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Season 2 - Episode 40 - Hitting the wall · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  How many of you people out there have children because I will
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  tell you, one of the hardest things in the world is being a
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  parent because you want what's best for them.
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  You're always trying to cultivate a good mindset for
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  them and and do everything that makes them be better than you
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  were. And one of the things that I
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  have learned in the process of parenting, my two wonderful
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  children is that sometimes you have to let them hit the wall
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  and when you don't let them hit the wall and you keep it.
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  Bring them in from the wall, and he keeps tearing them away from
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  it. That doesn't work.
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  So I started thinking about this because my son is hitting the
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  wall. He's very stubborn, and he
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  doesn't always want to do his work.
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  And he's just one of those kids that would much rather be in the
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  woods than doing his work and that's fine.
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  That's who he is as a person. And at the same time I still
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  have to be the parental unit and the voice of reason along with
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  my husband that says no. You still have to do the things
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  you don't like and that hitting the wall is such a part of how
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  we develop as people, but when we get to be adults, we often
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  look at the wall, as I've got to avoid the wall, I've got to
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  avoid the wall and yes, we can focus on working to avoid the
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  wall but sometimes hitting the wall.
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  Really does put you in a place where you're just like, okay.
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  Now I know I need a new Direction there are benefits to
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  hitting the wall my Friends. Some of my best things in life
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  have been. When I've hit a wall and said,
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  hey, I can't do this role anymore, I don't want to be this
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  person in this role anymore. I don't want to be this person
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  in this relationship anymore, and I've hit a wall and I'm
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  done. I like, I hit that proverbial
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  threshold and the straw that broke the camel's back as
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  happened. And we're out and sometimes
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  those lessons while they're difficult and while they're
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  unpleasant and while they are, Challenging.
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  They are just beyond necessary in order to get your butt moving
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  in the next Direction. Because if you don't do that, if
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  you don't allow yourself, the gift of having it happen and it
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  is a gift because sometimes we're more motivated to move
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  through pain. Then we are through pleasure.
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  I mean, we like to believe that we will do more to gain the
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  carrot than we will with the stick.
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  Unfortunately, as humans are Wired.
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  We will do more to avoid pain, most of the time than we ever
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  will to gain the pleasure and as strange as that may sound, if
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  you think about your life and you think about your world, I
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  bet you you will notice that that's the case.
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  So, You have to take a strong focus on where you are hitting
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  the wall right now and saying to yourself, okay, there's the
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  wall. I ran right into it now.
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  What am I going to do? And sometimes that wall comes up
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  in different ways, so really pay attention to the messages.
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  It could come up through the fact that your body is just
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  hurting all the time. And I mean, I know, listen, when
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  I go out and I eat certain kinds of food, the next day, I'm going
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  to be absolutely uncomfortable and freakin miserable.
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  Able because I ate something that bothered my body.
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  I know, gluten, my daughter eats gluten and she will suffer when
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  she eats it and sometimes it happens, and boom, here you are
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  and you're suffering or somebody who says, you know what, I want
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  to lose weight and then I go to lose the weight but I just don't
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  hold myself accountable to the place that I've said, I want to
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  be and but the body has hit the wall.
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  The body is telling you, I need you.
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  I need your participation in helping.
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  Help you help you help me. It's that situation.
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  I really want to fix myself. Stop eating this crap.
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  So look for the walls. Don't avoid them to look at the
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  information. They're giving you look at what
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  they're telling you. And really focus on the fact
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  that there is an abundance of effort that goes into, not
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  hitting the wall repeatedly, but it's so worth it because once
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  you recognize it, it's easier to say.
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  Okay, here's what I have to do now.
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  Will it be easy to hold yourself to the to the line?
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  Probably not. But what, what is worth it?
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  I mean, everything that's hard is usually really worth it in
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  the long run and we have to remember, it's not about just
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  being easy on things. It's about doing the work and
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  who we become in the process. So, I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow on the other side of
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  the wall. Bye.
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  Will it be easy to hold yourself to the to the line?
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  Probably not. But what, what is worth it?
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  I mean, everything that's hard is usually really worth it in
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  the long run and we have to remember, it's not about just
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  being easy on things. It's about doing the work and
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  who we become in the process. So, I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow on the other side of
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  the wall. Bye.