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Sesason 2 - Episode 353 - It’s what you think about getting older · 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 a couple weeks ago, it was
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  last week. Sometimes I lose track of when I
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  actually talk to you guys about some things, but there was some
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  talk that I did about getting older and have people really
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  sent me messages about this. So I want to talk a little bit
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  more about that because I think that it's such an important
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  distinction for everybody to kind of take on and own, you
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  know, we have to stop worrying about getting older and instead
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  focus our attention on how we want to be thinking about
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  getting older. So there's two different things.
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  I can't stop the chronological clock in my head, OK?
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  Like, I know, I know when my birth date was, I'm very clear
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  of that. I've had many birthdays.
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  So that's there. And I could say, you know, OK, I
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  feel sad about the fact that I'm getting older.
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  I could do all those things, but it's a privilege that's not
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  given to everybody. There's some people I lost some
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  people very early on in life, and that was incredibly hard for
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  me. And they never got to get out of
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  their 30s. They never got to get out of
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  their 20s. In fact, when I was in high
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  school, there are people that that sat right next to me in
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  psychology class and never even got out of high school, died in
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  a car accident. So this privilege of getting
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  older is something I've always been very aware of.
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  And I think it's important to start saying instead of I'm, you
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  know, I I worry about getting older.
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  I can't tell you how much I hear people say that.
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  And instead of saying I'm worried about getting older,
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  instead say I'm going to cultivate a strong mindset and
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  decide how I want to think about getting older.
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  Getting older is just it's a matter of perspective.
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  It's all an intent of what you think.
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  So could it be that you start to believe that it has many gifts
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  in it, many freedoms in it? Yes, if you decide to make it be
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  that way. Also, you can at any point in
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  time decide that it's going to be your best version of you.
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  So instead of looking at your 20s and saying, God, look at I
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  wish I would I had that body again.
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  Make that body now. Do what you can to make that
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  body now. And is it going to be different?
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  Yes, it'll be different, but it will be better if you focus on
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  it being better, 'cause you get to write it the way you want it
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  to be. When we make that decision to
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  say I am going to do this the best that I absolutely have ever
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  done something, it's invigorating.
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  It lights you up. I know when I go to write a book
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  or I'm going to, you know, do something every day when I come
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  up to record the podcast for you.
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  I always think, OK, today is going to be the best one I've
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  ever done. I actually think those thoughts
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  because I really do want to make them be that way, and it can't
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  show up unless I decide to do it.
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  When I create something, I rarely go down the place of
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  going, OK, yeah, I mean, this is just going to be it.
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  I don't know. I'm done.
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  Do I have moments where they sneak in?
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  Yes. Because I'm human.
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  Do I let them stay? No, because I don't like them
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  and they don't serve me. Doesn't work.
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  Don't need it. So it's your decision how you
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  want to view the theory of getting older Chronologically,
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  you can't change it. But does it mean you have to
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  actually believe that? Does it mean you have to not,
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  you know, use that to the best of your ability that you are
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  currently in surrounded by? Because everybody's got their
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  belief systems that they're built around and people around
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  them tend to have it. But to the best of your ability,
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  shift that a little bit everyday, a little bit everyday,
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  a little bit everyday and all of a sudden you're going to start
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  to see things actually really make a leap, sometimes a quantum
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  leap. It's kind of like some when
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  somebody says I'm starting to do just, I'm going to start
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  walking. I'm just going to start walking
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  for 30 minutes a day and then they start noticing they feel
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  really good and then they go, OK, I'm going to make it 45, OK,
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  now I'm going to make it an hour a day.
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  I'm going to walk for an hour a day.
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  It changes you from the inside out and that's what this is
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  meant to do as well. Change your thoughts around
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  this. I promise you, getting old is
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  not the problem. It's what you think about it
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  that matters. There are some people who wait
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  their entire life. I mean, if you go back hundreds
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  of years and you read any of the writers, philosophers, old
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  philosophers, they will say that, you know, they looked
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  forward to that time because they wanted to get to that point
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  where they were considered a sage.
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  They didn't want to be young and foolish.
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  They wanted to be dignified and in sage.
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  Like, you know what? There's something in wisdom in
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  that. So give yourself the gift of
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  taking that on. Own it now so that you can help
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  yourself in the process. Enjoy it and just every bit of
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  your life should be enjoyed because it is a privilege that
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  is not given to everyone. And remember that.
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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.