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Season 3 - Episode 60 - What will your new words be? · 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 mastermind set
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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.
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  From the chicken coop. So the word delightful.
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  If I said the word delightful to you, what do you think about?
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  It's funny to me how certain words bring up certain things.
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  And I was talking to a client and she said I need a new set of
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  words to actually start helping me think about situations rather
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  than just using the same words that I use which seem to
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  irritate me when I use them. And I said, well give me an
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  example. And we went through this whole
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  thing and she goes, well, often I'll just be like it's okay and
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  and I don't mean it's okay. Like it's really not OK or I'll
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  say things like, oh that's good. But I just can't stand using
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  that word good anymore. So I want to come up with
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  different words. So as we started playing with
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  this, one of the things that you know, I again, I just love words
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  and I love how they have different triggers in US and
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  they have different things that they they bring to us in a
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  moment's notice. It's just like a nanosecond.
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  You say a word and you know there are certain words you say
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  to a person and they lose their mind immediately.
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  And then there are other words where they melt.
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  It's just like watching butter in a microwave melt.
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  It's just like they hear a word and they're just like, oh, right
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  away everything softens. So as we were thinking about
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  these new words, we tried to come up with something that
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  would make it easier for her. And and it's kind of funny how
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  it played out. But three words came to play.
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  The first one was delightful. Instead of saying it's good,
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  we're looking for things that are delightful.
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  I and I thought, that is such a fun word.
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  I never use that word. I don't say, oh that's
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  delightful. I just don't use it.
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  And I thought, I don't know why I don't use it.
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  It's available to me. I'm just not using it.
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  I wish I did. So we both started laughing
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  about how that word was so simple and so easy and like, OK,
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  delightful is a word we can use. Great.
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  Second was unpleasant. That is unpleasant.
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  Now, this is a much harsher word to me than it was to her.
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  I don't like to use the word unpleasant unless I actually
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  mean it, because it is something that anchors in me a different
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  way. But I understand for her it was
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  OK. So she's like, OK, I'm going to
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  use unpleasant. I don't want to go there.
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  It's unpleasant because if someone said to me I don't want
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  to go there, it's unpleasant. I would be thinking, Oh my gosh,
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  this place must be like a dungeon.
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  Why would you say it's unpleasant to her?
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  It was not nearly as harsh, but you know it, it was definitely
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  something that affected her. So we, as we were deciding she
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  was going to keep that word, I said, I don't know that I'm
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  going to use the word that word that much more because unless I
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  mean it now, the third word, neutral.
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  This is for I could care less, you know, like, do you want to
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  go to Mexican food tonight? I'm neutral on that, and I
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  actually love using that word. Do I use it a lot?
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  I don't think so, until we started talking about it.
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  But I do like the word because it is very, very clear.
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  There's no ambiguity in it. It's it's very concise and
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  neutral. I could go either way, you know
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  it. It's very simple.
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  For her, that was a much harder word to adapt because she heard
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  it and she was like, well, that must mean that I just don't
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  care. And in her head, I don't care
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  meant a bad thing. And to me, it's not a bad thing,
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  It's just a fact. I don't care either way.
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  So I want you to start to contemplate this because when
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  you're boiling the ocean down and you're trying to say, OK, I
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  I'm going to break my patterns and I'm going to look for some
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  different ways, different words, different incorporations that I
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  can do to kind of isolate and give myself choices.
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  It's important to recognize what they mean to you.
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  It's important to recognize what words mean to you.
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  And for me, like I said, oh, I don't know that I'm going to be
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  using unpleasant a lot. I mean, is it unpleasant?
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  Maybe. But it's going to have to be
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  pretty unpleasant for me to use the word unpleasant.
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  This is something that you have to dig into and find your right
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  words for you. But we were talking about
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  something specific where how can we start to look at the world
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  and categorize it quicker to break down her patterns.
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  So we're delightful, unpleasant, or neutral.
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  But you can come up with any 3 words that you want.
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  But I would suggest that you start looking at things and you
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  can actually have 5 words. You could have 10 words.
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  It started a whole new realm of possibilities to open up all
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  these different new words for her.
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  So I'm talking about getting your list together, whether it's
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  351020, I don't care. But get some new words together
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  that you want to incorporate into your life.
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  Start trying to figure out which ones feel right to you.
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  Like I absolutely love using that word.
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  Delightful because it feels fun. It feels just, I want delightful
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  experiences. It's kind of like when someone
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  says I have to get scrappy. Oh, that's another word that I
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  love. That means I really have to
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  think this through. I have to pull up my bootstraps.
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  I've got to get, like, in the thick of it.
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  I've got to get, you know, down and dirty into something.
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  I love that. It's such a good word for me.
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  So figure out what are your good words, Start using them.
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  Get your new vocabulary list together and get going.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.