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Season 2 - Episode 8 - It’s a marathon, not a sprint · 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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  All right, let me tell you this. Before we start right off with
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  this year, getting underway, it is a marathon.
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  Not a Sprint. It is a marathon, not a Sprint.
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  I feel as though, there's so much, hurry, hurry, hurry,
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  hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry going on out there that a big part of
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  the challenge we're having is that we're getting frustrated
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  already? Because we're getting into this
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  sprinting mentality and things can't.
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  Happened overnight. Nine times out of ten.
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  Sure there are, sometimes we have to Sprint.
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  Absolutely. But guess what, most of the time
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  we have to be prepared for a marathon.
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  We have to be prepared for things to take a while to get to
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  fruition underway. If you will, maybe it's that we
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  have you know to you're not going to lose the hundred pounds
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  or the 50 pounds in a night, no matter what you do, unless you
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  chop off a leg, you're not going to lose the weight overnight.
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  So that mentality of, I want to get this done quickly.
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  I want to get this done quickly comes from.
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  I just want to cross it off my list, I want to take a box, I
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  want to get it done, and that mentality is so detrimental to
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  us. It robs us of so many things
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  because we don't stay in the present moment and we don't
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  enjoy the process. Part of being human, is enjoying
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  the process and recognizing that even through things.
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  That we might not want to do like dishes, we can find joy, we
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  just have to find a way to put our attention in the joy
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  direction as opposed to in the tick, the Box Direction.
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  So we can just hurry up, miss everything, check the box off
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  and then go on to the next thing.
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  And this mentality is is getting more and more and more prevalent
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  out there and I can hear it coming up.
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  I can see it in post that people are putting up.
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  It's just it seems to be really, really Um, feeding off of each
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  other. So I this hurry up that you hear
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  from people has to be shut down. Its pace yourself.
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  Take your time one thought at a time one action at a time, one
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  focus at a time. You know, part of the research
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  and learning that I've done over the years is studying Buddhism
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  because although some people think it's a religion, it's
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  really more of a Practice than a religion and one of the things
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  that Buddhist monks are so great.
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  At is the discipline of being in the moment and they work really
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  hard at that. And when you are staying in the
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  moment and you are on task and you were doing the tasks you
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  slow down, you are more efficient, the quality of your
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  work goes up, you enjoy. What you're doing more because
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  you're not thinking about all the other things you should be
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  doing, so you're not shooting all over.
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  Yourself and you pace yourself in a way that is joyful
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  tolerable. It just it's better all around
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  and this sprinting Pace. While we sometimes, do need to
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  Sprint, believe me. I do it myself, but I still find
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  a way to stay in the moment now because I realized the power of
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  doing it. So I'm going to ask you, are you
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  sprinting or you preparing for the marathon?
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  Are you Putting stuff out there and saying, okay I'm going to do
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  this right now and I'm going to be 100% present when I do it and
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  I'm not going to rush so that I can Pace myself.
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  I'm going and it will all get done.
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  I promise you that's the irony of this whole thing is that when
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  you really like, you know, work this principle, it's amazing
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  things. Really do just seem to get done
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  much easier and efficiently because you're not rushing,
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  you're not making mistakes, you're not causing yourself the
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  aggravation of having to go back.
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  And check yourself, you know, how many times have you said?
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  I'm going to go do something you get sidetracked, you do
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  something else and then you go, oh, I wasn't supposed to be
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  doing this. Why was I doing this?
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  And before, you know, it you can't even remember what your
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  original task was. And you're frustrated right from
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  the get-go and this is constant. So I'm going to put it out there
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  that being in this present moment and saying.
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  Nope, this is, I'm in this for the Long Haul.
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  I'm in this for Joy. I'm in this.
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  This to to build myself up, whatever your project is.
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  This is building your soul to the point where you feel like,
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  alright. Yes, I am on task, whatever my
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  soul wants me to be doing some people like to say life is about
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  forgetting, all the bullshit and getting down to what you
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  remember, you are. And some people like to say that
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  their soul grows and and experiences things.
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  Now, I am on the side of I believe that.
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  We have missions when we come here and that we have to realize
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  ourselves, we have to remember certain things.
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  But we also expand, so it's the duality of it.
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  So, whatever your belief is, you can't do it when you're running
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  at a Breakneck Pace. You you miss everything and
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  you're not focused on the little tiny Joys that you're picking up
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  along the way. So, today your challenge is to
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  really think about this week going.
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  In today happens to be a Sunday. So, set yourself up this week,
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  for the marathon, get yourself ready, so that you don't have to
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  be crazy and put yourself in the mindset of one step at a time,
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  one step at a time, one step at a time and control that chatter
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  of Above All Else control that mind chatter.
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  So I hope you guys have a very blessed Sunday and I will see
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  you all tomorrow. Bye.
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  In today happens to be a Sunday. So, set yourself up this week,
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  for the marathon, get yourself ready, so that you don't have to
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  be crazy and put yourself in the mindset of one step at a time,
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  one step at a time, one step at a time and control that chatter
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  of Above All Else control that mind chatter.
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  So I hope you guys have a very blessed Sunday and I will see
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  you all tomorrow. Bye.