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Season 3 - Episode 302 - Embracing Progress Over Perfection · 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 to the noisy farm.
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  The crows are very busy this morning screaming.
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  So if you hear them only because there's a hawk out there.
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  So they're just screaming and the girls are quiet and kind of
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  they're here eating, but they're they're not like noisy as usual.
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  I think it's just the crows are really kind of getting everybody
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  in the right headspace this morning.
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  Anyway, today we are talking about progress over perfection
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  and very important, especially since we spoke about Martha
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  Stewart the other day and her her love of perfection, I
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  thought it would be important to talk about the theory of
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  progress over perfection and what it means.
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  So from, from my perspective, when I am working on something
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  for myself personally or I'm working on something with
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  clients, there's always an understanding that this is, it
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  is 100% necessary that understand that this is a, a
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  long road, it's a marathon, it's not a Sprint.
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  And we will be looking at points where there will be
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  imperfections, if you will. And if you're expecting
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  perfection, I will ask them and I will ask myself immediately,
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  what do you define as perfection?
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  What do you define as the perfect way that this will come
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  about? Often when I ask that question,
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  there's no answer. There's it's just blank.
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  People don't know how to answer it.
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  They're going like, well, I don't know.
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  I'll know when I know, which is a very, very tough thing to to
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  take in when you have that inside of you, because that
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  means it's a moving target. That means you never have
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  anything to measure by. So when your answer is I'll
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  know. When I know you are setting
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  yourself up for a very long, very difficult lingering journey
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  because you don't have a way to measure.
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  And that's the part that's so hard.
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  We have to understand what is the goal?
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  Where is this going to be done? Where is this going to have an,
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  an end insight. So sometimes it, it, it's good
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  for now and then we'll move on. I'm very big on that with
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  myself. So doing the website over the
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  course of this year, we launched a new website at the beginning
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  of the year. We launched some content, we
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  launched, you know, putting blogs out.
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  We did so, so much this year. This year has been so abundant.
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  Having a, a really awesome team to work with, with myself and
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  the people that I have that helped me.
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  We have gotten so much done, which is fantastic, wonderful
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  and I love it. And at the same time, I knew
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  totally, I knew that when I did this, there was not going to be
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  a, a perfection of the website. I knew when we first started
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  off, we had started with one particular company and I won't
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  say the name because it's so bad, can't stand them.
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  And we built it out and I hated the look of it.
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  I just hated it. I hated it's inflexibility and
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  we had to get rid of it. We didn't have to, but I chose
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  to. We started all over with another
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  company. I love it.
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  It's much more graphic and artistic and that's me.
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  So it represented me and we did it and I knew even when we
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  finished it and had it like quasi finished in I think it was
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  April maybe, maybe it was sooner than I forget how, how this laid
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  out in time, time kind of blurs for me sometimes.
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  I said to everybody, look, this is good for now.
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  This is done for now. This is what we want for now.
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  But I am very, very big on saying the words for now.
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  So I understand that as my identity shifts and I grow, my
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  outcomes are going to shift and grow.
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  That's just part of the process for me anyway.
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  So it may be that way for you, which is why we're talking about
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  it. So just adding two simple words
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  for now allows us to have the space to observe, also learn
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  from it. Go in and actually learn and
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  say, what else do we need? What else can we do to shift
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  this? How can we make this different
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  and better? And I'm always looking for
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  improvements in myself and in everything that I'm working on.
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  So very important to recognize that you can do those things
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  because as you do them, they become so much more.
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  As you do those observations and you give yourself, they become
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  so much easier to assimilate what your new ideas are when
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  you're not beating yourself up for saying, oh, this is wasted
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  time. I wasted all this time, you
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  know, I did. I don't say those words.
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  What I say is I learned so much. I learned so much.
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  So now that I've learned this and even getting ready to go
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  into the end of the year and look at what changes we want to
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  make with course content and website again, I will go back in
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  and I will say this is, this is a journey of progress.
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  It's not a journey of perfection.
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  It is totally focused on where we are now, where do we want to
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  be, making sure we have a good solid definition of it.
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  And then looking and saying, OK, this is good for now with what
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  we have. And as we expand and grow our
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  intent and our content and everything else, we will shift
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  it yet again. And that's the way you do it.
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  So hopefully this was helpful and just add those two words in
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  for now and watch the stress go away.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.