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Season 2 - Episode 223 - Asking yourself the right question’s · 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 master mindset
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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're talking about
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  questions. Questions are something that I
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  spend all day dealing with. Because I spend all day asking
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  people questions, I give answers to questions.
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  They are just everywhere, all day, helping people.
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  And I can tell you one thing, when I was a kid, I've told the
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  story before about how I got in so much trouble for asking too
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  many questions, because that was just the nature of who I was and
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  I never stopped. And I've read so many books on
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  questions, the theory of questions, asking different
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  questions, you name it. It's a part of my whole entire
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  world. Well, I will say this.
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  Everything that you are dealing with in your life can be
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  reshaped or directed by the questions you ask yourself.
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  So if you are in a state and you are feeling sad, it's the
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  questions that are pushing you in that direction.
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  Why did this happen? When am I going to this pain,
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  going to stop? Whatever it might be, it's the
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  questions that are directing it. And if you can artfully begin to
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  interpret the questions that you are asking yourself, you will
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  shift quickly. But it takes you pausing and
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  stopping and actually asking yourself some really different
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  questions. So when you tend to ask the same
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  questions, you get the same answers over and over.
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  And as you've heard me say before, you know, it's estimated
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  that 2/3 of the thoughts we had today were repeated from the day
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  before. Which is really sad when you
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  think about it. Unless you are programmed for
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  something really awesome, and most of us are not.
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  Most of us are programmed to just run the same patterns that
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  we'd have over and over and over again.
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  So you're not necessarily asking better questions, but when you
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  pause and you recognize that that's happening, it gives you
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  the power of awareness, which is magical to shift things.
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  It's just understanding. Okay.
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  Let me you know. Get into this whole question
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  thing and let me ask some better questions.
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  I don't care if you even have to Google better questions to ask
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  yourself, do it. We're going to shortly have
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  something up on the website where you can download some
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  sheets on asking yourself really great questions, just not there
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  yet. But it's coming.
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  But I didn't want to wait on this today because I've
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  recognized that I've that just so many people out there that it
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  seemed like this whole week everybody I was talking to was
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  just asking really poor questions.
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  And then focusing and making plans and strategies or
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  circumventing problems based on the questions they were asking.
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  But what if you asked a different question?
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  What if you put yourself into the framework of I am going to
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  keep asking myself different questions so that I have
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  different perspectives. So if you drew a circle on a
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  piece of paper and you put. A point at the like 12:00, three
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  o'clock, 6:00 and 9:00, and you came up with whatever your
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  problem was and put it in the middle of the circle or whatever
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  the situation was, because it doesn't have to be a problem.
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  It can be something great, but you put it in the middle of the
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  circle and then you start. You ask yourself four different
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  questions from four different perspectives, just like the time
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  on the clock. And that's what it represents,
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  is just four different perspectives.
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  And even if you ask yourself a different question at those
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  times of day. They really have to be very
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  different questions. Not all framed in negativity or
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  are all framed in positivity, but they just have to be
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  directed in different ways. You will get four different
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  perspectives, and this is power, and you can do this multiple
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  times. You can do it for every hour on
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  the clock if you want, and get different answers.
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  But the exercise is meant to teach you that you can drive
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  that train. You don't have to just accept
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  it. You can go on.
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  I mean, somebody asked me the other day.
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  Well, can I go on ChatGPT and ask.
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  Of course you can. You can ask it.
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  What are great questions to ask myself.
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  It's a great thing to to know. But you are the only one that
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  can really ask the question. I can sit there and suggest them
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  all, but if you're not going to ask them, it doesn't make much
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  of a difference. So think about questions as.
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  You're you're actually taking that and it's like the genie in
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  the bottle, you know, you uncork the bottle or the magic
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  Aladdin's lamp when it's been said that, you know, we are the
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  lamp. And I love that because you're
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  going and you're actually rubbing the lamp and you're
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  putting your wish out there. But you do that through
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  questions. The power of them change the
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  perspective. So decide what you want to put
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  out there, decide the question, and then actually ask yourself,
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  is this the right question for this time?
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  Should I be looking to a different question?
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  Is this a positive or a negative frame?
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  Find out things about the questions that you're asking
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  too. Don't trust yourself with it
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  because you'll go back to the same old questions so you know,
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  even ask your friends. Hey, do you have great questions
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  that you ask yourself regularly? The answer is probably going to
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  be no, but at least make the attempt.
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  And start to do some investigating.
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  OK. My friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.