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Season 4 - Episode 256 -Just say no! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways.
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  Of thinking. And just bring some joy into the
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  world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  How many times do you say no to people?
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  This is a very tricky question because saying no is hard for
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  most of us. We think we have to say yes to
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  everything if we want to make progress and I'm going to say no
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  because today's theme is no. I'm laughing, but it's one of
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  the things I had to learn for myself because I often go
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  through my life and I would say yes.
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  And I would be like, sure, yes. And I've heard the theory before
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  of, you know, that person who did and said yes to everything
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  and how that changed their life. And OK, that that can happen.
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  It can happen. And I learned through the
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  process of saying yes often that there are things that I know I
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  don't want to do and I'm saying yes to them.
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  And boy, did it make me feel crappy.
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  And I felt like I was taken advantage of.
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  And it's just, it just was not fun.
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  Hence entering into the word no. And years of my life, I had to,
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  you know, practice. I want to use I'm air quoting.
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  I had to practice using the word no because it was so easy to say
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  yes and then regret it. Like how many times have you
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  said to somebody they invite you to go to have lunch and you
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  don't want to go have lunch because it disrupts your entire
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  day. You're just like, I don't want
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  to do that. And you're like, sure, I'd love
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  to go. And those words come out of your
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  mouth and you're like, that is so not true.
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  Not one of those words is true. Right from the word sure till
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  I'd love to no, think about it. Do you really love to do this?
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  And the truth is it isn't true. It's no, it's a hard no.
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  You don't love to do that. You don't want to go do
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  something like that. Yet you witnessed those words
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  fly out of your mouth. And somebody will say to me, oh,
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  well, it's a people pleasing thing.
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  And I'm like, you know what? I think it's one of those things
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  where we all have our different definitions of it.
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  But for me, I know it was a I don't want to disappoint myself
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  by knowing afterwards I missed out on something.
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  The truth is it wasn't about pleasing other people as much as
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  it was about I, I didn't want to miss out on something.
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  What if I didn't go? What if I was supposed to be
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  there? What if this was like, you know,
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  the time I met the right person that took my career or gave me
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  an opportunity or I, I, I missed even having great food.
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  I would have that fear of missing out on something and it
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  would stop me cold in my tracks. So I would hear myself say, Oh
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  yes, I'd love to go. And then afterwards I'd be like,
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  why did I say that? And then when I went, oh boy,
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  social proof right in my face of Nope, that was not going to work
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  out the way I thought it was going to work out because guess
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  what? I got there and nothing great
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  happened. I mean, if I'm completely honest
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  about it, there have been times when I have been invited to go
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  out and speak. I haven't wanted to go.
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  I said yes because it was a business decision.
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  And inside my gut, I knew that if I went, it was not going to
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  yield anything, but I would go anyway.
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  And you know what the truth was? It didn't.
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  Now, one could say if you're, you know, a frequent listener of
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  this, you know, podcast, you know, we talk about manifesting
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  all the time. So did I manifest those results
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  of nothing happening? Maybe.
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  I don't know. All I know is, guess what?
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  I had the thought, I don't know what it's going to yield.
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  I don't know. I don't have a good feeling
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  about going. So did I manifest it or did it
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  just show up that way? And that's sometimes that's the
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  conundrum. Sometimes you don't know.
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  But what I've learned overtime is that saying no is powerful.
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  Putting yourself in the position of saying no.
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  I'm not putting up with this anymore.
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  I'm not doing this anymore. I'm not tolerating this for
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  myself. No, no, no, no, no.
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  So it it is a very, very important choice to use that
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  word wisely and recognize that you know what, especially as we
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  come into the holiday season, if you don't want to do something,
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  say no. If you don't want to drink that
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  drink, say no. If you don't want to go to the
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  party, say no. Say I'm unavailable.
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  Say anything that leads to the words no, but do it because it
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  will. It will show you that you have
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  power. If you get bombarded by 1000
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  emails in a day and everybody's looking for your attention, yes,
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  of course they're anticipating you to answer those emails.
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  But because it's an e-mail, it's like getting a piece of mail,
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  old school. You know you get it, but you
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  don't know what day you're going to get it.
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  And sometimes I will tell my clients, if you're going to
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  e-mail me something, text me so I know to go look because that
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  is not my fastest mode. If I get emails, I'm not
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  checking them constantly. So put some boundaries up, Say
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  the words no Save yourself and recognize that sometimes just
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  because something comes your way doesn't mean you have to say yes
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  to it, and it doesn't mean it's going to yield anything
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  wonderful for you. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.