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Season 3 - Episode 158 - The MOST powerful question you can ask yourself · 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
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  coop. So I want to share with you one
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  of my most favorite questions that I use with all my coaching
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  clients, with myself, with my son, with just about anybody.
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  I probably asked this question of myself, I don't know,
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  probably a good legitimately 50 times a day because it's just
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  such a powerful question and you're probably going to be
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  shocked by it because it's very introspective.
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  But the question is, what else could this mean?
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  And the power of this question was taught to me many, many
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  years ago by a shaman actually in Hawaii.
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  And we were at a Tony Robbins event.
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  We were sitting outside having a conversation, and we were
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  talking about the power of questions and all the different
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  things that they could mean and all the different questions that
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  people ask themselves. And I asked him, what is your
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  favorite question? And he said, what else could
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  this mean? And I said, wow, that's a really
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  great question. He said, isn't it?
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  It's one of my favorite questions ever, and it's not my
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  most favorite. And, you know, when I started to
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  pay attention to that in my own life, it really became a force,
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  if you will, because when you ask that question for anything,
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  you start to expand your horizons.
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  You start to expand what you know.
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  So you hear all that gaggling going on in the background.
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  It sounds like the chickens are all upset, right?
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  Sounds like they're angry about something.
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  It sounds like they're being attacked.
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  It could mean a lot of things to different people.
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  But when I first got them out here and they were into their,
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  you know, coop, big coop, and they would start doing this, I
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  was like, all nerved up. I would run outside.
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  Oh my God, dude, something's attacking them.
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  I made a conclusion. I made a conclusion that they
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  were in trouble and I run out and what I see is a bunch of
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  chickens, hens specifically, all lined up.
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  And here we are. I'm standing inside as I'm
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  telling you this. They're all lined up and they're
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  yelling at each other and now they're stopping because I'm
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  here, obviously, but they're all lined up and this, this whole
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  thing, all this yelling is not someone's attacking them.
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  It's that they are annoyed with each other because they have
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  eight boxes in which they can lay eggs and they like two of
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  the eight. The rest of them are, I guess,
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  not prime real estate, but they are all four boxes on top of
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  four boxes. They are all set up identical.
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  They all have the same hay, they all have the same herbs in them.
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  Yet these chickens argue and yell at each other because they
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  all want the same two boxes to lay their eggs in.
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  And I don't understand it myself, but the first time I saw
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  this I thought I must be wrong. There must be a snake in this in
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  the coop, there must be something I'm not seeing.
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  And boom, I look in. Nope, there's nothing there,
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  there's nothing there. And then I realize, well, what
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  else could this mean? Well, it's that they all just
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  like to lay eggs in the same two boxes.
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  And if there's a chicken in there laying an egg, they will
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  yell in her face until she hurries up, in which she sits
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  there and ignores them, which I love that she ignores them and
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  doesn't hurry for anybody. She's like, Nope, my time, I'll
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  take my time. But that one question I can ask
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  and I can find out what's really going on.
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  It's that they all have their favourites.
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  I can ask a client that question, what else could this
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  mean? And they can explain to me,
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  well, I don't know what. Well, let's brainstorm.
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  What else could it mean? What else is something that
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  could be in the person's mind or in in your child's mind or in
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  the situation? What else could be showing up?
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  What else is bringing to the table for you?
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  The question is formulated in a way that allows your brain to
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  take it in and actually say, all right, I already have a
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  conclusion because the word else is in there.
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  So we automatically as human beings, we go to what does this
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  mean? And we try to without even
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  thinking about this. This is something that's just
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  hard wired into us. It's how our cognitive brain
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  capacity works. We look to draw conclusions
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  quickly so that we can process quickly because our brains are
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  all about speed, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  So what else does this mean? Circumvents that, it goes over
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  it and it says, OK, you've got a conclusion, but think of another
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  conclusion. Think of another conclusion.
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  And it gives your, your brain the capacity to use creativity,
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  to use perspective, to use other emotions and come up with
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  different possibilities. And in that, that's where the
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  power comes in for solutions, creativity, it all blossoms.
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  Steve Jobs was great at what else could we do?
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  He one of the things that he was so good at doing was asking
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  these other questions that go beyond what we know in the
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  moment to go to the next level up.
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  So this is one of those questions for you to ask
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  yourself and what else could this mean?
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  And help you to see and formulate different perspectives
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  that bring about different possibilities and different
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  conclusions for you to go to. And also help those around you
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  become more creative and yourself to become more
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  creative. Because honestly, the more you
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  put that framework around you. For instance, I paint and when I
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  paint, I will say, well, what's another way I can do this?
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  So that's a branch off of that question, at least in my mind it
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  is. And then I can try different
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  things. And even though they may fail,
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  I'm far more open to them because it's all about
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  possibility. And then I don't look at it like
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  it's just an OK, it's a failure. No, it's just, I figured out
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  what I didn't like. It's not a failure.
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  I just figured out what I didn't like.
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  So hopefully this resonates with you and you'll be able to use
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  this more and more in your life because I promise you, the more
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  you use this question, the better you will be at helping
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  yourself and helping those around you to get to what they
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  really want in their life and their focus.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.