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What else could this mean? · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop so I want to share Are with
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  you. One of my most favorite
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  questions that I use with all my coaching clients with myself
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  with my son with just about anybody.
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  I probably ask this question of myself, I don't know probably a
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  good legitimately 50 times a day because it's just such a
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  powerful question and you're probably going to be shocked by
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  it because it's very introspective.
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  But the question is, what else could this mean?
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  And the power of this question was taught to mean many, many
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  years ago by a shaman, actually, in Hawaii.
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  And we were at a Tony Robbins event.
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  We were sitting outside having a conversation and we were talking
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  about the power of questions and all the different things that
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  they could mean and all the different questions that people
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  ask themselves. And I asked him, what is your
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  favorite question? And he said, what else could
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  this mean? And I said, wow, that's a really
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  great question. It isn't it?
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  It's one of my favorite questions ever.
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  And if not my most favorite and, you know, when I started to pay
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  attention to that in my own life, it really became a force.
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  If you will. Because when you ask that
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  question for anything, you start to expand your horizons.
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  You start to expand what you know.
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  So you hear all that gaggling going on in the background.
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  It sounds like the chickens are all upset, right?
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  Sounds like they're angry about something.
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  It sounds like they're being attacked.
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  It could mean a lot of things to different people, but when I
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  first got them out here and they were into their, you know, Coop,
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  big hoop, and they would start doing this.
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  I was like, oh, nerved up. I would run outside.
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  Oh my God, something's attacking them.
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  I made a conclusion. I made a conclusion that they
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  were in trouble and I run out. And what I see is a bunch of
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  chickens, hens specifically all lined up and here we are.
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  I'm standing inside. As I'm telling you, this,
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  they're all lined up. They're yelling at each other.
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  Well now they're stopping because I'm here obviously, but
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  they're all lined up and this whole thing all this yelling is
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  not someone's attacking them. It's that they are annoyed with
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  each other because they have eight boxes in which they can
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  lay eggs and they like two of the eight, the rest of them are.
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  I guess, not Prime real estate but they are all four boxes on
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  top of four boxes. They are all set up identical.
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  They are All have the same. Hey, they all have the same
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  herbs in them. Yet these chickens argue and
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  yell at each other because they all want the same two boxes to
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  lay their eggs in. And I don't understand it
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  myself. But the first time I saw this, I
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  thought I must be wrong. There must be a snake in this,
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  in the coop, there must be something I'm not seeing and
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  boom, I look in, nope, there's nothing.
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  There there's nothing there and then I realize, well, what else
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  could this mean? Well, it's that they all just
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  like to lie. Eggs in the same two boxes and
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  if there's a chicken in there, laying an egg, they will yell in
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  her face until she hurries up in which she sits there.
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  And ignores them, which I love that.
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  She ignores them and doesn't hurry for anybody.
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  She's like, nope, my time, I will take my time but that one
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  question I can ask and I can find out what's really going on
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  is that they all have their favorites.
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  I can ask a client that question.
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  What else could this mean? And they can explain to me?
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  Well, I don't know what, well, let's brainstorm What else could
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  it mean? What else is something that
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  could be in the person's mind or in your child's mind or in the
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  situation? What else could be showing up?
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  What else is bringing to the table for you?
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  The question is, formulated in a way that allows your brain to
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  take it in and actually say, all right, I already have a
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  conclusion because the word else is in there.
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  So we automatically, as human beings, we go to, what does this
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  mean? And we try to without even
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  thinking about this, this is something that's just hardwired
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  into us. It's how our cognitive brain
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  capacity works. We look to draw conclusions
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  quickly, so that we can process. Because our brains are all about
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  speed. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  So what else does this mean? Circumvents that it goes over it
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  and it says, okay, you've got a conclusion but think of another
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  conclusion, think of another conclusion and it gives your
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  your brain, the capacity to use creativity, to use perspective,
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  to use other emotions and come up with different possibilities.
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  And in that, that's where the power comes.
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  He's in for Solutions, creativity, it all blossoms,
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  Steve Jobs was great. At what else could we do?
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  He one of the things that he was so good at doing was asking
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  these other questions that go beyond what we know in the
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  moment to go to the next level up.
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  So this is one of those questions for you to ask
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  yourself. What else could this mean and
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  help you to see and formulate different perspectives that
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  bring? About different possibilities
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  and different conclusions for you to go to and also help those
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  around you become more creative and yourself to become more
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  creative. Because honestly, the more you
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  put that framework around you through instance, I paint.
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  And when I paint, I will say well, what's another way I can
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  do this. So that's a branch off of that
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  question. At least in my mind it is and
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  then I can try different things. And even though they may fail,
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  I'm far more. Open to them because it's all
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  about possibility and then I don't look at it, like it's just
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  an okay, it's a failure. No it's just I figured out what
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  I didn't like it's not a failure.
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  I just figured out what I didn't like.
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  So hopefully this resonates with you and you'll be able to use
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  this more and more in your life because I promise you, the more
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  you use this question, the better.
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  You will be at helping yourself and helping those around you to
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  get to what they really want in their life and their focus.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye-bye.