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Season 3 - Episode 289 - Up-Leveling YOURSELF! · 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 are talking about what you need to do in order to
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  up level yourself, your life, your whatever it is that you're
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  working towards on focus. How do you up level?
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  And oftentimes people get stuck on the House, so that robs them
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  of everything that they're doing.
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  We talked about this many times when you get stuck on the how
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  you get robbed because you get frozen, you go, I don't know.
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  I don't know how if I knew how I would do it.
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  So here's an important fact to remember in all of this.
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  When you start thinking about how do I up level myself?
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  Remember, every aspect of where you want to go has to take on
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  the role. The, the, the part of it that
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  you need to do. You have to take on a new role
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  for yourself. And you need to become a new
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  version of yourself to get there.
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  Because if the version that you currently are is in charge, you
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  will never get there. If that makes sense.
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  Because it knows how to do what it knows how to do.
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  And it has to be curious to get to the next level.
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  So understanding right from the very beginning, well, the
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  version of me that got me here is not the version of me that's
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  going to get me where I want to go next.
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  It's kind of crazy when you think about it like that,
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  because then you go, Oh no, well, I've got to come up with a
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  whole new version of myself. Kind of, yes, you do.
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  And that's exciting. It's not scary, it's exciting.
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  So it's taking an inventory and asking yourself, OK, well, what
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  parts of me do I want to be improving?
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  What parts of me are the new and improved parts I want to look
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  for? Where this is so interesting for
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  me is we can look around as human beings and we can see
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  what's wrong everywhere around us.
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  We know that we need, you know, new glasses in our house because
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  they're chipping when we're using them.
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  We know we want a new computer. We need a new phone.
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  We know that we want a new car because this one's not working
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  well. We know that, oh, I need new
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  clothing or I need new shoes or the laundry doesn't work or I
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  need a new book to read. We have such a list of things
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  that we could go to. I want to take a new class.
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  I want to learn a new trait, whatever it might be.
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  However, when it comes to just looking at ourselves and saying
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  what are the traits, attributes, gifts, functions that I want to
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  up level within myself, Oh boy, that's where it all stops
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  because we go into this analysis paralysis of how, how do I do
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  something like that, Kim? How do I possibly get there?
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  And this is not about the how at this point in time.
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  This is about who. Who do you need to be?
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  What do you need to change? Those two questions, who and
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  what are where you should be focusing yourself.
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  And when you start thinking in terms of if I want to go to this
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  next level, I'm going to need to change this, I'm going to need
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  to add this, I'm going to need to be this, all of a sudden it
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  starts to get clearer and clearer.
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  So I encourage you to start making that list and saying to
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  yourself, OK, what, what are those things that I need to do?
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  Where do I see that within myself so that I can create
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  those things? If you don't start with
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  awareness from that, that very simple point, you will never get
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  to where you want to go at that next level and you will stay
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  stuck just like someone who hits the glass ceiling in a work.
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  You know, oftentimes that happens.
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  People say, well, I hit the glass ceiling.
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  No, you might have done it in that company, but you didn't hit
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  it overall and you'd let them dictate it for you.
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  You have to change. If you know you need to, you
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  know, get something more on your resume in order to get to the
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  next place, then you do it. You are not compelled to do it,
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  then you're not going to get anywhere.
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  And you've settled and that's OK as long as you're aware of it.
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  And you know, if you say I'm just done trying, I don't want
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  to try anymore, I'm just done with it, then great.
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  But asking those very pertinent questions right at that moment,
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  if you hear how come out of your mouth, then you know you've gone
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  too far. You are on a what?
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  And you are on that focus of like, OK, what do I need to do
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  and who do I need to be? That's your focus, nothing more.
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  How always shows up, how inevitably shows up once you're
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  clear on those other two points. So thinking about, you know,
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  again, coming to this part in the year where we often start
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  these conversations about things, it's encouraging to tell
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  you, hey, I've watched literally thousands of people make these
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  shifts and changes. And I can tell you it, it
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  happens. You can do it.
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  You can change yourself. You can take and put new
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  attributes into yourself. You can become a workout queen
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  or king or whatever you choose to call it.
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  If that's what you want. You can do it.
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  You can become an artist if that's what you want.
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  You can change anything that you choose to do.
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  If you give it your time, attention, and you really
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  intend, you're really intent on making it happen.
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  You can do it. It's all inside of you.
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  But this is the key. It's all inside of you can't
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  come out unless you decide to let it out.
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  It's like that little, you know, jack-in-the-box.
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  So think about this, see what you want to up level, and
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  realize that every new space you want to get to requires a new
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  level of yourself and requires those changes.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.