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Season 5 - Episode 29 - What moves you into action? · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way, everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Do you know what actually moves you into action?
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  And I'm not going to use the word motivate because I don't
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  know that word irritates me sometimes.
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  So I'm I'm really focused on what moving does.
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  So what moves you to take action?
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  Is it when something gets so bad that you have no choice?
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  Or do you like to move when you get inspired?
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  Do you get an idea and then you want to jump into it?
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  The the question comes down to what moves you and when you
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  don't actually know, like you're not conscious and thinking about
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  it and saying, OK, I know the these are the situations that
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  I'm setting up for myself. Sometimes you can really
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  irritate yourself. You really irritate the hell out
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  of yourself because that that just puts you in this position
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  where you're like, wow, I do not like what's happening around me.
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  I don't like what's happening. I feel like I am falling apart.
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  And we all know that sometimes when things fall apart, they
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  actually fall together in a much better way.
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  And for me, I know lots of different things move me.
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  But if I don't make the list and sit down and write and say, OK,
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  here's what moves me from, you know, basic, simple stuff like
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  pain and pleasure, because things move us towards pleasure.
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  Like, oh, taking a vacation, that might push you hard.
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  For some people it doesn't, but for some people it does.
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  But there's also that pain factor.
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  Like what are the things that are painful that move you?
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  So I know if I have certain factors going on in my life that
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  are painful, that will definitely move me because my
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  certainty girl gets kicked into gear and all of a sudden because
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  she's driving that bus and she's feeling the pain, it's not going
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  to work for her. She does not like to not have
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  control and some factors dictate that.
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  So when you think about it and you know what those factors are,
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  you can call on them. You can go to the list and you
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  can actually say, OK, I'm going to choose this right now to move
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  me or I'm going to choose this. So if you go back to when you
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  were a kid and you were in school and, you know, you had
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  assignments. We all had assignments when we
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  were in school and most of us had deadlines and those
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  deadlines had to be met. There was no option for not
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  meeting the deadlines. But, you know, if you didn't,
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  you got a bad grade. There are so many of us that
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  waited until the last minute to do something.
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  And that sometimes that pain is the motivator that we carried
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  with us into our adulthood. I know a bunch of people who
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  will say, oh, I have a presentation next week and I
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  haven't started working on it. And then it's like the day
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  before, and they'll say, oh, man, my presentation's due.
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  And I still don't have it done. Whereas for me, I always enjoyed
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  coming home the day I had the assignment and sitting down and
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  doing it, Dorking out on it. I liked it because it gave me
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  time to work through it. It gave me time to feel like,
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  OK, I could go back, I could look at it, I could refine it.
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  I liked to be way ahead, just like studying for test, but not
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  everybody's that way. But I had other things that
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  would motivate me in the in the using pain to do it.
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  So I would get myself into situations where I put myself
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  between a rock and a hard place. And then I was forced to make
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  decisions because I couldn't make the decisions or I didn't
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  like to make the decisions in those moments.
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  So we all have this. The question is, do you know
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  what your factors are? So a fun assignment to do.
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  Take a piece of paper, draw a line down the middle, left and
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  right, and you can do it with positives or negatives, pain and
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  pleasure, whatever way you want to do it, whatever language
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  works for you. But on one side, you're going to
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  sit down, you're going to write OK.
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  These are the negative things that tend to motivate me, like
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  time crunches, like money crunches, like having to share
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  something with your mother or your father.
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  Even though you're an adult, that still may be something that
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  bothers you. It's, it doesn't have to be
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  something that other people understand.
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  If it works in your head, that's all that matters.
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  And then on the, you know, the, the pleasure side or the happier
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  side, you could say, oh, working towards vacation or being able
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  to spend time with my kids or take time off or, you know,
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  getting yourself a new camera. I don't know.
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  Whatever it might be, you will find those factors.
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  So doing this little exercise can be something that takes a
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  bit of time. So if you sit down and do it,
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  don't expect to get it all out on a piece of paper in 10
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  minutes. Give yourself the time, keep the
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  paper on the counter, stare at it, walk by it.
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  You'll keep adding to it because these are a lot of hidden things
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  about us that we don't readily think about.
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  They're just back there and they show up periodically and then we
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  go, oh, right, I want to add that to the list.
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  So take your time, work through it, do a good job with it and
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  then take that list and actually utilize it.
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  Actually refer to it. Say, OK, I want to do get make
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  this part of my outcomes for the year or one of my possibilities
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  or one of my goals, depending upon how you're doing it.
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  And then utilize that piece. Say I'm going to put myself in
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  this situation from this pain side or the other side and and
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  I'm going to create it. Or you can observe that you have
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  already put yourself unwittingly into the pain side and you can
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  go, oh, wait, now instead of feeling this way, that's a bad
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  thing. I see what I'm doing.
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  You recognize your pattern and that's valuable information, my
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  friends, incredibly valuable. All right, everybody, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.