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Season 5 - Episode 70 - Working with one thought at a time! · 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 happened 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 world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. It's a pretty windy morning here
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  and I'm actually out on a little walk around the farm just
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  checking on things overnight, making sure I know what
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  happened, what was eaten, what was broken, all the good stuff
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  again. But anyway, today I want to talk
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  to you about tackling one thought at a time.
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  And for me, what does this mean? Well, this is something that's
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  important to me because I get barraged by all my thoughts at
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  once often and it becomes overwhelming to me, like in a
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  big way, like really overwhelming to me where I can't
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  handle the number of thoughts that come at me so quickly.
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  And it's like I, it's just like like rapid fire boom, boom,
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  boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  And so I have to really pull myself back and think I'm going
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  to tackle one thought at a time. Which one do I choose?
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  But if I keep them all in my head and let them run, they run
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  crazy and they become more and more and more abundant.
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  So I have to limit myself by saying, OK, I'm going to sit and
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  write down all of the thoughts. So literally sitting down and
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  grabbing a piece of paper and writing out the thoughts one at
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  a time is super important and saying, OK, it's this, OK, it's
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  this. Now you may find that you need
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  to have a running list literally sitting on the counter, have a
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  piece of paper and or on your desk or in your phone app,
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  whatever you want to use. And just start writing down all
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  the random thoughts as they show up.
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  Incredibly important because they're going to keep showing up
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  and showing up and showing up and showing up and, and unless
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  and until you pay attention to each one of them, they're going
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  to keep coming back because those thoughts are attached to
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  emotions. And when thoughts are attached
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  to emotions, that becomes trickier.
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  And people will always say, well, which one comes first, the
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  emotion or the thought? The thought or the emotion, I
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  really don't care which one comes first because everyone has
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  an opinion on it. I'm just trying to decode it so
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  we stop having the problems that we have within ourselves.
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  So what's incredibly important is one, get them out of your
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  head on the paper 2, then tackle them one at a time, say, oh,
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  right now, this is not the time for this right now.
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  Even addressing it by saying, no, this is not the right time
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  for this right now. I have to do this with myself
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  constantly. If I have to do chores that I do
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  not like to do or I'm not a fan of doing, and then all of a
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  sudden I get a distracted thought that pops up, I will
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  automatically want to do the distraction.
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  I'm like, OK, yeah, I'll just move on.
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  I won't even worry about this. But that's not useful.
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  That's not helpful. What is helpful is just stopping
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  myself and saying, no, this is what you intended.
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  We're going to do it this way. But I'm tackling them one at a
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  time, one at a time, one at a time.
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  Because if I don't, it's too much and they gang up on me and
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  then I lose. And then I become in a state of
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  analysis paralysis. And the next thing you know, I'm
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  not doing anything. And I'm just sitting there
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  lamenting all these things that I have to do while I wish I
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  could just sit down and go outside and garden and I can't.
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  I have things that I have to do Why?
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  Because I'm a I'm a human and we all have things that we want to
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  do. And I have high standards for
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  myself about the life that I want to live and keep.
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  So I have to work things. I have to work them.
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  That being said, I don't let things progress in my head.
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  I do not let things just progress in my head.
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  I shut them off. I take them out, I look at them,
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  I decide what I want them to mean.
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  I decide what attention I'm going to give it, and then I
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  move forward. And that's the key.
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  So I'm going to tell you guys if you can do this, if you can just
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  stop and and pull yourself into the awareness that the thoughts
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  are running wild. And that sometimes that's the
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  very first thing, like, Oh my gosh, my thoughts are running
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  wild. Then you know, OK, I have to sit
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  down with them. I have to actually sit down and
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  try to calm this down, bring the speed down, bring the pace down.
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  Then I can start to handle it. Then I can move into it.
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  Then I can make things feel better.
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  That's the key. And often times people don't
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  want to sit and write them down because they think it's foolish.
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  What's really foolish is keeping them all in your head and
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  letting them take over because that just sucks your energy
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  away. And we know that emotions are
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  just pure energy. And when they go in a certain
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  direction, you know where emotion goes, energy flows.
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  So you better make sure you're on top of that because if it's
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  going down a rabbit hole that you don't really want to go to,
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  you should stop it when you can. And the trick is stopping it
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  quickly. So I hope this was helpful and I
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  hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.