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Season 3 - Episode 22 - How are you labeling 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 coop.
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  So today we are talking about labels and how quick we are to
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  label ourselves. You know, it's really an an
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  interesting fact of how quick we are willing to say that we have
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  all these things that nobody would choose as a label.
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  Typically we wouldn't choose them to say, oh, it's just that
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  I'm lazy or it's just that I have imposter syndrome or this
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  or that. And it gives us permission to
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  not take ownership of it and do something about it.
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  So I'm going to challenge everybody today to ditch their
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  labels and just start with a clean slate.
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  Let's wipe the board clean and say if I didn't want to use
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  labels, if I just wanted to talk about things and have it be in a
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  way where I know for a fact I can start to see myself
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  differently, I can start to change what I'm doing, what
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  would happen. So think of it like this.
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  If you think for a second that you have imposter syndrome and
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  you're constantly focused on that because it's an identifier
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  of how you've shown up in the past, which may be true, how
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  you've shown up may be very true, but it's just because
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  you've been unaware of the emotion that's driving you.
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  So you're obviously living in that emotion because you don't
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  know it's driving you and that emotion is dictating all of your
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  outcomes. And you keep letting this 13
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  year old that has in in your head still driving the bus who's
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  been picked on in school or marginalized or whatever.
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  Instead, you're just letting that that particular set of
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  emotions drive. And now all of a sudden you've
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  given yourself a syndrome and then all of a sudden now we have
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  an excuse as to why we can't fix it.
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  So we have to ditch all of that. We have to start thinking
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  differently about all of that. We have to start to have to
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  change our approach. We have to say, you know, I'm
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  going to observe what drivers I have.
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  I'm going to go back to the who's driving your bus content
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  and I'm going to look at who are these drivers that seem to have
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  such a hold in my bus, Who are the ones that are causing me all
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  this aggravation? And then I'm going to do
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  something about it. I'm going to change it because
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  the moment you start doing that, you start to empower yourself
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  again. You start to take back what
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  needs to be done for yourself. And then everything shifts,
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  because now you're truly in charge of yourself.
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  You're truly moving in a direction where you say, OK,
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  what's a better driver? What's a better way for me to
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  think about this, show up and be this way it.
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  It's not an easy process to do this, my friends.
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  Like, let me promise you, it's not an easy it.
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  It is so simple, but not easy. That's why I put that on the
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  cover of the book. It's a simple process, you know,
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  but it's not easy. It is one of those things that
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  you have to be on it and do it over and over and over because
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  it's necessary to get the pattern interrupted and then
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  broken and then reset. Can't go to the gym once and
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  expect a fabulous outcome. Have to go to the gym
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  repetitively to get the outcome. You know, my husband works out
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  like crazy and I watch him and and over the course of his level
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  of commitment over the last year and a half to what he wanted to
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  get to, it has taken a tremendous amount of work.
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  But it's paid off. And he looks amazing.
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  He looks amazing and I'm so proud of him for how hard he's
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  worked with it. But he didn't buy it, that his
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  body structure was a certain way and he couldn't do it or
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  whatever else. People would know.
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  It's just the way you are. It's what happens when you age.
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  Oh, that's one of my biggest pet peeve ones is when you buy into
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  that ideology of like okay aging means you're just going to slow
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  down. No, that is not what it means.
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  Obviously, when we talked about some of the stuff last week from
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  the Blue Zones, my goodness, that certainly is not the case.
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  There are people out there who are living their best lives and
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  they're in their 90s and they're strong and they're still working
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  out and they're still doing incredible things that just
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  you'd be astonished. People here in their 60s can't
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  do all about that basic label you're going to come back and
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  put on yourself. So you've got to ditch the
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  labels. So the question you have to ask
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  yourself today is what labels am I putting on myself?
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  What things am I telling myself that I clearly should not be
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  telling myself? What are the things that I know?
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  If I changed those, things would absolutely shift.
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  How I see the world, how I operate in the world, how I show
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  up in the world, all of that. All of it will change.
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  But it only comes down to you doing it.
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  You are the only one that can control it.
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  Because that secret conversation that's going on behind in your
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  head, none of us know unless you tell us.
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  And when you start telling it out loud, then it starts to
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  become a reality. But it works both ways.
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  If you're using it in the negative, it works.
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  And if it works in the positive, If it works, you start talking
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  about the positive. It works in the positive, which
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  is why you have to shift it and move into the positive things
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  that you want to create, not the limiting things that are
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  happening around you. So go do some digging and figure
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  out what your labels are. All right, my friends, I'll see
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  you tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.