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Season 3 - Episode 78 - Cinnamon buns and taco legs! · 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 coop.
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  I am sorry for my raspy voice, but we have got some serious
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  pollen going on and my voice is just shot from it.
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  So today we are talking about measuring if something is more
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  important than something else. Think of it.
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  We've talked before about how I like to think of it like the
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  scales of justice. But in this case we're talking
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  about it in the sense of saying silly, like small little things
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  in your life and how it shows up.
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  So you have to make a track in your head.
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  You have to burn neural pathways that will say I'm going to use
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  this strategy every time I'm trying to decide on something.
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  So for instance, let's say you want to eat a cinnamon bun.
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  Let's say you dream about cinnamon buns.
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  Let's say they are one of your most favorite things to have,
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  and you treat yourself to it. You know, maybe every day, maybe
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  once a week, who knows what it is.
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  But you have a contrary position because you want to have a body
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  that is rocking. You want your body to be just on
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  point. You want to be healthy.
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  You want to be that person that has the body that people go,
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  wow, look at that, that that makes me want to have a body
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  like that. So you've got two contrary
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  ideals going on in your head, and these two contrary ideals
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  are competing. So you have to come up with a
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  way that will interrupt your pattern.
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  Because if you don't interrupt your pattern, you're never going
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  to end up with the body you want.
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  You're going to end up with, you know, a a cinnamon bun body if
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  you keep eating the cinnamon buns.
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  So you have to think of little tricky ways to get yourself past
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  what you're thinking. So for me, I start to think of
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  of quirky little ways to say stuff to myself so that I can
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  come up with one. But I heard one the other day
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  and I had to just share it because I was like, this is so
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  perfect, you know, do I want cinnamon buns or buns of steel?
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  And I thought that was such a great way to put it.
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  And I wrote it right down into my book immediately because I
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  was like, oh, that's a good one for me to remember because I try
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  to find funny little ways to make myself think about
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  something. So I don't just go into reaction
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  with it and say, hey, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going
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  to be this way, show up this way, do this, act, whatever it
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  might be. Because the weight of the
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  moment, the weakness of the moment, isn't really put upon me
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  in the way that I can frame it so I can get myself out of it.
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  So when I hear something, do you want cinnamon buns or buns of
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  steel? Like, no, I really want the buns
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  of steel. Yes, I want the cinnamon buns,
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  but I really want the buns of steel.
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  So coming up with these little tricky ways, not so hard.
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  You just sit down and you write out your list of the things that
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  you know are your weaknesses around staying on track.
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  So for me it it's really, really, really going around
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  Mexican food. Like, I love Mexican food.
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  I love chips, guacamole, queso, tacos.
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  I love Mexican food a lot and treat myself typically.
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  Friday night Okay is the night my son always wants to go.
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  Friday night is Mexican night, So I have to ask myself when I'm
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  sitting there with the menu, right, what I want and I'm like,
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  do do I want legs that look like I ate too many tacos?
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  So I think about it in terms of, like, my legs looking like
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  tacos. I know that sounds weird, but
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  that's how I think about it. Tacos are all bumpy.
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  Do I want bumpy legs? No.
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  So do I just get the tacos? No, I don't.
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  I don't. I will.
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  I will switch off. Maybe I'll have a handful of
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  chips and a a bunch of guacamole, because at least the
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  guacamole is very healthy. But I'll start thinking about
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  things like that, and I give myself these quirky little
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  visuals that help me stay on track.
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  So you have to find yours, because then it's really clear
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  there's no misnomers in your head.
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  It's very, very clear it's listed out.
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  And can they be funny? Yes.
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  Can they help be painful? Like, is my Taco leg thing very
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  funny? I don't know.
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  But to me it's funny. So I use it.
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  Just have to start thinking of things differently and framing
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  them differently so that you can help yourself get out of it in
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  the moment. Because it's, as Tony Robbins
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  says, it's in the moments of our.
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  It's in the moments of our decision that our destiny is
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  shaped. And if you don't remember that,
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  it's like, OK, it's every decision, does every decision
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  count? Yes, yes, every decision counts.
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  Because apparently Celine really agrees with that, because it it
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  it's from those little tiny decisions, everything is stacked
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  upon it. You know, my decisions about
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  saying I want chickens might have been a very big just choice
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  in the beginning, but where I bought them from really
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  dictates, OK, seems like a little decision.
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  They have a chicken, you want it.
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  But if you don't get healthy chickens, all of a sudden you
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  wake wipe out the rest of your chickens.
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  You know it's all these little teeny weeny things stack upon
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  each other, little tiny decisions.
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  So write them all down, find out what your quirky little points
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  are and run with them. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.