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Season 2 - Episode 156 - The STRANGEST things can hold us up. · 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 And Coop. So I want to share a very funny
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  story that I think is quirky improved some points for all of
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  us to consider about ourselves. So I'm currently taking a
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  course, from one of my favorite authors, that is a marketing
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  course. And because of the nature of
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  what I do, I'm always on this like path of learning plus, it
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  was just in stilled in me as a child early on that.
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  You should always be reading a book.
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  You should always be learning something because without having
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  that, As part of your hardwiring, you don't stay
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  sharp. And my father was very big on
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  sharpening the tools about learning all the time.
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  And my mother was very big on reading.
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  I love of reading is 100% because of my mother.
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  So I signed up for a course, which I'm absolutely in love
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  with having a great time with it and it's video-based.
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  And there some PDFs that you can download and over the course of
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  the last week, I downloaded one of them onto my eye.
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  IPad which has an eye pencil with it and I was very excited
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  that I could go in and I could actually like right in the, you
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  know, the PDF with it and make some great notes because it was
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  easy and I was doing a lot of stuff while I was out and about.
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  So I was like, okay I'll have to carry pads and I'm to do all
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  kinds of stuff. This is gonna be super
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  convenient, do it this way. So as I'm doing all this, I
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  realize how much I miss paper and pen and I'm like, you know
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  what, I really just wish this was on paper.
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  But you know it's a 75-page book and 75 page file and if I have
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  this 75-page file, I'm going to have to print it out and then
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  I'm going to have 75 pages and how am I going to you know keep
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  it contained. What am I going to do?
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  I'm going to put a bulldog clip on it and I'm I'm having all
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  these thoughts about it. Now here's what's funny about
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  this and what's Curious. And this is why we're having
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  this conversation. I'm debating this in my head, no
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  joke. For a good three days now.
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  I don't know about you but I sometimes just don't pay
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  attention to the chatter going on in my head, which is what's
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  so funny about it. Because chatter in, someone's
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  head is my job and with myself I'm like the plumber with bad.
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  Plumbing is I've confessed many times to you guys, so here I am
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  debating it, debating it debating it and I realize The
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  other night, as I'm lying in bed.
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  Why am I debating this? What is going on with me?
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  What is taking me so long to make a decision on this and
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  Morton like happening in my head with this?
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  So I start to really dig into it.
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  And I'm like, well, you know, it's 75 Pages by the time it's
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  all printed out, that's 75 pieces of paper.
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  Then you've got ink. Oh well you know ink is so
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  expensive and then we've got to take it maybe and have it bound
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  somewhere and that's To be expensive.
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  Now, here's the funny part about this.
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  And the logic is out the window at this point because I've
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  invested in a fairly expensive course.
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  And as I've invested in this fairly expensive course, I
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  definitely want the most of the outcome, I can get from it.
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  So what is causing me to worry about sheets of paper ink and
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  going to Staples and having it bound.
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  And I start laughing when I'm thinking about it.
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  So I call Staples asked them. How much would it be to?
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  Buying this book with a spiral bound so that I could use it
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  blah, blah blah and he says $11 and I'm like $11.
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  And then I look at like, how much should I pay for that 500
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  brick of paper and what is it for?
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  You know, I've got a maximum of, you know, an Epson printer for
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  the XL size, right? So how much ink in my really
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  using? And I realized that basically,
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  I'm driving myself crazy for about $15 worth of expenses and
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  I just start laughing and I'm like How often do we sit?
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  And hold ourselves up for the stupidest damn things that we
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  can you know imagine or don't even imagine or just get stuck
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  in our Loop so I stopped myself. I went off, I went printed it
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  out, I went to Staples, I had them behind it.
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  I have this beautiful workbook now and I'm thrilled to be
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  sitting there working on it with a pen and paper.
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  And it makes a massive difference because I can flip
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  back, I can flag the pages. I feel good about it.
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  I've got my Post-it notes, my highlighters and I feel good and
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  it's very old school and it makes me feel great.
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  So, my point to you all is look how innocent that all was.
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  Look at the time that just the little time that I just spent
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  telling you about that, and align that with something that
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  you have done in your own head. Where you've said, oh my God,
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  what am I doing? What am I hanging onto things
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  for what am I stuck for? Because this is the stuff.
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  My friends that holds us back the stuff I Today's because, now
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  here's the other part. I everything that I did on the
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  iPad is fine. But I now want to go back and
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  take that out and put it into this.
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  Now, granted, I may not have realized that ahead of time, but
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  if I had really thought this through right from the very
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  beginning, I know how much I love pen and paper, I know how
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  much I love having the ability to highlight in a book, that's
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  why I buy Kindle books. But when I really loved the
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  book, and I know I'm going to read it again, I will buy the
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  physical. Book and I will go back and do
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  it that way because I know that's my just the thing that
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  makes me feel good. It fills me up.
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  So think about this. Think about this for yourself.
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  Think about your little proclivities of where you get
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  stuck and hung up and really consider what's holding you back
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  right now. Because I'll tell you right now,
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  I'm going to print out the rest of the workbooks for myself.
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  And I'm going to be taking them in and I'm having them all bound
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  so that I don't have to do this and torture myself anymore.
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  And they'll be no more of that behavior because I've now Sized
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  it and I'm going to learn from it.
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  So this will be going into my learnings for the month, believe
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  me, and it will be having a lot of smiley sticker cracking up
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  around it because this really did crack me up about myself.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.