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Season 3 - Episode 123 - Rewiring for changing · 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 today we are talking about
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  rewiring your days. And this is a subject that's
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  very fascinating to me because most people show up for coaching
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  and they think, Oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm going to do
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  this. I don't know how I'm going to
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  change. I don't know the particulars of
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  any of this. And they get overwhelmed before
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  they even start. And one of the simplest things
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  that I I really have to have everybody understand right at
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  the from the very beginning of working with me and coaching
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  with me is that you are a creature of habit.
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  You are a creature of patterns and it is possible to change.
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  Like you have to believe it's possible to change.
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  And by changing your patterns, even the simplest of patterns,
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  things start to evolve. So there are estimates out there
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  that we have between 60 and 80,000 thoughts a day.
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  I mean, think about that. That's insane that that a person
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  can have that many thoughts. First of all, it always
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  fascinates me as to how they track this.
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  But they do. And 60 to 80,000 thoughts a day.
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  The kicker is 2/3 of them are repeated from the day before.
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  Now that's even more insane when you think about the how the
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  human brain works and when you repeat things, they become part
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  of who you are. So most of us learned
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  multiplication that way, where we were just drilled, wrote,
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  learned it over and over and over and over until we could
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  recite it and do it quickly so that we knew those basic
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  fundamentals, which is the the crux of how your brain likes to
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  work. Repetition is the mother of
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  skill for human beings. And once we do it, we can do it
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  better and better and better and better.
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  But the really hard thing to understand is if the patterns
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  are not resourceful, you are repeating them anyway.
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  You are becoming more resourceful at the unresourceful
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  activity. So think about what I just said.
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  If it's a destructive activity and you do it more and more and
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  you become better at the destructive activity, you're
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  still going to. It's going to be a pattern.
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  It's still going to affect you. You can't just get away from it
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  because it's destructive, you know.
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  And we have patterns in everything we do.
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  Think about how you take a shower.
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  You go and get in the shower in the morning or the evening
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  whenever you do your showering and boom, all of a sudden you
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  wash the same way. You have the same pattern of how
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  you wash yourself, how you do your hair.
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  Same thing about how you blow dry your hair or how you shave,
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  brush your teeth. You always start in the same
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  spot. For most people, it is very
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  driven. The side of the bed they sleep
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  on how they put their clothes on.
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  Try to put your sneakers and socks on differently and watch
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  how your brain goes. Wait, what?
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  Because it's so conditioned. So the point of this is rewiring
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  your brain is very simple in the sense that you change the
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  pattern of how you do something and then everything else gets
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  scrambled. So let's say you want to start
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  your day off and you want to start meditating, and you've
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  always said I want to meditate. I know it's good for me, I hear
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  how great it is, but I just can't seem to get it.
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  I I struggle with it. Part of the problem is you're
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  trying to insert something new into old patterns.
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  So I will often tell my clients the best way to do that is to
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  start scrambling your patterns. Now for any Seinfeld fans out
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  there, if you're a big Seinfeld fan, and I'm a big Seinfeld fan,
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  there was an episode where George was talking about
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  opposite George, and he was going to do the opposite of
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  everything that George ever talked about.
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  And it was so great because he was scrambling his own patterns
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  right down to if he ordered tuna salad, now he was going to order
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  egg salad, he was going to order coffee.
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  He would normally now always order coffee.
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  He would now order tea. He's scrambling the simplest of
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  patterns and then the others become open to interpretation
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  and you can allow new things to happen.
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  It's kind of like you're tricking your brain.
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  You're just saying, if I always walk to my left and now I walk
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  to my right and while I'm walking to my right I think of
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  something else I want to do, it becomes easier.
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  So right from the morning, let's say we're going to add in the
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  meditation. You wake up in the morning
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  instead of going in and, you know, doing your day like you
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  normally would, grabbing your phone, checking your text
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  messages, your emails or whatever you say, no, I'm not
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  going to do that. You get up, you drink water and
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  you go and you meditate first. Right away you've scrambled your
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  brain because you're not looking at the old pattern and doing the
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  phone or whatever. Now, obviously you probably have
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  to pee in there first. You get up.
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  I know, I'm just saying that don't touch the typical
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  patterns. It's OK, though, to get up and
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  pee first if you need to, or get up and brush your teeth and pee.
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  Fine. But talk about it in the sense
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  of the big stuff that you're going to move around so that
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  your brain does not have the same response.
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  I promise you, if you try this technique, you're going to be
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  astounded as to how different you feel right away.
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  Because it really doesn't matter if you're going for a walk or
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  you're meditating, or you decide to read or you decide to change
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  the smallest of small things, the one shift in the morning
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  makes all the difference. So work on this and practice it,
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  scramble as much as you can and then try putting the new things
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  in. Because I promise you when you
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  do it, it will interrupt those old patterns and then you have
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  the opportunity to put in the new ones you want.
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  I hope you all have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.