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Season 4 - Episode 10 - The messy part of being great · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. I'm recording this right before
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  I'm about to jump rope. And the reason that we're doing
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  that today is because I had, I was coaching yesterday and I had
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  an encounter with a client and we were talking about how she
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  has this thing that she's heard before about, you know, you have
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  to improve every single day, make an improvement every single
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  day. You've got to do these things
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  every single day. And she was so stressed out
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  about this improve 1% every single day.
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  And I asked her, I said, did you know?
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  Did you listen to the podcast? I know you listened.
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  Did you hear me talk about jumping ropes?
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  She said yes. I said, well, I want you to know
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  something. I have not improved from the
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  time I started and I've been doing it every day.
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  And am I doing it every day? Yes.
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  Have I seen improvement 1% every single day?
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  Hell no. I'm still like, I can do it, but
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  I am not at the point where I could tell you I'm improving.
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  I'm at I'm at like point over just stagnating, but I'm not
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  giving up. And so we got into this very
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  deep conversation about this improvement of 1% every single
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  day. And I understand the theory of
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  it because it's supposed to say, hey, it doesn't have to be a
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  lot, you don't have to be 100%. But this is so important to
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  hear. So I decided to tell you all
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  today about this because the theory is great.
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  OK, The theory is great. There's no discounting theory.
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  If you improve just a little bit every single day, you're going
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  to get to where you want to go. But what happens when you're not
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  improving? What do you do when you're not
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  improving? Do you give up?
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  Do you walk away? Do you beat yourself up?
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  Do you say, you know, oh, this sucks because that's the voices
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  that are going on on the bus in your head.
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  Everybody's having a conversation and they're all
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  judgment is right up front. And saying that's clearly wasn't
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  1%. That's probably not even a point
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  of a percent. And we all have that.
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  We all have that crap going on in our head.
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  So what do you do? Do you ignore it?
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  Do you work through it? Do you work with it?
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  I mean, how do you approach it? So my theory on this is you're
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  going to expect, I expect not to be great.
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  When I took this on, I said I expect that I am not going to be
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  great at this close to right away.
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  I'm if this is going to take time because I have not been
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  doing this my whole life. I couldn't do it as a kid.
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  Why do I now think as a grown woman it's going to become easy?
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  It's not. So I expected that to be the
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  case. I took it on.
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  I didn't expect that I would give up.
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  I won't because I made a decision way ahead of time that
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  this was important to me and that I was not going to give up.
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  And that's really the key. I don't need the percentage of
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  growth to make me see that I want to keep going because I
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  made the decision to keep going and I know I will hit a tipping
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  point because that's what happens.
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  You hit a tipping point and all of a sudden it clicks and we've
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  all heard it. It's like, oh, I couldn't do it.
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  I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it and then BAM, I could do it.
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  We, we usually feel that way about certain things like when
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  we're growing up, like math, OK, you can't get it.
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  All of a sudden you don't get multiplication, you don't get
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  division, you don't get algebra. And then all of a sudden it like
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  all one day you just walk in and you sit down and it all of a
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  sudden seems to fall into place. That's that tipping point.
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  So I really subscribe more to the tipping point theory than
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  something else. But you have to have that
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  emotional wherewithal to say, Hey, you know what, I'm going to
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  go to this next place and it's not going to be great in the
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  beginning. I expect it.
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  And when I expect it, then it's, you know, it's not that you're
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  attracting it because she asked me that.
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  She's like, well then aren't I attracting it if I expect it?
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  And I'm like, no, because you're going into it saying I expect
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  myself to be going in there with enthusiasm, even though it may
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  not go as exactly as I planned, I'm still going to stay
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  enthusiastic because I know that's part of the curve.
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  That's part of the learning curve.
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  You are going to fail. I don't.
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  I'm not attracting it to myself because I know I'm going to hit
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  the tipping point and it's all going to click.
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  So what I'm expecting is, yeah, there's going to be bumps in the
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  road because there are. That's just the truth.
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  That's how you learn. And you're not attracting it.
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  If you stay every single day for the rest of your head and just
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  keep going, oh, this sucks, this sucks, this sucks, this sucks.
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  Then you can start moving into the attraction zone, but not
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  when you're having it like this. This comes from a different
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  place because there's excitement, there's force behind
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  that feeling, and that's how you approach it.
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  So I'm going to jump rope and I know today I will most likely
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  finish the the whole 15 minute segment and I will have blips
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  throughout it where it's hitting me.
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  I'm tripping because that's the reality.
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  My feet are still not coordinated with my hands and my
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  brain with it. But guess what?
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  I'm doing it and is it kicking my ass?
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  Oh, it's kicking my ass. But guess what?
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  I laugh about it and I'm like, OK, part of the process.
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  I'm not going to be as great as him yet, but guess what?
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  I'm working through it. And that's the thing.
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  So put aside the 1% if you're following that and just say I
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  embrace the, the, the messiness of getting there because it's
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  part of the process and it's so good to be messy sometimes.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.