Latest / Good Morning From The Chicken Coop! / Do you have character goals?

Transcript

Do you have character goals? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

• 0:02
  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
• 0:04
  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
• 0:08
  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
• 0:11
  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
• 0:14
  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
• 0:17
  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
• 0:20
  Favorite happy places her chicken coop.
• 0:22
  Along with all her chickens. Hey everybody.
• 0:28
  Good morning from the chicken coop so Do you happen to have
• 0:31
  goals for your character? I know weird question to start
• 0:34
  off the day. However, we do have goals for
• 0:37
  everything else that we're working on.
• 0:39
  I know most of you, if you're listening to this, you probably
• 0:41
  have goals that you've set forth for the year.
• 0:43
  You know, if you want to make a hundred thousand dollars, buy a
• 0:46
  house, get a new car, you know, start a real estate team, go
• 0:52
  ahead and create a new business you know build out whatever your
• 0:56
  your current Ideal World is you want to grow it because that's
• 1:00
  That's what we're taught to do. We're taught to have goals, so
• 1:02
  we can achieve them and that's an excellent foundation, and and
• 1:07
  thing to work towards. In fact, a big chunk of my
• 1:10
  business is built around that for people.
• 1:12
  Helping them figure all that stuff out and how to get there.
• 1:15
  But I'm talking about goals for your character, things that you
• 1:20
  want to build into yourself as a person things that you want to
• 1:25
  cultivate as a as a better human being as more of what you've
• 1:31
  always thought you wanted to be like, do you want to be more
• 1:35
  generous? Do you want to be philanthropic?
• 1:37
  Do you want to be more creative? Do you want to write or paint?
• 1:41
  Do you want to have parts of yourself?
• 1:45
  That you're just like, okay, I know that I'm not patient, I
• 1:49
  want to build patients into myself, do I want to be more
• 1:53
  creative in the sense that, you know, there's a part of me
• 1:56
  that's always wanted to write a book, but I don't feel creative.
• 1:59
  So I'm going to work on being creative.
• 2:01
  I'm talking about those little pieces of just personality, that
• 2:08
  have probably been underdeveloped, because you're
• 2:11
  so busy, working on the external world.
• 2:13
  You forget to work on the internal world, Old.
• 2:15
  Now, why is this so important? Well, it's very hard to create
• 2:19
  the external world. If you are not working on the
• 2:22
  internal world and the internal world is by far, one of the most
• 2:27
  difficult places to work on. So we will sit there and say,
• 2:30
  okay, I'm going to work on the external world because that
• 2:32
  seems a little bit easier. Well, I have news for you if you
• 2:36
  don't work on the internal world you can't get what you want on
• 2:39
  the external world. It's like foundational pieces.
• 2:44
  It's like building a house. Sandy would never sit and build
• 2:47
  a house on Sand. Although hundreds of years ago,
• 2:49
  they did because they didn't understand the foundation
• 2:51
  process and that sand shifts. So, if you don't always work on
• 2:56
  your character, you will find that it shifts, you will find
• 3:01
  that you become cynical. You will find that the world
• 3:04
  will wear you down and that you have to really cultivate the
• 3:08
  identity and the personality that you desire.
• 3:12
  And that's what this is about making that Purposeful.
• 3:17
  Point in your life. Instead of just saying, hey, you
• 3:20
  know what? I am who I am because that's not
• 3:23
  true. Sure, we have certain aspects of
• 3:26
  our personality that are there, but we don't have to keep any of
• 3:29
  those. If we don't want them, we can
• 3:31
  change everything about ourselves.
• 3:33
  If we choose to, that's the beautiful thing about being a
• 3:36
  human being. And having the ability to
• 3:39
  choose, it's one of the greatest gifts that we have been given
• 3:44
  Choice. We can figure it out.
• 3:46
  We can sit there and listen to ourselves.
• 3:48
  We can dig in and say, you know, I need to work on this.
• 3:52
  Now I will tell you when I first got introduced to this, I
• 3:55
  recognized that one of my biggest challenges was that I
• 3:59
  was very impatient. I did not have patience.
• 4:03
  I still I won't say that. I have zero patience now but I
• 4:07
  will say that I am always challenged with being impatient
• 4:10
  and I have to pull myself back and I think now it's the biggest
• 4:14
  That I've been given where I used to think it was the biggest
• 4:17
  pain in the ass, quite honestly, that when I was presented to me,
• 4:21
  that I'm not patient like what do you mean?
• 4:22
  I'm not patient. Well, now, I realize, I was
• 4:25
  totally not patient and having to slow down and be patient has
• 4:31
  taught me more than anything that I ever learned in school.
• 4:35
  It really truly has been the one of the biggest gifts yet, it
• 4:39
  was, it is the hardest thing that I deal with, because I do
• 4:43
  have this desire to just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
• 4:46
  boom. It's like rapid fire.
• 4:48
  Making things happen and I have to slow down with those around
• 4:51
  me. I have to listen, I have to
• 4:54
  develop the skills of really listening, especially in my
• 4:58
  field of coaching. That one thing that seemed to be
• 5:02
  such a character flaw has brought me so many gifts when I
• 5:07
  recognized it and I decided I wanted to change it.
• 5:10
  Now if I hadn't done that it would have just continued to
• 5:13
  bring me pain. But instead I made that decision
• 5:16
  that I wanted to work on this, I wanted to be able to shift it.
• 5:20
  And once I did, I was able to really hone in and focus on it.
• 5:25
  So I'm going to ask you to look and see and really kind of make
• 5:31
  that list of things. What are your character goals?
• 5:34
  What are the things that you want to add into yourself?
• 5:36
  What are the things that you know, you want to cultivate you
• 5:40
  want to work on? You want to bring to light and
• 5:44
  Put them on a piece of paper, make a plan for how you're going
• 5:47
  to do it as far as every day every day saying.
• 5:50
  Okay. You know, here's how I'm going
• 5:52
  to show up and be patient today, here are the little things that
• 5:55
  I can do, you know I have a little recipe for myself where
• 5:59
  I'm like, okay the moment I feel myself becoming impatient I say.
• 6:03
  Nope, that's the moment I have to sit and pause.
• 6:05
  I have to go by myself, even if I have to take myself out and
• 6:08
  just walk in the bathroom and shut the door.
• 6:09
  I'll say kind of take a deep breath.
• 6:12
  Bring myself back to Center. Okay, now I can walk out and
• 6:15
  deal with it because I can feel the impatience steal the wheel
• 6:19
  of that bus and off we go. So figure out where you're going
• 6:23
  with it, start working on it and remember, this is a practice,
• 6:26
  this is not a destination. You'll be doing it forever.
• 6:29
  So get good at that practice and I will see you soon.
• 6:32
  Have a great day. My friends.
• 6:33
  Bye.