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Season 3 - Episode 198 - How your standards show 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 mastermindset
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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 from the chicken coop.
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  So today the girls and I would like to talk to you about how
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  you stand out in a crowd and probably one of my favorite
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  subjects because I'm obsessed with different ideas of customer
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  service and marketing and just in general how you constantly up
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  level and raise your own standards.
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  And for me, why am I bringing the girls up in this
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  conversation? Because any of you who follow me
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  regularly know they're a little bit more spoiled.
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  They're probably a lot spoiled. Let's just come right down to
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  it. However, it's not just them in
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  my life that are like this. It's like I do this with pretty
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  much everything. I do this for my house.
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  I do this for myself, the way I take care of things.
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  I do this for my chickens. I do this with my clients.
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  I just have set these standards that are very, very specific and
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  they stay with me across the board, whether I'm growing
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  plants, I'm raising chickens, I take care of my dogs, I take
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  care of my clients, my family, whatever it is.
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  I have this sense about how I want to do it and why I stick to
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  that. Part of that is just because I
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  was taught as a child that, well, if you're going to do
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  something, you do it well. You don't just go and do it.
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  Average. Do you want to be average or do
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  you want to be outstanding? And when you want to be
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  outstanding, you have to constantly be on the path of
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  looking for outstanding, learning from others and pushing
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  yourself. Now before I got the chickens,
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  one of the things that was 'cause I had them when I was
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  little, but I honestly, because I was 76 and seven at the time,
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  I just don't remember about so much about how we had them set
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  up. And my mother wouldn't let it
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  happen again. So never had that.
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  But the thing about this for me was when I started reading about
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  taking care of chickens, there are lots of different schools of
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  thought on it and everybody has their own way of doing it.
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  But for me, I was like, well, you know, I want them to have a
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  great environment. I want them to have a place
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  that's like super clean that feels good to them.
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  And I just want, I want them to have happy lives.
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  Like I just want happy lives for my chickens.
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  And then they're going to give me happy eggs and it's going to
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  be wonderful. Now maybe it's idealistic, but I
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  do that with pretty much everything.
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  I just live into that. And when I set it up, I said to
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  myself, well, I've I've heard people in all these different
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  groups that I'm a part of say I can't get my chickens to go in
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  the coop at night. I can't have these.
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  And I was like, well, that will never happen or my chickens
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  won't come near me. And I was like, well, that will
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  never happen. And it doesn't happen because my
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  chickens put themselves away at night like they, they love their
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  coop. In fact, during the day they
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  will go back to their coop even though they have 5 acres that
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  they can roam around on. And part of that is because I
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  make it nice for them. I'm constantly thinking about
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  what else can I do to make it great for them.
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  So you know, we have lots of different thoughts on taking
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  care of them. Again, everyone's entitled to do
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  it their own way, but this today is all about how you up level
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  yourself and how you stand out in a crowd.
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  So funny thing is, I'm having dirt delivered to my house for a
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  garden I'm working on. And the guy who delivers the
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  dirt actually says, Oh my God, that chicken coop is insane.
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  That's like a Mac daddy chicken coop makes this comment about
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  it. He says, I can't believe this.
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  Like, you know, you have a hard time with your chickens.
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  We end up in the common. I'm like, no, So now, I mean, I
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  just don't have a hard time with them.
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  Nobody gets sick, thank goodness.
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  Everybody's super healthy. The chickens take care of
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  themselves going in and out of the coop.
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  I have beautiful egg production all the time.
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  And I truly believe it's because I give them the best environment
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  in which to dwell. And that is what you have to do
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  for yourself. You have to put yourself in the
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  best environment if you want to stand out in a crowd.
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  If you want to give yourself the best opportunity, especially
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  right now in a market that's so shifting, doesn't matter what
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  you do. Doesn't matter if you're a Baker
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  or you're an investment banker, Doesn't matter.
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  You have to figure out how to stand out in the crowd, and it
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  doesn't have to come from being tricky.
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  It has to come from being outstanding at caring for your
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  world around you and not just your clients.
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  It would be a horrible thing for my clients if I'm talking to
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  them about how to up level their life and up level their
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  businesses. If they came and they saw that I
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  couldn't do that for myself, then we're talking.
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  It's like the Wizard of Oz situation.
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  You know what behind what's behind the curtain is not the
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  reality. So you have to make yourself
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  again. I know we talk about this so
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  much that I'm always saying it comes back to you and how you
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  handle yourself first. O this is the idea.
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  If you want to stand out in a crowd, if you want to be able to
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  do these things, you want people to gravitate to you.
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  You want people to see you and your company as the one they're
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  going to go with right now as the competition shifts and
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  things get just more interesting.
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  Not going to be harder, it's just going to be interesting.
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  Then you have to think in terms of what do I need to do with
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  myself 1st? And I don't care if that's
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  something simple like, you know what?
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  I got to go get rid of all this crap in my junk drawers in my
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  house because it drives me crazy.
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  Do it. That's up level.
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  It's the simplest thing to do 1st and it starts a process.
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  Get rid of all the old clothes that you don't like.
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  Get rid of shoes that you won't wear.
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  Stop telling yourself you're going to wait to start until you
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  lose 10 lbs. Do something that allows you to
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  up levels. Change your point of view so
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  that you can stand out in the crowd by simply being the one
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  that takes the consistent action.
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  And it doesn't matter how small it is, do it.
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  I promise you there will be absolute great outcomes from it
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  because every time you do it, great things happen.
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  So get out there, start the shift.
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  Stand out in the crowd by starting with yourself.
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  I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Have a blessed day, bye.