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Season 3 - Episode 197 - Have you ever recorded 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 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 I'm sharing one of my favorite tricks with you about
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  keeping yourself on track, and that is talking to yourself.
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  Now I know there's going to be people out there that are
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  already laughing and saying, hey wait a minute, talking to
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  yourself, doesn't that mean you're insane?
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  I'm not talking about the typical walking around your
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  house talking to yourself. What I'm talking about is making
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  little recordings to yourself when you're in a great state
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  that you can play back to yourself when you are not in a
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  great state. So let's say that we take
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  morning, for example. Morning is a really incredibly
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  important time in setting the tone for your day because if
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  your morning is messed up, then everything else tends to be
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  going downhill from there because we stay in that state
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  that we put ourselves in. So if we have an intense morning
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  and that morning is just, you know, you wake up, there's a
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  problem right away, you get an e-mail, that's a problem, you
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  have issues right away. That will be one of those times
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  where you instantaneously take that energy with yourself into
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  the next act, whether it's getting the kids up, whether
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  it's doing something else instantaneously you have that
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  going with you. And oftentimes it's really,
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  really hard to shift it because you're, you're stuck
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  essentially, you're stuck in that moment.
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  You're like frozen, if you will, emotionally because you're not
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  paying attention. That's the very first thing when
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  you wake up. Typically we're just in go mode
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  and we're saying what have I got to get done today?
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  And we've some of us make our to do lists in the morning.
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  Some of us make our to do lists in the after, you know,
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  afternoon, late in the day before.
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  So we have it when we wake up, but most of us tend to wake up
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  and we're only thinking about what we have to do.
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  We're not thinking about any of the other stuff to take care of
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  ourselves. We're just focused on this
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  little tiny piece of, you know, got to get going, got to get
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  going. I got a lot to do today.
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  Can't tell you how many times I myself will say, OK, I got a lot
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  to do today. But the problem is if I'm only
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  focused on what I have to do, I'm not focused on who I'm
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  being. So having these little
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  recordings to myself really help me.
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  So if I have, if you, if you have any sort of phone that's
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  not from, you know, 18 O2, you can open it up and in your
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  utilities, you have a voice text app.
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  And this is exactly how I record the podcast.
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  Believe it or not, I use my voice text so much.
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  I found that it was super easy just to use it for the podcast
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  too. So I come, I have a whole series
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  of little ones that stay in my phone that are just messages to
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  myself that I use. So if I'm off, if I'm off track,
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  if I'm off base, if I'm not tracking in a way that I want
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  to, if my energy is going downhill, if I'm feeling
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  frustrated, if I'm in between sessions, if, if people coach
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  with me, they know I'm, I keep my sessions really tight because
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  I like to stay in flow and in mode.
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  I don't, I don't like to take breaks actually, because it
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  throws me off and then I can't, you know, I'm so in the moment,
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  I can't get back into flow quickly.
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  So I like to keep it pretty tight.
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  But if I've got a couple seconds in between or if I've had a
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  session where it's been very emotional with a client, I have
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  a message in my voice memos where I can listen to myself,
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  talk to myself and give myself a pep talk, if you will, a
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  feedback, something to focus on instead of what I have been
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  focusing on. And I can't begin to tell you
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  the magic it creates because it shifts you right away.
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  Another piece of the puzzle is that your brain is wired to
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  believe your voice to be true. So when you're talking to
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  yourself, whether it's good or bad, whether it's positive or
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  negative, your brain believes you.
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  So when you say, oh God, I'm so frustrated, I'm so stupid.
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  Even if you just say this in your head, your brain believes
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  that to be true. That's why it's so hard to shift
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  out of things. And the beautiful thing is it
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  also believes it in reverse. So if you're able to record
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  messages to yourself when you are feeling good and you know
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  you're in a great state and you talk to yourself, then all of a
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  sudden when you listen to that message and it changes
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  everything. So I'll give you an example.
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  If you're a parent and you're, you get frustrated with your
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  kids and you know that you have certain hot buttons issues like
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  homework, that's always an something in our house that
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  triggers things. You can have a little message
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  that you record to yourself and you can talk about that and say
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  like, let's say your name is Sally.
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  You can say, hey, Sally, listen, homework is going to start in
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  about 30 minutes. You know that this is going to
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  be awesome if you stay calm and focused.
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  So I want you to go in there. I want you to be super centered.
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  I want you to be calm. I want you to have the snacks
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  ready, pencils sharpened, sit down, put on good music for the
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  kids to listen to and get everything in the way that they,
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  you know they can thrive and you can thrive.
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  And remember, take the High Road, stay calm, no yelling.
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  Give yourself this little this little thing and then play it
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  beforehand when you're talking to yourself, you actually
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  listen. I have them for all different
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  things in my phone. I have them for, like I said, in
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  between sessions. I have them for things.
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  If I'm irritated with my husband, I can go and listen to
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  one that I have talking to me about all the things I love
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  about him. And instantaneously it, it
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  reminds me and puts me in a state of letting go of whatever
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  stupid thing happened that we might be arguing about.
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  And then I can easily go right back to feeling great.
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  So today I would like you to make some recordings for
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  yourself that you can listen to. And that morning recording is
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  probably the most important of all of them.
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  So when you get up, you can talk to yourself and say, I'm out
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  here starting my day strong and I'm focused because I listened
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  to my morning recording that told me when I wake up, Hey Kim,
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  you just got out of bed. It's time to get into that right
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  state of mind. Remember, you're focused on
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  effortless abundance. You're focused on being the best
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  person you can be in kindness, happiness, love and joy.
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  That's one of mine, by the way, in case you're interested.
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  So I can listen to that and I can listen to it over and over
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  and over again if I need to. You can make them as short as
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  you want and as long as you want.
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  Just make them. Make them go do it today.
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  Make yourself one. Just try one and see how it
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  works. All right, guys, I hope you have
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  a great day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.