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Season 5 - Episode 104 - Having Pride in what do…. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the 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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  In an early morning reflection, you're sitting with me and we
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  are going to talk a bit about having pride in what you have
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  accomplished. Now, I know we all have the
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  ability to say we are not where we want to be.
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  And I know we all have the ability to look at what we are
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  working on currently, our quality of what that looks like,
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  how we're doing with it. And we all, including myself,
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  have a tendency to be critical of it.
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  We definitely have a tendency to be critical of it.
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  And that's fine because I truly believe that when you're looking
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  at something that you're working on and you're saying, OK, this
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  could have been better, you know, we have the understanding.
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  We know. If we're pouring in as much as
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  we possibly could and if we even wanted to do it to begin with.
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  That's why I always say to my clients, what's your scale of
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  commitment to working on whatever you're working on?
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  On a scale of 1 to 10, what is it?
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  You know, one being not at all 10 being off the chart.
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  If you're in an an 8 or a nine, you're going to do a really.
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  So obviously A10, you're going to do a really outstanding job
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  and you might get close at the end and think, OK, I can make
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  another push. I can get it a little bit better
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  and that's fabulous. But if you're doing it to the
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  point where you know it's that nauseam and you're never letting
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  it go, that's when it becomes a problem.
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  But I'm not talking about that state.
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  I'm talking about the other state before it where you know,
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  you're pouring in, you know you're doing your best that that
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  that takes place. OK, I'm talking about the other
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  piece of this that starts before it where you are being so overly
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  critical of yourself that you're not ever letting yourself get to
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  that state. The part where we get into our
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  head and we start being like, well, I don't know if I'm ever
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  going to get there. I don't know if even when I do
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  get there or work out the right way, I'm not quite sure.
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  Maybe I should like, you know, let it go.
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  Maybe I should just do this, maybe that and we start talking
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  ourselves down off of having pride in what we have
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  accomplished because it's not quote UN quote the absolute
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  perfect. But I have, I have a belief
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  about this and and can use the garden as an example.
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  So my gardens are not at all what I expected this year.
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  One of my vegetable garden is off the chart right now, which
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  is great. Everything is growing really
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  well and better than expected, even though we're in the middle
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  of this drought. And I'm so excited about that.
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  And we'll we will see because we've had things like this
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  before and then all of a sudden something hard hits and then it
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  there's, you know, a downturn. But I have so much pride in what
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  I've accomplished out there and every single vegetable coming
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  from seed. But then there's the flower
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  garden. And I had expected so much.
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  I expected something different from it.
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  I started so many flowers and I normally would put them into the
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  cut flower garden and then I would buy stuff for my other
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  garden, for my rambling garden. That is the one we see all the
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  time. And this year, all of a sudden I
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  had this twist in my head. I'm going to put all the flowers
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  in there and I'm not going to do a cut flower garden, which is
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  insane to me. I'm probably going to start one
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  now. It's much later, but who cares
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  when when they show up, it's OK. But I, I had this like
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  overwhelming sense of being so proud of myself for growing all
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  those flowers. I didn't want to put them into a
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  place where I was just going to cut them.
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  I wanted to be able to see them. I wanted to be able to see them
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  interact with nature. So recognizing that I wanted to
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  get into that space, it made me feel a certain way and I was
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  able to change my whole focus. Now, if I just criticized myself
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  for not growing enough, because I could have done that or I
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  could have said I should have put them in the ground.
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  I should have, could have, would have, I should have all over
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  myself as we like to say. I would have never been able to
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  come up with some of these other things.
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  So the point of this is to recognize that when you are in
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  the process of building things and we are always in the process
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  of building things, even if you feel like you're not building
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  and you're just going through mundane life everyday, like, oh,
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  it's the same thing everyday washer and repeat washer and
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  repeat washer and repeat. You're still building something,
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  you're still working on something, you're still in a
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  certain state. So keep that in the back of your
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  mind that you are going to vacillate between having disdain
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  for your accomplishments or criticism for your
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  accomplishments as well as you should be mixing in having a lot
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  of pride. So I just stop myself and say,
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  no, I'm proud that all these flowers going in the ground are
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  grown from seed. I didn't just go by them, and
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  there was a big part of me that had that in the back of my head
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  as one of my possibilities this year.
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  And boy, did it change everything.
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  So allow yourself, as much as you're willing to allow yourself
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  to have the criticism, allow yourself to have the pride for
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  wherever you are in the process because it all mixes together.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.