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Season 5 - Episode 37 - Remembering the best version of yourself! · 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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  Hey, everybody, welcome back. So you know, it's the follow up.
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  How did you end up describing yourself?
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  What were your outcomes when you sat down and said, OK, were you,
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  were you sitting there? And we just like befuddled and
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  hopefully you did the exercise. Let me first say that hopefully
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  you did the exercise and hopefully the outcome was to
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  see, can I do this? Can I actually describe myself
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  in 500 words or less? And did I even get it down to
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  even further concise, you know, amount where it's just like a
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  paragraph? What can I say in a paragraph
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  about myself? Now, like I said yesterday, I, I
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  really, this tweaked me in my head because of people
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  struggling to put this together for their own websites and their
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  own process. And I, I just am always thrilled
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  and curious when I throw something out there that pushes
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  someone to really think about what they want people to know
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  and how some people react and they say, I just wanted to be
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  private. I don't want them to know too
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  much. I want to be this, I want to be
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  that. And other people are like, no, I
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  want to tell them everything. And it, it really is such a
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  personal journey with this. However, if you don't know and
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  you get put into situations where you're meeting new people,
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  you're trying to go out and build your business, just, you
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  know, connect, you may have your not your own business, you may
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  be working for someone and you're sent out to go do a bunch
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  of stuff. I mean, just yesterday a client
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  said to me, I have to go out. I'm entertaining corporate
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  clients. And I said, how, how is that?
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  And she's like, oh God, I'm drained by it.
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  And it just feels that more and more because she has to put on a
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  facade when she goes out and does this and she knows it.
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  And we discussed how that feels and how to work with that.
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  But this is the beginning of understanding yourself and
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  knowing, am I going to do that? What's the reason I'm going to
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  do that? Am I comfortable doing that?
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  The more you know, the better you do.
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  So did you do your 500 words? What did you discover about
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  yourself? What were the things that you
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  want to take forward? What do the things you want to
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  leave behind? How do you want to rewrite it?
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  If you want to rewrite it, where are you going to use this?
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  How can you put it together so that you can actually have this
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  be an asset to you? And for me, one of the tricks
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  that I love with this is once you write something like this
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  about yourself, if you read that often, you remember who you want
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  to be at your best self. And that's the whole point of
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  this exercise. It's, you know, we went under
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  the guise of how can you use it towards work?
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  But guess what? It's really personal too because
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  when you read it, you remember who you want to be.
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  You remember at you at your best self.
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  It's like dating, you know? When you first start dating
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  someone, you put yourself out there and as your best self.
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  You don't put yourself out there as your worst self because
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  people would run immediately and you're not always your worst
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  self. Most of the time we're in the
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  middle of the road. I'm not always at my best self
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  and I'm not always at my worst self and somewhere in the middle
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  I reside. Most of the time I like to
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  believe I lean towards my best self, but I could be delusional
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  with that, I don't know. It is it is such a great
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  framework to read and know and hone in on as this is who I want
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  to be. This is who I choose to be.
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  This is how I want to act into myself.
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  Not just the oh, it's for marketing, it is for that and
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  it's bigger, it's for this. So ideally what you want to do
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  is once you figure out what that is and you can write different
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  versions of this, you can really make this a full blown exercise
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  where you could say in my personal time, this is who I am.
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  In my professional time, this is who I am.
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  This is who I am on weekends, weekdays.
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  I don't really care how you break it up, but all these
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  different parts of yourself are going to lend you to being able
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  to read them and then say, that's my target.
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  Because again, we don't wake up every morning with a target of
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  saying today I'm going to be my best myself.
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  I mean, if you're doing that, I I applaud you.
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  I know I can't do that every day.
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  I don't do that every day. I don't even think about it
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  because some days I get Jarred out of bed and by a dog getting
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  sick or something happening. And other days I get up and I'm
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  in my quote UN quote routine, which I go and I read and I
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  write and I do all these little things and I record and I do, I
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  edit, I do all kinds of different things and I'm feeling
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  fantastic. But am I really focused on who I
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  am? Probably not.
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  So this is a great reminder to me as well.
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  I'm going to do this exercise further, digging into it.
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  Already have done it, the minimal stuff we talked about.
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  But now I'm going to go back and I'm going to be able to read
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  this paragraph about myself every day to remind myself who I
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  choose to be and dig in at my best at my best.
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  So I hope you guys have fun with this.
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  I know this is very different, but I hope you have fun with it.
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  I hope you dig into it and you know, really enjoy it because
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  you always want to be at your best self for yourself.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.