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Season 3 - Episode 190 - Is it only willpower that gets us there? · 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 mastermindset
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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 coop.
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  Today we have a lesson from Napoleon Hill, who is very old
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  school. I know most of us have read
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  Think and Grow Rich maybe more than once, and we've all walked
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  away with that, the gems that that book has to offer.
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  There's one particular quote that is just so powerful and so
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  poignant, it's worth focusing on for a period of time is
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  willpower is the outgrowth of definiteness of purpose
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  expressed through persistent action based on personal
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  initiative. So that's a lot encompassing in
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  that one little sentence because we as human beings, we, we want
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  to believe that we all have a purpose.
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  We all we when we do, we all have a purpose.
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  And we want to believe that at the core of who we are.
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  We want to believe we all have a purpose and that the meaning of
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  our life is definite in clarity so that we can know that it all
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  matters, right? Everything has to matter to us
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  at some point in time because otherwise what's it all for,
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  right? So we think about this on our
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  purpose and we say, OK, definiteness of purpose, like,
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  Are you sure? And this is where so many people
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  get hung up. Well, I'm not sure on my
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  purpose. I, I'm not sure.
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  Can I have multiple purposes? I, I've had that question asked
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  me so many times. I've had people say to me, well,
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  you know, they say you can have to only pick one thing and
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  master it, which I happen to think is a bunch of crap.
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  But just because I've seen people who are extraordinarily
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  successful be outstanding at multiple things for instant,
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  Albert Einstein was a gifted musician as well as a
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  mathematician, as well as a general creative person who
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  could do multiple things extremely well.
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  He had, you know, that that gift of creativity ran deep through
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  him, through his soul. And without question, he had a
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  definiteness of purpose, and that purpose spanned multiple
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  areas. So what does it come down to
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  when you hear that statement? Willpower is the outgrowth of
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  definite purpose, meaning that's the first.
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  Let's divide this up. So the first part of it is when
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  you have willpower to stick to something, when you have stick
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  to it Ness, if you will, and, and your whole being is sticky
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  towards something, you without question at that point in time
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  will have the willpower to keep it up because you love it.
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  I mean, that's what happened to me with coaching.
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  I loved it so much. I loved the results.
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  I loved having it show up in my own life and how I was becoming
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  a different person. But I loved working with my
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  clients and seeing how they were growing and they were becoming
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  infinitely better day by day. So to me, that was just a that
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  gave me the willpower to do all the things that I needed to do
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  to learn and to continue to grow.
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  It pushes you when you're aligned with that purpose and
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  the persistence of action, meaning you've got to keep
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  taking that action over and over, not just notice his words
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  there, which it wasn't just take action, it was persistent
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  action. Now I have very well known in my
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  circles for being the person that says, you know, small steps
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  add up constantly doing one thing every day, little tiny
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  steps. You don't have to take the
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  massive of action all the time, but what you have to do is you
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  have to be consistent with small action.
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  That's why doing things like tracking your steps is so
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  important because when you start tracking your steps on a Fitbit,
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  it's quite enlightening. None of you have ever done it,
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  but it actually transformed my life personally because I didn't
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  realize how little I was walking.
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  And then I when I got my Fitbit and I started looking, I'm like,
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  these are tiny. This is a step.
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  This is one step in time, literally a step at a time.
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  And you know, the, the number 10,000 actually, if you study it
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  was a rather random number. I'll be at a good number.
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  It was just a random number that they came up with.
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  And OK, so 10,000 steps that should be pretty good, doesn't
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  burn 2000 calories. But hell, you know what?
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  At least it was moving. And when I started realizing
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  that those steps, how they add up and how they affect you when
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  you don't take the right number of steps that you need for your
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  body, cause each body is different, then it's like, OK,
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  well, I can do another 10, you know, another 10 steps.
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  I can do another 100 steps. I can do another 1000 steps.
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  And before you know it, you've trained your body to do 20,000
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  steps a day and then some. And that's real.
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  That's a number that I do every day and it's one step at a time.
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  And that just drills it into my head.
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  That persistent action gets you to the fitness level that you
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  want or anything else that might be engaged with it.
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  And it's all has to be based on his last, his last two words,
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  personal initiative, meaning you've got to light your own
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  fire. Nobody can light your fire for
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  you. You've got to light your own
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  fire. And when you do light your own
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  fire, when you do start to do things like that, it is
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  extremely that enlightening to feel like you have put yourself
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  into a position where you are driving your train.
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  I don't need anybody else to pump me up.
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  I'll be at, I have a coach and I work with my coach, but I do not
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  need him to light me up for this because I have personal
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  initiative. And then looking to yourself and
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  saying, well, do I have personal initiative is a really important
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  question. Do am I committed to this?
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  Do I feel like I light my own fire up in this?
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  Because ultimately, no one can do the lighting of the fire but
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  you. I go to my coach so that he can
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  stoke my fire and help me understand different thoughts.
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  That's the gift. But the I lit the fire, I lit
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  the fire and I keep the fire going because it's important to
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  me. That piece is important to me.
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  So my suggestion to you is, again, listen to the phrase.
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  Willpower is the outgrowth of definiteness of purpose
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  expressed through persistent action based on personal
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  initiative. You know it.
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  It's nothing but pure gold in that luck happens when you're
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  prepared and meets opportunity, as the phrase goes, right?
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  It isn't an accident. Success occurs when you have a
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  definite purpose in your life and you take initiative to
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  follow through on action every single day.
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  Make no mistake, everybody and people make the mistake all the
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  time thinking that they don't have to do anything and they're
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  just going to get lucky. Well, guess what, any action
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  that you take towards it is going to help you move closer to
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  being persistent in that and it retrains your brain.
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  So I hope you have a very blessed day filled with an
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  acknowledgement of definiteness of purpose and help you and it
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  helps you move through to get that initiative moving and keep
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  that fire stoked and lit. All right guys, I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.