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Season 2 - Episode 220 - Are you emotionally committed to your goals? · 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 master mindset
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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 chicken
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  coop. So yesterday I had a very
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  interesting conversation with a young gentleman that I coached
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  in his early 20s. And he actually was going over
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  some stuff that we've been working on.
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  And he was talking about how he was setting some goals as he's
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  headed back into college and he's setting some goals.
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  And he said to me. Can I ask you a question?
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  I said sure. Nicholas, do you think my goals
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  are not big enough? Do you think my goals are not
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  substantial enough? And I thought, wow, that's an
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  interesting question that he's asking me this about his goals.
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  So are you asking me that because you think your goals are
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  not substantial enough? Or are you asking me that
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  because someone else said it to you or you genuinely like?
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  Concerned that about my opinion on this.
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  And he said, well, I I guess it's like I'm trying to
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  determine if I'm pushing myself hard enough.
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  And I thought, wow, isn't this so true that we all stop and ask
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  these questions of ourselves and sometimes we don't recognize
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  like what we're actually asking ourselves.
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  So think of it like this. If I have a goal, and I know
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  it's important to me to take, to have that goal take place.
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  And I know that I'm driven by it, and it's something that's
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  like a burning desire of mine. I will wake up early, I will go
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  to bed later, I will work on Saturdays.
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  I will do the things that I need to do to make it happen because
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  it's a part of something that is burning inside of me.
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  Like, I really want this to happen if it's a mediocre piece
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  of it or I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.
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  I'm not going to have those things.
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  So I asked him, I said, well, only you can determine this.
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  You have to make a decision about what it means to you so
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  you can understand exactly what's happening for yourself.
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  Like, are you driven by any pause?
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  And he was like, I guess it's an interesting question because I
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  thought I was, but I'm questioning if it's enough
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  because I don't know how quickly this should happen and it's not
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  a question of timing when we have these things, it's a
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  question of are. Overall intensity of emotion
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  around things. Because if our emotion is not
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  present, we're not going to make it happen.
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  If our excitement is not present, we're not going to make
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  it happen. We're going to give up.
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  We're going to let it go. We're not going to push
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  ourselves to the the unreasonableness that it takes
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  sometimes to make things happen. When I was writing the Who's
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  Driving Your Bus book, I worked on that nonstop.
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  Like nonstop. For and I don't write books
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  normally, so let me be very clear about that.
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  I lock myself away and I don't. When I get motivated and I'm
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  going to do it, it just all comes out of me at once.
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  And I was done with the first draft of that book in a week and
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  I know it sounds crazy, but it was just boom out.
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  And then I didn't like it, and I threw it away.
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  And I did it again. Couple weeks later and boom, I
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  didn't like it and I threw it away.
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  And then the third time I did it, it was the same thing except
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  it came out even quicker and I liked it.
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  And then I was able to edit it and have it, you know, taken.
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  I passed it over to my husband and he edits it and we go from
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  there. But the point is the drive was
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  present. So it shifts everything.
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  It makes everything slightly different when you have that
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  intensity as a part of it because you know you're willing
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  to do whatever. So I had to.
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  Explain to him. You have to understand your
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  level of commitment to it. Not just saying the words, not
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  just giving Idlib service, but actually emotionally, what is
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  the level of commitment you have to it?
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  You know, creating this whole podcast, the chickens, getting
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  their whole environment set up, that was a major commitment to
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  setting them up and getting it done, and then a longterm
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  commitment. But I've never minded it.
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  Not for five seconds, because to me.
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  This is as I sit out here on their stuff this morning and
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  listening to them. And I mean, this is just my
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  happy place and it's not for everybody, right, But it's mine.
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  But the goal of it was easy to put into play because I was so
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  emotionally committed. So if you're sitting there and
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  you're wondering why some of your goals aren't happening.
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  You have to go back and check in with yourself as to how
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  emotionally committed am I to this?
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  Am I? Am I just saying the words or am
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  I actually emotionally committed?
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  Am I in this place where there's no question I am committed to
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  it? Because I'm telling you, there
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  is a tremendous difference between trying to make a goal
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  that's just a goal, and trying to make a goal that you're
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  emotionally committed to. It's like night and day.
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  The things fall into place. It becomes magic.
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  It becomes the effortless part of it because you're working it
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  on both levels. You're working it on the
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  manifesting level and you're in the world of the ethereal, and
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  then you're working it on the the reality level because you're
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  doing the tasks, but they're aligned and they move you
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  quicker. So really check in and ask
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  yourself that question if you're stuck, if you're at that point
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  in the year we're considering like, OK, some new goals for the
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  end of the year. Check in with yourself.
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  Get very aligned with that, because that will make a
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  tremendous difference. 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.