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Season 4 - Episode 54 - Incremental wins · 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.
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  Podcast to teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world. So welcome to the.
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  Coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. And I'm actually in the chicken
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  coop today, yes, because it's Sunday, no sessions to coach
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  today and I get to be out here with them when they're outside
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  when the sun is coming up. It's so sweet and nice that.
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  I get to share. This again, hopefully this time
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  change thing is going to happen next week and we're going to be
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  it's a following week. I don't know, it's a couple
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  weeks away, but we're close anyway, yes.
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  And Rufus concurs. It's a better thing to be out
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  here anyway. So today we are talking.
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  About if. You are checking in on yourself.
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  So what do I mean by this? It's like.
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  How? How do?
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  You know that things are going OK if you only look for things
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  that are wrong all the time. Well, you really can't that.
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  That's the. The big conundrum is.
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  We forget that. We really can't do that.
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  And unless we know we have to, we have to constantly find ways
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  to check in. And one of the things that we
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  suffer from as human beings is worrying if we're on track, how
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  far off track we are. What do we still need to do the
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  the worry list goes on and on and on and on and on.
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  But how do? You essentially banish that.
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  How do you put that aside and move?
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  Forward to build a brighter days, brighter hours, brighter
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  weeks it. All comes down to some very.
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  Simple tactics that really help. And for me, one of the.
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  Biggest. Biggest.
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  Ones is being able to at. The end of the day, sit down and
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  say OK. What worked well?
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  What's it What went well today? What were the things that I
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  feel? Good about today or I
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  accomplished today. I tend.
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  To say feel good about as. Opposed to accomplished because.
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  If I. Accomplished something I'm I'm
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  treating. It like it's A to do list
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  whereas. If I'm.
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  If I'm just saying, what do I feel good?
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  About today well, that makes it so that I'm really, I feel
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  really like solid that I made. Progress on something.
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  I might not have been able to finish it, but I made some.
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  Serious progress, and that is? What we're looking for
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  essentially, so at the end of. Every day.
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  I sit. Down and.
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  I have. This list that I sit there and I
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  write on this, basically it's a giant piece of paper.
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  It's called like the week of Magic.
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  And I can sit down and I can say, OK, what worked well today?
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  And I dumped that all on to the piece.
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  Of paper basically because I. Need to.
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  Know. 100. Percent that I am on.
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  Track as far as I'm still making progress, I don't have to have
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  it be perfect anymore. I don't have to have it be.
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  Complete. I just have to be making
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  progress. And every little increment makes
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  a big difference. So if I ignore the little
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  increments until they're all done, then I miss all these
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  opportunities. To celebrate.
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  Here's what's really. Tricky about.
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  This my. Friends.
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  You can't look for other people to celebrate with you.
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  You can't. They can't celebrate themselves.
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  How? Are they?
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  Ever. Going to celebrate you.
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  And we are. So caught up.
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  In. The fact that we want other
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  people. To celebrate us, I mean, I am
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  100%. I admit that that is.
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  A. Thing for.
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  Me, I love it. I love getting the gold stars.
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  I. Love when someone else like I
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  can make somebody. Feel fantastic?
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  But the thing about it is, over the years I've morphed it.
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  I've made it so that I have a different belief around it, yes.
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  I still love the gold stars. But I give them to myself and if
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  another. Person doesn't give.
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  It to me, does it make me sad? Sure, it can make me sad at the
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  same time, I know. I still did a.
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  Good job. And that maybe the reason I
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  didn't get it from them is because they can't see it even
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  for themselves, let alone for me.
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  So I have to have some awareness in that about what's actually
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  happening. Just that.
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  Teeny tiny piece of awareness can really help break down.
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  A lot. Of the challenges inside.
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  Of. Us about.
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  Feeling bad and saying. OK, well.
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  Here we go again, you know, we go back to.
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  The worrying. Phase We go back to the.
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  Looping phase and feeling that overwhelming mental exhaustion
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  from just being constantly under the gun and doing that to
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  ourselves so. The trick is really.
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  Taking those incremental wins and acknowledging them fully.
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  And by fully, I mean, for me, it's writing them down.
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  For me, it's just saying, you know, OK, this was a small win,
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  but it was a good one. So yesterday there's a lot to do
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  on the farm springtime. I go into this whole different
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  phase about getting ready for spring and as we enter you.
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  Know the. Last.
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  Week of February. And we're going to go into
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  March. Seeds are going into the flats
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  in the garage today. All the grow lights are being
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  turned on. There's so much cleanup that
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  needs to be done to get ready out here.
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  Just endless amounts of cleanup to get ready and planning and
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  straightening the girls. Coop.
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  Area. Inside the coop is always great.
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  But I still want to do a full spring cleaning in there as soon
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  as it warms up so that I can be out here and not freeze doing
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  it. Their whole playground fell
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  over. It has.
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  To be reconstructed. The ice storm we had took it
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  out. I have to redo that.
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  Everywhere you turn around, there's something to be done.
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  And so when that's taking place, I could sit there and be like
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  overwhelmed with it or. I could.
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  Just go. Each little stuff is a win.
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  So yesterday I cleaned. Out their.
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  Coop at for every every two. To three.
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  Weeks I strip it down, put all new straw in it, clean it out to
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  make sure there's nothing happening in here that I don't
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  know about meeting bugs or anything else, and got that all
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  done. So now I have 2 1/2 three weeks
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  of cleanliness so that I can go ahead and say all right, now I
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  can work on the other stuff I didn't.
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  Say that. I needed to have everything in
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  there run done. I got this done and that felt
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  great. So you see, take the increments
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  wins, take the incremental wins and you will feel so much
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  better. Just start that process because
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  otherwise you're going to exhaust yourself with that.
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  All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you all tomorrow. Bye.