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Season 3 - Episode 206 - Sometimes we just have to laugh at ourselves to figure it all out · 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. So let me ask you a question.
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  How many times have you tried to carry something from your car
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  from one location to another? You've got quote UN quote, lots
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  of stuff, whatever that might be, whether it's groceries or,
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  you know, just stuff you're carrying around.
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  Like for me here on the farm, it happens constantly.
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  But this morning there was a very clear distinction in this.
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  So I thought, oh this is very funny.
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  So I am I am 100% guilty 100% of the time of trying to carry too
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  much stuff. Let me just put that out there.
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  That is just how my brain works. Now.
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  Anyone who follows me regularly knows I like to get steps in.
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  So I walk a lot. Like 20 to 30,000 steps a day is
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  normal. So why would I care how many
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  trips I made? You might be asking yourself
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  that question, right? I asked myself that question
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  this morning because as I'm leaving to do all the chores and
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  get everybody settled in and get everything going, get the girls
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  out and go through it. I have this little routine that
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  I run through for all the farm stuff that I have to do.
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  And feeding the birds is one of them.
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  And it's very funny to me because I have to go out and I
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  have to fill these different bird feeders for different
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  things. Like I've got these Bluebirds
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  and I've got a mix of regular normal birds that you would see,
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  Cardinals, finches, all of that. And then I've got some specialty
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  ones that pass through here through the summer,
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  hummingbirds, whatnot. And so those need different
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  foods. So as I'm leaving and I've got
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  to carry a ladder, let me be very clear about this.
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  I've got a ladder I have to carry every day because the
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  flight deck is way up top. So we have like one of those
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  Wild Birds Unlimited flight decks and it's way up top.
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  And we've got like 12344 feeders besides the flight deck and some
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  suet feeders because I've got about four different kinds of
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  woodpeckers that show up. So here I am, I'm getting ready
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  to go out. I've got all my little
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  containers filled up and ready to pour it.
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  I've got a bird feeder that I'm swapping out because it rained
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  so much. So I've got to swap them out
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  because we all know if we feed the birds that the bird food
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  gets caked in there if there's too much.
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  So I had to swap one of them out.
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  And I've got the ladder and I've got this new feeder and all
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  these cups. So if you can picture these big
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  Giant, like yogurt, giant yogurt containers, like the ones you'd
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  get from Costco, I've got like five of those filled with stuff.
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  And here I go to walk out the door and I'm struggling and I've
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  got a cut on the inside of my right hand, which is the one
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  that's carrying the ladder and the bird feeder.
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  I'm in big rubber boots and shorts as I'm walking out the
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  door. And I'm struggling with it.
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  And I'm to go that far. Like, it's not like I'm trekking
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  to, you know, Alaska and back. It's just a short distance but
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  I'm getting annoyed because I've got too too much stuff in my
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  hands and I don't want to carry it all.
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  And I start laughing at myself and I'm like why am I doing
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  this? Why don't I just make 2 trips?
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  And immediately in my head, it's like, because you can do this,
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  Because it's my brain to say no, no, no, you can do this.
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  And yes, I can do it, but should I do it is a better question.
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  So I stop and I'm like, no, no, no.
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  Steps are also important. Conflict of outcomes here.
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  Think about this. So I put the stuff down.
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  I went and set the ladder up, came back and then got my stuff.
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  And I only motivated myself to do that by pointing out that the
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  steps were important. Getting steps in is always
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  important, and as soon as I remembered that, as soon as I
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  put that to the forefront, I was able to get past my
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  stubbornness. Now, the whole point of this is
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  when you are doing something, whatever that something may be,
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  it is important to recognize you probably have overlapping
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  beliefs that are going to get in the way so or, or outcomes or
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  drivers and they're going to get in the way.
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  And once you choose the right driver, things become a lot
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  easier. Because the 2nd that I let that
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  go, I was willing to just go ahead, finish up, put the stuff
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  I needed down and do it because I was the priority.
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  The hierarchy of my needs and wants in that moment shifted.
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  So when you can do that, it really helps a lot.
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  But you have to have the the ability to just stop and pause
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  and laugh at yourself and say, OK, I've got some conflicting
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  things going on here. Is this more important than
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  that? Get your hierarchy of needs in
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  order. And then all of a sudden things
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  become easier. Now, while this is a simple
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  example, I wanted to use it because this shows up everywhere
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  for us as human beings, everywhere, everywhere,
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  everywhere, everywhere. So you have to think in terms
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  of, all right, do I have any other needs that are going to
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  come into conflict with this? And then all of a sudden, boom,
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  you're like, all right, good. I can, I can work that.
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  I can get past that. So start thinking in terms of
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  hierarchy and you won't run into the trouble.
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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.