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There are no shortcuts to greatness · 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 very noisy.
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  Can coop little bit later in the morning and they are all out
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  there laying eggs and battling for boxes right now because they
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  all want the same box. So funny how humans and chickens
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  are like the same. When it comes to this, they all
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  want the one that everybody else wants.
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  Anyway, today we are talking about the fact that there are no
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  shortcuts to Greatness. So oftentimes we put ourselves
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  in positions. That are completely and totally
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  unrealistic about the amount of work, it takes to get where we
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  want to go. And I see this more and more in
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  recent years and I probably ever have where people have the
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  intention of wanting something. They want the outcome, but they
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  don't want the effort. They will put a little effort
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  in, but they don't want to pour the real effort and, and
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  greatness takes great effort. You can get to a certain level.
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  But you will never hit Mastery, unless you tore, pour yourself
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  into it, and tear down that road of greatness.
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  Now, here's an interesting thing because, you know, Tom, Brady,
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  is somebody that you either love them or hate them.
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  But there's one thing you can't take away from the guy and that
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  it's his work ethic and it's the way he puts things together and
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  how he is just so focused on being, you know, the greatest
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  football player of all time but he's it's not just about him
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  being great. It's about the fact that he
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  loves the game and That it's his world.
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  Now again love him or hate him. He's going to Big controversy
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  right now with his marriage and people are judging him and I
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  think it's really hard to put judgment on somebody when you
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  don't walk in their shoes. So I'm not going to talk about
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  that right now because that's a whole other podcast in itself.
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  But right now we're talking about the path to Greatness and
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  you can't deny that the man pours in for what he wants and
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  what his level of greatness has. And most of us are not willing
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  to do the number of hours. It takes to get to that level
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  and Achieve what we're looking for.
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  Or we're not, you know, willing to double time and we sit there
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  and we say, well, you know, I have to have this other, you
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  know, part of my life. I have to be able to, you know,
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  I can't, I can't create a business on the side.
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  I can't create a side hustle because then, I'll just be
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  working all the time and they were Be time for me.
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  And as somebody who has done this, as somebody who has said,
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  okay, I'm going to create this coaching business.
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  I'm going to create all of this that in my world that I have.
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  It required me spending a period of time double timing triple
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  timing. Working three jobs, doing
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  certain things. So when you look at the life
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  that we have created it, it does, it does mean sacrifice.
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  It does mean that you have to put things aside, but it Don't
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  mean all the time that you're sacrificing and it doesn't mean
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  that you have to be miserable in the process of creating
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  something that you want. What it does mean is there is
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  such a thing as balance, but it requires you to understand,
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  there are no shortcuts to getting them.
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  There are no shortcuts to Greatness.
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  There are no shortcuts to outstanding outcomes.
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  You have to decide how that work is going to go.
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  So for instance, if I know I'm in the process of working on
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  Something, I mean, let's say, I'm writing another book.
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  Let's say I'm doing something or even this podcast, you know, how
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  did good morning start? Well, you know, a part of this
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  is I'm doing this early in the morning because it doesn't
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  interfere with anything that I'm doing with my family.
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  It doesn't take away from my family.
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  What I do is I get up before everybody else, I'm up with the
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  chickens. No pun intended, but it's true
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  and I take care of this before. Anybody else needs anything over
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  for. I would have to Sacrifice
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  spending time with them. And oftentimes, the greatness
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  that you seek requires more of you than it does of anybody else
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  and you have to be willing to haul your ass out of bed in the
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  morning. If that means going to bed at
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  9:00 at night and getting up at 4:00 in the morning or 4:30 in
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  the morning, then it requires that you do that for years.
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  I did that when I had my gelato shop and I was trying to coach
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  and Runnin Marketing gig on the side because that's how I got
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  things done. That's how I worked to put my
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  life together. At that time.
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  I never felt like I was sacrificing anything because I
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  didn't focus on that word. I focused on Choice.
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  My choice is, I want to get to this other level.
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  If I want to get to this level, this means I have to do this.
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  How badly do I want it? On a scale of 1 to 10?
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  Is it a sacrifice? I don't know.
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  I never use that word. I don't think about sacrificing.
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  I think about Is it worth the effort is the outcome worth the
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  effort? And when you can start looking
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  through a different lens and asking a different question, you
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  stop focusing on what you're losing and you start focusing on
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  how do you create what you want, how can you, you know have it
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  all so to speak and depending upon the lens you look through,
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  you can have it all. And yeah, let me let me say I
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  have this glorious situation out here on my farm.
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  I worked my ass off to get to this point.
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  And I continue to work my ass off to get to this point and
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  maintain it. I continue to create and I
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  continue to grow it. I never think about the fact
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  that oh I put in a lot of hours, I don't think about that.
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  Why would I focus on that? I focus on spending time with my
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  family, when I can I focus on spending time when I can work
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  with my plants in my garden and everything else, I don't focus
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  on the bullshit because it doesn't help.
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  So I'm challenging you to let go.
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  Go of those stories to let go of the things that don't work for
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  you in your quest for greatness. And right now, there's a lot
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  going on in this world and it requires some double time where
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  we've had, you know, real interesting, couple years where
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  a lot of things were just flying and people were making money
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  easily. Well, you know what, things have
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  slowed down and now it causes us to go back to Old Habits where
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  we have to go and say, I actually have to work to create
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  rapport with people. I actually have to work to get
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  out there and talk to people. I actually have to be connected.
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  Did I things are not just going to come off, the low-hanging
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  fruit of the tree, right? You've got to actually know how
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  to climb the damn tree at this point.
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  So I'm going to challenge everybody out there, who's
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  struggling with this and saying, well, you know, I want the
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  outcome. I don't, I just so exhausted
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  with the effort, you know, tell yourself a different story
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  change. The way you're approaching it.
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  Ask a better question because there are no shortcuts to
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  Greatness. Trust me.
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  If you want it, go get it, but don't complain about it.
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  Alright, I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow.