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Season 2 - Episode 222 - Perfection is a fixed mindset · 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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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we're talking about perfection.
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  Oh, and I'm not talking about the game perfection, although I
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  do love that game and I have to say, I'm pretty darn good at it.
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  But we're not talking about the game.
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  We're talking about perfection as how, you know, our minds
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  think about perfection and what we have to be perfect at and how
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  we consistently strive for something.
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  That's. Unattainable because there is no
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  such thing as perfection. And I'll explain why and also
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  how. When we wait for perfection,
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  when we say, oh, I'll wait till the perfect moment, You know
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  there is no perfect moment. And the more you wait, the more
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  and the more you stress about the perfect moment, You're just
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  never going to attain it because it doesn't exist.
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  There is there are moments, and we decide when we make our
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  chance and we decide what we're going to do and then we jump in.
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  But perfection, what does this do to us?
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  So first of all. I've talked about this before,
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  but I'm going to reiterate again.
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  Apparently this is important because one of them is all loud
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  and noisy about it. We're talking about the fact
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  that growth mindset and fixed mindset.
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  So when you have growth mindset, you don't work towards the
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  perfect thing. You realize that in every moment
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  you're working towards something, you're growing.
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  So whatever you're working towards evolves.
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  When I started out with this farm.
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  I had a vision for it, and the vision involved the house.
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  The vision involved the other building.
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  The vision boiled, having chickens and a garden.
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  But it didn't involve like the extent of what I have now.
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  And the more I worked at it, the more I created it, the more I
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  found my level of what I wanted. So I kept growing and growing
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  and now. You know, I could sit here and I
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  could be telling you, oh, it's perfect the way it is for me.
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  But again, I don't believe in perfection.
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  It is beautiful. Do I want it to be something
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  different? Yes, because that's me.
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  I have a growth mindset. I am always going to evolve it.
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  I'm trying to think about ooh, How can I create even more with
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  the cut flower garden? How can I create even more with,
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  you know, I'm definitely focused on getting a pig as a pet and
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  convincing my husband that the pig is a great idea.
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  I definitely want to have a greenhouse.
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  I definitely want to create these big huge cut flower
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  gardens all around us, as well as gardens that don't have cut
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  flowers. Bees.
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  All of. That it's expansive and it keeps
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  remaining expansive because of how I know my mindset works.
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  Now. If I had a fixed mindset, I
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  would be sitting there saying there is one version of this and
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  I'm going to work towards that one version.
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  So you have to ask yourself, do I have a fixed mindset?
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  Do I never grow? I I know none of you.
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  If you're on this channel and you're listening to this,
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  there's no way any of you have a fixed mindset.
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  You also will want to grow and learn and expand.
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  So you have to let go of the idea of perfection because there
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  is no perfect moment. There's no perfect moment to do
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  anything. There's just moments that you
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  choose to be your jumping in point and say, wow, I'm thrilled
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  with this. This is perfect in the way that
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  it is not. It's this, you know, fixed thing
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  that drives us crazy. The destination of perfection is
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  nothing but a pain in the ass, quite frankly.
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  So. Letting go of it frees you.
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  It takes the handcuffs off of you.
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  It also unleashes your imagination.
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  Can you imagine what would happen if you unleashed your
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  imagination and just said, you know what, I am just simply
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  going to let this all go. And I'm going to see what
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  happens and I'm going to be grateful.
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  And I'm going to let my imagination run for all of the
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  good stuff that I am envisioning.
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  And it's going to be boundless. I'm just going to, you know, go
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  out there and just do it. And I'm not going to worry about
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  it. And I'm in in its wonkiness.
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  It will have its perfection. You know, I I grow so many
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  flowers and so many things. And I can have a plant that says
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  it's this type of flower. Like I grow dahlias and I buy a
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  bag of tubers and I plant them and they say, hey, it's this
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  kind of tuber in here and I plant it and do you know those
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  flowers? They're not identical.
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  None of them are identical. And the beautiful part of this
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  and that nature constantly teaches us is, well, guess what?
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  Bees show up and they cross pollinate things.
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  And then before you know it, you have new varieties, you have new
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  things. I have so many cool zinnias and
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  I'm like, wow, these look so different.
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  But they all came from this California giant thing.
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  Well, guess what? They all change because the
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  bees, the different types of bees that pollinate them.
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  And we're very blessed to have an awful lot of.
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  Very cool. Different bumblebees out here
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  and the bumblebees are busy. They're all over the place all
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  the time. So they cross pollinate.
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  That's their perfection and it's, it's it's always random.
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  Their perfection is random. So remember, you are not about a
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  fixed mindset. If you are here, I can guarantee
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  you you are not a fixed mindset, you are a growth mindset.
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  Get rid of the idea of perfection as you know it
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  creates something different. Allow it to be random and you
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  will be much happier. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.