehearsal and you're running through all the scenarios and
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  it's helping you so it you know what not to do in the live
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  presentation. It's a beautiful way to think of
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  it. So all that being said, you
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  rehearse it in the good meaning. What you're really thinking is
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  your baseline. You think it for the you
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  rehearse the outstanding. What would it be?
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  That was an outstanding performance.
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  And then you can rehearse for if everything went wrong.
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  So you know what you're going to be able to do.
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  But just thinking of all of these things as rehearsals is
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  really going to help the reframe and give you some way to put it
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  in your head that allows you to accept yourself and how you do
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  it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.