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Season 2 - Episode 341 - Little chatter, big impact · 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 mastermind set
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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
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  coop. Oh, he's right on cue.
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  Look at that. OK, so today we're talking about
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  brain chatter, mind chatter, The voice in your head, the little
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  tiny voices that constantly just keep talking.
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  Now, why is this important? Well, because we all have it.
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  We can't get away from it. For some of us, it's very
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  intense. And for others it's, you know,
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  not so much. And people will often ask, you
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  know, is it, is this something that you just developed?
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  Is it? Are you born with it?
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  Is it always there? It's there.
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  It's it's just how we communicate with the different
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  parts of ourselves. Like I, I tend to think that,
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  you know, when we talk about you have your body, your mind and
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  your soul, this is all true. And it it has been described for
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  eons for that way that way for a reason, because it is, that is
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  exactly what's happening. And sometimes it does feel like
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  it's the committee in your head. As you know, I talk about it in
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  the terms of the bus and it's all the emotions and they all
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  have things to share. But it is very real and it has
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  absolute control over what's going on.
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  So you have to know and really recognize is the chatter for
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  your greater good or is it for your demise?
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  What is it doing to you? And it's so constant that if you
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  don't know it, it it could be eroding everything that you're
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  working on or it could be adding to the the greatness that you're
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  looking for. So without having that compass,
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  just so to speak, of really checking in and saying, did I
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  spend more time in my head today going for the greater good or
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  did I spend more time tearing myself down?
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  Very important question. And 9 out of 10 people, when I
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  ask that, when they I first start working with them and even
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  when I've been working with them for a long time.
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  And when I check in and I'm like, OK, where are you with the
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  chatter? They'll go, oh man, I probably
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  should check in on that because it's not something that we're
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  taught to do regularly. We're just not taught to check
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  on that piece of ourselves and just be on it.
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  But we should be because it makes a tremendous difference
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  when you are actually on it and you're paying attention to it.
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  If you can think of it as a, it's kind of like a using a
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  bathroom scale. That's probably the easiest way
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  if you're someone that likes to weigh yourself all the time and
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  know where you are on the process.
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  Now, I will admit I am that person.
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  I never used to be. But when I really worked on my
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  body, really worked on my weight, really worked on getting
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  healthy, the scale became a tool.
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  Not a torture, but a tool. And to help me recognize, OK, I
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  haven't been moving enough, or I need to burn more calories or I
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  need to do more physical exercise because clearly I need
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  to pay attention to this when it goes up.
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  And I know there's a range when my body feels its best.
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  So this is the same thing with the mind chatter.
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  If you're not measuring it and you're not sitting there and
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  asking yourself these critical questions, you can't control it.
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  You can't understand what it's doing to you.
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  So first and foremost, that can be a moment to moment thing.
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  It can be over the course of a day, it can be based on your
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  emotions and how you feel throughout the day and everyone
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  has their own unique way of monitoring it.
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  But for me, it's completely based in monitoring the
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  emotions, because I know that chatter is dictated and and is
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  constantly dictating. It's the symbiotic relationship
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  between those emotions, the upheaval, the problems,
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  everything that's happening. It's either arguing for the
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  greater good or it's arguing for my demise, one or the other.
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  There's really no in between in my head.
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  So I have to make sure that it's constantly working on the
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  greater good. And the way I check in is as
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  soon as I start to feel any part of what I call the darker
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  feelings, irritation, frustration, just even a little
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  bit. Like that's my sound.
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  Like when I start to recognize myself going because I'm
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  aggravated. I know I have to check in on
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  that now. Funny story, that can happen in
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  my house in a heartbeat based on the quality of cleaning in the
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  kitchen because I can't stand a dirty kitchen sink.
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  It's just a thing with me. I know it's just a thing.
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  Can't stand it. Absolutely hate it.
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  I even squeegee as my cousin will laugh when she listens to
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  this. I squeegee out my sink because I
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  don't like the water in it. Now, some people could say
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  that's insane. What are you doing?
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  Well, maybe it is, but it's just the way I like the sink and I
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  don't. I don't have a problem going in
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  and doing it all the time. I just like it clean.
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  But when I see somebody else who leaves a pile of something in
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  there, I can easily feel myself go.
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  And then I have to recognize that's one of those emotions
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  that chatter is not serving me. Am I going to let that continue
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  for the day? Because that will erode anything
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  good that I have been doing. So if you're going to get
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  irritated, do it consciously. If you're going to get
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  frustrated, do it consciously because that's where the windows
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  of opportunity are for shift and change.
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  So just work on that piece, Check out where those little
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  things start and also follow the great ones too.
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  And see. OK, well what makes me feel
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  really wonderful? Like I know I can literally walk
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  into a coffee shop and smell coffee and feel amazingly good.
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  Why is that? Because I spent so much time in
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  coffee shops with my dad and he was my anchor always.
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  I always felt great when I was with my dad, so I don't have him
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  passed away many years ago. And that still to this day will
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  make me feel good. So I know if I'm really
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  frustrated with something and I want to shift, go to a coffee
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  shop, You'll feel good right away.
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  Know these things about yourself, my friends, and I
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  promise you, you will be able to navigate this with much more
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  purpose and on point. All right, my friends, I'll see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.