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Season 2 - Episode 19 - The gift of not giving up! · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Ooh, today, we're talking about the gift of not giving up.
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  So when you really want to make something happen, it takes
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  persistence, it takes that tenacity of not giving up, it
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  takes that ability to be able to say to yourself.
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  You know what? I want this so badly.
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  I'm willing to learn and willing, to grow.
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  I'm willing to do something different than I've done in the
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  past, in order to make it happen and part of the challenge, when
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  you start off with any of this is especially if it's a new goal
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  and try. Something new is that you have
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  to allow yourself the grace to know that you're not going to be
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  great at everything immediately and that's so hard for us as
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  human beings because we want to be great at everything
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  immediately. So we lose out on the factor of
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  trying, to just be taking in the moments of the learning curve of
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  this. And I always go back to thinking
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  about. Well, I wonder how somebody like
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  Leonardo DaVinci, who I absolutely love to read about
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  Out and learn about because he was such a renaissance man, and
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  he had so many different talents and skills.
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  So the Brewster's very close right.
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  Now, when you think about him there was not just one thing he
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  was great at. He was great at multiple things
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  and he was great at learning and taking in information and not
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  being frustrated in the learning process.
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  And and I think that that's where we in modern-day people
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  Society have become. So jaded is we To be great at
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  stuff right away, we want to figure out how many hours do I
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  have to take to be great at something?
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  And then I'm just going to get there and be great at it.
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  And we don't want to take the time to cultivate our skills and
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  get better over time with it. We just want to be able to be
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  instantaneously great. And, and the problem with that
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  is, it doesn't allow us the, the space and the, the, the just,
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  the time, it takes to cultivate yourself and become better
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  because in the The process of all that you learn more, you
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  learn more and you develop more, and then, as you're learning,
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  you change your approach. And that's so important.
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  Like, you change your approach, to change your approach to try
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  something different, you change your approach and before, you
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  know it, you're exponentially further than you were in the
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  process, but a lot of people don't want to do that anymore.
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  And this time of the year, when you're like essentially going
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  out and doing stuff, you're saying to yourself.
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  Well, I just want to be, you know, good at it.
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  I have a client, I'm working with and she started to go ahead
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  and go to pottery classes because we talked about it and I
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  was telling her how much I want to do it and she's like, okay, I
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  found a place. I'm going to go do this, I think
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  it'll be cool and after the first class she comes back and
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  she says to me, you know what? This is really frustrating.
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  This is really hard and I'm like, well, did you think it was
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  going to be easy right away? And she was will look so easy on
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  YouTube. I'm like, yes, it does.
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  Look easy on YouTube but it's not easy.
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  And that's part of the gift. And she's like, how is it hard,
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  being hard, a gift. And I said, Because you have to
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  change your approach, you have to have different, you know,
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  patience with your hands and the skills that they have.
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  You have to allow stuff. Just like my garden and the
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  problems I have with my garden have taught me so much about
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  cultivating, a different set of skills.
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  Like when I grew in Rhode Island it was totally different than
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  growing where we are now down south because it doesn't, it
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  doesn't give you the same conditions in which to thrive
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  and grow you have to be thinking differently of to try things.
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  Only. So now I am going to be on my
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  third year of growing a vegetable garden here and I have
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  to take a completely different approach to it again because
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  last year was disastrous for multiple reasons.
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  The water too much water too much, just too much water way
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  too much water, the amount of seeds that I purchased that
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  we're not the right seeds for this area.
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  Like they would grow but they would never give us fruit or
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  vegetables so it all takes that. And that space.
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  Now was I aggravated in the process?
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  Yes. But for very short period of
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  time because I said, kept saying to myself, okay, what can I
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  learn from this? What can I learn from this?
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  What can I learn from this? So that is the challenge for
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  yourself. That is what you have to get to
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  get to that place where you are, okay, with that.
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  You are okay, not having it be perfect in the beginning.
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  You are. Okay?
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  With not knowing everything, you are, okay, with cultivating
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  yourself and allowing yourself, especially, when you're learning
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  new things, or trying to grow into your goals to not be.
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  Great at stuff, okay? And just be patient with it.
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  Give yourself the time to be patient with it.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a very blessed day and
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  allow yourself that Grace because there's goodness in that
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  Grace. I hope you have an incredibly
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.