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Season 4 - Episode 3 - The importance of Foundational questions · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 from the garage.
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  Very cold outside, very dark, literally 32°, very cold for me.
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  Anyway, yesterday we talked about building a very strong
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  foundation. And one of the factors that I
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  really want to emphasize to everybody going into having a
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  successful New year, forget about the whole year, just let's
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  get through January and figure out how do we have a very
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  successful January. OK.
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  So First things first, it is to remember that you are going to
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  have challenges in sticking to whatever your plans are.
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  You will have things that show up.
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  There is no question about it. I do.
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  Life happens. We're human beings, life shows
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  up, Life happens. And we have to be prepared for
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  those blips when it happens. What's the best way to, you
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  know, to combat that when it shows up and to, you know, be
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  able to circumvent these situations when they show up?
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  So everyone has their strategies.
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  Many coaches teach very different things, you know,
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  punishment strategies, reward strategies, internal rewards,
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  external rewards. There's all kinds of ways that
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  you can go about this. And some of them work.
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  Some of them work really well. I just have beliefs around them
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  based on my experience of coaching people for years as to
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  which ones have the most likely hit of success.
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  And one of the biggest ones that I can tell you is obviously your
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  mindset is the is the key. So what you're going into this
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  with, you've got to make sure that your mindset is there.
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  And yes, we know we talk about that incessantly.
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  We talk about it because it's so very important.
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  But how do you move your mindset sometimes?
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  How do you move it when you need it the most?
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  How do you shift things so that you can understand what has to
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  happen in order for you to be able to get to that next place?
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  And this is asking questions. Now, if you've been a fan and
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  you've listened for years, you know, I have this thing about
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  questions. I am the mad inquisitor.
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  I will ask questions six ways to Sunday because I know it works.
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  It works for me. It works for my clients.
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  So the real question you have to ask yourself right now, no pun
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  intended, is what are my questions that I'm going to be
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  asking myself to help myself when I need it?
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  Because guess, guess what? We're not.
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  Nobody else is with you in your times of decisions.
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  It's just you. It's you by yourself.
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  And even if someone else is with you, even if another person is
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  standing there and you're talking to them and they are
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  giving you opinions, my guess is that you are not just taking
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  their opinion. You're still doing what all
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  human beings do. And that is filtering it through
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  your own mindset, your own opinions, your own beliefs.
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  All of that is a trickle down. It's like having a strainer in
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  the sink. You're hearing it, it's passing
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  through you, but it doesn't mean you're going to use it.
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  It doesn't mean it's going to happen.
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  You're going to potentially let it go right down the drain.
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  And maybe you should because they're not giving you the best
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  advice. Who knows?
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  But the point is asking the right questions.
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  So sometimes people will say to me, well, I should ask only
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  motivating questions. And I'm like, well, potentially,
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  but not always. Questions can be the driving
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  force that changes your life if you ask them in a way that gives
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  you the power to be able to see yourself in a different light.
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  So in other words, if I don't want to do something, if I'm
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  dragging my feet with doing something, I can go and I can
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  ask a question and say, OK, let's assume that I don't do
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  this. What are the consequences?
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  I can see and I can write it down the consequences.
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  Then I'll ask myself, what are the potential unforeseen
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  consequences? What are the unintended
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  consequences of this? And then I have, I'm forced to
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  think differently about the situation.
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  And being able to do that gives us power to be able to look at
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  all these different sides. You know, when you really pay
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  attention to the neuroscience, when you ask people questions,
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  you have the consideration within them to provoke them, to
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  give them a, a, a possibility of something different because the
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  question is driving them. The question is driving them.
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  And when you do that, it, it changes the outcome.
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  You also empower yourself to have choices because questions
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  give you choices when you allow them to.
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  Don't have to listen, but I can. So I can ask myself a question
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  if I don't want to do it, that will move me forward.
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  So things that are great questions to ask yourself when
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  you feel stuck. Was this something, this is a
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  very important question if it's if it's working towards a goal,
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  Was this something that I have wanted for a very long time?
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  And if the answer is yes, great. Has it been on my goal list
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  before? Yes.
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  What was the reason you didn't do it before and ask the hard
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  question? What was the reason that you had
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  kept putting it off? What was the reason you kept
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  letting it lag over? Because in that answer, maybe
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  your clue as to why you're stuck.
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  So the big thing today, ask yourself the right questions.
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  Ask yourself the foundational questions for being successful.
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  And you know, we always can go back to the one that pushes me
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  so, so hard. It's like, how will you feel
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  when the person you are meets the person you could have been?
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  Oh my gosh, that is the definition of hell.
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  When the person you are meets the person you could have been
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  if it's a killer. But that question that I
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  formatted around it, how will you feel when the person you are
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  meets the person you could have been?
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  Geez, that moves me every single time because I don't want to
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  leave anything on the table. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow with some more good
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  stuff. Have a great day guys.
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  Bye.