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Season 3 - Episode 125 - Seeking success or making the effort? · 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. So I have a question for you.
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  Are you, are you waiting for success to find you?
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  Are you like actively just sitting there waiting for
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  success to find you or are you out there pursuing it with all
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  the intentions as well as the actions?
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  The difference in these two things is incredibly important
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  because if you were just waiting for something to find you and
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  you're not living in a state of acceptance of it, meaning that
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  you are, you know you have to do things in order to make stuff
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  happen. We have to, we cannot just sit
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  around and, you know, blindly ignore the fact that we need to
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  be actively pursuing it because that is part of the consistent
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  message of manifesting. You know, some years ago there
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  was many books have come out about obviously have come out
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  about manifesting. But some years ago there was a
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  book that came out and was pretty clear that everybody
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  walked away thinking they could just sit in a room and think
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  about something and it would happen.
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  And the confusion behind that was it, it it's all back to
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  emotion. Everything comes down to emotion
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  that's tied to it. And if you are incredibly
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  focused with your emotion in a consistent direction, you always
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  get that doesn't matter what you're thinking about, doesn't
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  matter how you're visualizing yourself.
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  If your underlying emotion is going in a certain direction,
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  then that's where you're going to end up.
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  And that also got a lot of people to become, in my opinion,
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  lazy because they thought, I don't have to really do too
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  much, I don't have to do the work, and I can just move on and
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  wait for it to happen, wait for it to show up.
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  But this is a puzzle that we have to actually work at.
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  You know you cannot get, and I know you've heard me say this
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  before, if you're a regular listener, you cannot get the
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  outcome without the effort. And the effort is on multiple
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  levels. The effort is on that level of
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  yes, thinking about it, yes. Visualizing it, Yes.
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  Putting emotion to it and feeling as if you would when you
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  had it, Seeing it as if it was already done.
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  And it is actually moving your ass doing the work.
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  So when you question, am I doing the work, am I doing the work
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  that's going to move me in the right direction?
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  You really have to be on point with that.
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  You have to say, and do I feel like I'm putting in a valid
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  effort to this or am I just putting in the minimum?
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  And here's the thing, people will often say to me, well, how
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  do I know? Well, listen, only you know.
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  You know, if you're making your best effort, you know, if you're
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  pouring in, you know if you could do more.
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  You know, when I was a kid, I I really, really struggled with
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  certain things about going to school and and having the the
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  relationships that I did with people when I was younger.
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  Because I'm as much as people think I'm an extrovert, I'm
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  really much more of an amp pervert where I go to that
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  introvert side. I like things that other people
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  don't necessarily get into, if you're in the common sense of
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  the strain. I love, the farming piece I
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  love, and I just didn't grow up with people like that.
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  They just weren't a part of my life.
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  So I always had to kind of keep myself twisted and put aside.
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  And there was one thing that I really did like and I liked
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  school, the learning aspect of school.
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  I hated the going to school and having to interact and be
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  different and all that. I did not like that at all.
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  However, I did love the learning aspect.
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  I always had good grades. I always worked my butt off with
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  it. But it came easy.
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  And this is the point of the story.
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  I would actually sit when I was in 3rd, 4th grade and I would
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  say to my father, he'd say how was your day?
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  And I would say it was good. I did well and I would take out
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  my papers and I would show him and he would say was it hard and
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  I would say no. And I always felt like I could
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  have pushed myself more, but there was never an expectation
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  from somebody other than him. And he would say, well, if
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  you're getting aged, you're doing the good work.
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  But the truth was the work could have been harder.
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  And I didn't know how to articulate that.
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  I didn't know how to share that with him because I was young.
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  When I got older and I got into high school, I didn't care about
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  that anymore. I didn't care if the work was
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  came easy. I mean, everything except math
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  came very easy, but I didn't care about that because I just
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  wanted to get out of school so I could go do what I wanted to do.
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  I didn't want to be in this framework of what school was
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  because it felt completely wrong.
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  It it, even at that age it felt completely wrong.
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  Oh, take art classes. No, I don't want to draw what
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  someone else tells me. I have to draw.
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  I want to draw what I want to draw.
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  I want to be independent. Now that has obviously its
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  benefits and it has its downfalls and no one could ever
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  help me manage that. So This is why we're having this
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  conversation today, so I can help you manage these things
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  because you really have to look at yourself and you have to say,
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  you know, am I in a position where I am seeking the success?
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  Am I waiting for it to happen? Am I just like dwelling in this
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  place of constant anticipation, or am I actually doing the work?
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  Because I will tell you, if you're actually doing the work
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  along with this, it's magical. Because now that's what I do.
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  I do the work now. And do I push myself?
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  Yeah. And do I spend time working my
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  butt off with my clients? Yes.
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  And am I always learning and getting new things into my head?
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  Yes. Because if you're not growing,
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  you're dying. And that's something that I
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  think is incredibly important at this point in time for us to all
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  recognize. So I hope you guys find
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  something today that makes you want to grow.
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  Go out there and stop waiting for success.
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  Go out there and crush it. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.