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Season 3 - Episode 239 - Motivation – the ideas and the work · 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 let's talk. About the.
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  Idea of being motivated versus the work of being motivated.
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  You know, it's one of my, I don't know how I want to
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  describe this. This is a tricky one for me
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  because people will say, why aren't you like a motivational
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  person? And I'm like, oh, I don't.
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  I just feel that feels weird to me because that's not what I
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  think I am at all. What I look at myself as is
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  somebody who gets in there and figures out those emotions.
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  And again, it comes back to managing your emotions, your
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  mindset and understanding. Are they working for you or are
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  they not working for you? It's pretty much that simple.
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  And then figuring out how you tell yourself the truth that
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  you're willing to hear and move towards what you're looking for
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  pretty much sums it up in a nice, neat little paragraph.
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  But the idea of being motivated versus the work of being
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  motivated. So we all use that word a lot,
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  especially people who listen to this.
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  We all use that word. Am I motivated?
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  Am I motivated to do this really is just means the move.
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  Am I moving myself to do it? Am I?
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  I'm feeling like I want to make the moves in order to do
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  something. And we all love the ideas.
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  That's the tricky part. We all love the idea of being in
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  the midst of things. Oh, that sounds like a great
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  idea. Oh, man, I'd love to be able to
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  do something like that. But I don't know if I really
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  want to like, you know, take the time to do it or, oh, I'd love
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  to be able to learn to, you know, paint.
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  But I don't know if I feel like going to the classes, whatever
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  it might be. That's what I'm talking about,
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  where you have the ideas of it, but you don't necessarily want
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  the work of it. And this comes up so often
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  because I, I mean, I hear it a lot, especially, you know, in my
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  field, people will come in, they're like, well, I want to,
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  you know, I want to get a book done.
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  I want to record a class. I want to create this business.
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  I want to build a team. I want to do all of this.
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  And it all sounds fantastic, but oftentimes when you get down to
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  the nitty gritty of the difference between just the
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  thought and the work, that's when it gets much more clear
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  that the person may not be ready to do it.
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  And it's not that they're incapable of doing it, it's just
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  that they have to get clear on are they willing to get.
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  Up at. 4:00 AM. Are they willing to do the late
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  nights if they're a late night person?
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  I always use the morning because I'm a morning person and I will
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  be, I'm I will. Happily get up very.
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  Early to do something as opposed to stay up late to do something.
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  So it becomes a a deep state of awareness to really look and say
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  I need to focus myself on the idea that I'm going to be
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  willing to do. The work.
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  More than anything, because. The work is not just having the
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  initial thought. The thought is.
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  The initial thought's a big thing, but it's about having the
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  idea to do that. That hard work and that work is
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  mental. It's emotional.
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  And it's. Physical it's that triad of
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  doing all of that and you know, I can use the chicken coop as
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  an. Example because to, to have all
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  of this, this is this is physical work.
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  This is labor that takes place every single day without
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  question. They need food, they need water,
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  they, they need to be cared for. Their hay needs to be turned.
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  They need to be checked every day.
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  It, it is work every single day, but it is also for me and, and
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  recording the podcast out there and doing all the things that I
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  do. With them, it's work, but it's
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  also the mental work of saying OK, when, you know, when I took
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  them on, I had to have that conversation with myself that
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  says am I going to be willing to do this every single day?
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  And the answer is yes. I obviously did that as we are
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  over, I don't know, 800 and something episodes now, maybe
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  even 900, but you get my point. This is about doing those check
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  insurance and figuring it out. Am I, am I going to be willing
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  able to put my focus on a point and say yes, I'm going to be
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  willing to do it? Am I going to do the check
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  insurance? That is the difference.
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  That is in the work because I can get motivated to do
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  anything. If I want to write a new book, I
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  can say, Oh yeah, that's a great idea.
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  But then I actually have to write the book and I have to
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  figure out, OK, how do I keep myself motivated to do that?
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  How do I put myself in that? Space.
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  And it's. It's a.
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  Formula about having the awareness to say I know what the
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  dangers are ahead of time. Think of it that way.
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  If you start to think about what am I going to need to do before
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  I even start, then you start to project and say.
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  OK, Yep, I get it. I could easily.
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  Easily. Now make sure I can circumvent
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  those hiccups and those potholes because I know what I'm up
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  against. But if you don't, you'll just
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  run right into them. So do yourself.
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  The favour? Think about this, am I willing
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  to do the work? As well.
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  As just the idea. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.