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Season 3 - Episode 237 - The question of celebrating with 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 pumping yourself up.
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  You know, I think there's nothing more important than
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  being your own cheerleader. Because if you wait for other
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  people to cheer you up or cheer you on or, you know, pump you
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  up, so to speak, you might be waiting a while.
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  Because everybody's so entrenched in themselves and
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  what's going on with themselves, it's very hard for them to
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  recognize what's going on outside of themselves.
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  And when we have these conversations often, we all want
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  someone to cheer us on. We all want someone to give us
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  the attaboy. I know myself, I'm a huge Gold
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  Star girl, meaning I want the star, I want the sticker.
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  I want to be able to, you know, know that I am being valued, if
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  you, if that makes sense. But years ago, I had to
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  recognize that the more I wanted that from other people, the more
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  disappointment I regularly took. And it was kind of disturbing
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  when I first started recognizing it because I was like, I don't
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  understand. I give other people those
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  things, I say them, Why can't other people say them to me?
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  And very unresourceful question, by the way.
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  I don't recommend using it, but that's what was going on in my
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  head. So I had to learn that those
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  questions that I was asking myself, while they definitely
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  were not good, they definitely were not resourceful.
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  They weren't giving me what I needed.
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  And I was getting more and more frustrated over time.
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  I was getting to the point where I was like, this is ridiculous.
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  I am waiting for something that never comes.
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  I'm waiting for this, this great thing that doesn't show up.
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  And I had to figure out that I had to be my own cheerleader.
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  I had to be the person that was going to cheer myself on.
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  I had to be the person that was going to take the time to pause
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  and recognize that. So I will tell you regularly in
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  my in myself, I do that practice.
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  I cheer myself on. I tell myself, oh, that was
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  really good. And you might laugh about that,
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  but it makes a huge difference. I also have, I'm not even
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  exaggerating about this, I keep a a day timer that is just to
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  track my wins so that I can count them all and I can
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  celebrate them. I give myself stickers.
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  Those of you who know me know that I do that regularly.
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  I love sticker books and awarding myself with stickers
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  because I think it's super important to recognize your
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  wins, track your wins and do that and the book is a great
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  tool. However, one of my extremely
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  useful tools is to sit there and have conversation in my head
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  with myself and say, you know what, this was a good move,
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  great job. Like I give myself that high 5
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  and I speak it to myself because it it makes you feel good.
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  Whether you're doing it for yourself or not is irrelevant.
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  When you give yourself that little bit of extra energy and
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  be your own cheerleader, it works.
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  So putting aside the fact that you're looking for it externally
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  can be hard work because you want someone to tell you want
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  someone to notice. But here's what's interesting
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  about this. The more you do it for yourself,
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  the more you be, you know, be your own cheerleader.
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  What ends up happening is people start to notice because your
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  attitude has changed. You're not necessarily looking
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  externally. And I am a big believer that
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  everything we need is within us. We, we are sent here as complete
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  and total entities that have everything we need.
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  We just have to learn to use it. And we rely on the unseen forces
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  of the universe, God, whatever you would like to choose to call
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  it, Mother Nature. We rely on those and we use them
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  in a way that helps us beef ourselves up.
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  So when I focus on positive energy, I get more positive
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  energy. When I focus on the good stuff
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  that I have going on, I get more of the good stuff.
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  It's like attracts like and this is all part of that greater good
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  process. So putting yourself into the
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  position where you recognize that you rely on the unseen
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  forces. You recognize that the universe
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  God has your back and is putting things in your path to help you
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  grow and transform yourself. It's an amazing feeling when you
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  start to say, I can do this with myself.
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  I don't need anybody else to do this.
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  I can just celebrated by myself. It is an absolutely cool feeling
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  and if you've never done it, please try it.
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  I promise you, you will be blown away by how awesome it is.
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  So hopefully today you will find many things to give yourself
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  that high 5 attaboy that Oh, I got this down just energy about
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  you and I hope that you find a way to celebrate yourself
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  because I promise it's so worth it.
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  All right, guys, I'll see you tomorrow and I hope you have a
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  very blessed day. Bye.