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Season 3 - Episode 347 - Start where you are. · 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 mastermindset
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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 farm.
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  Not exactly the chicken coop, but the farm.
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  We're on a little walk right now because obviously we're coming
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  to the end of the year. You can hear off Rufus off in
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  the distance letting us all know he's working his job protecting
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  the girls. And we're taking a little walk
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  this morning because it's it's cold, things are dried up, lots
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  of stuff. I can walk around here and I can
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  tell you every single thing that is wrong right now.
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  I can look at it and I can tell you every little thing that's
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  wrong. But this morning as I was
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  feeding the girls and letting them out and it's so cold and
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  unusually cold. And I, I'm walking around and
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  I'm looking and I'm saying, oh, I got to do that.
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  And I've got to do this and I've got to do this.
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  And I'm giving myself this massive To Do List over the next
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  couple weeks. And I stopped and I paused and I
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  thought, you know what, let's take a different perspective.
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  Physically turned my body around and said, I'm going to start
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  saying I'm focusing on what I've done well this year.
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  So it's kind of like a stop, pause, we know from the bus and
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  say, OK, but let me look at my accomplishments.
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  Let me celebrate where I am right now.
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  And even if it's not a full blown accomplishment on
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  something, let me celebrate where I am right now.
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  So I can then go off and say, oh, wait, I can still look at
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  what's not right or what I want to fix or things that I want to
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  improve upon. Like inside the coop.
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  I really want to paint inside the coop.
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  It needs a fresh coat of paint and you know, fixing up the
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  window boxes too early for flowers.
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  But there are other things that can go out there, all kinds of
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  little things. The garden, oh boy, the garden.
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  I could look at that and say, Oh my gosh, I have to go in there
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  and RIP that all apart. I'm so late doing it and I
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  haven't even opened it up for the girls yet.
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  And I could get myself all worked up, but I'm not.
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  I'm going to stop and I'm going to pause and I'm going to say
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  this is where I am right now and it's OK.
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  Where I am is OK. Where I am is more than OK
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  because I can fix this. I can move forward with it.
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  I'm walking as I'm talking to all of you around the garden and
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  you know, it's a 50 by 50, all fenced in and the wires are
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  hanging because I've got an electric fence around it.
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  So nobody goes in there and eats things they shouldn't.
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  And I'm, I'm here, I am walking around it and trying really hard
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  to, you know, be positive about all the work that I have to do
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  around it. And I, I, I can see pure
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  potential. And when I'm in that mindset of
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  being positive, I can see that pure potential.
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  Do I see the work? Yes.
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  But I also see that there are 64 girls behind me.
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  Well, 62 girls behind me and two boys.
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  And they are more than excited to get in there and help me
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  clean it out. They'll be happy to get in there
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  and clean it out. They're so excited to get in
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  there and clean it out. They could care less.
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  They'll go in there and wipe it out with me and I'll feel good
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  and it won't take me that long because everything's dry now.
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  So the advantage of waiting and, and in in executing in the
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  mistake that I was thinking about before is hell, wait a
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  second. Everything's going to just come
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  right out because it's all dry and crispy after these frosts
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  we've had. So wherever you're starting,
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  it's okay. Whatever you're doing, it's
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  okay. Whatever you're creating and
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  whatever you have not yet created, it's okay.
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  You just have to give yourself permission to see it and view it
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  differently. So often this comes up,
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  especially when you're, I'm about to say, OK, I'm going to
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  go ahead and I'm going to start my new list, but I haven't
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  finished my old one. And we've been talking about
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  this for a couple weeks now trying to prep everybody.
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  But still there are things on mine that I still have to go do
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  and it can be massively frustrating.
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  Let me just say that it can be massively frustrating and and
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  that's OK, It's OK. So the point is, whatever
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  whatever's happening, wherever you are in your head with all of
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  this, whatever you've got going on in your head with it, I want
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  you to stop, stop and pause. And I want you to really think
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  about the fact that you have so many opportunities to do this
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  differently. You have so many opportunities
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  to think of this differently. You have so many opportunities
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  to be more thoughtful in how you're going through this than
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  just being mad at yourself. So don't be mad at yourself.
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  Start thinking of it in a in a more productive way and say, OK,
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  I've got this. I know what I want to think I
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  know how I want to show up. I know what how I want to feel
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  and I'm going to be patient. I'm going to be happy where I am
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  and I'm going to start the process happy where I am because
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  if I do that I'm setting a whole new vibrational tone to move
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  forward. I'm not kicking myself into
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  gear. I'm pushing with gentle love
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  into gear. I'm saying I'm excited about it.
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  It's gentle. It's not like kicking yourself
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  in the butt and sometimes you need to kick yourself in the
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  butt. But this time of the year, I
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  think it's more about just figuring out where you are,
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  being happy where you are and saying, OK, I'm good with this.
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  I'm, I'm really good with this and I can move forward with this
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  and then we can go from there. So hopefully my friends, this
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  helps you. Hopefully you can start your
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  year off in a great way. And I am going to go do the same
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  thing with myself and I'm not going to go beat myself up
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  around it because you know what it doesn't work.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.