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Season 2 - Episode 236 - The thoughts that take us out · 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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  the fact that we all have these little little tiny pieces of
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  chatter that go off in our head and this chatter is either
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  making or breaking you. So we've talked about mindset so
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  many times we've I mean that's why we're here, right.
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  That's what this that's what this whole purpose is for what
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  I'm doing with all of you. But this mind chatter, these
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  little tiny things that go off behind the scenes that are just
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  insidious, The termites in the house, so to speak, the ones
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  that are eating through things, are something I want to call out
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  to everybody today because it seems to be a theme this week
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  and I want to address it across the board.
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  So first and foremost, how do you identify these little tiny
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  thoughts that are as my British client says?
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  They just niggle at you. They just pick at you.
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  They're just always there. And the truth is, they're part
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  of the defense mechanisms, the hardwiring that we have set up
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  to protect ourselves. And they think they're doing a
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  good job, but they're driving us insane and part of that.
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  The way it shows up is when you feel frustrated that you are
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  taking two steps forward and one step back.
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  Like you think you're working on something and it seems to be
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  going well, but then all of a sudden your negative thoughts
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  show up again. Or there's just a seed of doubt,
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  Something small, a little teeny wee piece of doubt that shows
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  up. That's one of them.
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  And when you don't undress them, when you don't pull yourself to
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  the. You know, out of the mock of
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  having the thought and say I need to address this ASAP.
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  Because if I don't address it, it's just going to grow.
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  It takes over and it it's like that.
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  Drop and the drop grows and grows and grows and grows and
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  grows and before you know what you're having, not one thought,
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  not two thoughts, but seven thoughts, ten thoughts.
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  And they multiply and they move on.
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  And then you start getting frustrated because you're like,
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  I'm doing the things, I'm doing, the actions, I'm listening to
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  the right books, I'm doing all this and nothing's working.
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  So when this shows up, people always ask the question, you
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  know, what am I? What's going on?
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  This isn't working. I need a different strategy, and
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  it's not a drift, different strategy that you need.
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  It's to clear up those moments when your head is.
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  Up your proverbial butt and you're not getting your mind
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  clear on the fact that you are the beacon you are calling it
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  in. You are magnetizing yourself to
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  the exact opposite of what you want.
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  And I This is such a difficult concept to catch because it's
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  like asking you to say, pay attention to your thoughts and
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  the ones that are toxic, realize that they're toxic and then
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  shift away from them. And it's like herding cats.
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  It's like running around chasing ants.
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  It's it's so challenging, but it has to be done.
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  If you want to shift away from this, you have to train your
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  brain to not go down those roads.
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  So one thing that I want to be very clear with everybody on is
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  that if you are struggling to catch all the negative thoughts.
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  A strategy that works really well is to just work on
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  concentrating on not staying alone in your own head and
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  focusing on the positive things that you're putting in.
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  So you know one of my tricks, put one earbud in, put on an
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  audible of something great. That's reprogramming your brain.
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  A mindset 1. Anything with affirmations,
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  anything spiritual, anything that you want to listen to
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  that's filling you with good energy, you put that in doesn't
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  mean you can't interact with anybody around you.
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  Just means that you've got that ear button and you're listening
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  to something else that's putting you on a different trajectory.
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  Those work. Those strategies work.
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  So try that one and recognize that when you don't course
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  correct it at that level and you just let it stay.
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  It's going to spread. So yes, you can try to collect
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  all the negative thoughts and move past them.
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  That's a very noble attempt to do something like that.
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  And it's very hard even for me doing it all the time.
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  It's hard work and if you want to make progress with it, you
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  have to just accept the fact that it's a longterm strategy
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  and you just work at it every day.
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  The Putting the positive and drowning out the rest of it is a
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  quicker strategy and sometimes it works best for people because
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  it's something that gives them the opportunity to try to gain
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  some control quicker. And it's one that I can implore
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  myself and I do believe in it. So there you have it.
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  You can try it either way, but you've got to clean up the
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  thoughts. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.