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Season 2 - Episode 85 - The first question you should ask yourself. · 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 going to assume that you would like to know what
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  your first step is. If you were starting a business
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  like let's just say, you were starting a problem, not even a
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  business, just a project, let's just take it that way, okay, had
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  this question quite a bit lately and I think it's coming up from
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  just, people are getting a little bored.
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  They want to do something different and so, they're asking
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  questions that lead you down a road.
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  So that's quite a few people ask.
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  Well, you know, I want, I have an Dia for something I want to
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  do and I'm ready to jump in and so I said to them, what is what
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  do you think? Your first step is and
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  inevitably it's always well, you know, I've got to either secure
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  funding or I've got to write my business plan and while that may
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  seem very logical to most people to say something like that,
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  could it be? Yes it could be that that is one
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  of the first steps that you have to do but there is a more
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  critical Typical step that at least from my perspective of
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  keeping you going long term, which is essentially what we're
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  dealing with trying to keep you going long term, we're saying
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  okay, you know if you're going to do this you're going to be
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  doing it for quite some time. So you know you want to make
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  sure that there's 100% knowledge about the that everything you
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  need to know. So what's that first thing?
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  And the quintessential question is, if you Have this, I, you
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  know, idea and you want to run with it or this business, you
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  want to run with it. You need to know for sure that
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  you're going to be committed when it gets hard, when it gets
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  complicated. When you don't know what you
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  don't know. And that's the crazy part about
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  having a business. That's the crazy part about you
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  know, doing whatever it is that inspires you and wants to keep
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  you going. You got to know that you're
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  willing to keep going. When you You run into what, you
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  don't know. I'll tell you when I first
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  started coaching, I did not understand lots of aspects.
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  It seemed pretty straightforward.
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  Seemed pretty simple and it's just not.
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  I didn't understand the level at which you constantly have to
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  grow yourself in order to be a world-class coach.
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  You have to grow every single day.
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  You have to be learning, you have to be expanding, you have
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  to be preparing for what you need and you.
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  Your clients are going to show up because you just don't know,
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  the level of different things that they're going to bring to
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  the table and expect you to be able to help them with.
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  And I'll tell you that pushes me in a great way.
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  But because I knew up front, somebody said to me, well, you
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  know, you got to have your business plan, you got to have
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  this, you got to have thought I knew all the digital stuff, but
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  I didn't know that, and I hadn't Incorporated that into my
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  regular. Euler life about it.
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  So once I got to a certain point where I wanted these this
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  business to grow and these people to be able to grow and do
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  it, I just had to, okay, I have to throw myself into this, and I
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  have to make learning part of my everyday regimen.
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  I just have to do it. Constantly, there are always
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  books. There are always things to
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  learn. Now that made me seem simple but
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  when you're running a business and you're coaching, you know,
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  12 hours a day for days, Week and you are running a farm and
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  having a family that's a lot to incorporate and to constantly be
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  able to learn and grow. So you have to, you know, figure
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  out how to use your nut time, do certain things that are in by
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  net time, I mean time when you're not doing you're doing
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  one thing like for instance, if I'm weed, whacking I have a
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  headset on and I'm listening to books if I'm in the car, I'm
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  listening to books, I use my net time a lot to make sure that I
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  can use that. And make it work, the best for
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  me. But if you don't know in the
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  beginning, the most important thing is your level of
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  commitment to it, when it gets tough and committing to the fact
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  that you don't know what you don't know right now, like,
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  whatever you're thinking of doing whatever project you're
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  thinking of doing, you just don't know what you're gonna run
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  into. You have no idea years ago.
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  I decided I wanted to learn how to do watercolor on Chinese
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  watercolor paper. No one told me at that point.
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  Time. How difficult Chinese watercolor
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  paper was to work with? May seem like a silly screwy
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  example, but it's like painting on toilet paper.
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  And I made this decision that I wanted to learn this.
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  And then I kept running into the fact that I kept sticking my
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  brush right through the paper and it was really annoying.
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  It was really annoying and I got frustrated and I walked away
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  from it multiple times and it pissed me off that I couldn't
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  get it. And the thing was I was really
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  committed to knowing how to do it and I had to learn a lighter.
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  Hand. I had to learn easy, light,
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  fingers, easy fingers, but I had been so used to painting with
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  acrylics. I didn't understand the
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  difference and my hands. My muscle memory had to change.
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  But what I was organically doing and didn't realize because I'm
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  so freaking stubborn. I wouldn't quit, I didn't give
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  up, but not everybody's in that headspace not everybody's as
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  stubborn as I am. So, the reason I'm bringing this
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  up is, you should go and do and create and Whatever you want,
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  but you have to ask yourself the really important.
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  Question first, am I committed to this?
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  When it gets hard and if the answer is yes, then you say okay
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  what does hard look like? What are the things I can find
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  out from people so that I can write them down and say okay
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  these are potential stumbling blocks and go to someone that
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  will be real about it with you. And once you know that then you
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  say am I going to be able to Traverse These things and really
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  be able to say and commit to myself that.
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  Yep, I heard this. Yep.
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  I made a commitment and I really strongly suggest that if you're
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  going to do whatever it is that you're going to do you write
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  yourself a note or you do a self yourself a recording and you
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  keep it in your phone and your voice memos where it says when
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  it gets hard, listen to this. And so you can listen to
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  yourself when you're in a better State and you've made that
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  decision that says, hey yeah, I'm willing to do it because
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  oftentimes, I will get that. I'll Honest with you guys.
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  I will get that. I will get the just.
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  Yes, yes, yes. And that's cool.
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  I'm no problem with that. But you better, make sure if you
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  say that to me I'm going to come back at everybody who does it
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  and say well you did say yes and it's hard when you get that
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  reminder but you can do that for yourself.
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  So I'm going to challenge you to think about this, okay?
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  Are you willing to do what? It's what it takes when it gets
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  hard and know that first before you do your business plan,
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  before you do everything, No, that first because I promise
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  you, it will get hard. Everything does right down to my
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  garden? My chickens growing flowers,
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  avoid those are the things that are the hardest.
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  So I hope you guys have a very blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.
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  No, that first because I promise you, it will get hard.
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  Everything does right down to my garden?
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  My chickens growing flowers, avoid those are the things that
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  are the hardest. So I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.