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Season 4 - Episode 104 - The ‘programming’ we are unaware of · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happen to be a farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here every.
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  Day to record a podcast to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some.
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  Joy into the world, so welcome to the.
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  Coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. How often do you tell yourself
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  something about yourself and it's kind of programmed in and
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  you have no idea where it came from?
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  So I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about.
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  I have a green thumb. Like that is without question.
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  I have a green thumb. I've always heard that from
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  everybody when I was a kid growing up.
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  I obviously have this farm. I start a lot of plants from
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  seed. I grow gardens filled with
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  flowers, vegetables. I have plants all around the
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  house. I've cultivated inside.
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  I mean, I keep things alive. I find dead things on the side
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  of the road. I bring them home, I bring them
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  back to life. My money tree being one of the
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  biggest ones that I've ever had the hugest success with it.
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  I mean, it went from being just like a braided little lump on
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  the side of the road. Probably about like the braid,
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  you know how they braid the the body of it And it was probably
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  about, I'm going to say 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
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  So it was a beautiful braid, but it only had it was the whole
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  thing was about 14, 10 inches tall and it had like 3 leaves on
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  it at the time. And it was just the root ball
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  and she threw it on the side. Of the road and I picked it up
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  and brought it home and I was so angry I mean I was pissed off
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  that this woman, this neighbor I had at the time in the other
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  neighborhood we lived in just tossed it on the sidewalk and,
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  and, and it was like 90° outside so hot and I just was like OK,
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  that's it. And I brought it home and I sat
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  and I talked to it and I fixed it.
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  And now this, this tree is a behemoth in our dining room that
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  just keeps growing. And I think right now it's
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  probably about 11 feet tall. And it's got hundreds of leaves
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  on it and very abundant. So I have a green thumb.
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  And as I said, I've always been told that just like my
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  grandmother built me up and said, you are so creative.
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  So it was like, yes, I was told I am creative.
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  I was told I live in my imagination.
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  So those things are my reality because that's what I was told.
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  Now, I was also told I wasn't good in math and I math did not
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  come easy to me. Anything that wasn't like money,
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  math did not come easy to me. Algebra, geometry, none of that
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  came easy to me. And if it wasn't for my friend
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  Barden when I was a child to help me get through it, I
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  probably would have like had a nervous breakdown over it.
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  But because of him, I was able to, you know, get through it and
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  and pass it. But I was told I wasn't good at
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  it. And my point is, isn't it funny
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  that we have these things that we think we're not good at?
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  Just like my cooking skills, I can bake and I always told
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  myself I could bake, but I couldn't cook because I need a
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  recipe. When the last couple of weeks,
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  the situation in my family, I have cooked a lot and I have had
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  to follow recipes. And you want to know what it
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  worked out fine because I had a recipe, I had something I could
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  follow and I did not just a good job.
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  I've done an outstanding job cooking for two households for
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  weeks, and not every day, but enough that it's built my
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  confidence back up. And it really got me thinking
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  about those Iams. And I've talked a lot about this
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  because the most powerful words we can use with ourselves
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  anywhere, anytime is I am whatever I am blank.
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  Doesn't matter what you're putting after it.
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  Those are powerful words and they're dangerous words and
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  they're just omnipotent words because they push us so much.
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  They're our identity. They are part of who we are.
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  They can be very dangerous when used in a negative way and oh so
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  powerful when used in a positive way.
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  So got me thinking about the fact that I, I have always said
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  that I wasn't good at cooking. And now all of a sudden when I
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  have, you know, a recipe, a good recipe and a cookbook, I'm, I'm
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  really good and I've done a variety of different foods.
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  So where are we using that in our lives that's holding us
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  back? Where are we using those most
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  powerful words in a way that doesn't lift us up and changing
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  them? Instead of saying, I am terrible
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  at cooking now, I say, well, I'm really OK with it as long as I
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  have a recipe. Now I know there's something I
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  can follow and I can really do it.
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  But I had never, I had done it here and there, but never put
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  myself through a book boot camp with it like I just have.
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  But that sounds so silly to say. Why hasn't she done that?
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  Well, because I believe I wasn't good at it.
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  So where else does this show up in your life?
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  Just like the thing with the plants, people always will tell
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  me, Oh my gosh, I wish I had that, that green thumb.
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  Well, it's like, follow the recipe, ask for help, see what
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  you can do, see where someone tells you you can be good at
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  something like that. Growing plants is not hard.
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  When you follow the recipe, it's it's really not.
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  You just have to be willing to be consistent and care for them
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  and follow the recipe. And that's the whole motto for
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  today. What's the recipe for a healthy
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  set of IMS so you can thrive. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you go look for where you're using them in a negative way and
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  let's try to find a way to reframe that and put it in a
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  more positive light and then dive in with the right recipe.
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  I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.