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Season 2 - Episode 277 - Create momentum! · 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 coop.
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  So today we are talking about momentum.
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  So momentum is one of the most powerful things that we as human
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  beings can use to help ourselves.
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  And you can't imagine why because it's kind of crazy.
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  But think about it when you roll something or you're moving
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  something and once it starts moving, it's easier to move
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  well, it's the same thing with whatever tasks we're doing.
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  It's the same thing with getting something under your belt.
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  So if you have done really well eating like let's say you want
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  to lose weight and you want to be able to or or you want to
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  start walking, it's a great metaphor for me to use because
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  you know how much I walk. So when I first started the
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  whole walking journey, I remember I was when I realized I
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  was not walking a lot, I was like Oh my gosh.
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  And I got my Fitbit and I put it on and I was like Oh my God, how
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  can I only be doing 3000 steps a day?
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  This is pathetic. This is why I'm so distraught
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  and my body feels like hell. So I started and I'm day one, I
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  started walking, day two walking, and then day three, it
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  happened to be the weekend. And I'm like, man, I just, I was
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  doing so well. And then the weekend comes and
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  it throws off the pattern. Well, that's the momentum.
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  The pattern actually creates momentum or vice versa.
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  And when you throw something off, you throw something off.
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  So all of a sudden down go the steps again and you feel
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  terrible because you did it. Or it might be like not eating.
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  And then all of a sudden you have a piece of candy or you've
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  done really well all week long, and then you're in the office
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  and then someone has a damn office party and brings in
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  cupcakes. And of course the cupcakes are
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  sitting there and they're calling you and you're just
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  like, ah man. And it's just that like moment
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  that in those moments of decision your, your whole world
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  is shaped and you're like, okay, do I step out of momentum to
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  where I'm in the right direction or do I go and and and just eat
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  the cupcake? Like, you know, what do I do?
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  Do I stay in momentum? Do I get out of momentum?
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  And that's what I'm talking about today, because staying in
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  momentum is hard work. Let me be very clear about that.
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  Staying in momentum is really, really hard work.
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  It is not easy to be consistent. If there's one thing that I
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  know, it is terribly difficult to stay in momentum even for me,
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  because it's about doing the same things over and over.
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  And as you know, much as we love that as human beings, we also
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  want variety. So we have to find ways to blend
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  the world, because keeping in momentum will keep you in a
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  grand, grand space. And that's the most important
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  thing. That is the most important thing
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  that you could possibly do for yourself is to put yourself in
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  awareness and say, okay, I am going to stay in this place and
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  keep myself moving. I'm not going to stop.
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  So for for instance, me with the stops, let's use that as an
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  example because it's the one that I know oh so well as a
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  physical goal. Anyway, I I set my little app on
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  my phone to say that my minimum steps is 15,000 steps a day, and
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  my goal steps are really to be up over 20 every single day.
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  I know that seems extreme to some people, but it's it's just
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  what I like to do and it's just where I am.
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  And if I say okay, I can change how I'm doing it.
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  Like OKI can go walk downtown. I can go do something else.
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  If it's the weekend, I could go and find another space to go and
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  hike it out, get those steps in. It doesn't always have to be the
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  same pattern of it, but it does have to be that momentum piece.
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  I'm not gonna allow myself to fall out of it.
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  Because then once you eat that cupcake once, you stop the
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  steps. Once you don't write that one
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  day, all of a sudden it's easy to go well, I'll just pick it
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  back up on Monday. And we've all said those words.
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  I'll just start over again on Monday.
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  But why? What's the reason?
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  What's the what's the purpose of that?
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  We do it and it tortures us. We do it.
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  We don't feel good. We do it, and we don't like
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  ourselves after we do it. So I'm here to remind you that
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  momentum has purpose. Momentum is a force, and we want
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  to use it in our favor. So no matter what you do this
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  week, I want you to think about where you can create momentum,
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  where you can live in momentum and you can make the choices to
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  make it easier so that you can stay in it and think about it
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  and pattern yourself your what you're doing your activities
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  around those things so that you don't have the glass of wine so
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  that you don't miss out on your whatever your projects might be.
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  And I know it's hard, believe me, because I have a lot of
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  things that I need to stay in momentum with, and it requires a
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  lot of mental juice. But guess what?
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  You wouldn't be here if you were average.
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  So don't play average. 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.