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Season 5 - Episode 61 - Rewriting what scares you! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So I am up very early because I
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  am actually leaving today and driving to Atlanta to go and
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  speak at one of my clients events.
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  And I'm super excited about this because for me, being able to do
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  something like this and and actually get to meet people who
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  are my clients. Because often I have many
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  clients that I don't get to meet in person because we're all over
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  the world. But this one actually affords me
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  to be able to meet two of my clients, clients who are going
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  to be there. One is hosting it, the other one
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  is speaking as well. And it's going to be a very
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  exciting event. So I am off to go drive and
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  getting out there early. So I it's quite a long drive for
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  me, but that's OK. I'm super excited about doing
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  it. Now, the point of me bringing
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  all this up is to let you know that in your schedule, as much
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  as you love certainty, because I mean, I love certainty and as
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  much as I love to do the same things, having these variations
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  and being able to do things like this is absolutely wonderful.
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  And it makes us, I, in my opinion, it really does make us
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  become better people when we push ourselves to do things like
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  this. So to go and leave and speak and
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  do all this, it definitely pushes us.
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  There's no question about the fact that it pushes me to do
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  this, but I'm excited to do it. I'm thrilled to do it.
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  And is, is it exhilarating? Is it scary?
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  Sure, it can be all of those things, but guess what?
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  It's so worth it to go and do something like this and to help
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  out people and to, to be part of something.
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  So what are you scared to go do? Because I this used to terrify
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  me. This used to be something that I
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  would be like, there's no way I'm doing something like this,
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  let alone traveling, let alone this.
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  There was a point in my life where I hated to do it all, and
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  now I welcome it. So how is that possible?
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  And people will always say, I can't imagine that that's how
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  you were, but that that is how I was.
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  So the question is, what do you have in your life that is that
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  that scares you that but you might want to do it.
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  You wish you could do it, but it holds you back.
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  And what's the reason that you think you're buying into the
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  story that you're telling yourself to hold yourself back
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  as opposed to pushing yourself? It's really, it's really
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  understanding the story. It's getting in there and
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  figuring out what is the story? And is the story reasonable?
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  And do you want to keep it that way or do you want to change it?
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  Do you want to change the story? I wanted to change my story.
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  I wanted to do something different.
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  So therefore I worked really hard at telling myself, OK, this
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  is not the story I want. I want this story.
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  And that's the story I'm going to believe and choose to
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  believe. And you know what?
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  It works. When you start to shift your
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  story, you start to tell yourself something different.
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  You start to believe something different.
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  Before that point, you're going to start to go, oh, I don't know
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  if I can do it. But after that point of changing
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  that story and reminding yourself, I'm not keeping that
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  story, that's not the story I want to tell, all of a sudden it
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  changes. So it takes work and hard work
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  to do that. But guess what?
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  It is so sweet when it does. So I'm going to challenge you
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  today to figure out what is that story?
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  What is it that you want to tell instead of the one that's
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  holding you back? And start writing it down.
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  Put it on a piece of paper. Actually sit and write it out so
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  that you know, this is my old story and then this is what I
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  want to change. And then now I have a new story
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  and write it on a piece of paper.
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  Because when you do that, it starts to give you a different
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  association to it, starts to make you feel different about
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  it. And then I promise you,
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  everything's going to change from that point forward.
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  It will 100% start to shift. Now, will it be overnight?
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  Sometimes it is, but a lot of times you have to keep working
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  on it. You have to keep rereading the
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  story, rewriting the story, making it better.
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  Mine didn't take that long once I started telling myself a
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  different story. And and that goes all the way
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  back to having anxiety and everything else.
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  But I'll tell you it, once I decided I wanted to write and
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  speak and do all those things, it didn't take a lot of time.
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  It just took a lot of effort of changing the story.
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  So go to work, my friends, because it's worth it.
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  All right? I hope you all have a blessed
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  day and I will see you all tomorrow from the big city of
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  Atlanta. Bye.