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Letting go of the fear of learning something new · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So, today I want to talk to you about being okay, with starting
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  something off and being new at it and not being great at it.
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  You know, we love to talk to our children about this and we
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  always tell them hey, you know what you, of course, you don't
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  know it, you have to learn it, blah, blah, blah.
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  But what I find with adults is very interesting because we
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  don't always do well, when we have to learn new things and we
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  get very uncomfortable with learning new things and we could
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  grumpy about it and we beat ourselves up.
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  Now whether this A new thing for work.
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  Like, let's say, you have to learn new software, or you have
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  to learn a new skill like podcasting.
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  I had nothing. No skill in the beginning of
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  understanding, what it took to do podcasting, how to do the
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  technicalities of it, and all of that.
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  And I had to figure it out. And then, of course, me being
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  me, I simplified at all because I didn't want it to be complex.
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  But the thing that I can tell you about it is when you first
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  go into it, we always have hesitation, we always have these
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  waves of hesitation we as human beings because we don't like to
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  necessarily jump in and say, oh my gosh, I know nothing about
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  this, I'm so excited to learn it.
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  We kind of go into it with. I want the end result but I
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  don't necessarily want the process and that's where we get
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  hung up. We can't want an outcome and not
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  want the effort, it takes to get the outcome.
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  And that is a really big thing here.
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  What I just said the and I've talked about that specific
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  subject before The psychological standpoint.
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  But this is actually saying, I want to learn new things.
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  Now, why are we talking about the learning new part of it?
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  Well, because at the end of the year and as you start to think
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  about how your year went or how you want your next year to go,
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  it's always a great thing to say, well you know what,
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  something new that I want to learn about what something new
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  that I want to incorporate into my life.
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  So for me, I'll tell you one. That's blank big on my list for
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  next year. Really, really excited to do.
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  Ooh, two things as far as my farming and growing things go.
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  I really want to learn to make fermented items which I've never
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  made fermented items. Before meaning, I could make
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  kimchi or I could make kombucha or I could do any of those
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  things. But fermented items in general
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  and I really want to learn to do bread from scratch and I've
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  never done bread from scratch. It has always been one of those
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  things that like scared the hell out of me.
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  And I always when I grew up at a time when those bread makers The
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  bread maker that everyone had on their counter at one point in
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  time had and you pour the mix in and you know the bread maker did
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  the whole thing but I don't I I never ever remember my mother
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  doing anything like that. She was not the best cook but we
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  had the bread maker and I and she'd say oh making bread from
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  scratch, is too hard. That's why we have the machine.
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  So I grew up being told something was really too hard to
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  do and that I shouldn't necessarily Endeavor into it but
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  now Now, I see people all over the place online doing their
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  sourdough Breads, and all their other birds and it excites me
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  and I want to learn how to do it.
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  So I've done canning before with my auntie Annie, who I
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  absolutely adore and love that process.
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  And she taught me all about canning so that I feel very
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  confident in. But this other stuff is
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  something that I really want to learn and that's going on my
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  list. And the point of bringing this
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  up today is what are the things that you want to learn.
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  And what are the things that you're going to stop resisting
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  learning? Like, you know, my husband is
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  somebody. That is so talented at so many
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  things and I look at it and I say, geez, he can whip out
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  scientific names, like nobody's business and I'm a little
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  jealous of the fact that he can do that and remember anything,
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  all the scientific names of our plants and all the scientific
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  names of animals, he's just a Science Guy.
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  Now that's a skill. I don't possess but I really
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  don't necessarily want it. I'm like yeah, I would Love it,
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  but I'm not willing to put the effort in, but this other stuff,
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  I'm willing to put the effort in.
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  So what's something new that you want to learn?
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  And you want to take it into your new year and say, hey this
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  is something I really want to do and I'm willing to be
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  uncomfortable. I'm willing to say, I don't know
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  how I'm willing for the failure. Like my friends, I'm willing for
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  the bread failure. Seriously, totally willing for
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  it. So I'm like okay I know I'm
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  going to have to put in a lot of effort.
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  I know it's not going to work right away and I know I'm going
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  to have to work hard at it. So think about that.
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  Start to ask yourself, what, where were?
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  You know, what things can I learn?
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  What are the stuff that I love to learn?
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  What am I afraid of letting go of.
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  And, you know what, here's the great part.
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  Let go of the fear, you know? Just stop wave man.
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  Who cares? Like, I'm who cares.
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  If I fail at bread? It's just like doing anything
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  creative. I don't care if it fails.
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  It's okay. It's totally okay.
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  I made a wreath. The other night, I don't think
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  it was the best one I've ever made, but you know what I was
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  expecting. Excited.
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  I made it out of okra that I grew and dried and I was like,
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  okay this is not so bad. So in fact I should probably
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  post that up on Facebook so everybody can see it and know is
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  it, is it done? No, it's always a work in
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  progress for me, but that's okay.
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  So I'm going to challenge you to think about that.
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  You know, what's the new thing you want to learn and welcome
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  the discomfort of learning it? All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a wonderful day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye. Excited.
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  I made it out of okra that I grew and dried and I was like,
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  okay this is not so bad. So in fact I should probably
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  post that up on Facebook so everybody can see it and know is
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  it, is it done? No, it's always a work in
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  progress for me, but that's okay.
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  So I'm going to challenge you to think about that.
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  You know, what's the new thing you want to learn and welcome
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  the discomfort of learning it? All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a wonderful day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.