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Season 3 - Episode 139 - Shifting beliefs about change · 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 today happy spring again.
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  Just I'm on a spring theme right now because I just feel like
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  it's just such an appropriate thing and I just am in this
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  place where today it was a great reminder for me.
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  The weather wasn't so harsh and overnight and so this morning
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  when I walked out, it was just beautiful and the air was fresh.
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  And spring is just an absolutely wonderful reminder of how
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  beautiful things can be and how beautiful change can be.
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  Like the heat that was causing all of this rain and just or
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  awful weather we were having just left.
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  And all of a sudden there was like a breath of fresh air in
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  the whole area. And for me that's just, oh, that
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  breath of change is just beautiful.
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  But I know most people, many of us have a have a thing with
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  change and me being so certainty driven as I am, I used to really
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  dread change. I didn't like it.
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  I just wanted things to stay exactly as they were, and I had
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  to learn to adapt and learn to pivot with that, especially when
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  I was younger. So I wanted to talk a bit about
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  that today, about how to kind of get your head around change,
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  because springtime, everything is changing.
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  We're going from what was barren and cold and nothingness, and
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  all of a sudden the bulbs are coming up, flowers are blooming,
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  birds are having babies, we have baby chickens in the chicken
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  coop. All kinds of amazing things
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  start to happen in the springtime.
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  And it for me, it's just a great reminder to I have to
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  recalibrate myself and say this is a time to learn how valuable
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  change is. Because change doesn't always
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  seem like it's wonderful. But when we really hunker down
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  and we really start to think about it, we can understand
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  exactly how much it is a wonderful thing to be in a state
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  and operate with change constantly happening.
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  Now whether we like to face it or not, change is always
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  happening every day. We don't think it is, but it is.
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  You know that and I I'll I'll use this as an example because I
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  think it's such an important one.
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  So you're either moving closer to the person you want to be or
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  further from the person you want to be every day those little
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  changes. So if you decide, OK, I'm going
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  to work out, I'm going to lose weight, I'm going to get
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  healthy, I'm going to do all these wonderful things for my
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  body. And then all of a sudden you
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  change that and you decide, oh, well, it's OK to eat the burger
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  or OK, it's OK to have the extra beer or it's OK to do those
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  little things. And I'm going to skip the
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  workout or the walks or the the reading and the learning and the
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  mindset, whatever it might be. Those are all small little
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  changes that are something that you're saying.
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  I'm going to push that aside for right now.
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  But the truth is, they have massive impact.
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  And when you don't pay attention to them and you don't
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  consistently do them over time, all those little tiny changes
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  have a bigger impact. So the small one change, eating
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  the burger one day might not be a big deal, but eating the
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  burger over the course of six months might be a really big
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  deal. So the little changes, if you
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  handle them, all of a sudden everything else seems to take
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  care of itself. But if you don't handle the
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  small ones, the bigger ones, you know, as they become bigger and
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  they get more defined, all those little changes that you made
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  along the way add up to big changes.
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  Now, they don't always have to add up to negatives.
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  They can add up to positives because that's the beautiful
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  part of our world. Change has duality.
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  It can be for the better or it can be for the worst.
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  And, you know, I think the most important part about
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  understanding change is accepting that it's constantly
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  happening. So once you accept it, you can
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  say I'm going to choose to focus on all the great changes.
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  I'm going to choose to focus on all the things that move me
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  towards who I choose to be or my outcomes, my goals, my
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  intentions, whatever you want to call it.
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  But it's that acceptance of change.
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  It's the acceptance of what's happening and saying, OK, you
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  know, I have to allow myself that that awareness that all
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  change is not bad. So there are things that change
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  constantly on this farm. There are things that change
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  constantly. I have no control over the
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  weather. I have no control over the
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  behaviour of animals. They're going to be who they
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  are. I have a beautiful chicken,
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  Buffy, who's got quite an attitude on her.
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  Some of you may have seen her before on my Facebook and
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  Instagram. She's got she's blondish colored
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  and she has big puffy hairdo. She kind of reminds me of
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  Phyllis Diller from the 70s, and boy does she.
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  She looks so sweet and so pretty, but that attitude is so
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  day is long. She's got an attitude and I have
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  watched her over time shift and change and become something of a
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  leader in the group. She's not the top chicken, but
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  she's up there and she does have these little changes about her
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  all the time. And all the chickens do.
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  They all have these little shifts.
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  You'll see how they change their roles.
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  You'll see. You know the the younger ones
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  starting to take more of a role. It's constantly in flux and it's
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  just a reminder for me about how much that takes place
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  everywhere. Doesn't matter what you think,
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  it takes place everywhere. So I'm going to tell you,
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  embrace the change. Make it your friend.
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  Talk to it, welcome it and look at it and say, you know what it
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  is a sign of hope. It is a sign of.
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  I have some control because I can focus my attention on the
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  positive parts of the change and know exactly what I want to
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  attract. All right, my friends, I'll see
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  you tomorrow morning and I hope you have a very blessed day.
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  Bye.