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Season 5 - Episode 6 - What’s the intent behind the goal? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning. So I am recording this at 4:00
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  AM. I'm in my pantry and I'm sorting
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  through cookbooks. Now you might be saying, why is
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  she doing this at 4:00 AM? Well, here's the thing.
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  The beginning of the year, always, it Fords us so many
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  possibilities. And as I've talked about the
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  possibility list, putting things out there, looking at things in
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  a very different way and not just trying to force yourself to
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  come up with goals, but listening, listing possibilities
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  first is a great way to be able to kind of give yourself a break
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  from feeling like you have to have it just perfect.
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  At least I know I need to do that.
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  And really hunkering down and saying, let me look at this from
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  the, the standpoint of just collecting ideas.
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  Well, one of the things in my possibilities list that I had as
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  an idea was that 2 * a month I was going to cook a full meal
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  and be not just like cooking something that I already know
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  how to cook, which I'm very good at assembling sandwiches and
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  putting things together like that.
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  But I'm talking about really like looking for something that
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  is food oriented, like looking at something that is a meal
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  oriented type of thing and not just a snack or a sandwich.
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  So I decided I was going to go through and find very cool
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  different recipes from all my different cookbooks that I've
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  collected. Now, I know it's weird for
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  someone that doesn't necessarily think of themselves as someone
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  that cooks all the time. I like to bake a lot, but I'm
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  cooking. It's always been a challenge.
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  So one of the things that I have decided I'm going to hunker down
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  into this. This is a big thing for me.
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  Two times a month I'm going to cook something I've never cooked
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  before. So if you've ever seen that
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  movie about Julia Childs, when the girl says OK, I'm going to
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  cook her entire recipe book for the joy of Cooking over the
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  course of a year. I'm not going that deep, but I'm
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  definitely going to try different things.
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  One of my favorite, favorite chefs, I don't even know if he
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  considers himself a chef. It's Christopher Kimball and he
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  does Milk St. and he has a magazine called Milk St.
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  And Milk Street is actually from, it's a it's a location, a
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  physical location. 177 Milk Street is in Boston and I grew
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  up in Massachusetts and this is I've walked Milk St. before and
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  he used to be part of a PBS show.
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  I think they're they actually are still on PBS.
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  And he he was originally part of the Cooks Illustrated group, I
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  believe. And he ended up leaving, going
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  up, breaking out on his own either here or there.
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  He's amazing at testing recipes and getting some really, really
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  great things. If you've never looked at his
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  cookbooks, one of my favorite ones is something that's called
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  cookish. So it's the word cook with ISH
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  on the end. And that recipes in there are
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  simple, clean, easy to use. You know, you don't feel
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  struggling like you've got to have 10,000 things in your
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  kitchen. And if he does call for unique
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  ingredients, you can get them right off their website.
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  So you don't even have to, you know, go around shopping and
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  looking for this stuff. But Needless to say, he
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  definitely has some really great recipes.
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  One of the burgers from that book is a pork burger.
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  Takes really no time to assemble, excuse me, takes no
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  time to assemble. And it's delicious.
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  Everybody who eats it loves it. So I was, you know, and again,
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  cookish is the simple things, the very simple things.
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  But I'm talking, I really wanted to make different stuff.
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  So as I sit here surrounded by the cookbooks, I have to ask
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  myself how? What level do I want to take
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  this to? Am I looking for really
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  complicated things or am I just looking for things that I enjoy?
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  Am I doing this as a challenge or am I doing this as supposed
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  to be fun? And the reason I'm sharing all
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  this with you is because even though I had the possibility of
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  like, oh, I'm going to cook something 2 * a month, you
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  really need to be specific with yourself so that you don't drive
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  yourself crazy with your own goals.
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  I have been there. I have driven myself crazy with
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  my own goals. And part of it is understanding
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  what the true intent of it is. So when I stopped and I paused a
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  few minutes ago and I was like, oh, you know what this is?
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  This is supposed to be about the joy of this.
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  It's not supposed to be about the challenge of having to cook
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  six dishes that go along in this huge meal.
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  And like I'm, I'm catering with Martha Stewart.
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  No, I'm not doing that. This is supposed to be about
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  joy. So as I go through these pages
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  and I try to pick something, I'm picking from the aspect of does
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  this bring me joy? Am I going to enjoy this, right.
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  Is this going to be something that I really feel good about
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  doing in the process, not just about torturing myself?
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  So when you're putting your things together for the for next
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  year, if you're working on your possibilities, your goals,
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  however, whatever you're calling it, Please remember what is the
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  intent behind it? What is the intent behind it?
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  Did it? Did it?
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  Is it there just to, you know, push me?
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  Am I supposed to be growing? Is it really about just
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  happiness? Dig in because that's going to
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  give you the key to the level at which you want to do it.
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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.