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Season 4 - Episode 102 - Back to the grind · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist and also happen to be
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  a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every. Day to record a.
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  Podcast to teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world, so welcome to the.
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  Coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning from the chicken coop.
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  Let's talk about the phrase back to the grind.
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  Oh boy that I was reminded of this yesterday when I was
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  looking at pictures of my mother.
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  I was going through baby pictures and stuff, looking for
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  pictures for my daughter and I found this picture of my mother
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  was making this face and she had her jacket on, hood up, bag over
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  her. And I knew that scene so well.
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  And I took that picture. I took thousands of pictures
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  when I was a kid. I was obsessed with it, hence
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  the whole thing of going into graphics and photography and
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  marketing and all of that. But I was, I was and still am
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  obsessed with my camera. And I took this picture of my
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  mother. And in my head I used to always
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  create these little, you know, tag lines, if you will, for the
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  photos, give a little summary of it.
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  And I said that was back to the grind.
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  And sure enough, I flipped the picture over and on it, it was
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  back to the grind. Because that's what she used to
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  say. Every time she had to walk out
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  the door to go to work and or especially on Sunday, she would
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  start that feeling of I've got to go back tomorrow.
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  And the funny part was my mother didn't need to work.
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  My mother chose to work, but my father was very adamant.
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  If you don't want to work, you don't have to work.
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  And she wanted to work. She wanted to contribute, but
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  she had a job that was a very repetitive job.
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  She worked at Texas Instruments, she worked on a production line,
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  and she was specialized in this particular type of welding.
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  And she would go in and she would sit and all day do the
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  same exact thing over and over and over.
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  And I never understood how she could do it, staying stuck in a
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  building because it's the exact opposite of me.
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  And it just used to make me like, what?
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  How can you do that? When I was a kid and she would
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  say that phrase back to the grind and I would say, well,
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  then don't go. And she's like, no, I have to
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  go. And I never understood.
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  And my mother's passed away and I never got to the bottom of why
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  did she feel like she had to do it when she was told she didn't?
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  I never got those discussions with her.
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  And as I hear that phrase grind, I go, I've heard clients say it
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  before, I've read it in books. You know, you've got to grind it
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  out. You've just got to grind it out.
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  And in some cases it's, it's appropriate when you just have
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  to do something like you just got to get it done.
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  Like this time of the year for me, I could use that phrase with
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  sending the garden up. I could say you've just got to
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  grind it out. But I don't feel like it's a
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  grind. See, I, that's the thing.
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  I don't have that association to something thinking I feel a
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  certain way about it, like it's terrible and I've got to grind
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  it out. Maybe I could use that phrase
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  with doing my taxes, but it, it's not something that I am
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  associated to, but it has deep feelings for many people.
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  And my mother was one of them. And it got me thinking about how
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  well, since yesterday when this picture thing came up, I've been
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  thinking about, well, are there areas that I really feel like I
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  have to grind? And the truth is, no, I don't.
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  I, I just don't feel that way. I, I don't feel that way when
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  I'm coaching. I don't feel that way when I'm
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  doing the farm work. I don't feel that way across the
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  board. I guess really the only place I
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  feel that way is about taxes, which is fine.
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  It's like one of those things we all have to do and I'm OK with
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  it because it's not over 80% of my life.
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  But when you start getting to the point where you're feeling
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  like you're, you're, you have to do something and it's a grind.
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  And, you know, we follow the 8020 rule, at least I try to
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  teach all of my clients and my listeners, the 8020 rule is
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  ideal. If you can, if you can do
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  something 80% of the time, then you're going to have good, you
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  know, outstanding results from that.
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  If you can get above that, then you are going into the
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  stratosphere. You're going into acceptance
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  9095 a 100% of the time. So when I think about this
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  podcast, right, like I'm way up there with it.
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  I've I've done over, I don't know, 1100 episodes.
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  I've lost track. I'm in my 4th year and I don't
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  miss days. Like I just don't.
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  And I do it all the time because I love it.
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  It doesn't feel like a grind. I don't ever go, damn it, I've
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  got to do that podcast. Nope, it's never like that for
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  me. So when I think about it, it's
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  definitely not a grind. And I'm way up above that, you
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  know, 80%. I'm probably closer to 95100%
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  where it's just like I'm on. It doesn't bother me.
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  I love doing it. I, I, I thrive doing it.
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  And that's what we're looking for, to feel that way.
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  The target is 80 to 2020% of the time.
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  I might be doing things I don't feel like doing or I might not
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  be successful or whatever, but the 8020 rule is kind of what
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  we're looking for. But definitely when you start
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  feeling that word that it's a grind, you have to stop and
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  pause and say, OK, what does this mean to me?
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  Is it a short term thing like the taxes?
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  Great. It's OK if it's not a short term
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  thing and you feel like Grace putting on your jacket and
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  you're back putting your bag on and going back to the grind.
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  And I can still hear a voice doing it tomorrow.
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  Back to the grind. It would make me feel depressed
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  just hearing it. So if you're doing that
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  internally, stop and pause and ask, is this really necessary?
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  What can I do to change it? How can I change it?
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  How can I change my feeling about it?
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  Because if you can't change the situation, you can certainly
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  change the feeling that you associate to it.
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  Because that's the beautiful part and the gift from the
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  universe that we have as human beings.
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  We can change our perception. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.