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Season 3 - Episode 200 - Are you pushing the right button? · 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 from the porch.
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  It is raining, it is dark and I am recording up here.
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  You can probably hear the frogs are going crazy because of the
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  rain. So it's one of those days.
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  In any event, we were talking about pushing the wrong button.
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  Now I know this might sound strange because we often talk
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  about pushing buttons and having our own buttons pushed, but it
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  there was, there's just so many great lessons in our everyday
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  life and when they show up, I have to share them.
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  So a few years ago we had an incident in our house where
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  Lucas cut his foot on a shell and he had to soak his foot in a
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  pan, a pan of water, so to speak, got him a little bin, put
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  his foot soaking in Epsom salts because he had this cut and we
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  weren't sure if it was from an oyster shell.
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  And those are pretty dangerous and you have to make sure that
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  they don't have bacteria in them.
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  So he's constantly soaking his foot.
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  He's lying, you know, half on the couch, foot in the bin on
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  the floor, and he jumps up and the clicker, the remote control,
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  I refer to it as a clicker from the television, falls into the
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  bin of water and it fries it. Now this particular remote
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  control hat was very simple. It had like 5 buttons on it.
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  It was from a Samsung, very sleek, very small.
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  It was very easy to use and it was fried and I could not get
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  another one because they didn't sell them outside of buying the
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  television, at least at that time a few years ago.
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  And we had to buy a universal remote.
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  Now, if anyone's ever used a universal remote, you know, they
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  come with lots of different buttons, lots of different
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  instructions and they can be a real pain in the butt.
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  And it took a hot minute for us to learn how to use this remote.
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  But Mark has rarely learned to use this remote.
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  And it's very funny because every time he picks it up to use
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  the remote. And for those of you who are new
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  and listening, Mark is my husband.
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  And he will just grab it. And then he'll, you know, always
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  inevitably say damn it, like, where is this?
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  Because he can't figure out where these buttons are.
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  And I always laugh because I'm like, it's not that complicated,
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  but it can be that complicated. So yesterday he had this thing
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  where he wasn't feeling great, head thing going on, lying on
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  the couch, and he said it a number of times about how much
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  he dislikes this remote. So I was laughing at him saying
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  it wasn't this difficult, it's not a big deal.
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  And then this morning, of course, I get up and I go to
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  find out what the weather is because I can see that it's, you
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  know, not great outside. And I grab the remote.
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  I go to turn on local way early, like 4:00 in the morning weather
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  to see what's happening. And lo and behold, I can't seem
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  to get this thing to work. And I'm, I'm like, what is going
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  on? And I'm just looking at the
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  television at this point. I'm not looking at the remote
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  because I believe my fingers are doing the right thing.
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  And I'm like, why is it not going anywhere?
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  Why is it stuck? So immediately my brain goes to,
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  oh, I wonder if the service is out.
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  I wonder if something else is happening because of the
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  weather. And there's a good 30 seconds
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  that I'm doing this. And then I realize, well, maybe
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  I should look at my hand. And I look down at my hand and I
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  am pressing the wrong button. And I started to laugh because
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  that's what happens to him. He presses the wrong button and
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  I'm like, OK, lesson learned for me that I shouldn't always make
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  a comment. I should just be like, well,
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  you're on the right button. And also it was such a great
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  metaphor because I swore I was doing everything.
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  I swore I was doing it right. I stood there and I was, come
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  on, come on, Why isn't this working?
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  And getting frustrated and my emotions are going up and I feel
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  myself going up, up, up and getting aggravated that Oh no,
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  what if the the Internet is down and I've got to work and I've
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  got to go through all. It was going to be a major
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  difficult thing to traverse. But instead it was really
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  simple. I was just pushing the wrong
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  button. And if I had checked from the
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  very beginning, if I had just taken a second and said, am I
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  pushing the right buttons, I would have had 0 aggravation out
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  of it. But I did have a podcast out of
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  it because not that I was going to talk to you about this today,
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  but I thought it was just so pertinent because how often do
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  we ourselves push the wrong button in life?
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  How do we often do we keep going and trying the same thing over
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  and over, insisting we're doing it correctly, insisting we don't
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  have those emotions behind the scenes happening, insisting that
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  we're moving in the correct direction when the whole time
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  we're pushing the wrong button. And if we just stopped and
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  pushed the right button, things would get a lot easier.
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  So remember that. Ask yourself that question, am I
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  pushing the right button? Am I in the right space?
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  Am I doing the right things? Because sometimes you can't move
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  forward when you're just pushing the wrong button my friends.
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  And you'll never get the weather.
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  I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.