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Season 4 - Episode 329 - It’s all about the questions · 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 happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. Not as early as normal because
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  I'm on vacation, trying to get all my projects done and having
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  fun. So this morning we're talking
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  about something that is near and dear to my heart.
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  And you've heard me say this before, if you're a regular
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  listener. However, if you're going to
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  argue for your limitations, you have to give equal time to your
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  greatness and I I just fully believe that.
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  I believe it for myself and I found myself this morning very
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  early. I'm working on a project to make
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  my year end stuff better by not having to spend hours and hours
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  and hours getting stuff ready for my accountant.
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  I was asking myself like I actually I was aggravated and I
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  was going through statements and trying to see if I had
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  everything in order and I kept thinking to myself I'm just
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  asking the wrong question and when I asked I changed the
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  question I was asking. I came up with an answer which
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  led me back to, I have to be willing to argue for my
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  greatness as much as my limitations.
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  And that got me thinking. And I'm telling you this because
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  I want you to realize how these string of thoughts come together
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  sometimes because we all do it and we all wonder why we feel
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  like we've been on a walkabout as our Australian friends say,
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  and to get to an answer. But the real reason is because
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  we have to recognize that this is how our brain string thoughts
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  together. But in any event, I I got to the
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  point where I was like, OK, we all spend so much time looking
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  at what we didn't do, right? That's what I was doing in my
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  accounting thing, chastising myself for how I had done it,
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  how I should have done it differently.
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  I was shooting all over myself and I was looking at all this
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  stuff and I was like, damn it, I have to start this all over
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  again. I can't stand doing this.
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  There has to be a better way. I'm just not good with this and
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  I'm not. And I just was on this tirade
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  with myself until I stopped, took a break, walked away, got
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  very centered, literally sat quietly and in my head was just
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  focused on thinking of pretty, pretty flowers.
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  Like that's exactly what I was doing.
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  I closed my eyes and I was meditating on all the different
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  times walking through the farm that I had seen all the flowers.
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  And then all of a sudden, an answer popped into my head about
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  how I could handle this quarterly, how I could do things
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  differently, something easier, how I can have somebody help me
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  with the statements, IE my daughter.
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  And it just all of a sudden fell into place.
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  And I was like, OK, the stress level went away.
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  But that required me to think about things differently.
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  It required me to ask a better question.
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  And not 2 minutes after I finished that whole exercise,
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  one of my clients sent me a text message.
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  And yes, I get text messages from people even when I'm on
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  vacation. And I don't mind saying that she
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  was focused on what her financial abundance was going to
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  be. And I sent back a message and
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  basically was like, well, first you have to decide what that
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  means to you because it means something different to
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  everybody. And again, it comes back to
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  asking a better question, which is our theme today.
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  Are you asking the right questions and are are those
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  questions leading you to feel better?
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  Now, this is a really interesting way to go about it,
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  but it is a telltale pattern. If you are asking questions that
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  make you feel bad, then we have to change the questions to see
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  how we can feel better. Because once we feel better, we
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  come up with better things. We think clearer.
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  We just have better patterns. So it's important to remember,
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  am I asking the right question? Am I asking the right question
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  and looking for, you know, those specific, specific questions
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  that are going to lead us down a better path?
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  It's not complicated. It's just tedious sometimes
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  because we get hung up in that emotion that is really being
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  driven by that crappy question and then we stick with it.
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  So today it's all about asking yourself because I mean,
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  obviously we're at the very end of the year, it's the 30th and
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  where are you asking good questions?
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  Are you saying, Oh my gosh, I'm so behind?
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  How did I get so behind? You know, when you start asking
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  questions like that, do you say, oh, I'm not finishing up the
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  year or the way I wanted to? And do you start to put yourself
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  under pressure? I mean, I know I do.
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  I absolutely do. Hence me doing paperwork like
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  this before the end of the year because I made a commitment that
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  I, I was not going to leave the year in the same state I left
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  the previous year, but I didn't, I didn't give myself enough time
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  because I was involved with farm stuff.
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  And that's the stuff that's fun. So I, I, but it in this pain
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  because the pain is always a good motivator to get us going.
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  I have come up with a solution. I've come up with a new pattern,
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  I've come up with something better.
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  So here we are. Here's what we're doing and
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  here's how we're going to do it. And ask yourself a better
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  question today. Ask yourself a better question.
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  Ask yourself a better question. I promise you keep doing it and
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  keep changing the questions. And if you can't come up with
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  good questions, reach out. We'll give you good questions.
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  And honestly, seriously, 100%, it drives everything.
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  The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality
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  of questions you ask yourself. So change the questions my
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  friends. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.