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Watch your luggage! · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the Noisy Chicken Coop this morning.
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  Apparently, we're having a big argument in their over space of
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  where to lay an egg because you know, they get fixated on what
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  they want just like human beings and they don't let it go and
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  then they do that until you get out of their way.
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  Very funny. Babe.
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  You're bad. Anyway, today we are talking
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  about watching your luggage and what do I mean by watching your
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  luggage? Okay, we all know when we go on
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  a trip we have to remember that We've got to go up against that
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  scale at the airport. We've got to get there.
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  We've got to put our stuff into the luggage and make sure it
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  does not weigh more than the allotted amount or we have to
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  pay exorbitant fees to put our luggage on there.
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  And we'll also say, you got to remember what you're taking with
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  you. Take what you need most and you
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  go through and you pack and sometimes you re pack.
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  If you're like me, you pack. You see what you have.
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  You repack you pack. You repack.
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  You want to make sure that you have exactly what you need.
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  You're not taking anything extra with you.
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  You've got Everything that you're going to like absolutely
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  need in case, you can't get it when you get there.
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  And then you've got to make sure you're not taking too much with
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  you because of the weight. So what is this metaphor that
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  I'm using for you? Well, think about this when it
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  comes to thoughts and your past boy, if we did this process with
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  everything that we carry around with us all the time.
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  How would that shift us? How would that make us be
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  different people? Because if we had to sit and
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  say, well, is this, Something I'm really going to need to take
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  with me. Is this something that I should
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  keep referencing again? And is this something that I
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  should keep going back to or if am I really going to need this
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  moving forward in my world? Or is this just something?
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  That was a ridiculous thought and I had it at one point in
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  time and I don't need it anymore.
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  And you started using the watch your luggage metaphor for
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  everything that you carry around with you all day everyday, like
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  our list of anxieties or frustrations, or offenses, two
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  things, Have happened in our past.
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  Wow, that could change everything and I love, love love
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  using this with people because I think that it helps simplify the
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  process and everything about what I do with my clients is
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  always about simplifying, the process.
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  How can I make this as simple as possible so that they can get it
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  and use it quickly. And for me, if you start to
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  think about that luggage, it is such a quick way.
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  To shift and change such a quick way to shift and change because
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  you'll say well is this something I want to pack and
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  take with me? Do I want to take this with me?
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  And then you can always reference them back again and
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  say well didn't I make the decision not to take this with
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  me. Great.
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  Why am I talking about it? Why is this here?
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  Why am I bringing it up? Because it's not something that
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  I chose to pack and take with me.
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  So point being there is nothing more important than these
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  choices that you make on a daily basis.
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  Nothing. And if you start recognizing I
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  think how much you reference back to the luggage, how much
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  you reference back to the stuff that you don't want, how much
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  you reference back to it, even though you don't want it, you
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  will be astonished at how much it affects you and just like
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  double-checking triple checking and going through the luggage
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  repeatedly. When we're getting ready to go
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  on a trip, it matters. I remember when I had the
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  absolute luck love and pleasure of going to backpack in
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  Thailand. You know, many years ago.
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  My husband and I got married there and he had backpack before
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  and I had never backpack. I, I traveled with like, big
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  luggage as much as I could. I took everything I could with
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  me and he is. Somebody who's a minimalist?
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  You know, do you really need that?
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  We can do laundry. Do you really think that this is
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  necessary? And I, when he told me, we were
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  going to be, you know, doing this in backpacks, because it's
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  easy to get on and off. It's easy to get everywhere.
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  I was like, oh no, my certainty girl kicked in and Panik
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  happened. And I was like, there is no way,
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  especially when I realized we were doing this for three weeks,
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  especially when I realized that, oh my gosh, I'm going to
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  actually do this and I don't have the certainty of knowing
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  where I will be, if there will be laundry.
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  If I will have facilities. I mean obviously there are
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  laundries over there. Why am I thinking?
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  I'm not going to be able to find something because that's how our
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  brains work and we freaked out about stuff.
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  So it took an absolute Monumental effort in my mind to
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  be able to stop that process from going on in my head and
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  say, yes I can pack in a backpack, but I can't begin to
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  tell you how many times I had to repack that backpack.
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  I had to look at it. I had to scrutinize it.
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  I had to go. And and honestly like tell I
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  mean if I'm telling the God's honest truth, I cried I stood
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  there and said I can't do it with this.
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  Like number of things, I need to have more, I'm going to need two
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  backpacks. He's like, you can't have two
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  backpacks, it's not called backpacking to carry multiple
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  backpacks. It's one backpack and plus I had
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  a camera bag, so, I had no choice.
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  I had to figure it out and the more I did it, the better.
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  It got the the the more I looked at it, I had it all spread out
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  on the floor. The more I examined it.
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  The more I said, do I really need you?
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  This is something that I'm really going to need and when I
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  kept going back and re-examining re-examining re-examining, I was
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  able to do it and you know what, not only did I survive the trip,
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  I say it like that because it was one of the most glorious
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  trips of my life. Not only did I survive it, I
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  thrived, I love everything about it and I didn't have a quarter
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  of what I would have taken if I was left to my own accord.
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  So point being when you You do this with your emotions when you
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  do this with the the past and all the things that have
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  happened in the past and you say, I'm not taking you with me.
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  I'm done, I'm putting that aside.
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  Glorious things happen. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  do that. Watch your luggage start
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  thinking about it, and don't think about it, once really
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  think about it really, really think about it pour into it
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  because I promise you you will see Grand results when you do
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  this. Just, nope, I'm not taking this.
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  Nope, I don't need this and just put it aside and when it shows
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  up, get rid of it because it's not necessary.
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  I hope you guys have an amazingly blessed day and I will
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  see you tomorrow.