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Season 3 - Episode 85 - The one question that can shift your business · 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.
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  From the chicken coop. Today, we're going to assume
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  that you would like to know what your first step is if you were
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  starting a business, like let's just say you were starting a
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  well, not even a business, just a project.
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  Let's just take it that way, OK. I've had this question quite a
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  bit lately and I think it's coming up from just people are
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  getting a little bored. They want to do something
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  different. And so they're asking questions
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  that lead you down the road. So had quite a few people ask,
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  well, you know, I want, I have an idea 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,
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  what do you think your first step is?
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  And inevitably it's always, well, you know, I've got to
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  either secure funding or I've got to write my business plan.
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  And while that may seem very logical to most people to say
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  something like that, could it be, yes, it could be that that
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  is one of the first steps that you have to do.
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  But there is a more critical step that at least from my
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  perspective of keeping you going long term, which is essentially
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  what we're doing. We're trying to keep you going
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  long term. We're saying, OK, you know, if
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  you're going to do this, you're going to be doing it for quite
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  some time. So you know, you want to make
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  sure that there's 100% knowledge about the, the 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 know,
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  idea and you want to run with it or this business you want to run
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  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 don't know.
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  And that's the crazy part about having a business.
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  That's the crazy part about, you know, doing whatever it is that
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  inspires you and wants to keep you going.
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  You got to know that you're willing to keep going.
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  When you run into what you don't know.
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  I'll tell you, when I first started coaching, I did not
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  understand lots of aspects seemed pretty straightforward,
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  seemed pretty simple and it's it's just not I didn't
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  understand the level at which you constantly have to grow
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  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.
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  You have to be preparing for what you need and you how your
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  clients are going to show up because you just don't know the
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  level of different things that they're going to bring to the
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  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.
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  You got to have this, you got to have all.
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  I knew all the the digital stuff, but I didn't know that
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  and I hadn't incorporated that into my regular 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, OK, 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 books.
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  There are always things to learn.
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  Now that made me seem simple. But when you're running a
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  business and you're coaching, you know, 12 hours a day, four
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  days a week, and you are running a farm and having a family,
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  that's a lot to incorporate and to constantly be able to learn
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  and grow. So you have to, you know, figure
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  out how to use your net time, do certain things that are.
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  And by net time I mean time when you're not do.
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  When you're doing one thing, like for instance, if I'm weed
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  whacking, I have a headset on and I'm listening to books.
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  If I'm in the car, I'm listening to books.
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  I use my net time a lot to make sure that I can use that and
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  make it work the best for 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.
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  Like 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 going to
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  run into. You have no idea.
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  Years ago, I decided I wanted to learn how to do watercolor on
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  Chinese watercolor paper. No one told me at that point
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  point in time how difficult Chinese watercolor paper was to
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  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
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  painting with acrylics, I didn't understand the difference And my
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  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.
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  I didn't give up. But not everybody's in that
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  headspace, not everybody's as stubborn as I am.
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  So the reason I'm bringing this up is you should go and do and
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  create and be whatever you want. But you have to ask yourself the
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  really important question first. Am I committed to this?
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  When it gets hard, And if the answer is yes, then you say, OK,
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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, OK,
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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 Yup, I heard this,
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  Yup, I made a commitment. And I really strongly suggest
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  that if you're going to do whatever it is that you're going
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  to do, you write yourself a note or you do a self yourself, a
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  recording and you keep it in your phone and your voice memos
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  where it says when it gets hard, listen to this.
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  And so you can listen to yourself when you're in a better
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  state and you've made that decision that says, hey, yeah,
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  I'm. I'm willing to do it because
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  often times I will get that. I'll be honest with you guys.
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  I will get that. I will get the just yes, yes,
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  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
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  it and say, well, you did say yes.
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  And it's hard when you get that reminder, but you can do that
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  for yourself. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  think about this, OK? Are you willing to do what it's
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  what it takes when it gets hard? And know that first before you
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  do your business plan, before you do everything, know that
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  first because I promise you it will get hard.
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  Everything does, right down to my garden, my chickens, growing
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  flowers. Like 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.