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Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aristotle wisdom · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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. And today we're back at the Jump
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  rope. So here's what's funny about
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  this because I have an Aristotle quote today and it's dark and
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  the girls aren't even awake yet because it's really early and
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  very chilly, but going to be warmer today.
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  So I'm excited about that part. But anyway, this Aristotle quote
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  just really captured something for me and I wanted to share it
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  with all of you today. And it just kind of fits so well
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  with what we were talking about with the jump rope.
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  So this is the quote. We are what we repeatedly do.
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  Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit, meaning the
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  ACT, meaning it's a singular thing or it's just that you're
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  pretending to do it, however you read it.
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  Because obviously this quote is very old now when we think about
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  this and we try to go through the, the theory of creating
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  excellence in our life, I can tell you this jump rope is
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  definitely challenging me because I'm still at the point
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  where I'm trying to figure out and really get through being
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  able to do it without tripping. And the habit of it is not there
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  yet. I mean, I'm, I would be lying to
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  all of you if I said the habit of jumping the rope was with me,
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  yet it's just not. It's, it's still something I'm
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  working on. I have to think about it.
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  I have to put it together in my head and say, OK, ready to do
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  this. Like I realized a very
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  interesting thing. I was jumping in my bare feet
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  and it kept stinging my toes when I was tripping.
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  So I was like, OK, I need to put on a pair of sneakers.
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  Like these things are just not habit at this point.
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  So when I was reading this, I read this quote the other
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  yesterday in a book I was reading and I was like, wow,
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  that is so true because I'm not in the habit.
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  If I had the habit completely set up, I would have had
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  sneakers on. I would have had everything set
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  the way I needed it to. So the point is when we do
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  something repeatedly, repeatedly, this is the point.
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  It's got to be that habit when we want it to be where we are
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  going in the right direction. So again, the quote is we are
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  what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an
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  act but a habit. So what habits do you have that
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  are bringing you to the excellence that you're looking
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  for? And you know, we often talked
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  about what habits we all have that don't bring us to the
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  excellence. So when I looked at the jump
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  rope situation and I broke it down and I don't have a strong
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  positive habit with it yet, I looked at where I was deficient.
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  And one of the places I'm deficient is having the
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  sneakers, having this set up in a way that I can win when I go
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  to do it. So I've still not got my pattern
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  around it nailed down, meaning if I'm going to go walk, I know
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  exactly where I'm going to walk. That's why I've got a trail
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  around the entire property. My husband and my son laugh at
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  me because they're like, oh look, you've got a whole trail
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  just right into the ground. You've walked so many steps
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  around it. It looks like a dirt Rd. around
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  the outside edge of the perimeter of the property
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  because I am just consistently walking there so much.
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  I'm causing that to happen. I don't have to think about
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  where I'm walking. My friends, I walk out the door,
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  I put the same sneakers on. I walk out the door.
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  They are my outdoor sneakers and I just walk.
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  Now here's what's funny about the whole sneaker thing.
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  I don't have a hat. We don't wear shoes in our
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  house. Our habit is never to bring
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  shoes in the house. So I would never think to put
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  sneakers on coming in the house. So of course, I would jump in my
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  bare feet because I'm in my bare feet in my house.
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  So do you see how these all these little things either add
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  to the greatness of the excellence of it, or they take
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  away from it? That's why habits are so
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  important to define and dig into so you understand where they're
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  coming from. My, my development of this is,
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  has got to look at all that those little tiny pieces.
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  So I'm going back through now and I'm saying, OK, I want to
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  make sure this is set up. Just like when I was trying to
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  get into the habit of walking originally, I would actually
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  bring my sneakers, put a piece of paper towel, I know it sounds
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  crazy on my night stand and I would put my sneakers with a
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  note in them that said who do you choose to be?
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  So in the morning when I looked at the sneakers and I didn't
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  want to get up and walk, I saw that note with a sticking right
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  out of the sneaker. Who would you choose?
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  Who am I choosing to be or who do you choose to be?
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  And immediately I would get up because I knew what that meant.
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  I wanted to choose to be the Walker.
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  I wanted to choose to be the person that was healthier.
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  So I had to set it up that way. Same thing here.
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  I have to do the exact same thing now.
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  So I've got to go and break it all down.
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  Meaning I've got to have the computer where I watch this app
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  with my jumping friend and I can go ahead have it all set up
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  right. I don't have to think about it.
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  I've now got a pair of indoor sneakers lined up so that I can
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  put them on. They've never been worn outside
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  so I don't have to get freaked out about the germs in the house
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  or chicken poop that might be picked up from something outside
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  because we know we have chicken poop here anyway.
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  It's just, it's part of that process.
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  So look for that. Look for that little tiny trail,
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  if you will, of OK, where are these habits either helping or
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  hurting and recognizing I want the habits to help me.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I'm going to
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  jump some rope and I'll talk to you later.
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  Bye.