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Season 3 - Episode 184 - A deep look at NECESSARY · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  Today we are talking about what is necessary.
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  So it's an interesting question, right?
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  There are plenty of things that you want to do.
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  There are plenty of things that always seem urgent.
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  I mean, I think we're all surrounded by urgent, urgent
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  things. At least I'm air quoting this as
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  I say it because we tend to make them urgent.
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  But are they really urgent? I don't know, but think about
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  what is necessary. Are things really necessary?
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  Is the drama really necessary? Is the anxiety really necessary?
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  Is the rushing really necessary? Is it something that you have
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  ever contemplated before? What is really necessary?
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  You know, sleep is necessary, water is necessary.
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  Having shelter is necessary, food shopping necessary.
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  Things like that are what is necessary in our world.
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  But our reactions, our responses, things that are going
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  on around us, what things are really necessary and what things
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  are not necessary. It's an interesting place to
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  take yourself and become curious about because we're mostly
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  surrounded by making everything urgent.
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  And as soon as you make your everything urgent, your scope
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  becomes muddled and you can't even see out of it anymore.
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  It's like looking through glasses with Vaseline on it.
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  You can't tell everything's blurry because everything's
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  urgent. So, you know, the things that we
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  decide we're going to deem necessary have to be taken under
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  consideration and say, yes, this is necessary.
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  And the things that I focus on that are necessary, I'm going to
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  do them in a way that makes me feel fulfilled.
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  Doing them instead of making them just be like I got to get
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  this off my To Do List and doing them with a mind of intention
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  and being very pragmatic but thoughtful is an ideal way to do
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  those necessary items. When you deem something, as, you
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  know, a necessary item, often times we we'll label it like, oh
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  God, it's a pain in the butt or it's a nuisance or it's not
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  something I love to do. So the question is removing
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  things from being urgent, removing things from getting to
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  that place of being, you know, hyper, like just making my
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  anxiety go through the roof and getting down to OK once I get
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  past that phase, OK, do I even need to do this?
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  Is this something that is going to move me further from my goals
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  or closer to my goals? And I use the word goals, but it
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  can be outcomes, it can be intentions, it can be whatever
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  words you want, but are things moving you closer to it or
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  further away from it? And that helps you understand,
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  you know, and, and keeping that pace of necessary versus urgent
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  also helps keep you in a place of on a peaceful track as
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  opposed to a reactive track. I think a lot of times when we
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  get urgent, we get so reactive because we have to hurry, hurry,
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  hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry doesn't help us at all.
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  Never has, never will. So what's so important is to
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  remember that in the big scope of things in the big, like, OK,
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  we're going to go down this road of looking at our life and, and
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  really focusing our intention on being happier.
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  When you can contemplate the necessary items in a true way of
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  being very honest with yourself as opposed to reactive, you're
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  going to notice a total different outcome.
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  And when you look at the necessary items and you accept
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  them as this is just part of being a human being.
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  Like I was trying to explain to my son, you know, there are
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  certain things about being a human and being a valuable part
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  of the human race that you just have to take on, like self-care,
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  like brushing your teeth, taking a shower, being like, you know,
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  doing your studying, being somebody who's trying to better
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  themselves. These are all healthy parts of
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  things and they are necessary items.
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  So if they're necessary, do them in a way that makes too proud of
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  doing them. Allow yourself that joy of
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  taking it on that way as opposed to taking it on in a way that
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  makes you feel like, oh gosh, here we go again.
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  So this is necessary. You know, some people get so
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  sick of going food shopping. And I think to myself, I think
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  it's kind of a fun thing to do because you're headed out,
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  you're going into the store and you can make it fun because
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  you're looking for different things.
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  You're you're looking at different people, you're
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  smiling, you're saying hello. There are plenty of ways to make
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  it a fun thing to do. Not to mention the fact that we
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  live in a country where there's a lot of options for this.
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  And to me, that just makes me smile because we don't struggle
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  to find food in that way. So just ask yourself, do I want
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  to live in a world where everything is urgent?
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  Probably not. And the things that aren't
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  necessary, do I want to do them while I'm unhappy?
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  Or would I like to try to make them happy places for me to go
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  because they are necessary and they are part of being human.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a great day, a blessed
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  day, and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.