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Living in the past and making it the present. · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken. So today we are talking about
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  our past and how it affects us seems to be a common occurrence
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  for us. As you know we Traverse through
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  our life that we often refer to the Past because well you know
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  that's what we have. We have the past we know that is
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  a an evil, we know. Well we understand it, we can
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  look at it, we can say hey this is where I've been.
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  It's like you know, if you've ever been shocked, you know that
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  the light socket is something that That you have to avoid so
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  to speak, don't stick your finger in the light socket,
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  don't do the same stupid things you've done before you know
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  Napoleon Hill has a great little excerpt in one of his books and
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  I'm going to read it to you now. It says Shakespeare's
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  observation that what's past is prologue is especially
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  appropriate in today's high speed high tech world.
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  Everything we have done in the past serves only to prepare us
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  for the next task. Don't Revel in past glories,
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  plan for future achievements. Movements and Savor the
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  victories of today. Take pride in everything.
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  You do search for better ways to do routine, tasks, and
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  congratulate yourself. When you do something,
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  especially well, don't dwell in the past, and I can't stress
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  this enough because for me, you know, I've studied Napoleon
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  Hills work forever. This is just one of those
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  phrases that I'm always reminded of.
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  And I wanted to share it with all of you, because we spend so
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  much time talking talking about our past and it just doesn't
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  fly. It just doesn't fly.
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  It's already gone. It's it's just a reference
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  point. It's set to prepare us for
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  what's next. It is not meant to be lived in
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  over and over and over again. So having a revelation, if you
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  will about the fact that the past is not going to predict
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  your future, it's not going to make you anything other than
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  aware of what you can look at. Yes, it's an Should but don't
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  make it so that it's so scary. It's such a has such an intense
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  effect on us and so many of us have trauma and part of dealing
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  with trauma is recognizing that it's gone and it's not in the
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  present moment, you know, Buddhists believe that all the
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  power is in the present moment and I couldn't agree more with
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  this. Everything that has happened to
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  us. Is a story that we remember.
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  And, you know, according to scientist, Most in accurately,
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  which is what's crazy about it, we don't remember things
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  accurately, we make them more intense, we make them more
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  visual, we put them in ways that don't work for us.
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  And in doing that it causes us to have more intense memories of
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  it and it just makes us go off the rails.
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  Like we don't remember it as accurately as it could have
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  been. I have this memory of my
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  childhood and going to nauset beach out on Cape Cod.
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  And I have these very, very distinct memories of what the
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  beach looked like and where we used to go.
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  And these memories are very, very clear to me.
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  This is what's crazy about this story.
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  When I look at pictures from that time frame, I'm shocked at
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  how different, the beach actually looked in my memory.
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  I visualize it a certain way, see it a certain way, but in the
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  pictures, the actual pictures that my ER, and father took I'll
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  look back and I'll be like huh, I don't remember it.
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  Looking that way at all. Maybe it was the fact that my
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  mother was taller than me and she took it from a different
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  vantage point. Maybe it was that it was a
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  different space on the beach, but it was right out camper.
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  You would think I would have accurate memories of it, but it
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  all depends on the State of Mind urine.
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  What you're thinking, where you're focused and our minds,
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  skew it. So, I'm challenging you on the
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  fact that I want you to stop thinking from the past.
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  I want you to start thinking from the present moment and
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  forward. I want you to ask yourself is my
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  perception real, or is it skewed?
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  Because, when you keep asking yourself that, you can actually
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  realize how much we skew things and how much we have to pull
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  ourselves out of the skew to get to a place where we can have
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  actual accurate assumptions and depictions of what's going on,
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  you know? We always, you know, you know a
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  little phrase assume assuming makes an ass out of you and me
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  and it really does. Sometimes do that it puts us in
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  a deficit? Because we think we know
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  everything and it's sad to say. But we know very, very little
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  and the more you can recognize that you use your past for that
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  place. The better off.
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  You are release it. Let it go, put it, where it
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  belongs, the past is gone. Work in the present moment, stay
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  in the present moment as much as you can, because that is where
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  your strengths is, that is where your awareness is, and that's
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  where you can change everything for the future moving forward.
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  I hope you guys have a very blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.