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Season 4 - Episode 167 - Act in spite of… · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from my studio.
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  It's very, very early this morning, pitch dark.
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  No girls this morning, they're still sleeping.
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  I couldn't sleep. I got up and started working on
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  a bunch of stuff that I knew I wanted to do and it was just
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  ruminating in my head. So creative juices are flowing.
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  So this led me to the conversation that we're about to
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  have about act in spite of. So when you can't sleep,
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  sometimes you just lay there and you get more and more aggravated
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  that you can't sleep and you start thinking about the fact
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  that you can't sleep. And because you can't sleep, you
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  can't sleep. And it just grows and grows and
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  grows and it gets more and more aggravating as it goes on
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  because you're looking at it as I can't sleep.
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  That means the day is going to be ruined.
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  And you're focused on a lot of things that can cause you to get
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  very, very wrapped up into the moment and spiraling.
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  Well, my belief is you have to act in spite of the fact that
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  you can't sleep. You have to act in spite of the
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  fact that you're aggravated. You have to act in spite of the
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  fact that your boss may suck or your kids are driving you crazy
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  or your partner's driving you crazy.
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  And you have to act in spite of the fact that all this has
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  happened. You still have to do it and you
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  have choices. You don't you, you could just
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  spiral and you could become miserable, but that's not going
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  to get you where you want to go. So you have to think in terms
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  of, OK, well, in spite of the fact that this is all happening,
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  I'm still going to do what I need to do because that's how I
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  am going to progress. I'm not going to progress if I
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  sit here and just focus on it. So I knew part of the reason
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  that I couldn't sleep last night was that I had all these
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  creative thoughts that I wanted to work on and ideas and my
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  brain was just running. And, you know, we all have those
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  moments when our brains run and usually I can shut them off.
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  And I had the first time I woke up, it was like 1230 and I was
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  like, Oh, that's not a problem. I'm going back to sleep.
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  But when you wake up and it's like an hour before you would
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  normally get up. So sometimes I, I tend to get up
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  very early, often around 4:30. And I knew I was like, oh boy, I
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  knew last night I was having all these thoughts and I did not do
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  a normal brain dump before. I laid down where I just sat
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  with a piece of paper, got all my thoughts out so that I could
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  essentially sleep. I just didn't do it.
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  And lo and behold, because I didn't do that, then my brain
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  kept going and going and going. And when I woke up the second
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  time and it was like 3 AMI was like, OK, you know what?
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  I'm just going to get up and I'm going to do this.
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  And, and the first thought was, well, then you might be tired.
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  You're going to be coaching all day, which may be true.
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  And I'm going to act in spite of that because there is no reason
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  to not do what I need to do. No reason at all to not do what
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  I need to do. I could get up and I could just
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  go and I could do it. So I did.
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  And I have to say that out here in the studio, when it's really
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  quiet and it's before anything else is happening, I, I feel
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  completely empowered getting a bunch of stuff done because
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  guess what, it puts me, I feel like I'm ahead.
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  I feel like I'm the first in line.
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  I love to go places and get there and be early.
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  I want to be the first person in line.
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  I like that it's just part of my dynamic.
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  It's part of my wiring. So doing it this way for me
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  really makes me feel as though I am ahead of the game.
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  I'm way ahead of everybody else. I've got a bunch of videos
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  already organized. I've written down a bunch of
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  ideas, I've worked on blog for this month, I've written out a
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  bunch of stuff answering clients emails and here we are.
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  As I'm recording this, it's like 5 O 2:00 AM after I've already
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  done all of that. So it gives you a sense of
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  empowerment. And so I took a moment where I
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  acted in spite of the fact that I couldn't sleep.
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  I continued to act and I didn't focus on the fact that that was
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  what was happening. I focused on what I wanted as an
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  outcome, which was to get up and be productive, allow the
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  creativity to come through and not spiral and into this, oh,
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  woe is me, I didn't sleep moment.
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  And the power of doing that just fuels you and it fuels your
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  entire day. So the lesson, Act in spite of
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  what's going on. Act in spite of it.
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  Doesn't matter. I'm just going to do it anyway.
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  Doesn't matter. I'm going to get up.
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  I'm going to work. Doesn't matter what the person
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  says. Doesn't matter what they think
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  of you. Act in spite of it and watch how
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  much better you feel. All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.