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Season 2 - Episode 329 - What are the areas you want to grow? · 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
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  coop. So let's talk about our growth
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  points. So this time of year often
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  triggers people to begin the process of thinking, what do I
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  want to change for next year? What do I want to do?
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  You know, we all kind of run through those things and it's
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  natural and normal. And yes, it's wonderful.
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  And most people put it in terms of what are my goals going to
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  be? You know, what do I want to
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  focus on all of? That tactical stuff that is very
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  common. I do it, everybody does it.
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  I'm today going to ask you to think about it a little bit
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  differently or at least a section of it a little bit
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  differently, where you start to think about where do you want to
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  grow. So the question comes from the
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  fact that often times we things that we want to do, but not what
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  we want to grow or where we want to grow.
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  So a big thing for me. Is growing in my spirituality.
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  That is something that is first and foremost.
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  The older I get, the more that that I think comes naturally to
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  most of us. At some point in our time in our
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  life, we start to contemplate certain things.
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  So for me, I, and I'm speaking just for myself right now, the
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  spirituality piece of it is always been a decent.
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  Factor in my life. But now it's becoming more and
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  more and more, and I think the more work I do in this arena,
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  the more I want to grow it. Because I recognize that there
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  are things that we need to tap into as as humans and this is a
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  big part of it and it helps us to be better people.
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  When you start to recognize that you have weak areas of yourself
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  and you want to grow them. It puts a different spin on it.
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  Instead of saying I'm going to do this, it's like I really want
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  to grow. And that makes you feel better
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  about it. It makes you feel better about
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  doing something as opposed to the growing.
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  Now some people might say that's word salad, it's semantics, but
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  it's not. There is a difference if I say I
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  have to do something or I'm going to say hey.
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  I really want to grow in this area.
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  I want to learn something in this area.
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  A lot of us have to take on tech issues, and tech issues are a
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  big thing for people and they get very frustrated with it
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  because they're often like, Oh my gosh, the tech drives me
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  crazy. I can't do it.
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  I don't like it. It's it's madding.
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  It's difficult, whatever you might feel about it, but this
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  isn't instead of looking at it like I have to do all this
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  stuff, that's tech. If you start thinking of it in
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  terms of do you want to grow in this area And sometimes.
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  It's just a hard no. I don't want to grow in that
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  area. I want to farm that out.
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  That's totally fine. But you've made a distinction
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  and sometimes it's great to just say no.
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  I really do want to grow in this area.
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  So I understand and then I can always farm it out then.
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  But I still want to understand what I'm paying for.
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  I want to understand what other people are thinking, doing,
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  being and seeing. So if you.
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  Put your perspective on just this growth aspect and ask
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  yourself the question, what are the areas I want to grow in?
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  What are the points I want to grow in?
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  What are the places I need to grow in?
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  You get the point. We're just changing it all
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  along. It's all about growth.
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  Obviously I love to use that whole metaphor because of the
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  farm and what I'm growing, but I'm ordering seeds.
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  I'm thinking about all the things I want to do that are
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  different for next year, so that I have a better and different
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  experience than I had this last year.
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  An area of growth for me is understanding how to do things
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  more efficiently because just because I know how to do
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  something one way doesn't mean it's the most efficient way.
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  And when it comes to the farm, efficiency really matters.
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  So I'm spending a lot of time in this area of growth so that I
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  can figure out how to be more efficient, especially like with
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  watering irrigation. But that's no different than
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  what you look at in your mind. I have to take on different
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  information and understand. Different things.
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  In order to grow in my mind and I have to do the same thing here
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  on the farm, it's absolutely necessary for me to recognize if
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  I keep planting seeds here that can't grow in the extreme heat,
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  then I'm not going to get anything.
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  I have to change my approach and that's what you're doing now
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  with this. So think about what are the
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  areas? That you really want to grow in
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  for 2024. Make your list, start getting
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  them on paper and then from that point, once you have the list,
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  then you can start focusing on, OK, what would it look like if I
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  was growing in that area? What would I be doing?
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  Who would I be connecting with? You can start to put those
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  threads through, but you first have to start.
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  You know what do I even want to grow?
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  Where do I even want to begin? And then you'll be on your
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  journey. All right, my friends.
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  I'll see you tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.