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Failing vs never trying · 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 so today I want to tell
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  you, one of my favorite quotes from Theodore Roosevelt.
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  It's hard to fail, but it's worse to have never tried.
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  And I love this quote so much. Well, first of all, he was such
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  a great leader and he had such great attitude toward things.
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  But this particular quote is so awesome because it's one of
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  those things that we constantly want to believe in ourselves
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  that will keep doing, and we'll keep making attempts, and we'll
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  keep making attempts. But the truth is, we give up way
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  too easy on things, and it's something that I Of the things I
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  recognize out in my chicken coop that I just love because the all
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  like, all these little baby chickens that are out here, they
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  just don't give up. They just keep doing it.
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  They try to get up to the rafters.
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  They try to get up the in the coop, higher with a big girls
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  go, they can't do it, they just keep trying.
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  If it doesn't happen on Wednesday, they'll try again,
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  Thursday. If it doesn't happen Thursday,
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  they'll try it on Friday. They just don't give up.
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  And I think that sometimes as human beings we become
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  conditioned to say, well, I tried and I tried three times
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  and I give up and It really is a question of how much fortitude
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  do you have? Are you willing to say, I don't
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  have to try something, just once.
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  Twice, five times, I'm willing to keep going.
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  If it's something that you believe in, it's something that
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  you really want, you know, when you think about the things that
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  have gone on the inventors in this world that have done things
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  over and over and over and had multiple failures until they had
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  them work, they just were so committed to their outcome.
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  They would just keep going and it didn't matter how many times
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  whether it's you're talking about Edison and the light bulb.
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  I mean he failed a thousand times according to the reporter
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  that was interviewing him. And the truth was when Edison
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  heard that he said no, no no I didn't fail.
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  I just found out what didn't work, literally a thousand times
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  to get it, right? How many of you would be
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  actually willing to say, you tried something a thousand
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  times? It just doesn't happen.
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  We just Consider it and keep doing it.
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  What we do is we say okay well I tried that 10 times and it
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  didn't work out for me. So therefore I'm not going to do
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  it instead of just saying hey you know what, this is something
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  I'm really committed to and I'm going to make it work, whatever
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  I have to do and that's the part that's so important.
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  It's that you got to keep going and you got to keep saying if I
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  really am passionate about this is this is something that I
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  really want. Then I have to make sure I'm
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  willing to keep giving it a shot.
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  So, Times we have to. This is one of those moments
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  where you actually have to look at your goal again and go.
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  Well my really committed to this, is it something I really
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  want? Is it something that somebody
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  else wanted for me? Because sometimes we just aren't
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  as committed as we think we are because it wasn't something we
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  wanted to begin with. So again this is all back to
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  that original piece about finding out what is it that you
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  you know, have as a level of commitment are you 100% in or
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  you 75%? Because I can assure you on
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  things that I'm 75% in on Or 60% in Lon.
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  I'm not pushing the gamut. I'm not going out there and
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  going all in, but when I want something, I am Relentless and
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  that's the exact word my husband uses for me because he'll say,
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  oh my God, you just don't quit. Well, it's because I'm 100%, I'm
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  all-in. But how many things are like
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  that? There are some things in our
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  world that we're just not all in on and it shows up in these
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  moments when we have these types of situations, I swear, I don't
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  know. Am I all in or not?
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  So, going back and trying to figure out You know, is that the
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  reason is incredibly important in the process and recognizing
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  even before you start something where your level of commitment
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  is because it's not about failure.
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  It's about saying I'm committed and I'm going to do it and just
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  like this quote, it's like you've got to try those things.
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  That are our passion for, you got to go out there and say, I'm
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  willing to pour into it because I am 100% in.
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  I want this, I'm going to do what it takes.
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  I am so attaching my name to this.
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  I'm going to go out there and go nuts, making it happen, those
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  things excite you. They exhilarating they pour into
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  your soul and they just make you feel amazing.
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  You know, if somebody right now that I'm coaching this writing a
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  book and Writing a book is a very long Endeavor for a lot of
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  people. And for some people, it comes
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  easier than others. But I can tell you that because
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  the process is such a hard and difficult one, often times.
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  It gets very stretched out, and then your intention and your
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  energy Wayne's during the process.
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  And I have to keep coming back to basics and saying with him.
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  Okay. What excites you about this?
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  What are those things that light you up so that he can come back
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  and say, wait I'm not giving up. I-i'm in this, I'm doing this,
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  I'm going to make this happen because I want to be the person
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  that didn't give it up on it because so many people have an
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  Unwritten book. You might be listening to this
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  right now and be saying to yourself.
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  I'm this person she's talking about because it's a it's one of
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  those things that so many Want to do but they don't do it.
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  So if you are in this process and you are writing a book and
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  you haven't done it because you're just, you know, not
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  excited about it anymore. And you haven't been Associated
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  to it in a while, but you still want to do it and it's still a
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  passion. This is where you have to jump
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  in and say to yourself. You know what, it's far worse to
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  know that I just gave up and didn't even try.
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  Then it is to do it and fail and have it just like, you know, Who
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  cares, who cares? Failure is the giving up
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  process. So, put yourself out there
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  really check in with yourself and recognize.
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  I'm not going to give up, I'm going to go after what I want.
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  So write the damn book. Do the things that make you feel
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  excited and exhilarated. And hopefully, this was a good
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  kick in the butt this morning and I will see you tomorrow.