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Season 3 - Episode 243 - The ingredients are not enough · 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 mastermindset
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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 today we're going to talk about making a cake It it's a
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  metaphorical thing and I would love to make a cake with all of
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  you, but today we're making a metaphorical cake.
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  So it's interesting when you start to think about a cake, a
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  cake is an end result, right? You look at it has frosting, has
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  topping, whatever you're putting on it, but it's an end result
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  and it's sitting in front of you and it's beautiful.
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  And you just we we somehow have this thing when we see cake as
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  humans that we just like, oh, they just look wonderful and we
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  just want a slice of cake. Most of us.
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  I mean, there are some people out there who are listening who
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  are going to say, I don't like cake.
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  Kim OK, but think of pie. Whatever it is that you like, it
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  doesn't matter. Think of your main end result
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  like a dessert that you love. Ice cream even.
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  OK, it made ice cream for years when I had my Gelato shop.
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  And it's an end result. Whatever it is, you're looking
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  at it and it's an end result. Now let's talk about how we get
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  to that end result. It's made-up of a bunch of
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  different ingredients. It's eggs.
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  I'm going to go back to the cake.
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  So it's eggs, it's flour, it's oil, it's maybe some milk, maybe
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  something else that's going into it for the liquid.
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  Maybe there's flavourings, there's colourings.
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  Whatever it might be, there are a bunch of different
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  ingredients. Now, typically when you're
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  making a cake, you get all your ingredients set up and you put
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  them on the counter and they're all measured out because you got
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  to measure everything to make sure you have the right amounts
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  of ingredients. And you typically, if you're
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  insane like me, you love to measure them all ahead of time.
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  So you have them all right in front of you and you can triple
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  check to make sure you're not missing anything.
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  Because in baking, we all know it's more of a science oriented
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  thing and you've got to have the right amounts of things in order
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  to do it. Now listen, see, apparently
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  Rufus agrees with that. So in the process of it, if you
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  add too much of something like baking soda, baking powder,
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  whatever it might be, you change the end result of that cake.
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  Too much flour, too much liquid. And we know it's a science.
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  We all say that about baking. It's not like cooking where,
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  where when you're at the stove, I can watch my husband just
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  throw little bits in here and, and it tastes amazing.
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  And I would be like, no, not able to do that.
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  I like the more science stuff where it's very specific, but
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  this particular metaphor we're using today, we're talking about
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  the end ingredient. We look at it and we say, wow,
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  that's amazing. There are all these other
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  ingredients that go into it that seem they're, they're virtually
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  not noticed. They're unnoticeable at in the
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  at the end result. And then when it's all combined
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  and it's baked, it still has to go in the oven and bake.
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  Then you have to take it out, you have to frost it, and you
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  have to make it look pretty before you get there.
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  Now, here's what's strange about all of this.
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  How many of us are given all the ingredients, but we don't take
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  the step to mix them? Or we're given all the
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  ingredients and we leave one of them out.
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  And again, metaphorically speaking, we're talking about
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  whatever your goals, whatever your life is.
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  So we're given certain aspects of making those things happen.
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  God and the universe provide them to us, but we don't put
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  them all in the bowl and we don't mix them.
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  Or we put them all in the bowl and we mix them, but we don't
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  actually go ahead and say, OK, now I'm going to put them in a
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  pan and put it in the oven and still, you know, work on it or
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  I'm not going to grease the pan. I'm going to do everything but
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  grease the pan. And I don't like greasing the
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  pan. So therefore you don't grease
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  the pan. And then what happens?
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  All of a sudden your cake falls apart.
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  It sticks and it falls apart. And you're really angry.
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  You're just peeved that this whole thing went this way.
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  And you're like, why? Why did this have to happen?
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  Well, part of this, and This is why it's such a great metaphor,
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  is to recognize you can have all the ingredients, you can have
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  all the the written instructions, but if you're not
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  doing them all, and that includes all the mindset work,
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  that's like sometimes for me, greasing the pan, that's for me
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  standing there and knowing it's going to take a certain number
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  of minutes to cook that cake and I'm still not willing to
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  actually wait that amount of time.
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  I'm anxious about it. I just want to get it done.
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  My certainty, girls like pushing, pushing, pushing,
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  pushing, but it takes all of them in order to get that end
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  result. And when you're not giving
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  yourself all of that information and taking it all in and using
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  it and applying it in a productive way and doing that
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  work, then you're going to have problems with it.
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  And you thinking of it like a recipe is so important, but
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  often when you're looking at it, it's like a lot of people want
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  to go and they want to buy programs and put themselves into
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  the programs. Great, you can follow all their
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  instructions. But if you are not in the
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  mindset and you're not willing to do the mental work in order
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  to get there, you're still going to have the problems.
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  So keep that in mind, my friends.
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  Always remember, you got to follow them all the way.
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  And you've got to make sure that you're willing to do the parts
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  of that. Even if you've got the
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  ingredients, you've got to be willing to do the parts you
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  might not want to. All right, everybody, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and go bake a cake.
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  Bye.