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Season 2 - Episode 278 - The things that kill progress · 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 master mindset
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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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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today we are talking about misaligned activity.
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  What does that mean? Well, that means if you know you
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  are wanting to move yourself in a direction, you have a goal,
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  you have an outcome, you have intent behind something and then
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  you misalign your activity to it, where is it going to take
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  you? What's it going to get you?
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  And this is a very powerful thing to clean up quickly.
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  What's going on? In your world, if it's not
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  working the way you want it to. So let me give you a simple
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  example. If you are saying you want to
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  save money and your your whole intention is to put more money
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  into an account, that will be something that you can use for a
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  vacation, let's say. And you decide that instead of
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  putting the money into the account, you are going to go out
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  and do something like buy new shoes.
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  Is that an activity that's aligned with your outcome?
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  Probably not, unless you really need the shoes, which most of us
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  do. We really need new shoes.
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  I don't know that we need new shoes.
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  We want new shoes. And that is a whole crux of
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  where this comes from. The how needs and wants
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  interfere with our longterm intentions and what what we do
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  in order to keep those. In place.
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  So think about it for a second. How many times have you known
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  you've had an intention, but you have been misaligned?
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  You've just said, OK, I'm going to go, I'm, I'm losing weight
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  this week. I'm putting myself on lockdown.
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  And then someone invites you for Mexican food, and you sit at the
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  table and there are automatically, without you even
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  ordering them, chips and salsa put in front of you and you say.
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  I love chips and salsa. I can't have them Okay.
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  That's an aligned activity to you, losing weight and getting
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  healthy. But then all of a sudden you
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  find that your hand has a whole different mind of itself and
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  it's reaching for them. And it's like it's just one
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  chip. Okay, It's just one chip.
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  That's true. It's just one chip.
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  Is it going to kill you? No.
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  Probably not. But it does take you out of
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  alignment. And as soon as you are out of
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  alignment, that means you can all of a sudden go back to
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  saying it doesn't matter, I can just do it.
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  I'll start again tomorrow and every time you take yourself
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  out, it's it. It does not.
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  It does not help your process. It does not help your progress.
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  It kills actually kills both of them and.
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  We don't realize how many times a day we do this and we take
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  ourselves into this place of despair because we keep taking
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  ourselves out. We wipe, we swipe our own legs,
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  and then we wonder why we feel like crap all the time.
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  And it's because we keep taking ourselves out and we become
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  misaligned. And it's alignment feels so good
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  when we're in it and it's moving in the right direction.
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  And we all know because we'll say I'm in such a flow right
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  now. Don't bother me, I'm going to
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  flow or I and you and you almost become fearful of falling out of
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  it. I know I do.
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  When I'm working on writing and I'm doing all this work, I'll
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  get like, I don't nobody's just, you know don't jinx me.
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  Don't come near me. I get like very freaked out
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  because I don't want to stop the process because getting back
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  into it is hard. But alignment really requires.
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  Those little tiny moments to say okay, I have got to stop myself
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  right now. I'm going to set it up and make
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  sure I understand what I want to be aligned with.
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  So activity around this that can really help a lot is to put down
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  whatever put on a piece of paper.
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  Okay like at the top of the paper, right in the middle of
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  the top of the piece of paper. Like you write down here's what
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  your your intention is and then you divide the paper in half and
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  you say these are things that I can do that will help.
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  Me stay aligned on the left and on the right you make a list of
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  things that take you out of alignment.
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  So what is the purpose of this? Well, when you see what takes
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  you out of alignment, you know that these are things that are
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  stay away Danger. Will Robinson danger as I date
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  myself with that one, but it is a.
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  Imperative strategy to look at and say I don't, I don't want to
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  do these misaligned activities. So I know without question that
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  going for ice cream is a an absolute weakness for me.
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  And if I do it, I'm going to eat it.
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  It's just hands down, hands down, unless there's a key to
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  this. Unless it's like, just like
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  nasty ice cream shop ice cream. I won't eat it because I don't
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  like that kind of ice cream. But if it's soft serve, I'm
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  screwed. I'm going to eat the soft serve.
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  So if my husband says, hey, should we go for ice cream?
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  And I know I want to be aligned with myself, right?
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  I say, well, you guys can have, you can go to this place that he
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  likes to go to because he eats that other kind of hard ice
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  cream. And I just don't like it.
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  And so I'll say no. He'll say, oh, do you do you
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  want to go to Turbocone? And I'm like, I want to, but I
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  won't because it doesn't serve me.
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  I would prefer that you guys go to where you want to go and I
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  stay. Aligned with myself and then I
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  feel good because I can recognize it and I can say, OK,
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  this is it. Now we are going into the last
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  quarter and I am hell bent on staying aligned.
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  So I have a whole bunch of things for 90 days that I want
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  to be aligned with, which is why I'm having this conversation
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  with you as much for you as it is for me.
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  Because I'm going to do things that are aligned and I'm not
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  going to do things that are misaligned because they take
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  away my progress. So I want you to all think about
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  that here. We are entering into this last
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  chunk of the year. Do things that are aligned.
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  Do not do things that take you out of alignment and you will be
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  exponentially happier. 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.