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Season 2 - Episode 225 - Habits & how to shift them · 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 today we are talking about
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  rewiring your days. And this is the subject that's
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  very fascinating to me because most people show up for coaching
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  and they think, Oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm going to do
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  this. I don't know how I'm going to
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  change. I don't know the particulars of
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  any of this and they get overwhelmed before they even
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  start. And one of the simplest things
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  that I. I really have to have everybody
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  understand right at the from the very beginning of working with
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  me and coaching with me is that you are a creature of habit.
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  You are a creature of patterns and it is possible to change.
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  Like you have to believe it's possible to change.
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  And by changing your patterns, even the simplest of patterns,
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  things start to evolve. So there are estimates out there
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  that we have between 60 and 80 thousand thoughts a day.
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  I mean, think about that. That's insane that that a person
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  can have that many thoughts. First of all, it always
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  fascinates me as to how they track this, but they do.
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  And 60 to 80 thousand thoughts a day.
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  The kicker is 2/3 of them are repeated from the day before.
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  Now that's even more insane when you think about.
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  The how the human brain works and when you repeat things, they
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  become part of who you are. So most of us learned
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  multiplication that way, where we were just drilled, wrote,
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  learned it over and over and over and over until we could
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  recite it and do it quickly so that we knew those basic
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  fundamentals, which is the the crux of how your brain likes to
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  work. Repetition is the mother of
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  skill for human beings, and once we do it, we can do it better
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  and better and better and better.
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  But the really hard thing to understand is if the patterns
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  are not resourceful, you are repeating them anyway.
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  You are becoming more resourceful at the unresourceful
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  activity. So think about what I just said.
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  If it's a destructive activity and you do it more and more and
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  you become better at the destructive activity, you're
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  still going to. It's going to be a pattern.
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  It's still going to affect you. You can't just get away from it
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  because it's destructive. You know, and we have patterns
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  in everything we do. Think about how you take a
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  shower. You go and get in the shower in
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  the morning or the evening whenever you do your showering
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  and boom, all of a sudden you wash the same way.
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  You have the same pattern of how you wash yourself, how you do
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  your hair. Same thing about how you blow
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  dry your hair or how you shave, brush your teeth.
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  You always start in the same spot.
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  For most people it is very driven.
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  The side of the bed they sleep on, how they put their clothes
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  on. Try to put your sneakers and
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  socks on differently and watch how your brain goes.
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  Wait, what? Because it's so conditioned.
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  So the point of this is rewiring your brain is very simple in the
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  sense that you change the pattern of how you do something
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  and then everything else gets scrambled.
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  So let's say you want to start your day off and you want to
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  start meditating. And you've always said I want to
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  meditate. I know it's good for me.
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  I hear how great it is, but I just can't seem to get it.
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  I struggle with it. Part of the problem is you're
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  trying to insert something new into old patterns, so I will
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  often tell my clients the best way to do that is to start
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  scrambling your patterns. Now for any Seinfeld fans out
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  there, if you're a big Seinfeld fan and I am a big Seinfeld fan,
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  there was an episode where George was talking about
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  opposite George and he was going to do opposite of everything
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  that George ever talked about. And it was so great because he
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  was scrambling his own patterns right down to if he ordered tuna
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  salad, now he was going to order egg salad.
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  If he was going to order coffee, he would normally now always
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  order coffee. He would now order tea.
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  He's scrambling the simplest of patterns.
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  And then the others become open to interpretation and you can
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  allow new things to happen. It's kind of like you're
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  tricking your brain. You're just saying if I always
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  walk to my left and now I walk to my right, and while I'm
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  walking to my right, I think of something else I want to do, it
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  becomes easier. So right from the morning, let's
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  say we're going to add in the meditation, you wake up in the
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  morning instead of going in and. You know, doing your day like
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  you normally would, grabbing your phone, checking your text
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  messages, your emails or whatever.
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  You say, no, I'm not going to do that.
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  You get up, you drink water and you go and you meditate first.
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  Right away you've scrambled your brain because you're not looking
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  at the old pattern and doing the phone or whatever.
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  Now obviously you probably have to pee in there first.
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  You get up. I know.
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  I'm just saying that don't touch the typical patterns.
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  It's okay though, to get up and pee first if you need to.
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  Or get up and brush your teeth and pee.
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  Fine. But talk about it in the sense
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  of the big stuff that you're going to move around so that
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  your brain does not have the same response.
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  I promise you, if you try this technique, you're going to be
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  astounded as to how different you feel right away.
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  Because it really doesn't matter if you're going for a walk or
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  you're meditating, or you decide to read or you decide to change
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  the smallest of small things, the one shift in the morning
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  makes all the difference. So work on this.
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  And practice it. Scramble as much as you can and
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  then try putting the new things in.
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  Because I promise you, when you do it, it will interrupt those
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  old patterns and then you have the opportunity to put in the
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  new ones you want. I hope you all have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow.