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Season 3 - Episode 55 - The coin toss · 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 mastermind set
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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
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  coop. So today we are talking about a
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  coin flip. And I'm sure everyone's familiar
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  with the coin flip, right? We all know how that works.
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  You have a coin in your hand. You're trying to make a
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  decision. You can't make a decision or
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  you're trying to make a bet with somebody or whatever it is.
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  And you say heads, tails, you flip the coin, boom, there you
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  go. So why are we talking about a
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  coin flip? Because sometimes as human
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  beings, we get really stuck with ourselves and we can't help
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  ourselves in any other way other than a coin flip.
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  And I know that sounds crazy. You're like, are you serious?
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  Is she really giving us this advice?
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  Yes, I am. Because sometimes we don't want
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  to talk to other people about things.
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  And I really mean that. Like other than me talking to my
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  coach sometimes, it's beyond that.
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  I don't talk to anybody else about things that I'm really
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  trying to make decisions on prior to making those decisions.
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  I don't want to go to my husband and or my daughter or my son and
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  talk about things because I haven't gotten my position clear
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  yet. I'm still in the place of
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  creativity and pulling things into place.
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  And if I go and I start having a conversation with someone about
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  it, all of a sudden now I have, I have their views mixed with my
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  views. And it's kind of like in my mind
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  it's like mixing paint and before you know it, everything's
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  brown and you know you can't see your way through anything.
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  So the coin flip comes into play for me.
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  And if I sit there and I say, OK, how do I want to do this?
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  And I'm starting to get myself confused and overwhelm shows up
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  sometimes. Pulling a coin out is the
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  handiest way. Now I was just doing this, This
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  is why I said OK I I need some help and I pulled out a coin,
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  legitimately pulled out a coin and said all right, do I plant
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  these plants here or do I plant them there Because I couldn't
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  decide and each one of them, they weighed equally in my mind
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  as to where they would look good.
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  So I pulled out the coin and I said heads and tails and I go
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  ahead and I do the flip. Now does it really matter if it
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  lands on heads or tails? No, what matters is what am I
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  wishing for when it's in the air?
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  What is the place that I really wanted to put it Now I thought
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  they were equal in my mind, but the truth is, when I flipped
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  that coin in the air, I was like heads.
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  I heard it very, so slightly heads, because I really wanted
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  to put them somewhere along the edge of the water at the pond.
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  And I did not want to put them along the edge of the building
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  because I thought to myself, oh, I should put flowers there.
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  Yes, but that's going to take a bit of an effort.
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  I'm going to have to put in a whole new bed.
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  I think there's sand under there.
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  So I had this whole dialogue in my head, but I said, well, I
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  still could put them over there. I don't know, I like it in both
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  places. So I just kept saying to myself,
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  oh, it'd be good in both places, it'll be good in both places.
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  But the truth is, I really did have an answer.
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  And when the coin came out, it was clear.
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  So I'm going to make it a standard operating procedure for
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  myself that that coin, that little tiny tool, is always
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  going to be part of these things when I get into it, because it's
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  just, it's so, it's so fascinating to me how we still
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  and as many times as we talk about not being honest with
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  ourselves or attempting to be as honest as we can with ourselves,
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  we still can't pick up on these little nuances until we do these
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  little tricks that help us. And I recognize I did actually
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  know the answer. I did actually know the answer
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  of what I wanted. At least.
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  I I just would not be honest with myself.
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  And who knows why I can't answer the question as to why I
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  wouldn't, but the coin did the trick.
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  So try it for yourself, See. And you can do it for simple
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  things, bigger things. Sometimes it's just the way you
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  go. Fact, you know, I think a lot of
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  times we discount some of this old school idea stuff that we
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  hear and how people do it. Like you don't go walk for go
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  take a walk. Clear your head.
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  We think, oh, that's not going to work.
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  It actually does think flip a coin.
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  No, it actually does work. There's a reason it's there.
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  So give it a try. I promise it'll make life a lot
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  easier, even if it's for something like lunch.
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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.