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Season 2 - Episode 190 - Breaking the simplest of patterns can be hard! · 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 porch.
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  No, it's not raining today and there's no bad weather but we're
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  doing something to show a point to my son.
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  So the other day he's getting ready to go to work and he's out
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  in the sun and of course I'm miss paranoid about having too
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  much sun on him. And said to him, hey let me put
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  your sunscreen on so it's on you evenly.
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  And he was brushing his teeth at that time.
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  And he agrees. And I grab his arm, his right
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  arm, to put sunscreen on it. And he's like, I use that arm to
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  brush my teeth. And I said, well, switch arms.
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  And he goes, do you know how hard it is to do that with your
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  left arm? And I said, yeah, actually, it's
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  a whole exercise in helping your mind grow when you swap out your
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  arms and do something different. He said, what do you mean?
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  I said you have to change it up. You know, it's kind of like
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  changing your pattern. It actually helps your brain
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  stay very, very sharp. And as human beings, we are
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  conditioned over and over to love consistency, which is fine,
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  but it doesn't necessarily help keep your brain growing.
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  It's just a pattern that you're in.
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  But if you really want to scramble your brain and have it
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  keep growing, you use the ability to switch things up and
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  do things different. So he said to me, well, how
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  often do you do things different because you do the same things
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  all the time? And I looked at him and I was
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  like, wow, he is so right. I absolutely do that.
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  So trying to do things differently.
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  I am on the porch just for today because I like being out there
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  and recording it, but. It's to prove the point.
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  And I then went off and I did my chores.
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  I actually tried to clean up the kitchen using my left hand more
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  than my right hand. And it is so hard and you have
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  to stop and pause and think about it.
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  But the process of this really got me thinking about how that
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  is a great tool to force you into mindfulness.
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  Like you have to be in the moment when you're not on
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  autopilot. So this is such a good
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  mindfulness exercise to practice.
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  So me being out here this morning on the porch, walking
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  around, it's totally different than being in the chicken coop.
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  I'm seeing all the hummingbirds flying, I'm seeing the lighting
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  on all of my plants out here and how different it looks as the
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  sun comes up. I'm seeing the girls walk around
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  the pond already because obviously I let them out.
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  Marilyn and the babies are out and about.
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  I mean, she's actually got them on a hike today and it's just a
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  totally different view. And it's not easy to break your
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  patterns. This part of it is fun, but
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  going in and doing something different is.
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  Especially when you're used to conditioning and having it done
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  it the other way, it's not fun. So it's like trying the opposite
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  helps you grow, it helps push you in a different spot now
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  where this can be a lot of fun. Is when you trying to come up
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  with creative things to change something you're working on to
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  come up with a project like let's say I have a lot of
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  clients right now that are working on their marketing
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  because it's summer and it's a great time when things are a
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  little bit slower to really pull in and get all the marketing
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  done for the fall before it even needs to be done and you can
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  start, you know, putting it out there early, be ahead of the
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  game. It's kind of like doing
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  Christmas shopping now, which obviously may not be a bad idea.
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  You never know. You can catch some summer sales,
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  get it all done. I have an aunt who has probably
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  everything purchased and wrapped by now.
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  Now that is not my pattern to do it.
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  I'm usually way ahead of the game, but she's way, way ahead
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  of the game and in the process of doing this.
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  What you do is you start to open up your creativity and start
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  thinking, oh, OK, well how have we always done it?
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  OK, well what would be different?
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  Do the research. Look and see.
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  What are other people doing? You know, it.
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  This exercise of breaking your patterns and doing something
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  different doesn't just have to be physical.
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  Physical is excellent though, because we get so trapped in our
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  pattern of things. I can tell you, even walking my
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  trail around the property, I have a way that I go.
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  I stay, My husband laughs. Because I have worn a trail,
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  like an actual trail, into the ground.
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  And I stick to that trail and you can see that I stick to that
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  trail, do the same thing over and over and over again.
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  And here's what's crazy about it.
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  I typically walk it in the same direction.
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  I don't reverse it because it feels different going that way,
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  and I don't know why. I just do it that way.
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  So when my son pointed it out, I started walking in the opposite
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  direction and I actually had to, like, think about it.
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  I was like, oh, this feels weird.
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  Oh, this feels weird. It doesn't matter if it's even
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  if you're sitting down and you're having your coffee this
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  morning, You know, stir the cup with the other hand, pour with
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  the other hand, watch what happens and see how it fries
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  your brain. Alright my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed opposite day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye. Play song.