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Season 5 - Episode 105 - Are you in the Past, Present or Future Version of yourself? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happen to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the. Coop and let's start your day
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  off in a fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning from
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  my studio. It's early dark, and I'm writing
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  today and I'm actually working on something to help out a
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  friend of my son. And a lot of us end up getting
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  stuck in stories. And those stories are not
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  necessarily helpful for us. And the stories about us.
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  That's what the the big conundrum is always when it's a
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  story about us. And it's not necessarily helping
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  us because we're stuck in that story.
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  We have to change it. And the story you tell yourself
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  is incredibly important. It's incredibly, incredibly
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  important. I in the past year, I had to
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  change a story I was telling myself because I had something I
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  was working on and I didn't want to share it with anybody because
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  I was like, oh, what will they think if they if they hear this
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  part of it? And I worked on it with my
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  coach. I made decisions I and I changed
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  what I was telling myself. Now here's the interesting part
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  about this. The stories that we tell
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  ourselves can be grand and wonderful if we would allow
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  ourselves to tell good damn stories.
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  But often we don't tell good stories.
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  We tell really, really bad stories and those stories become
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  the reality that we tell them over and over again.
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  So it's it's about deciding that you don't like the story and
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  you're going to change the story.
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  Now here's what's interesting about this.
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  The stories we tell become the identity we have.
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  And that's really what this is about today.
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  The story you tell becomes the identity you have.
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  And what's even more fascinating is you can constantly morph and
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  change your identity, like legitimately morph and change
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  your identity about how you see yourself, who you are, by
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  changing the story you tell yourself.
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  And then it starts to shift and before you know it, you're in a
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  new place. Now most of us have seen the
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  story or read the book by Charles Dickens, The Christmas
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  Carol. And you know, we see Ebenezer
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  and Ebenezer is at the end of his life or towards the end of
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  his life, and he's miserable and nasty.
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  And when they tell the story and you go back and the angels come,
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  the ghosts come and they're helping him transition through
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  the stories of his life. There's the ghosts of Christmas
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  past, the ghosts of Christmas present and the ghosts of
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  Christmas future, or you know it, it's, it's laid out very
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  simply, past, present, future. Well, think about it in terms of
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  yourself that way the person you were in your past is not the
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  person you are right now. Like the person that was Kim.
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  When I had all that anxiety all the time and I was constantly
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  riddled with fear. I mean, some of some of the
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  paralysis, not even being able to lay on the couch without
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  opening my eyes because I was afraid I would have an anxiety
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  attack. That person physically is still
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  me, but that person is definitely not me from the the
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  identity that I have for myself anymore.
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  That person doesn't even exist in my day-to-day.
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  And how is that possible? Well, it's because of what we
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  how we change what we feel, how we change what we see, how we
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  change what we believe about ourselves.
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  And then everything else just moves on.
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  The person that I am in the present right now, the person
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  who is studying all these different things about herbs,
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  how to grow different things, how to learn botanical names and
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  remember them. Because gosh knows I am not good
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  at that. And in the current moment, but
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  the future version of myself is she loves it.
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  And it's so funny how those things all tie together because
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  it's always been a sore spot for me that I can't remember those
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  kind of names. Like, it's something weird in my
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  brain. I just don't remember them.
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  And then yesterday, I was at a Garden Club meeting and they
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  were talking about, oh, if you're someone who likes the
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  botanical names and you like to study that and you can, you
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  know, help us at a table, we would love that.
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  And I was like, oh, oh, I would love to be able to help with
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  that. And I didn't get sad about it
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  that I couldn't do it. I was excited because now it
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  gave me motivation even more to learn it.
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  So when we start blending all of this information and pulling
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  from the what we know about ourselves as we are right now,
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  what we used to believe about ourselves, our past and where we
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  want to go in the future, we can start to create something
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  completely different for ourselves.
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  And what's important about this is that you don't get hung up on
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  where you are right now more than knowing where you're
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  starting the drive. Just like if you were going to
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  take a trip, the GPS doesn't say to you, OK, you know, like where
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  are you going first? What it says is where are you?
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  You have to put in when you go there, what's your starting
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  point? That's always what the GPS asks,
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  what's your starting point? Or in our case, now with the
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  phones, they just know where we are because we've got navigation
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  on, but it's taking that information first.
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  So if you figure out where you are right now and you know where
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  you want to go and you're willing to let go of where
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  you've been as well and say, Nope, I'm going to focus that
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  every day. The person that started
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  listening to this is not going to be the person that finished
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  listening to it because you have a different outlook on things.
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  Anything can change. So work on this my friends,
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  because I promise you it definitely works.
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  I hope that you guys have an amazing, wonderful day, fully
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  blessed in this new mindset and I will talk to you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.