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Season 2 - Episode 234 - The things we make up! · 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 master mindset
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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 this morning we are talking about the things we make up, the
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  stories we tell ourselves that we believe to be true except we
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  are completely making them up. They are not real and we are
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  torturing ourselves with the crappy stories that we make up.
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  And this across the board happens in all areas of our
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  life. Personal, professional, family,
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  business, it doesn't matter. We tend to make up stories
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  without provocation of accuracy. We just make them up.
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  So what does this do to us? Well, first of all, it can be
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  detrimental because the stories can be so hard.
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  On us that we start seeing things as if they're real and we
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  start reacting as if they're real threats, but they're not.
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  And so it changes our personality.
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  It changes what we're focused on.
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  There's so many pieces of the puzzle that are not true, and
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  yet we act as if it is. So when you start thinking about
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  how this affects you, it doesn't matter.
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  What we're talking about, it can start to affect every area of
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  your life when it starts to show up.
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  And controlling these stories and putting these stories in the
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  perspective and realizing that we're making things up is part
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  of growth. It's part of awareness, it's
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  part of self development. And recognizing that we don't
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  know what we don't know, so we can't make what we think we know
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  the word meaning. We're no question.
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  This is it. I know this to be true, and we
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  stick with it because it's silly.
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  It's not. It's not real, and we don't know
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  for a fact, but we treat it as if it's real.
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  And then before you know it, before anything, you're acting
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  as if you you know everything for a fact and you don't.
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  How does this affect the people around us?
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  Well guess what? We start talking about those
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  things. The more we talk about them, the
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  more we pretend they're real. And in our quest to pretend that
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  they're real, one we start manifesting things and you know
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  it's a a self fulfilling prophecy.
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  Even though the bad thing hasn't happened, we start thinking
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  about it so much and talking about it so much and obsessing
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  on it so much that we essentially start to make those
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  bad things happen. And we don't want to do that.
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  But it's kind of this weird scenario.
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  It's how the the human mind works.
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  The magnetism of our thoughts become the the script that's
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  writing out what's happening for us.
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  So First things first, you got to recognize when you're making
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  up stories and you got to recognize that they're not
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  helpful, they're not working for you, and you've got to put a
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  stop to it. But the first thing is
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  recognizing I'm making up stuff and I don't know for sure.
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  And you've got to get out of the future pacing, and you've got to
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  bring yourself back and stay in the moment.
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  Focus on what's around you. Focus like right now.
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  I could tell you. I could say, OK, I'm opening the
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  doors for the girls. They're all wandering around.
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  They're all sitting here looking for their food this morning.
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  They're all picking their spots. They're all running back and
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  forth with their treats. I could just focus on what's
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  around me, focus on the early morning sounds and bugs, all of
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  that. I don't have to focus on
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  wondering what disaster is coming my way today, or who's
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  saying what about me, or thinking through all of these
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  possible detrimental scenarios that I've painted in my head.
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  It's learning to argue for your greatness and not your
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  limitations and you've heard me say that before, but this is
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  what happens and this is how our brains go and then we end up
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  messing ourselves up in the process.
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  So I want to challenge you to go in and 1st figure out the toxic
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  focus that keeps showing up and how you keep having these
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  made-up scenarios. Then challenge you to say, you
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  know what, I'm going to release this.
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  I'm not going to focus on this. I'm going to focus on being in
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  the moment. And when the bad things start to
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  weed their way back into my head, I'm going to say no.
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  I'm focused on being in the moment.
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  I'm focused on being right here. I'm focused on the happy stuff.
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  I'm focused on what I need to focus on to be.
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  Happy. And I'm not going to allow
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  myself to go down the other Rd. because it doesn't work.
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  It's a simple path. It's a simple way to start, but
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  it's absolutely necessary. So you can continue to obsess on
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  the wrong things, or you can continue to obsess on the right
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  things. So this is the difference
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  between wrong thinking and right thinking.
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  And I'm going to tell you today to challenge yourself to think
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  right thinking. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day. I hope you think about this and
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  give yourself the break and don't manifest stuff that you
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  don't want to have happen by running your brain in the wrong
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  direction. And I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.