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Season 2 - Episode 81 - Chips & Salsa! · 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.
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  So I have a question for you. If you are sitting in a Mexican
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  restaurant and chips and salsa are put on the table, are you
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  eating the chips and salsa? I know I am if they come out,
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  I'm eating them. But what happens if you make a
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  commitment to yourself about the fact that you're going to be
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  eating healthy, and you say I'm going to, you know, this whole
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  week. I'm not going to be eating
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  unhealthy, I'm going to be really good and you end up going
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  to the restaurant with your family.
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  And of course they put chips. Salsa in front of you because
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  that's what they do. When you walk into most Mexican
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  restaurants, which is very kind of them and very generous in a
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  day. When lots of people are
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  Contracting, we go to the Mexican restaurant and they
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  still give you the chips and salsa.
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  So, do you eat them or do you demonstrate self-control?
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  The big question, and it's something so simple, chips and
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  salsa. But when you really start to
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  think about it, it's not really about the chips and salsa.
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  It's about the self control. And boy.
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  Oh boy. It's hard when faced with the
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  stuff that you know you love like the chips and salsa or the
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  cheeseburger or the ice cream or the cookie or you're at an
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  office party and they bring in the cake or the cupcakes and the
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  candy. Oh the dreaded Eminem Bowl,
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  where it sits on someone's desk and then everybody wants to have
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  the Eminem's every time they pass by this is such a big but
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  you know point of contention Especially if you've made the
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  decision that you're going to be on point and you're going to be
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  healthy. So having self-control is such a
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  hard aspect of everything that we do.
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  So I've made a commitment that I'm going to start doing, you
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  know, a workout program after I get back from my little
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  staycation here. And I'm thinking to myself,
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  okay, I have to be really committed to this, because this
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  is a big one. And in order to do this, I have
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  to be emotionally set emotionally ready to do this,
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  because I don't lie to myself, it's you've heard me if you're a
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  regular listener, you know, it's a big thing.
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  I talk to everybody about it and I'm 100% on point with I don't
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  lie to myself. If I if I you know, say I'm
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  going to do something it's that. I'm going to do it.
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  I don't go back on it. Unless something tragic happens.
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  That stops me from doing it. I'm not going back on it because
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  there's nothing worse than lying to yourself and you can't expect
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  other people to tell you the truth.
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  If you can't tell yourself the truth.
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  So this whole thing about eating the chips and salsa, it's such a
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  point because it's so easy and so effortless, just reach over
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  and grab the chip and dip it in the salsa and before you know it
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  it's in your mouth and you're like, damn it.
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  I didn't want to eat the chips and then one leads to two, and
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  two leads to 10. And it's like chickens.
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  I started off with saying I was going to get a chickens.
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  And you know what? I'm standing here in the coop
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  this morning, talking to you. And there are 38 chickens with
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  me. So here we are have 30 chickens
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  and Lo and behold they started off like eight.
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  Because you know what, we really struggle with that stuff with
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  ourselves, we struggle with the boundaries we struggle with
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  sticking to our commitments. And the question is, what do you
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  gain by letting yourself off the hook?
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  Well, a moment of happiness, but really is it happiness?
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  Or is it just Indulgence? What is it?
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  Give you for that moment? And does it really make you
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  happy long-term or does it make you just feel glorious?
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  When, you know, you completed something and you did it to the
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  best of your ability and you stuck.
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  To it, when it was hard, when it sucked, when it wasn't easy
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  because that's the best feeling when, you know, you did it, and
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  it was hard and it, and it's not easy.
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  I kind of construct my weeks like that, because I know that
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  my days, the way I've constructed them are not easy,
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  but it makes me feel so accomplished at the end of every
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  day. And then I'm like, damn, I
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  crushed that and I have four days like that and then I have
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  three days that are like much more easy to complete the way I
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  have them. Up, but those four days of what
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  I'm coaching and I'm doing the things that I say I'm going to
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  do are much more conditioned and committed to that.
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  So that I'm really good with, but the other stuff, sometimes
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  it's like the chips and salsa and it's the metaphor that I am
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  using for this in my own head. So I wanted to share it with you
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  guys. Is this going to be a chips and
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  salsa thing meaning? Am I going to say it?
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  And then walk into the restaurant.
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  It's put in front of me and I eat it anyway, man.
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  Such a good metaphor to remember.
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  So I'm going to challenge You to start looking at things out
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  there and asking yourself, well, is this, is this really am?
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  I asking the right question? Am I asking myself, am I going
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  to lie to myself or am I committed to what I'm saying?
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  And if I'm committed to what I'm saying, I don't lie to myself
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  and this is not a chips and salsa episode.
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  So I want you to start putting things through a filter so that
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  it can help you quick in a moment is this is this a
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  commitment is a something I'm really structured and committed
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  to or is this chips and salsa so I hope Hope that you, if you
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  want to eat the chips and salsa, I hope you enjoy them today and
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  if you want to avoid them, I hope they put them on the table
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  in front of you. And you say, no, thank you.
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  And you're proud of yourself and that moment because I know I'm
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  going to be when I start this in a couple weeks.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed morning and I will see
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  you all tomorrow. Bye.