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Season 3 - Episode 260 - How to shift your habits. · 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 mastermind set
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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 rewiring your days and this is a
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  subject that's very fascinating to me because most people show
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  up for coaching and they think, Oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm
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  going to do this. I don't know how I'm going to
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  change. I don't know the particulars of
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  any of this and they get overwhelmed before they even
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  start. And one of the simplest things
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  that I, I really have to have everybody understand right at
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  the, from the very beginning of working with me and coaching
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  with me is that you are a creature of habit.
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  You are a creature of patterns. And it is possible to change
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  like you have to believe it's possible to change.
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  And by changing your patterns, even the simplest of patterns,
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  things start to evolve. So there are estimates out there
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  that we have between 60 and 80 thousand thoughts a day.
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  I mean, think about that. That's insane that that a person
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  can have that many. My thoughts.
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  First of all, it always fascinates me as to how they
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  track this, but they do. And 60 to 80 thousand thoughts a
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  day. The kicker is 2/3 of them are
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  repeated from the day before. Now that's even more insane when
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  you think about the how the human brain works and when you
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  repeat things, they become part of who you are.
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  So most of us learned multiplication that way, where
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  we were just drilled, wrote, learned it over and over and
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  over and over until we could recite it and do it quickly so
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  that we knew those basic fundamentals, which is the the
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  crux of how your brain likes to work.
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  Repetition is the mother of skill for human beings.
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  And once we do it, we can do it better and better and better and
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  better. But the really hard thing to
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  understand is if the patterns are not resourceful, you are
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  repeating them anyway. You are becoming more
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  resourceful at the unresourceful activity.
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  So think about what I just said. If it's a destructive activity
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  and you do it more and more and you become better at the
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  destructive activity, you're still going to.
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  It's going to be a pattern. It's still going to affect you.
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  You can't just get away from it because it's destructive, you
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  know? And we have patterns in
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  everything we do. Think about how you take a
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  shower. You go and get in the shower in
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  the morning or the evening. Whenever you do your showering
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  and boom, all of a sudden you wash the same way.
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  You have the same pattern of how you wash yourself, how you do
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  your hair. Same thing about how you blow
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  dry your hair or how you shave, brush your teeth.
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  You always start in the same spot.
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  For most people it is very driven.
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  The side of the bed they sleep on, how they put their clothes
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  on. Try to put your sneakers and
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  socks on differently and watch how your brain goes.
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  Wait, what? Because it's so conditioned.
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  So the point of this is rewiring your brain is very simple in the
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  sense that you change the pattern of how you do something
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  and then everything else gets scrambled.
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  So let's say you want to start your day off and you want to
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  start meditating. And you've always said, I want
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  to meditate. I know it's good for me.
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  I hear how great it is, but I just can't seem to get it.
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  I, I struggle with it. Part of the problem is you're
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  trying to insert something new into old patterns.
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  So I will often tell my clients the best way to do that is to
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  start scrambling your patterns. Now for any Seinfeld fans out
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  there, if you've, if you're a big Seinfeld fan and I am a big
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  Seinfeld fan, there was an episode where George was talking
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  about opposite George and he was going to do the opposite of
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  everything that George ever talked about.
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  And it was so great because he was scrambling his own patterns
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  right down to if he ordered tuna salad, now he was going to order
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  egg salad. If he was going to order coffee,
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  he would normally now always order coffee.
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  He would now order tea. He's scrambling the simplest of
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  patterns. And then the others become open
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  to interpretation and you can allow new things to happen.
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  It's kind of like you're tricking your brain.
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  You're just saying, if I always walk to my left and now I walk
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  to my right, and while I'm walking to my right I think of
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  something else I want to do, it becomes easier.
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  So right from the morning, let's say we're going to add in the
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  meditation. You wake up in the morning
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  instead of going in and you know, doing your day like you
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  normally would, grabbing your phone, checking your text
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  messages, your emails or whatever.
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  You say no, I'm not going to do that.
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  You get up, you drink water and you go and you meditate first.
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  Right away you've scrambled your brain because you're not looking
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  at the old pattern and doing the phone or whatever.
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  Now obviously you probably have to pee in there first.
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  You get up. I know.
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  I'm just saying that don't touch the typical patterns.
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  It's OK though, to get up and pee first if you need to.
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  Or get up and brush your teeth and pee fine.
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  But talk about it in the sense of the big stuff that you're
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  going to move around so that your brain does not have the
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  same response. I promise you, if you try this
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  technique, you're going to be astounded as to how different
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  you feel right away. Because it really doesn't matter
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  if you're going for a walk or you're meditating or you decide
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  to read or you decide to change the smallest of small things,
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  the one shift in the morning makes all the difference.
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  So work on this and practice it, scramble as much as you can and
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  then try putting the new things in because I promise you when
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  you do it, it will interrupt those old patterns and then you
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  have the opportunity to put in the new ones you want.
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  I hope you all have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.