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Season 3 - Episode 210 - What are distractions doing to you? · 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 mastermindset
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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, I'm not sure if any of you have or are followers of
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  Alex Hormozi, but he wrote a book, 100 million leads, and
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  this this book is just unbelievable.
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  His stuff is unbelievable and his story is unbelievable.
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  He's great teacher on a great mission with a huge heart.
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  And I saw something that he put up on Instagram and I wanted to
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  share it with you because it's something that I am so aligned
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  to. His quote is this.
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  The biggest risk to your future isn't your competition.
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  It's the distractions you insist on keeping in your life rather
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  than doing the things you know you should be doing but aren't.
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  Boy, isn't that an understatement?
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  Think about that. The distractions.
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  So the distractions that could be the phone, the distractions
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  that could be television, iPads, video games, we are so tethered
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  to distractions, it's crazy. And we just simply do not take
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  the time to do what we need to do and move ourselves away from
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  being distracted, move ourselves into a better headspace.
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  You know, it's funny because we think we do a great job
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  sometimes and we think we're just not distracted.
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  But we'll say, oh, I just need a break.
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  I need a break. So we, we chalk things up into
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  the I need a break category. The problem is, it's not really
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  that you need the break. It's that you're tethered to
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  that phone and to that electronic stuff.
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  Because remember, that's the whole purpose of it.
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  It is wired, literally wired to make your brain want to come
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  back to it. It has an addictive state, so
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  the electronics, all the things that distract us, that take us
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  away from our long term goals and what we want to do are doing
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  just that. They're making you a prisoner in
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  your own world. And sometimes we just don't even
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  see it until it's too late. It's The funny thing about this,
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  though, is we notice this in our kids a lot.
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  We notice this in other people will say, oh, he's on that all
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  the time or she does that or they do this.
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  And we're constantly in that frame of pointing fingers at
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  other people. But the question is, when's the
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  last time you looked on your phone to say, hey, wait a
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  second, what's my screen time right now?
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  Or you look at your other activities that you, you know,
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  distract you, whatever it might be.
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  And when you start totaling those up.
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  And I'm not just picking on electronics, obviously, because
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  I use them myself and I couldn't be doing a podcast without them.
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  But and I use social media to advertise.
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  So I'm not talking about that as not being a tool.
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  What I'm talking about it is the unhealthy distractions.
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  And those can also come in ways of, you know, just obsessively
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  watching movies or alcohol or, you know, drugs of any kind.
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  There's all kinds of distractions that show up with
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  us, and we allow it. We don't do anything to correct
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  it unless we're aware of it and we have a desire to do better.
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  So today I'm putting this out there.
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  I'm throwing it out there because the question is, where
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  are you distracted? What are the things that are
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  taking you away from something that you want oh so much?
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  I mean, that's the whole part, right?
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  What are the things that are just taking you apart from the
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  things that you say you really want, the stuff that you really
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  say you want? Because if you're talking about
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  getting somewhere in the future, if you do, if you listen to what
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  he said and you're thinking, OK, I'm headed towards this in my
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  future and you're still letting those distractions get in,
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  you're not going to get there. You're not going to get where
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  you're going. You want to go.
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  You're going to just stay where you are and you're going to get
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  to a place that was not the intended destination.
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  And it'll piss you off, I promise, because every one of us
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  has been there when we've seen that happen.
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  So rather than having that take place, rather than having that
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  be the reality, why not do something about it?
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  Why not make a decision beforehand, course correct it,
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  fix it so that you know without question you're not going to
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  have to suffer that grave fate that shows up when you are
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  having such a a heavy experience of it and not paying attention
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  to it. So change it ahead of time, look
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  at it, make the list of what the distractions are and get them
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  cleared up and then there won't be a problem.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.