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Season 2 - Episode 64 - Small shifts equal big change! · 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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  Ooh, so it's going to talk to you about something different
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  today. When I opened the door to walk
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  outside the weather had shifted and it was not a big shift, just
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  a small shift but it went from feeling very warm to very cool
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  and like comfortably cool and I thought to myself
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  instantaneously it changed my state like boom I open the door
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  and I was like, oh wow, it's a great day to work out.
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  Again and I felt reinvigorated almost by just the fact that
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  there was a cool little breeze. And I felt a certain way.
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  And I thought to myself, you know, I really want to talk to
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  everybody about this because it's amazing how we forget
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  small. Things make such a big
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  difference. There's a Buddhist saying that
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  says, if you don't think that small things matter, spend the
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  night with a mosquito and boy, isn't that true?
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  Because you cannot stand Spending the night with a
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  mosquito, we will go to the nth degree to get rid of the
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  mosquito. I can remember as a child in the
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  house crying and my father running around the room trying
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  to find the mosquito because it would buzz in my ear and then I
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  would freak out and he would come in be my hero, sit on the
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  end of the bed. Wait for the mosquito, he
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  obviously was exhausted because he had worked all day, but he
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  still showed up and did the dad thing, which was wonderful.
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  And I will never forget how That always made me feel that he
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  would come in and do those things.
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  But that is not about this today.
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  This is about the mosquito Factor, so this little tiny
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  shift today. Oh, the weather.
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  And we all know that the weather out there when it's not great
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  for us and how we day after day. If we don't have enough sunshine
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  or we're stuck in, you know, rain clouds, whatever, how it
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  affects us. I mean, it's a very
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  psychological tie to the weather, but this It's just
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  like, it's a small shift. So it's like, oh wow, this is
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  interesting and I think we forget, just forget over and
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  over again, how these little tiny things make such a
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  difference to us and we focus on all the big things and it's not
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  all about the big things. It's about all the tiny things.
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  It's about all the little awarenesses that you can make in
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  your life to say. Wait, if this is different than
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  I'm going to feel different. And then, if I feel different
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  things show up differently because ultimately, we are
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  responsible for the condition. In which we live.
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  And as much as we don't want to face that fact that we are
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  responsible for the conditions in which we live, we are.
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  And we have to face the fact that we are creating constantly
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  our reaction to those conditions.
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  We create the reaction to the conditions.
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  We are responsible for them, the reactions and the reactions, and
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  the reality of what we live in. Well, most of us, that On here,
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  probably believe the same things, we are responsible for
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  creating those conditions. You know, I wasn't happy where I
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  was living, so I changed where I was living.
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  It's a very, it's a very simple concept, difficult to execute.
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  And some people would say, well, you know, I'm not happy in my
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  job, I can't get anything else and I would argue the point.
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  Well, you can, and those are big things to change, but I'm
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  talking today. Just about the small Things.
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  The small teeny tiny things. You can, of course, change the
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  big things, and people always become like shocked.
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  When we say to them meet people, my husband, and I, and we'll
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  say, oh yeah, we came here for a visit to South Carolina.
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  And then six weeks later we moved from, Rhode, Island, South
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  Carolina. And I'm like, what how could you
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  do that? Well, you can do anything you
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  want, you can do anything, you put your mind to, you can do
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  anything that you make a decision is important enough to
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  you. And for us, that was important.
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  We recognize Recognized what was going on and we just were like,
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  no, no more of this. But the small daily things we
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  have to do the same thing. All these little annoyances he
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  and I were just talking about it yesterday and he's like, you
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  know, I have to take care of this.
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  He has pet rabbits and he's like, I have to fix this because
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  it drives me crazy every day for them.
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  So he's designing these things that are better for them and
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  fixing their, their world and it just makes such a massive
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  difference, all the little things getting cleaned up, all
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  the the little tiny things getting cleaned up in your head
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  and looking and saying these all these little tiny small things
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  that irritate frustrate Just look at them, just say to
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  yourself and even if it's not an irritation, let's take this from
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  a different perspective even if it's just the simple thing of
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  saying, you know what, I want something to be better.
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  And I'm going to make small shifts to get it better over and
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  over. It's kind of like I like to
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  think of it as you know. Teddy Roosevelt was very known
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  for writing a speech and then redoing the speech and redoing
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  the speech and redoing the speech and redoing the speech
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  same speech. H.
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  But he would make small distinctions over and over and
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  over again before he actually delivered the speech.
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  And a lot of the great orators of that time did the same exact
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  thing like you, you couldn't get past it, where they would
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  practice, and they would change like two words, three words, and
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  then the speech would become legendary.
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  So in order to do that for yourself, look at all those
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  little small shifts because they matter and if you don't think
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  so, we get a slap in the face. Just like The weather today did
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  to me like wow, small shift, big change.
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  And so, think about that small, shifts, equal, big changes.
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  So keep that in mind. And I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.