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Season 3 - Episode 314 - Stretching outside of our comfort zone! · 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 mastermindset
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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, good morning from the chicken coop, everybody.
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  So we're talking about stretching today, and I don't
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  mean physical stretches because boy, Lord knows I don't enjoy
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  physically stretching. It's a pain in the butt.
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  But I'm talking about the stretches of our goals and what
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  we're doing and if we've got something we want to do and it
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  pushes us outside of our comfort zone.
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  Talking about that kind of stretching.
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  Now think about this for a second.
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  When's the last time you did something that really caused you
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  to stretch, really caused you to feel something different?
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  I mean, truly, when's the last time you did something like
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  that? And for me, I think what's so
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  important asking that question is often we forget that that
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  stretching piece is such a big part of who we are as humans.
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  If we're not stretching, then we're really not, you know,
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  living out to our fullest potential.
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  We're really just kind of in this place where we're existing
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  and stretching is a natural part for us.
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  And when we don't do it, we recognize that we feel often not
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  lost so much as incomplete. And I know that might sound
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  strange to some people, but I I mean it that way.
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  It's like you're almost incomplete because it just feels
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  awkward and strange. And the, the biggest aspect of
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  stretching, you know, here we are at the end of the year
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  getting ready to go into goal setting.
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  So everyone always says, well, you know, I, I want to put
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  something that is achievable and whatnot.
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  And I'm like you, you do your goals how you do them, but I
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  don't teach it that way because I think we have to use our
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  imagination, use our creativity and grow in different ways.
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  So I always say, let's look for different levels, but this
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  stretching thing is a big part of the psychology going into it.
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  And you have to accept the fact that you're willing to stretch
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  and you have to remind yourself that you've accepted the fact
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  that you're willing to stretch. So it's almost like you have to
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  have the conversation with yourself and say, OK, am I
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  willing to go out and stretch? Yes.
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  OK, how I how am I going to show that I'm willing to go out and
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  stretch? What am I going to do that's
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  going to help me go out and stretch?
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  How am I going to go out and stretch?
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  What are the things that I know make me feel feel like I'm
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  stretching? And yes, I did use a how in
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  there because this is one of those times where you really
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  want to give yourself an evidence to say, how will I know
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  when I'm stretching? So for me, a big part of it is
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  getting out and speaking, going on the road.
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  And that's a stretch for me. Not that I can't get up on the
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  stages and do it. That's actually the easiest
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  part. The for me, the hardest part is
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  leaving, leaving my farm, leaving my animals, leaving my
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  family, my dogs. It's very hard for me to leave
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  home space because I plug in here so much every day and it's
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  about it's my safety space, it's healing, it's glorious and I
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  love every bit of it. So when I have to go, it takes
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  so much for me to go. And so that stretch, as much as
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  I love being here, I still want the stretch.
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  I still want to go out and I want to touch more lives.
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  I want to be on the stage and be able to talk to people about
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  things that matter, like what we're talking about right now.
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  And in doing that, I have to make the declaration ahead of
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  time. So I would be very remiss if I
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  didn't do it beforehand. So as my team gets ready to
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  start talking about, OK, let's see where you can go, what you
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  can do, one of the things I have to do in order to not set them
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  up for failure is to make the declaration to myself that I
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  committed to doing this. Once I say I committed to doing
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  it, then it's a lot easier for me to continue to do it because
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  I will say, OK, well, I committed and I won't argue with
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  myself in my head because I know I don't lie to myself.
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  So it comes full circle with the don't lie to yourself part of
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  our training. And it also comes full circle
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  with the fact that you have to make these commitments and these
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  stretches before they actually take place.
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  Otherwise you won't follow through with them.
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  You just won't. You just won't follow through
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  with them. And what will end up happening
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  is you'll find excuses and reasons not to and you'll skip
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  out and before you know it, you're done.
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  So do yourself a favor, start making the plan now about what
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  you're willing to do to stretch and and how will you know that
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  you're going to stay willing to do it?
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  What are you going to say to yourself?
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  How are you going to show up? What are you going to think?
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  Like I have a little card that I had printed up when we did the
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  new books. It's like a square little
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  postcard. And it says always be stronger
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  than your excuses. And I just, I have that out in
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  multiple places. I give it out to people with the
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  book because I'm telling you, you have to realize their
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  excuses and you will never know. And if you truly believe we have
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  one life, one chance, then why would you leave anything on the
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  table? Why would you not set yourself
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  up to win? So go out and figure out that
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  piece of the stretching and how you're going to know it.
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  All right, my friends, I will talk to you tomorrow.
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  Bye.