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Season 3 - Episode 124 - The one thing that can change you. · 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. Today we are talking about the
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  one action that you can take immediately that's going to help
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  you the most. And that is probably one of the
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  most common questions that I get asked when people start coaching
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  right away. You know, what's the one thing
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  that I can do? And they always sound like
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  they're desperate when they ask the question because they are.
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  And they want, they want to make changes and they want things to
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  go right away. And it's it's tough because
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  everyone's in different places, right?
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  And everyone has their own version of their story.
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  We all have a story and that story is what holds us back
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  ultimately. But this particular question,
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  what's the one thing that I can do?
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  That's what we're focusing on today.
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  And truthfully, the one thing that you can do for yourself,
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  Manage your mindset. Control your thoughts however
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  you want to look at it. Nobody can control your
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  thoughts, period. You are the one that is in
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  charge of your thoughts. And this is such a hard concept
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  to understand because we are surrounded by things that are
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  constantly attempting to control our thoughts.
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  You know, advertising, influencers, social media,
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  children, our spouses, our bosses, everybody's trying to
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  control your thoughts and ultimately no one has control
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  over them, but you and you are the one that has the ultimate
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  choice of what you want to focus on.
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  Everything happens internally. Everything is an internal game.
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  You know that distance between your two temples, that is what
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  we're talking about. That's how far you are from your
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  goal. The distance, if you measured
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  your head, whatever that distance is between your two
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  temples, that's how far you are from your outcomes, because it
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  all depends on what you think. It all depends on what you feel.
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  Those two things are combined. Thinking and feeling are
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  combined because they one dictates the other.
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  As I've said before in other podcasts, it's like one is is
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  predicating the other. And if you are looking for
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  reasons to be offended, if you are looking for reasons to give
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  other people control because, Oh well, they're my boss or he's my
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  husband or she's my wife or my partner or whatever, it might be
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  that little tiny bit of information.
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  And this is what's so difficult for people to understand, is
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  that these, these are like little drops of poison.
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  And I'll often use the metaphor of saying if I had a giant rain
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  barrel and I filled that rain barrel with water and I told you
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  it was the best water in the whole world, totally pure, and
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  you couldn't wait to try that water.
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  And then I walked over and I'm talking like a big, giant rain
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  barrel. So let's just say maybe it's 100
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  gallon rain barrel. OK, so it's a good size.
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  And I put one drop of poison into that rain barrel.
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  Just one, Just one little drop of poison.
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  And then I say to you, hey, would you like to have a cup of
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  this water? You would look at me like I was
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  absolutely insane. Why would I want to drink that
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  water? Kim?
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  You'd say, this is crazy. I don't want to drink that
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  water. You just put a drop of poison
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  into it. Well, the truth is that's what
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  happens in our brain every single day when we allow those
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  little tiny drops of information and thoughts and attempted
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  control from other people to start to penetrate into our
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  psyche into what we believe. Those little drops add up over
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  and over and over and over and that's what starts the problem.
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  So think about that. If you wouldn't drink the water
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  that I would offer you with one drop of poison, and by the way,
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  that is probably completely OK to drink it.
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  According to government regulations, you should be
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  allowed to drink that and be safe.
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  So when you even think about that, even more, how crazy is
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  that? You're told it's safe, you can
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  have it, you can drink it, and you'll be OK.
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  And I always love it when someone says, hey, it's OK,
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  you'll be OK. Why do you want to just be OK?
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  You don't want to just be OK. If you didn't, if you just want
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  to be OK, you wouldn't be listening to this because you're
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  trying to find out what are the clues to be better.
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  How do I get to my place where I thrive?
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  How do I get to that place where I can consistently feel a
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  certain way? And I I can't emphasize enough,
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  these little tiny drops, these are the ones that are the
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  problem. Taking a drink from that barrel
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  would be a problem. And here we are looking at
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  ourselves every day, and we're saying, well, what's the one
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  thing I can do? Everyone wants to look
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  externally for? What can I do to change?
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  What's the one action I can take?
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  Well, the one action that you can take is to control what you
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  allow into your brain every single day.
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  Your own thoughts, what you're surrounding yourself with, how
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  you view things, asking yourself over and over and over.
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  Is this how I really want to view this?
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  Is this true? Is this just what I've always
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  thought? You have got to find your better
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  questions so that you can pull yourself out of this cycle of
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  just allowing everything to happen to you, because that is
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  not the way you want to live. So the one thing that I want you
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  to focus on for this whole week, looking up and beyond, I mean,
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  this is just an, you know, a a a stepping stone in this process,
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  but it's a continuous stepping stone.
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  I can't stress that enough. This one is a continuous
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  stepping stone. The action that you are going to
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  consistently take is how long am I going to hang on to this?
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  When something happens, how long am I going to look at this as
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  it's an offence, What can I do right now to move myself
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  forward? So you are always managing those
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  thoughts, always managing the emotions, always managing the
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  mindsets. That's the action that you
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  should be focused on. OK guys, I will see you
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  tomorrow. Have a great day.