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Season 2 - Episode 306 - Setting your mind up to win · 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 let's talk about that one
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  phrase that we've all heard multiple times in our life that
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  you can do anything you set your mind to.
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  And boy, do I believe that because I've set myself up for
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  some really interesting things and I've made them happen
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  because I quote, UN quote, set my mind to it.
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  But what does that actually mean?
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  How do you set your mind like a clock.
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  Like how do you walk in and set your mind and.
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  It's really an interesting thing to understand your personal
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  process. So for everybody it's a little
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  different. But in general, if you set your
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  mind to something, it usually comes about when you are putting
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  your intention on something and you know you're going to work
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  your butt off to make it happen. You don't know how, but you know
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  you're going to work your butt off to make it happen.
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  You don't have to know everything.
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  But you do have to know that that intention is something that
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  you are willing to work towards. Talk to people about, put
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  yourself out there and you go for it and you grow with it.
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  You grow into your outcome with it.
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  Now here's the tricky part about this.
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  It's like understanding that all while you're set your mind to
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  something, while you've dialed that in, you also have your
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  limitations that you've always had still with you.
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  It's not like they disappeared. Remember, you can't kick things
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  off the bus, so they're back there.
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  They are. In charge and they're running
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  back there. They might not be the most
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  predominant thoughts you're having, but they are definitely
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  there. So what do you do when you're
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  trying to set your mind to something and set your mind on
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  an outcome and the limitations show up?
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  Well, that comes back to the ability to say, OK, am I going
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  to listen to the limitation or am I going to listen to the
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  intent and the outcome? Am I going to focus on what I
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  think I can't do, or am I going to focus on what I know I can
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  do? Or am I just going to allow the
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  chatter in my head to Take Me Out?
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  Because that's what happens. Chatter takes us out.
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  And in the in the world of mind chatter, it is way more powerful
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  than anyone can ever imagine. Mind chatter to me is one of the
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  most toxic things that humans do to themselves.
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  It if it I would go so far as to say in my experience from years
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  and years and years of coaching, it is the destructive thing.
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  Because we can talk ourselves into anything, because
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  everything makes sense. When you're quiet and you're not
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  challenging it and you're in your own head, it all seems to
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  make perfect sense. All the crazy seems to make
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  perfect sense. And then we don't want to talk
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  to people about it because we feel like, oh, they're going to
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  just argue with me or then I'm they're going to know that I'm
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  weak and we don't bring these things up.
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  So then they take over because they are just being isolated and
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  listen to so they become. Powerful.
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  They grow, they grow, they grow, they grow.
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  And out of their growing, it becomes really frustrating.
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  So the one thing I can tell you for sure is monitoring your
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  mind. Chatter is going to help you
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  stop this process of taking you out and setting that intention.
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  It's powerful. It's necessary putting it down
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  there like you can, you know, make anything happen that you
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  set your mind to. Yes, without question.
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  At the same time, you've got to know what those chatters are,
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  what those limitation thoughts are so that you can counteract
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  them. Because without that you have a
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  constant two step forward and one step back, 2 steps forward
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  and one step back. So it is very useful to do this
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  on a piece of paper. I know this sounds crazy to
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  write them all down, but when you do it, you start to see, OK,
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  well, what are my positive thoughts here about this?
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  What are my negative thoughts about this?
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  If I start putting things on paper, all of a sudden, it does
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  look a little bit more ridiculous when I read some of
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  those things that I think are my limitations.
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  And then I go, yeah, why is that a limitation?
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  That's stupid. I don't want to have that as a
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  limitation. And then I can take it away.
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  I can get rid of it. But I can't do that if I don't
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  expose it. I can't figure it out.
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  Just like I can't eradicate termites if I don't know where
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  they are in the house. The first thing I have to do is
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  go eradicate it. I have to go get rid of it in
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  order to make it work. So fundamentally you have to do
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  the detective work and the paper is really the best thing that
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  you can do, putting it all on paper.
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  Now, I will say this, sometimes this process is not like a quick
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  thing. It's like you've got to do it
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  over the course of a couple of days.
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  That's why I will take paper, I will keep it out, and I will
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  keep adding to the list and adding to the list, because
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  usually a lot comes out in the beginning, but it's not all of
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  it and you have to dig in and figure out what's going on.
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  In the back. What are those real comments in
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  the back of the bus that are taking over?
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  So don't be afraid to sit and work on it that way.
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  Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. Because you will be way happier
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  if you get it all out all in one shot.
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  So work on that. Be diligent, make the list, and
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  then really tell yourself right those counteractive points to
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  the ones that are negative. Tell yourself no, this isn't
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  true because or. This isn't the right point of
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  view because whatever language you want to put around that, but
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  write a counterpoint to it so that you understand what you
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  want to put in its place 'cause you need to put something in its
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  place. OK, my friends, I hope you have
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  a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.