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Season 3 - Episode 9 - Don’t put all your eggs in one basket · 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 mastermind set
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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.
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  From the chicken coop, so no pun intended, but kind of ha.
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  Today we're going to talk about putting all your eggs in one
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  basket. So I am a big fan of making sure
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  that you are diversified in lots of areas of your life, not
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  talking about relationships and having multiple people.
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  That's not what it because I had a client I was talking to about
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  this the other day and she's like, do you mean like having
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  multiple guys? And I was like, no, I'm not
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  talking about that at all. Talking about in general in
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  life, sometimes we put all our eggs in one basket because we
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  have been told and conditioned for so long to believe that we
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  have to be one thing, focused on one thing.
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  In order to be good at it. You have to create mastery in
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  that. Well, I have a completely
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  different opinion of this. And again, my opinion, you may
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  think completely different, but I think that diversity in
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  knowledge base, diversity in activity, diversity in in
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  multiple areas of your life helps you create long term
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  happiness because you're you don't get bored, you're able to
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  function at a higher level, you cross pollinate your learning
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  from one strategy to another and putting all your eggs in one
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  basket says, OK, I'm not going to focus on anything else.
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  Now if you are a person who has obsessive passion for something,
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  like let's just say that you are absolutely obsessed with playing
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  the violin and that is your thing.
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  And you know, from the time you were five years old, you were
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  meant to play the violin and you just feel it and you can't wait
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  to play the violin. This may not be for you.
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  It may be though, because you by playing other instruments, you
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  actually become better at playing the violin.
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  That is a true statement. People who cross pollinate.
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  That's why cross training is such a big deal for athletes.
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  You know, Olympic athletes regularly will say, OK, well, if
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  I'm a runner, I'm going to also make sure that I bike.
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  I'm going to also make sure that I do a bunch of other things
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  because that helps me in my whole physical training,
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  swimming. When you cross pollinate
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  yourself, you end up in a way better physical state.
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  So it's just, it's just a natural thing to say, OK, let me
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  try different ultimate things. Money.
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  You know, you might do something for a job during the day, day in
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  which you trade time for money and then you have investments,
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  you have stock investments, you invest yourself.
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  You might have a business that you run on the side.
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  It's having multiple streams that come into the pond, whether
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  the it's a pond we're talking about for cash, creativity,
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  whatever it might be. Having diversity in that plan
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  helps you psychologically because you can shift gears.
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  So for instance, Einstein, he played the piano and other
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  instruments as well. But when he would get stuck in
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  math, when he would get stuck in physics and he could not have a
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  a thought about something, he would switch and he would go
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  play. He would stop and he would go
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  play. He would he would write, he
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  would do other things. Because he knew if he did that
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  all of a sudden his brain would loosen up and he would have
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  different awarenesses, different identities, and and boom, things
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  change. So the point of this is I wanted
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  to make it clear that everybody that has problems with this and
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  everybody gets stuck, myself included.
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  You know, we we had that whole thing happened here where, you
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  know we lost some chickens and Dottie was one of them and it
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  was, it was an absolute mess and I was a mess and you know, they
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  are my, they are my family. They are my pets.
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  They are a part of this Wellness that I'm teaching you and
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  created. And the thing that I think
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  that's so important is when something happens, it affects
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  you. So it affected me and it threw
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  me off and I knew it and I had to try different things to bring
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  myself back. And thank goodness, actually
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  having built those different streams to come into my Wellness
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  helped me pull out of it. It helped me because I was able
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  to say, OK, what's the one thing that I know is going to really
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  pull me me out right now? Well, sometimes it's just simply
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  reading. And for me it was like, okay.
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  I'm just going to dive into reading a bunch of different
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  things, listening to different books, because I'll sometimes
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  read, sometimes I'll do audibles, just depends on the
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  mood I'm in. But I just started learning,
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  learning, learning, learning. I jumped on my master class app,
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  which I love. If you've never purchased a
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  master class, I don't get anything for this.
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  I'm just telling you it's a wonderful, wonderful tool.
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  masterclass.com and you can learn from famous people all
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  over the world. And it takes you very little
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  time. An hour to get a whole class in
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  typically. And you can, I promise you, you
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  can walk away with stuff that will benefit you.
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  So I started diving into that, and as soon as I shifted myself
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  from sorrow and and frustration, I was able to go, OK, I'm taking
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  in things, I'm learning, I'm building myself up, I'm filling
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  the gap back up. So just remember, not all your
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  eggs in one basket, put them in baskets.
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  Decide at the beginning of the year what do your baskets look
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  like and what are you going to go to so that you can tap into
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  them as soon as you need them. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.