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Season 4 - Episode 25 - Understanding your version of success · 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 afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  So I am shooting it this afternoon.
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  I'm shooting our podcast this afternoon because I know
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  tomorrow morning it's going to be icy and cold again.
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  Things are starting to melt and I've got out here finally got
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  the girls all kind of cleaned up and straightened out and I
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  thought that I would record today to make it better for
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  tomorrow morning. So we are talking about defining
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  your version of success and we talk a lot about these types of
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  things, but this particular time of year always seems to be 1
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  where the subject comes up more and more because it appears that
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  people will want to give you their opinion of what you're
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  working on. So everyone always wants to
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  know, did you said any goals? Do you have any intentions,
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  resolutions, whatever? Everybody's asking.
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  And then they want to give you their opinion of the stuff like,
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  oh, you're doing that. Well, that seems really hard.
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  Or how's that going? And it's not necessarily that
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  they're giving you their support in the in the process of it.
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  They're more or less just kind of giving you their thoughts,
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  maybe not their criticisms, but definitely their thoughts.
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  And it's so important that we understand how we define the
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  win, we define the goal. Because if, if we don't have our
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  version of what the goal is, and we don't have our version of
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  what success in the goal is and our version of how those little
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  steps along the way are, then we get lost in the fray of whatever
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  they're talking to us about. And this can be very difficult
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  because we maybe we're not 100% on it yet.
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  Maybe we're still in the process of it, like as I'm starting to
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  redefine what I want to do this year on the farm, I can, I can
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  discuss this with people, but they'll be like, oh, why do you
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  want to take that on? Like if I bring up wanting to
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  get mini donkeys or thinking about doing other animals, why
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  do you want more responsibilities?
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  Like why would you want to take that on?
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  And or, you know, adding on to a section to the chicken coop or
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  expanding it, the flower gardens or creating a greenhouse.
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  Everyone always seems to have opinions on this stuff because
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  it doesn't meld with their version of the world.
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  So oftentimes as people get older, they want to move things
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  away from them. They want to have less
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  responsibility, fewer things to deal with.
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  And I am pretty much the exact opposite.
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  I am like, I want to do everything that I've always
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  wanted to do. I want to pull it all together.
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  I want to make sure that I am putting myself in the most
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  productive phase because I feel like I don't want to leave
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  anything on the table. I am like, you know, I often
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  joke around and say I'm of the def leopard age where it's
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  better to burn up than fade away.
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  And I definitely mean that. I would really, truly rather do
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  that than have myself have this. You can hear me crunching while
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  I'm walking with the snow out here at the coop.
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  I, I would, I would absolutely rather have that be my life than
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  have my life be like, oh, I wish I had done something like that.
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  That just makes me crazy. My friends.
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  I don't want to leave anything on the table.
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  I want it all to be awesome and I want it to be just set up so
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  that I can have this tremendous feeling of accomplishment.
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  So I know when I bring things up to people, they're going to have
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  opinions. Like I just had this happen at
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  the conference I was speaking at and people were coming up
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  afterwards and talking to me and people were like, Oh my gosh,
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  why do you want to go out? And, you know, not everybody.
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  There were quite a few people who had the opinion that like,
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  wow, that's so cool. I love that you're doing that.
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  That's, that's so inspiring. And then other people that were
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  like, Oh my God, why are you doing that?
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  And I, I just laughed and I was like, well, you got to figure
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  out what you want to accomplish and what you want to be a part
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  of before you pass from this plane of the world.
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  And I'm very clear on that. I'm very clear on what I want to
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  make happen. And I get clearer and clearer as
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  time goes on. So the point I'm trying to make
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  to you all is you've got to know this version for yourself.
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  Otherwise you'll be open to other people's interpretations
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  and then you may get sidelined with what it is you truly want.
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  So if you haven't done it yet, sit down and try to figure that
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  out. Not just what the goal is, but
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  what is your version of success with the goal?
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  How will you know when you reach that success?
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  How, what are the milestones along the way that you're
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  willing to see so that you can make sure you're really, truly
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  putting yourself on a path of understanding?
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  That's a win. And someone else is like, whoa,
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  you're not there yet. Oh boy, I love when someone says
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  that to me. Well, you're not there yet.
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  And I'm like, no, but I'm on my Rd.
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  Are you on a road? And I say that jokingly, but
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  guess what? They're probably not even on the
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  road because most of the most critical people out there
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  haven't even started the walk, let alone fly on the road.
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  So I'm encouraging you to sit down, write it out so that you
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  know what it looks like, and then you can go from there
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  without having to deal with somebody else's version of it
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  for you or their opinions or the things that put you in a
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  position of having to answer for something that you know in your
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  heart is the right thing for you.
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  So I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you guys
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  tomorrow. Bye.