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Lessons from clearing the space for trees · 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 for 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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  Today, we are going to talk about the New Year our goals.
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  And what the hell are you waiting for, okay?
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  Oftentimes, at this time of year, I go through this ritual
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  with my clients about, you know, obviously everybody wants to
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  talk about what their plan is for next year.
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  And I'm very succinct with this and tell them.
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  Listen, you really have to focus and I do this for myself to, you
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  have to focus first on, what didn't work this year, doing a
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  little debrief of what didn't work this year?
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  So and what did work. So, you know, you know where
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  you're starting from. Otherwise if you don't do that
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  exercise, you really just layering more things to do on
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  top of things that didn't get finished.
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  So it's the perp vegetable to-do list hanging around and then we
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  go to. Okay, let's talk about getting
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  ready for the next year. But a big part of this process
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  is getting psychologically ready for it.
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  Because so often what happens when you're you know, setting
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  goals Goals and your, that driven person is you will
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  endlessly be creating and adding and growing and moving.
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  I mean, that's just part of what the dynamic is.
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  When you're that kind of person, everything is as it is.
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  The human experience has taught. All of us.
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  Everything is about the growth and the even if you're just
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  growing in your emotional state, there's always growth happening.
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  Nothing in nature stays And when it does, does that sound like a
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  word? You really want to entertain
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  stagnant? Like, listen, we won't drink
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  stagnant water, will it? Oh God.
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  No, that's disgusting. We don't want to have stagnant
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  finances. We don't want to have stagnant
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  Health. We always want to be on a path
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  of stretching moving and growing because that's where health
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  comes in and that's where abundance comes in.
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  And that's where all the good stuff starts to show up is when
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  you're on the path of growth. And when you get things out of
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  your way, Way. You know, I always try to find
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  out here on the farm lessons that my husband and I learn to
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  bring to you guys. I'll tell you one of the
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  interesting things about this is trees.
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  So we had a very, very wooded lot 5 Acres, five plus acres,
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  and we had some really, really beautiful trees hidden among all
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  of the trees that were secondary, so to speak scrub
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  trees, and my husband always has this.
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  Jin. He can look at a tree and he can
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  say this tree is going to be a magnificent.
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  If we just give it the space, if we take out what's impeding, its
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  progress which are other trees to close, and just give it some
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  space and let let them grow. And one of these particular
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  things are Live, Oaks live, oak trees are amazing and they're
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  phototropic, which means that when they grow, they grow
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  outward and they grow where the sun grow goes on them.
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  So they will stretch out in all these different directions.
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  So he's taste work diligently as one of his goals, last year was
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  to take out all the trees around the Live Oaks and give them
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  space and see what happens because he's never a rush to cut
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  a tree down. Neither of us, are we are super,
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  super, super into nature animals caring for nature and he just
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  won't cut a tree randomly. So he goes and he cuts out a
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  bunch of these pine trees that are in the way of these Grand
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  Old Oaks. And all of a sudden The whole
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  landscape of our property changes because the trees look
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  different and they're spreading different.
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  And when you walk, when you come down, our driveway, when you
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  walk down the driveway, you're like, wow, that tree looks all
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  of a sudden. Unbelievable, well, it's like
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  that in life with goals. And if you don't take away all
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  the crap that impedes you from getting where you're going and
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  and see where it's holding. You back, you will never stretch
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  out grow. You will always be in the option
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  of being stuck and stagnant. So the lesson of the Grand Oaks
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  and the lesson of the trees helps you to remember, I've got
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  to take the things out of my way that are in my way before I
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  decide to stretch for the growth because if I don't I'm just
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  going to be stretching around obstacles so as you start to do
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  your goal setting and you start thinking about this that that
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  little piece of the puzzle about going back and saying have I
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  removed the known obstacles? Before I sit down and even work
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  on goal, setting, why is this important?
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  Because if you're just going to say, I'm going to dump my goals
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  on a piece of paper for the year and I don't do the cleanup ACT
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  first or I don't understand what I could, potentially run into
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  your screwed from the get-go because it will happen because
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  it has to happen to teach you the lesson of what not to do.
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  So, while this may seem daunting, believe me, I know I
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  have to go through this myself. I've set myself.
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  Up already in putting myself into a program this year that is
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  going to be a huge stretch for me and I know that sounds weird
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  coming from the person who's out there teaching everybody but if
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  I'm not always learning then I'm a hypocrite.
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  I have to teach you guys exactly what I'm doing.
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  I have to say, Hey listen, I can't tell you guys to push
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  yourselves if I'm not willing to push myself and I'm about to
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  jump into a Vortex of really pushing myself for the next six
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  months, and I am so excited about it and I'm scared
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  shitless. And I'm, you know, elated that I
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  was able to get into this and I'm, you know, fearful of what
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  I'm going to find out and what I'm going to know.
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  But on the other side of it I'm like wow this is exactly where I
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  need to be the exact stretch. I had to remove obstacles in my
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  way to get there. I had to say, okay, if I've got
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  to be more rigid with my calendar, about the hours, I
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  work, I'm willing to do it. If I've got to be more
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  responsive, Rigid about the time that I spend doing other
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  activities for six months, maybe I have to give up all the
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  painting that I've been, you know, planning on doing, maybe I
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  have to give that up so I can work on the homework, okay?
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  For six months, I'm willing to do it.
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  So when you do this ahead of time and you do it before, you
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  actually put the goals down on paper and, you know, the things
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  that are going to get in your way or even if you have the
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  goals on paper and you stop and you say, all right, what could,
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  what could get in my way? What are these things and you
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  debrief? If you do it that way, you have
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  a much higher chance of success, and that's what I want you guys
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  to have. So learn the lesson from the
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  trees, go out there. And before the end of the year
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  push yourself to figure out what gets in your way, what worked,
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  what didn't work and make sure that before you do anything with
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  yourself, you really are honest with yourself about all of it.
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  Okay? My friends.
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  I will look forward to seeing you tomorrow and I hope you have
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  a very blessed day. Bye.