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Season 2 - Episode 219 - Bicycles and balance · 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,
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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 we are talking about the metaphor of how life is like
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  a bicycle. In order to keep your balance,
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  you got to keep moving. And when you don't keep moving,
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  you end up falling off. And we all know it.
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  And there are so many times riding a bike.
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  Boy, I have to tell you when I first started to learn to ride a
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  bike when I was little. It was the scariest thing for me
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  and I wanted to do it so bad, but I was so scared and I
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  remember my father talking to me and he's like, it's just
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  balance. You just have to balance.
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  So I would stand there. I had the bike with the banana
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  seat and the big, you know, whoopy doop handlebars and the
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  tassels and sparkles and everything, and I thought it was
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  the coolest bike, but I was terrified to ride it.
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  And I would just sit on it and try to keep my balance and I
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  would always tip and always tip and always tip and think to
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  myself, I am never going to get these training wheels off this
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  bike. Well of course I did get the
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  training wheels off the bike, but it took me a while and when
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  he took them off he didn't give me a choice.
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  He was just like you're good, you can do this, It's just about
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  balance. And he would put me out there
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  and just push me and say go, go, go, keep moving, keep moving,
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  keep moving and. The more you thought about this
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  as an adult, the more I thought, gosh, this is such a great
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  statement about how we have to conduct ourselves as people
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  moving forward in life. Sometimes, yeah, you have to
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  rest. Sometimes you have to get off
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  the bike and take a rest. But I'm talking about moving
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  yourself forward, talking about using it as a metaphor to say,
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  Yep, there are days when you get off the bike and you rest, and
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  there are days when you get off the bike and you, you know,
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  don't want to get back on the bike.
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  Because of one reason or another.
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  But the most important thing about the bike is to remember
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  it's all in the balance. It's all in making sure that you
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  keep yourself moving to keep yourself balanced.
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  Now the moving can be. In your head too, you got to
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  keep thinking about the stuff that you the destination, the
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  stuff that you want to create, that you are creating, that
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  you're contemplating, imagining. All of that good stuff all falls
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  under that category where we get so hung up sometimes.
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  As you know, just being human, we get so hunkered down in in
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  the overwhelm of like, well, I am frozen.
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  I'm scared, so I don't know what to do.
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  Therefore I don't move. And when you don't move, we know
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  what that does. It horrifies us.
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  Worst off that it it in your body.
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  If you don't keep moving, well, we all know you atrophy.
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  Bodies atrophy very quickly. So if you're stiff and sore.
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  Most likely it's because you don't move a lot.
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  And if you don't move a lot, then you have a problem.
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  The more you move, the better off you are.
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  That's why children, I mean, granted, they're younger, but
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  that's why they have it so much easier with their bodies because
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  they're they're just so agile and they keep moving.
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  I mean, my son doesn't sit still and I've learned a lot from
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  that. Mean people tell me all the time
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  I don't sit still well. And part of that is just because
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  moving feels better than sitting.
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  Honestly, moving feels better than sitting for me.
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  So I I move a lot. I like moving.
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  It's good and I work to keep my balance with it.
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  So the question you have to contemplate and ask yourself is,
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  you know, where am I struggling with my balance?
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  What are the things that are off?
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  What are the things that I know I need to focus on in order to
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  regain and rebalance yourself? You know, simple little things
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  make a huge difference. It could be just taking the time
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  to say, hey, I need to get my mindset great in the morning
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  before I do anything else. I've got to create a healthier
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  mindset pattern. Maybe it's your food.
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  Maybe you have to create more balance with what you're eating
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  because you might be out of whack.
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  Too much sugar, not enough protein.
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  Whatever it might be, maybe that's what it is.
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  It could be. Exercise.
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  It could just be like, you know, OK, I'm.
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  I'm not doing enough exercise. I'm not getting enough in during
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  the day. I know I preach this constantly.
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  But when you really monitor the steps and how many steps you do
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  in a day, most people are shocked by the fact that they
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  don't do as many steps as they think they they do.
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  And then they realize, Oh my gosh, I am barely moving.
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  It's definitely evident. But whatever it is, whatever it
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  comes down to. You have to realize that there's
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  such a big, huge chunk of it, and that falls into the category
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  of if I can keep moving, I create the balance
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  automatically. So I just have to keep going.
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  Even if it's slow and steady, small steps, That's what creates
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  the balance. So figure out where you're
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  lacking it. Figure out what you need to do.
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  Give yourself a break, give yourself a pat on the back, be
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  proud of the fact that you're still doing it and make the
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  move. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.