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Season 4 - Episode 91 - What scarcity can give us · 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.
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  And also happen to be. A farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here every day to
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  record a podcast. To.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  So let's talk about scarcity today because so many people are
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  in scarcity so often it's a topic that we need to address
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  more than we actually do because it's it looms.
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  It's like a black cloud outside the door, or maybe it's a black
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  cloud inside of us. I'm not sure how you view it,
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  but I, I have lived in scarcity before and I, I will say it is a
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  very daunting subject to attack. But the reason we're having this
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  conversation is to let everybody know it happens to everybody.
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  It happens to all of us. Fear is part of our hardwiring
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  and scarcity is a part of fear. You know, there, it's been often
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  said that you can divide emotions into two categories,
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  love and fear, and everything comes from those two.
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  And it's a very simple way to chunk it.
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  And it is very clear to me that scarcity comes from fear.
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  So when we think scarcity, when we think we don't have enough,
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  that triggers something in our mind to that goes way back to
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  Maslow's hierarchy of needs, basic needs.
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  And when we think we don't have something, immediately we dip
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  into that space of scarcity and we, we, we want it.
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  Like if you go back and you think about what happened during
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  COVID and toilet paper hoarding, that was a very big thing.
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  Like we did not want to be without toilet paper.
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  So people were actually hoarding it.
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  And I can understand how this happens because everyone's
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  coming from scarcity. When am I going to get it again?
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  If you've ever watched The Walking Dead, that series, you
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  can see exactly what happens to people when that that goes off
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  and when we start to have those scarcity moments.
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  But what happens when you live in a threat of scarcity every
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  single day? What happens when you think I'm
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  not going to have enough, I'm not going to get the clients,
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  I'm not going to get the job, I'm running out of money, all of
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  those things. Well, what we think about
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  expands. So the question, the conundrum
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  that we're always faced with as human beings is, well, I have to
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  think about it in order to fix it.
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  I can't tell you how many times I have that conversation with
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  people. Well, I have to think about it
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  in order to fix it. Kim, what am I supposed to do?
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  Am I supposed to just not think about it because I have to think
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  about it? Well, the answer is the emotion
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  is supposed to help us. The emotion is supposed to help
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  us move through it. So when you have those thoughts,
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  they are normal. That's it's normal to have those
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  thoughts. What's not normal is to keep
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  repeating it non-stop, which is what causes the attraction,
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  magnetizes us. And scarcity is incredibly
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  powerful, my friends. So you have to realize when it
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  shows up, it gives us a warning, a strong warning, and then we
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  need to do something about it. We need to change our approach.
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  We need to add something. We need to set ourselves up so
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  we don't have that repetitive problem.
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  We have a tendency as human beings to wait until something
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  grows like a big monster, and I'm all about kill the monsters
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  while they're small because they're easier to deal with.
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  It's like cleaning up a mess is easier to deal with when it's
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  small. If you have clutter in your
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  house, you handle it while it's on the counter.
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  You don't wait until it becomes a horde and that solves the
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  situation quicker for you. Now, are the thoughts going to
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  keep coming of scarcity? Yes, because we are wired to
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  find out what's wrong in our world.
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  We are just wired for that. That's how we stay safe, find
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  out what's wrong, handle it great, but don't hang on to the
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  thought long, start taking action in another direction.
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  So if I'm having scarcity thoughts, let's use it our
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  business as an example. If I'm having scarcity thoughts
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  about my business, the markets tough, this is happening, that's
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  happening. Contraction is not the way to
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  go. Expansion is the way to go.
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  So it's not like you go out and expand and spend more money.
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  What you do is you expand your thoughts, you expand your
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  emotion about it. You start expanding how excited
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  you are to work with your clients.
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  You start talking to different people, taking different
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  strategies to reach your clients.
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  You start doing different things to make it happen.
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  You start offering your services in different areas.
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  And this is where the theory of multiple streams of income comes
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  in. You set yourself up and if you
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  say, well, I don't have the time, now you're back to
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  thinking about limitation. You're immediately saying, I
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  don't have the time. Well, listen, we all make time.
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  I get up this morning, Full disclosure, I was awake at 3:10
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  because I knew I wanted to get up and write A blog this morning
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  and have it ready to go out and I wanted to work on the
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  newsletter that was going to go out.
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  So my days are packed. My days are completely packed
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  and I don't sit there and go, I don't have the time to do it.
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  No, I went to bed early, early last night and I woke up early,
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  early so that I have the quiet time.
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  And you know what, not only did I manage to get that done, I
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  managed to get other things done because it was quiet and I could
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  function. So remember scarcity, it's a
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  powerful tool, but use it limitedly.
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  Allow it to get your butt moving, but put it in check and
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  start thinking about what it's trying to tell you and move
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  through it, not sit in it. 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.