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Season 3 - Episode 12 - What my Fitbit taught me · 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 my studio, not the chicken coop.
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  So we are changing things up a little bit because we have a
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  challenge with a fox at the chicken coop and we are waiting
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  for someone to come and relocate, said Fox.
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  So normally if it was dark, I would go out and I would open
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  the doors and I would record anyway, but the chickens would
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  be able to come out when they were ever that we're ready.
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  And now I'm keeping them locked up a little bit longer.
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  So the sunlight effects this fox, even though it came out the
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  other day right in bright sunlight.
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  And we had another incident and we lost Winnie, which I know all
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  of you know how much she means to me.
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  And it's getting very frustrating.
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  So we are, we've hired A trapper and we are waiting for the
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  trapper. Apparently there are tons of
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  foxes that need to be relocated right now.
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  So we're on a list. Hopefully she's going to get to
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  us this weekend and we will be able to take care of this rehome
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  this fox and we will not have to keep the chickens locked up.
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  But in any event, today what we are talking about is the fact
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  that I put up a post the other day on Facebook about my
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  progress with Fitbit in the past year and I had done over 5
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  million stops. Now I don't see that every day.
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  I want to be Full disclosure, I only look at that once a year as
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  a surprise to myself. And you can only see that little
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  tidbit of information When you log into the Fitbit app and you
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  on on the computer and you go into fitbit.com and you look at
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  your progress and there's this little wheel and you can click
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  on the little wheel and then you can see all your past progress,
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  years ever since you've had an account.
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  So me being the certainty girl that I am, I like to keep track
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  of those things. So typically every January I
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  pull up my numbers from the previous year and I'm like, you
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  know, oh holy cow, wow, that was cool.
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  And the numbers continue to grow, which makes me very happy.
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  And it pushes me to compete against myself because I don't
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  believe in competing against anybody else.
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  I'm competing against myself. And am I doing better than I was
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  before? Yes.
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  Great. Perfect.
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  I don't need to know what other people are doing.
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  I can stay in my own little bubble.
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  So I put this post up and I get all kinds of messages being sent
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  to me, nice ones through Facebook and the public one,
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  which was nice. And then I get some private ones
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  and people are making comments about how they could never do
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  that or how the hell did you do that?
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  That is absurd and ridiculous. And I'm not disagreeing that.
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  It's not a lot of steps. It's a lot of steps.
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  But the reason I'm bringing this up to everybody is when I put
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  the post up, I legitimately said it is one step at a time.
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  And it is. And sometimes, you know, one of
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  these people that I ended up speaking to about it, I made the
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  comment that like OK, yeah, it's one step at a time.
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  But you know real progress typically is made with leaps.
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  And I'm like that is not a lie. Real progress is not one thing
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  or another. Real progress is consistency.
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  It's all about taking the path and making a decision that there
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  is this is non negotiable. For me, this walking is non
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  negotiable. It's the way I stay healthy.
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  It's the way my body feels good and that's an indicator.
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  My body feels really, really good when I walk a lot so I keep
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  doing it. It's an indicator.
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  But when someone says you have to take massive action or giant
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  leaps, is that part of progress? Possibly not for everybody, but
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  possibly it is for me. I have had parts where I've
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  taken big leaps. Launching that new website,
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  doing programs. Those are those are are leaps.
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  However, they are coupled with consistent one step at a time
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  progress. You can't take Quantum leap and
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  then go on vacation. You can't take a a small leap
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  and go on vacation. You have to consistently do
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  things. Consistency is the name of the
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  game and that outcome was one step at a time, one step at a
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  time. And maybe while I was on that,
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  those paths walking. Did I speed walk?
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  Sure. Did I jump over something?
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  I can assure you I jumped over puddles a lot because we have
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  lots of rain and I'm always leaping over things.
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  But that doesn't mean it's it's such an excellent metaphor, but
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  it doesn't mean that I didn't have a non negotiable outcome in
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  mind. And that's what you have to
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  remember. Whatever you are working on, you
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  have to have a non negotiable outcome in that head of yours.
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  You have to say no, this outcome is non negotiable.
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  How I get there? Negotiable, yes, but consistency
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  is part of it. So you might change your
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  tactics. You might say, hey I want to add
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  to my database, I want to end up with 100 new clients by the end
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  of the year. OK great.
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  How you get there with those hundred clients is negotiable
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  about the fact that OK, I want to be able to try some direct,
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  you know contact, some want to do social media, some I want to
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  do postcards this time I want to do whatever that may be.
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  Those are all options and you can do that.
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  But getting the 100 clients non negotiable, consistent progress,
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  doing it non negotiable. So you've got to keep moving.
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  You've got to keep doing it. And this is such a great
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  metaphor and rather than looking at the progress and saying, oh,
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  I could never do that, you have to look at the progress and go,
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  OK, this is absolutely inspiring.
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  I want to be able to do that. If she can do it, I can do it.
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  And I can assure you if I can do it, anybody can do it.
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  But we have such habits of, again, this is such a great
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  metaphor of having the steps of just sitting at our desk and
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  doing nothing except working on the computer, that our entire
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  worlds have become in cyberspace and we have to recognize that we
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  have to get up and move. Our bodies are meant to move.
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  If our bodies are falling apart, it's because we don't move
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  enough. So we have to get up and
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  literally move your ass. There you go.
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  It's out there. And whether it's consistency in
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  patterns, whether it's actually moving your body, whatever it
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  is, make it a non negotiable and do it.
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  OK my friends, I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.